How to Use a Navajo Vase in a Wedding Ceremony
- 1). Choose a vase that matches the colors or theme of your wedding. Plain white vases are available and can be elegant. If your ceremony will be in a large church or hall, choose a vase at least 10 inches tall, so guests in the back rows will be able to see what you're doing.
- 2). Advise the person performing your ceremony that you will be using a Navajo wedding vase. Explain the ritual and determine where it will go in the ceremony. The wedding vase ritual is somewhat similar to lighting a unity candle; those rituals are most often performed just before the vows or just before the pronouncement, while the soloist sings.
- 3). Fill the Navajo wedding vase with water and give it to the Maid of Honor, or another steady-handed individual, to carry to the altar.
- 4). Perform the ritual. Let the person performing the ceremony explain that the wedding vase is a single vessel with two spouts, symbolic of two souls drawing spiritual nourishment from a single source. The bride should sip from one spout, then hand the vase to the groom, who sips from the other spout. Then the groom should hand the vase to someone in the wedding party to hold for the remainder of the ceremony.
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