Make It Your Own Unity Candle
If you have thought about including a unity candle in your wedding ceremony, you've probably noticed that candles are much like everything else in the world. When you put the word "wedding" on them, the price triples. You can easily pay over $50 for a generic unity candle set that says nothing about you.
Create Your Own Unity Candle
Because having a Unity Candle in a wedding means more than just lighting a candle together, you may want to consider making your Unity Candle a unique representative of you and your spouse-to-be. Above is just an engraved cylinder vase with a floating candle. Easy do-it -yourself project that looks elegant and expensive. You can also go traditional with the instructions below.
Instructions:
You can buy or make the basic candle.
After you have the candle you can spray your candle with a clear acrylic paint so you can have a glossy surface to attach decorations.
While the paint is wet affix desired decorations such as photos, wedding invitations, poems or program covers.
After putting on any paper decoration you can re spray your project. Let it dry. Then you can glue on pearls, flowers, rhinestones or what ever you are using.
If desired, you can paint directly on candle after clear paint has dried.
Coat entire candle with another layer of clear acrylic.
You can now use a glue gun to add larger details such as ribbons, lace, etc.
Make your Own Candle Instructions:
The first step in candle making is to prepare the wax. This is done by melting the wax in a double boiler, which is basically one large pot filled with water and placed on the stove top. Another smaller pot that contains the un-melted wax is sat inside the larger pot. This is not rocket science. Wax will burn when you try to melt it, so you must use a double boiler. Make sure that the pot you put the wax in is a pot that you are not going to use for food again. Once the wax is melted, If using a wick that has a mettle bottom already attached you should first pour the wax into the mold an then insert the wick. Steady the wick in the middle by placing 2 wood pop cycle stick on either side of the wick. Then you want to allow the wax to cool for about four to six hours, before you attempt to remove it from the mold. Sometimes putting the entire thing into the freezer for about 30 minutes, will make it easier to remove the candle from the mold. Alternatively you can also spray non-stick cooking into the mold before you pour the wax into, making it easier to remove the finished candle. Decorate as described above.
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