Bride Idea: Plant a tree to celebrate your union

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Leigha and Nino Bice planted a tree during their wedding ceremony; guests filled the pot will soil as they arrived

Bride Idea: Plant a tree to celebrate your union

Whether it’s a unity candle or mixing of sand, many local ceremonies include a symbolic gesture to signify the joining of two lives. We love Leigha Christian and Nino Bice’s decidedly Northwest twist on this tradition for their September 11, 2011 wedding ceremony at Farm Kitchen in Poulsbo.

 As guests arrived, they were asked to take a cone of soil from a basket and then help fill a pot at the altar. During their ceremony the couple planted a Japanese maple sapling in the pot, supported by all their guests. Then Leigha and Nino’s mothers each read a meaningful passage, then poured water on the newly planted sapling to signify the union of the Christian and Bice families. The sapling now sits on their porch in Queen Anne.

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