(BRIDE) and (GROOM), today you are making a life-long commitment to share the rest of your lives with each other and honor your children as well. Your family relationship is symbolized through the purring of these individual containers of sand -- one representing you, (BRIDE), and all that you were, all that you are, and all that you will ever be, and one representing you, (GROOM), and all that you were, all that you are, and all that you will ever be.