Personalized Unity Candles – Wedding With A Personal Touch!

If you are artistic by profession and fairly skilled at wielding decorative utensils of any sort, you can bypass purchasing personalized unity candles and be kinder on your budget. Going a step further, you could even get to design your own wedding unity candles with your personal stamp on them.

Doing this yourself means you could be more adventurous with your selection of decorative tools. You may want to dye your own candles yourself to achieve that unique blend of five colors or you may even add on colors to colored wedding unity candles. The beauty of personalizing your own candles yourself is that your personality will be stamped all over them and make for a wonderful reminder of that one occasion when your talents were put to good use!

The most popular way of personalizing unity candles is by engraving your names on them. As mundane and common as this may sound, the final product may be totally unique as it is up to your creative imagination (and your designer's, as that may be the case) as to how your names will appear on the candle surfaces. They may be engraved in simple, elegant cursive font or boldly printed in silver and may or may not be set against a backdrop of designs. They may even be in boldly colored print for dramatic effect.

Background designs can be composites of your names, entwined hearts and rings, abstract designs or other seasonal reminders, like maple leaves for fall weddings and sailboats for beach ones. Usually, background designs are reserved for the mass area where the names are NOT engraved, as most feel that having them behind the names may just be a little too cluttering.

Personalized unity candles can be glamored up even more by a sprinkle of silver glitter where they can “shine” when the light falls upon them.

Other ways of personalizing your wedding unity candles are by décor. Tying a colored ribbon around the candle base, neck or trunk is another way of personalization. For these, use matching ribbons or ribbons in a contrasting color so they will make a bold statement on their own. Using personalized ribbons for these are even better – print significant phrases like “Our Special Day, James & Joan”, for example. Even other less straightforward messages can be printed on the ribbons, which will be tied and left on the wedding unity candles for a long time as a constant reminder of the commitment.

You can also try personalizing your unity candles by adding on unconventional décor tools, like embroidery of rhinestones, semi precious stones, crystals or pearls. You should, however, get a professional to do this for you as it is a meticulous task than can go drastically wrong with inexperience.

These are best done on white or ivory-colored candles as the decoration will then stand out. Some beautiful wedding unity candles have a whole strand of tiny pearls to adorn them, which give an elegant and classy look to the candles. These pearls go all around them and will be visible to everyone from any angle. Aside from pearls, hand crafted embroidery is another beautiful way of personalizing unity candles. These fragile patterns can come in any color but gold, silver and white are the favorites. Accented with little shiny ornaments, these are perfect if you want elegant and classy-looking candles.

Other décors for wedding unity candles are more strategically placed - only on one face, these normally house more elaborate and exquisite designs. Further adornment of crystals and colored stones on them highlight these motifs. These help to beautify the otherwise common candle, without compromising on its traditional beauty.

One of the most uncommon wedding unity candles are the carved ones. As their name suggests, these candles are carved into specific shapes and designs by sheer exquisite craftsmanship. Designs range from entwined rings, vines and flowers to actual miniature carvings of bride and groom. They may or may not be further adorned by sequins, pearls and crystals.

Wedding unity candles are not complete without their holders. It is your choice of metal or wooden holders or candelabras, which will hold your unity candle set together. Free standing candle holders are also popular as these give you the freedom of candle placement. These holders play an understated role at the base of your wedding unity candles as they help to highlight the beauty of your candles.

Designs for candle holders have also evolved through the years. From straightforward designs of practicality, they have now become symbols of beauty on their own with motifs of hearts, flowers (particularly lilies) and even very specific themed designs of seashells, bluebird, snowflakes, horse and carriage, and more recently, abstract figures of bride and groom. These holders are also made of different materials - some of resin, sterling silver, porcelain, wood, bamboo and glass. Whichever you choose, your candle holders should always complement your wedding unity candles.