| The gathering of wheat is an end of summer/early | | | | nature of the wedding going: ask people to serve |
| autumn activity. Wheat is a symbol for fertility and | | | | one another bread. If you're having a hard time |
| thus is often a perfect addition to a wedding altar. | | | | figuring out how to feed your community on your |
| (You figure out if you want to announce its fertility | | | | wedding budget, base the meal around the fabulous |
| implications or just stick with the harvest metaphors!) | | | | bread. (white bread is fine, but whole wheat bread is |
| Having a sheaf of wheat on your altar table, either | | | | actually a better metaphor, because it underlines the |
| alone or gathered with deep autumn flowers is a | | | | nourishment you offer one another.) |
| beautiful addition to the wedding ceremony. What | | | | Not sure what you want to do about favors if you're |
| would take this next part over the top is to find a | | | | having them? Write out the recipe for the bread |
| local farm which grows wheat and a local mill which | | | | eaten at the wedding, and give it to your guests |
| would grind the wheat. Buy wheat and bake a loaf of | | | | along with a bag filled with enough flour to bake a |
| bread to share at your wedding ceremony as an | | | | recipe of bread. This activity from after the wedding |
| indication of your desire to feed and nurture one | | | | will help people remember both the wedding and your |
| another. If you're not a baker, someone in your | | | | marriage. That will give them a subconscious reminder |
| community is and would be willing to bake this loaf | | | | of your relationship every time they eat fresh bread. |
| for you. (Yes, you can always have your caterer do | | | | It will give you one too. And that's what you need: |
| it!) | | | | lots of sweet reminders of how you felt when you |
| Then ask your caterer to bake bread from this | | | | married to keep you moving along in marriage. |
| wheat flour for your wedding dinner. Keep the ritual | | | | |