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Including your guests in the Oathing Stone ritual

There are several ways to include your friends and family in the Ritual.

Once the ceremony begins, the stone/s can travel amongst your guests for them to hold and fill with love and best wishes for you both.

The stone would then return to you at the front in time for your vows.

Or, what about asking your guests to bring a stone or to choose a stone from around the area you are being married and have them with them before the ceremony starts?

You could have an usher explain what to do as they arrive. Then all the guests would have a stone to take part in your ceremony to.

They could put their words or designs onto the stone before the wedding and put their details on the back. When you are reading them later, you will know who wrote them.

At the end of the ceremony, the guests would drop them into a container.

Of course, this would depend on the number of guests you had at the ceremony. Too many, and it wouldn’t be doable this way.

You don’t want to hire a digger to get them all home.

The Oathing Stone vows

There are a couple of ways that you can do the Vows with your Oathing Stone.

The couple can either hold a stone each while they say their vows to each other.

Or, if you have chosen to use one stone, then you could take turns holding the stone while you each say your vows.

Or have both your hands on the stone whilst you say your vows.

After its all over

At Celtic weddings, once the ceremony was over, the newly married couple released the stone back to the elements by whatever means felt appropriate to them.

Some tossed it into the sea or the loch or river.

The idea behind throwing the stones into the water symbolises how the wishes of the couple wherever they go are taken into the natural water cycle with the currents and tides.

Others may have laid them on a mountain or a stone cairn.

You may want to keep your stones and add them to your garden, or within your home so you can see them daily.

How about making the stone/stones into a paperweight, or using them decoratively around candles or flowers.

There are lots of creative ways to use your stone in and around you every day.

Would you like to use an Oathing stone?

Like many of the Symbolic ceremony rituals used in weddings, the Oathing Stone can be changed in various ways to suit your ceremony.

If this is a Ritual that you would like to include in your ceremony, then drop me a DM, and we can discuss how to include it in your wedding.