Handfasting Ceremony - the Practical Details

If you're including a Handfasting ceremony in your wedding, here's the practical information you need to make it all happen smoothly and naturally.

For the tying you need

1. 3 metres of satin ribbon, 5 centimetres wide.
2. Instead of ribbon you could use a 3 metres of cord - the type used for tying curtains.
3. Colour of the ribbon is usually red or green. 
4. If using a number of ribbons the colours to use are white, pink, light blue, red, gold and green. 
5. If you want to use the six colours, but only one cord, use six thin cords of the desired colours and plait them together.

To carry the ribbons you use a pouch, a jewellery box or some other attractive receptacle which can be carried by an attendant, or left on the register table.

The binding of the hands can be done by

1. the celebrant
2. bridal attendants
3. brothers or sisters of the bride and groom
4. the parents
5. If you're using six cords, they can be tied by one person, or each one by a different person

To put your hands together for the actual binding

1. join right hands in a handshake position, with the left hands joined in a handshake position on top of the right.
2. Use just two hands in a handshake position (left, or right)
3. Join hands with wrists on top of each other, right hand to left, and left hand to right, the bottom wrist that of the groom, with the top wrist that of the bride.
4. Handshake position of both hands so that a cross is formed over the wrists.

A rehearsal of the actions will ensure that the handfasting ceremony is as visully dramatic as it should be.

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