Unique Wedding Unity Painting

My husband and I were married May 25, 2014. We had a beautiful outdoor wedding and made several of the decorations ourselves. You can see some of theme HERE. Since I was younger I had always imagined I would do a sand unity on my wedding day. I had even pinned a few cute ideas such as pouring the sand into a shadow box with our initials and date on it or even a sand picture frame but when I got engaged and planning a wedding became a reality I wasn't set on the sand unity anymore because it seemed like everybody was doing it and I didn't want to follow the in crowd. I wanted something different so that is when I came up with this fun Unity Painting instead. The Unity Painting is a great alternative to the traditional wedding unity. It is unique and makes for a beautiful wall decoration as well.

What you will need:

• You will need a canvas, any size you want
• Something to hold/display the canvas on
• Three different colors of paint, two if you don't include the parents
• Two paint brushes for the parents to use
• Optional: a monogram letter of your last name (I added mine later)

Since our mothers have been the main people in our life, we had our mothers paint a few gray lines on the blank canvas at the beginning of our wedding before they were seated. These lines represent the foundation that built my husband and I. 

When it came time for the unity part of our ceremony, we played the song “Something New” by Tom Fletcher. This is a beautiful song that is about how you are ready for something new, basically the next step in life, which in my case was marriage.

Once the song had started we had the preacher read Matthew 19:6 - "Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." We then proceed to the canvas to do our unity painting. Both my husband and I picked up our bottles of paint. He had blue and I had purple. We then stood behind the canvas and squeezed the paint out onto the canvas, combining our colors as we went and letting them run down the canvas to dry. The blue and purple paint can never be separated just as our love for each other never will.

Once it dried and we got back from our mini honeymoon, we wrote the bible verse, Matthew 19:6 on the back along with our wedding date. We then painted a monogram "M" (our last name) white and hot glued it to our painting to make it complete. We hung the painting in our living room for every one that visits to see.

The Unity Painting is very unique, after all it cannot be duplicated because it will alway combine and dry different. It is a great symbolization of the bound of marriage; "Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." - Matthew 19:6. We loved doing this for our unity and no, I didn't get any paint on my dress!