DR pour bags together into a third. As these two bags are poured in to the third, the individual bags of salt will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of salt can never be separated and poured again into individual bags, so will our marriage be we are no longer two, but one. We will all sit quietly in order to allow us to think and muse upon whatever thoughts this ceremony may bring to mind . When your spirit moves you to speak and express yourself, please do so freely.
C acts as timer.
After 10-15 minutes, she shakes hands with the person next to her, thus ending this period. It is also a central feature in Quaker marriages. Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.