For our wedding, Kraig and I chose to light a unity candle to symbolize our two lives uniting into one. I think it's really important for husbands and wives to understand this concept. It doesn't mean you lose who you are as an individual like many people might think. Rather, it means that from this day forward your thoughts shall be for each other rather than for just your individual selves. Your plans should be mutual, your joys and sorrows should be shared alike.
As Kraig and I each took our individual candle and joined together in lighting the center candle, we were acknowledging our two lives blending into one. We were claiming (and still are, for that matter!) that just as that center flame cannot be divided back into two flames, our lives and our marriage cannot and will not be divided.
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” ~ Mark 10:6-9
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