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Beth & Victors Wedding Wheel: The River of Union

Beth tells how the wedding wheel was vital part of the ceremony:

We set the prayer wheel up en route to the guest seating area. It was on a table with blank note cards for people to write their prayers for us. My sister-in-law sat next to the wheel to explain how to use the cards and, for those interested, the wheel's symbolic artwork. Once guests wrote a prayer, they dropped the card in the wheel and found a seat.

Once everyone had taken a seat, Victor's best friends started off the procession by carrying the wheel up to the alter. Our Officiate began his sermon by telling everyone about the components of the prayer wheel. He told of how influential our grandparents were on us, and how those central figures had been represented on the wheel. He spoke of the river that wound around the wheel, and how it represented our union. Also during the ceremony my mother came up and read "The Way of Love" from the "Bhagavad-Gita," and put her reading into the wheel when she was done.

Victor and I wrote our vows and at the end of the ceremony we dropped them into the wheel and spun it, sending them, along with our guest's prayers, out into the universe. The wheel was a beautiful compliment to our wedding, as it allowed us to tell others about ourselves, our families, and our love for one another. Now our wheel sits in our living room, and we plan to use it during other important occasions throughout our lives.