How to Buy a Wedding Unity Candle Set

Your wedding is a very special occasion in your life, and heaven and earth is moved to make sure that your wedding attire, accessories, invitation, favors, cake, and décor are picture perfect. In all the hustle and bustle, you often forget to pay attention to the ceremony items. If you are intending to include a unity candle ceremony in your wedding, it is essential for you to ensure that the wedding unity candle set perks up your wedding in an elegant way.   

For the ceremony, you will need two taper candles and one large pillar candle together with a wedding unity candle holder. If you want the guests to be the part of the ceremony, you will have to arrange for a few more taper candles. A vast variety of wedding unity candle sets is available in the market. Choose one that matches perfectly with the overall décor of your wedding. Depending upon your budget and wedding theme, you can opt for a holder made up of glass, wrought iron, porcelain, brass, silver, or gold. 

wedding unity candle set

Unity candles are usually white in color. However, you can opt for a different color that go well with the color-scheme of your wedding. Every color has a unique meaning, and color symbolism varies considerably across countries and cultures. For this reason, be careful while choosing colored unity candles. An ordinary white wedding unity candle can look exquisitely attractive, if you embellish with rhinestones, pearls, Swarovski crystals, beads, or flowers. You can also adorn the candle with your wedding invitation, a monogram composed of you and your partner’s initials, or an inscription. 

Fragrance and material are two more factors that you should take into consideration while buying your wedding unity candle set.  Certain fragrances are intimately associated with your emotions. If you decide to use scented candles in your wedding, make sure that the fragrance brings forth happy memories. As far as the material is concerned, you can opt for candles made up of paraffin, beeswax, palm wax, or soy. Paraffin candles are cheap, but they do not burn evenly and brightly. Moreover, they release carcinogenic toxins. In contrast, beeswax, soy, or palm wax candles are expensive, but they long-lasting and environmental-friendly.  

Unity candle ceremony symbolizes the convergence of the two families. It is not just a ritual, but it is a responsibility that you have to shoulder together with your partner for the rest of your life. Therefore, spend a bit of your precious time to purchase a wedding unity candle set.

Tying the knot- lit unity candle

Some people say that the origin of unity candles is at least 30-40 years old, some think it started back in 1930s however the exact history of unity candles is still unknown. However the use of unity candles on the weddings have become wide-spread, it is still prohibited in many churches for example it is not part of the Catholic wedding ceremony.


Lilting unity candles is most popular in the United States, then in any other part of the world. The unity candle lilting is a simple ceremony that uses two taper candles with a large pillar candle in the center, this pillar candle is actually known as unity candle. This ceremony takes place at the beginning of the wedding ceremony, a representative from each family light the two taper candles usually the mothers of the bride and the groom do the proceedings. After that the usual wedding ceremony proceeds and the bride and the groom take those usual vows, when done with that both lit the pillar candle or the unity candle from the two taper candles.

The unity candle is decorated with the wedding invitation or an inscription, sometimes a picture of the couple, or any other decorative to make the candle table look nice. The candles used are usually white in color, this color is selected as it represents purity, innocence and peace.. Some couples like a nice music to be played at the back ground while they are liting the candles, on the other hand some just like it to be plain simple. Some couples keep all the decoratives on the unity candle table with them for the rest of their lives as good memories. However some couples also keep the candle with them to lit on their anniversaries. 

The unity candles is said to pay homage to the unity of two souls and two families. Those who believe in this ritual follow it by heart. In some ceremonies the bride and the groom blew of the tapper candles, this symbolize that the two souls have merged. However of the taper candles are left lit, that means that the two will continue to love their families and are going to have their own individualites. Liting unity candles is new tradition thus it totally depends on the couple, if they feel comfortable they make it a part of their wedding. Unity candles however are the promise of a long term relationship.