Family involvement can be very special and the "Ring Warming" ceremony depicted below is a great way of doing just this.

"Ring warming"

Words are powerful, but fleeting, and the sound of them is soon gone. Therefore, the wedding ring becomes the enduring symbol of the promises we have just heard. The ring is round, like the repeated cycles of the year, spring, summer, autumn, winter and spring again, for a marriage we must weather all seasons.

Over the next few minutes I invite the couples parents and grandparents to pass the rings between one another, warming them with your love - holding them for a moment, blessing them with your best wishes for their future, and then passing them along. (This can also be done by children either from previous relationships or of your own).

This celebration is the outward sign of an inward union of hearts, minds and spirit. In marriage, husband and wife are called to a new way of life..to live faithfully together in plenty, in want, in joy, in sorrow, in sickness and in health.