The ULC Handfasting Ritual

Brand: NEW PAGAN DAWN / Commission for the Awarding of Priestly Certificates

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

The Universal Life Church accredited ritual includes the certified religious certificate, the certificate issued by the NEW PAGAN DAWN Association, value added taxes, accounting fees, officer fees, legal fees and the ceremony. Those who wish to perform this ritual will receive a Handfasting Certificate issued by the ULC and one issued by THE NEW PAGAN DAWN, accompanied by a black protective case.

WHAT IS HANDFASTING?
Handfasting is a traditional practice that, depending on the usage of the term, can correspond to an informal wedding (in which a couple marries without an officiant, usually with the intention of later having a second wedding with an officiant), an engagement (an engagement in which a couple has formally promised to marry and which can only be broken by divorce), or a temporary wedding (in which a couple makes an intended temporary commitment to marriage). The expression refers to the fulfillment of a pledge by shaking or joining hands.
The terminology and practice is particularly associated with Germanic peoples, including the English and Norse, as well as the Scottish Gaels. As a form of betrothal or unofficial wedding, it was common until Tudor England; as a form of temporary marriage, it was practiced in Scotland from the 17th century and was revived in neopaganism.
The term is sometimes used synonymously with "wedding" or "marriage" among neopagans to avoid the perceived non-pagan religious connotations associated with those terms. It is also used, apparently ahistorically, to refer to a supposed pre-Christian practice of symbolically clasping or wrapping a couple's hands during a wedding ceremony.

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