ELEMENTAL WEDDING CEREMONY Wedding Guests: This is a nice script, very visual, but you'll need a bard for the preliminary description. It's also fairly long so you may want to keep that in mind for timing purposes. You'll need four friends to act as the elements Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. This script involves a lot of their participation. Four bridesmaids are carrying elemental symbols: a basket of grain for Earth, a carved crystal lotus bowl with salt water and floating water lilies for Water, a crystal torch for Fire, and a bell jar of butterflies for Air. Four altars are located on the perimeter of the stage, at the four compass points. Attendants walk around the stage once counterclockwise, with element-bearers scattering grain, sprinkling water, waving incense, and lighting candles to invoke the elements. The last person scatters the rose petals. Everyone walks around the stage, then gets up on the stage and goes around again. As each element-bearer reaches the appropriate elemental altar, stops. Earth: Spirits of Earth, we welcome you to this circle. In the name of this grain high, <HOLDS bowl>we ask you to bless this circle and all within. Fire: Spirits of Fire, we welcome you to this circle <LIGHTS torch>. In the name of these flames which blaze on your altar, we ask you to purify this circle and all within. Water: Spirits of Water, we welcome you to this circle. Here is the salt water which represents the living womb. We ask you to protect this circle and all within. I call to mind the Mother of the Universe who has created this world, both real and unreal and by her own power with her three Aspects preserves it, and, having destroyed it, she then plays. Earth: You are Earth, Creatrix of the World. Water: You are Water, and in the form of Diana you preserve the World. Fire: You are Fire, and in the form of Pele you destroy the World.spiration of the World. Great Mother, be welcome here. You have bound these hearts together; come into this circle where lovers await your blessing! Horned God, gentle and passionate, be with us. Hunter and hunted, son and sacrifice. All that lives takes part in you. You are the guide between life and death, the Guardian of the Gate. Earth: You are the ripening grain, the Dying God. Water: You are the playful dolphin, the Lord of life. Fire: You are the blazing sun, the passionate Lion. Great Pan, we ask you to enter our circle where lovers await your blessing! Bring your wild spirit and your magic into our lives. Now the circle is cast, and we stand once more in the space between the worlds. This is the time of the blossom and the thorn, the fragrance and the blood. Here, on the day when light shines strongest, we are gathered to celebrate the union of the Goddess and the God, incarnate in this man and this woman. [BRIDE], are you here of your own free will? BRIDE: Yes. [GROOM], are you here of your own free will? GROOM: Yes. Are you ready to bind your hearts and your lives together, to share your joys and burdens, to walk together through life and death so long as you both shall love? BRIDE and GROOM: Yes. [EMOTE BRIDE and GROOM] mount the stage. This cord binds your hearts and hands together. It is woven in your chosen colors of green, white, and gold: green for life, white for death, and gold for permanence. This cord may stretch but is never broken; it connects you through life and death. Should you ever wish to be released from this bond, you must both cut the cord. [EMOTE] binds their hands together. Earth: Here is the domain of earth, of bones, seeds, and new beginnings. Earth is soft soil, green and fertile; it is hard rock, bare and unyielding. Earth is the beginning and end of all things; from earth we come, and to earth our bodies shall return. Earth is our mother and our father: it houses and feeds all life, from the humblest worm to the towering oak. Are you ready to pledge your love before the Powers of Earth? BRIDE and GROOM: Yes. Then take these two symbols of Earth. <HANDS oak trees in small pots to [BRIDE] and [GROOM]>To remind you that you join today in a living bond, we give you these trees and ask you to plant them together and twine them as your lives will be twined. Tend them carefully, for each time you see them they will remind you of how love grows and strengthens over the years. [EMOTE BRIDE and GROOM] plant the trees and twist the stems together. Earth: Receive now the blessings of Earth. May you never go hungry, for she shall provide grain; may you never go poor and without shelter, for she shall provide both home and wealth. Let Earth give you rock for your foundations and fertile soil for your growth together. You are cradled and supported by Earth. Blessed be. Water: Drink cup of life and death together <GIVES to [BRIDE] and [GROOM] a goblet of honey pomegranate juice share> Fire: Here is the domain of fire, of energy and passion, warmth and destruction. Fire is the heart of all actions: it is the warm sunlight and the raging inferno. It injures and heals, destroys and renews: the wildfire that burns the field clears the way for new growth. Fire is the spark of passion and the heart of rage; it is the torch of life, passed on through countless generations from the first living creature. Are you ready to pledge your love before the Powers of Fire? BRIDE and GROOM: Yes. [EMOTE] lights a candle. [BRIDE] and [GROOM], this candle represents your union from this day forward. If you are truly ready to merge your lives and your passion, we ask that you light this flame together. [EMOTE BRIDE and GROOM] light the candle using their own candles. Fire: Powers of Fire, we ask you to bless this couple. Let them share the warmth of love, passion, and intimacy from this moment forward, and may they live long and well! Now to mark the first moment of this commitment, I ask you to jump over this broom, which is made of myrtle and sacred to the Goddess of Love. [EMOTE BEST MAN/M-HONOR] come forward and hold broom for couple to jump. [EMOTE BRIDE and GROOM] jump the broom. [EMOTE] unbinds the cord. Be bound together, this cord may stretch but is never broken. Goddess witness this bond between you and bring you greater love. You are one. Blessed be. By the power vested in me as a Guide in this realm, I pronounce you legally married. Blessed be. [EMOTE offers a ring to [BRIDE]. Here is a ring that symbolizes your union: two serpents, gold and silver, entwined together as you are joined. Give this to your bridegroom as an outward sign of the handfasting knot that joins you. [EMOTE BRIDE] places the ring on [GROOM'S] finger. [EMOTE offers a ring to [GROOM]. Here is a ring that symbolizes your union: two serpents, gold and silver, entwined together as you are joined. Give this to your bride as an outward sign of the handfasting knot that joins you. [EMOTE GROOM] places the ring on [BRIDE'S] finger. I would like to present to you the handfasted couple, [GROOM] and [BRIDE], in the first moment of their unity. All hail [BRIDE] and [GROOM]!!!!