More and more non-religious people in love are seeking meaningful, personalized and loving ceremonies without dogma or traditional religious fanfare. Spiritually oriented couples are seeking a secular or interfaith approach. Then there are couple so devoted to honoring the sacred nature of their love, and the divine within, that they choose a sacred love ceremony to fully celebrate and seal their union. The concept of the sacred marriage or sacred love ceremony originated with the ancients, who typically enacted annual ceremonies to bring fertility and prosperity to the people and the land. The Greeks called it Hieros Gamos.
Many mythologies describe it as a marriage between heaven and earth.
In ancient Egypt, the marriage between Isis and Osiris was considered sacred union of heaven and earth, of yin and yang, of the feminine and the masculine principles. In the Hindu tradition, man and woman came to the wedding altar as God and Goddess in human form. If they found marriage suitable, they d marry. It grew into a self-initiated ceremony couples would conduct in the days before there was such as thing as a wedding officiant. The custom is still widely practiced by Pagan practitioner.