The Loving cup is a large, two-handled cup, often made of silver, that may take many forms. In the past, at weddings, banquets, or meetings, a loving cup might be shared by a number of persons for ceremonial drinking, symbolizing friendship and unity. Loving cups are often given as trophies to winners of games or other competitions. The French coupe de mariage is a somewhat shallow form of loving cup.
The use of the wine cup or Loving Cup at a wedding is an ancient tradition. By the 15th century it was common for the Celtic people to toast each other with a ceremonial Loving Cup. In Scotland this cup is known as a quaich, which comes from the Celtic word cuach, meaning cup. The Loving Cup ceremony also has its roots in Irish, French and Jewish cultures.
We take great delight in presenting this loving cup..designed to be worn or set out on a table for your celebrations. This cup can be used at weddings and also is a symbol of Valentines Day..the day of love.
We choose to copy part of a Loving Cup ceremony here for your enjoyment.
The years of life are as a cup of wine poured out for you to drink. This Loving Cup contains within it a wine with certain properties that are sweet and symbolic of happiness, joy, hope, peace, love and delight.
This same wine also holds some bitter properties that are symbolic of disappointment, sorrow, grief, despair, and life's trials and tribulations.
Together the sweet and the bitter represent "Love's Journey" and all of the experiences that are a natural part of it. For all who share the wine from this Loving Cup, so may you share all things from this day on with love and understanding.
Those who drink deeply from the Loving Cup with an open heart and willing spirit, invite the full range of challenges and experiences into their being for themselves and the Bride and Groom.
Minister pours wine into the Loving Cup and holds it up.
Minister: This cup of wine is symbolic of the cup of life. As you all share the wine from the Loving Cup, you undertake to share all that the future may bring. It represents the blessing given and passed on to each participant in this ceremony.
All the sweetness life's cup may hold for each of you will be the sweeter because you drink it together. Whatever drops of bitterness it may contain will be less bitter because you share them.
Drink now, and may the cup of your lives be sweet and full to running over.
After family and friends have sipped wine from the Loving Cup, it is passed back to the minister. Minister holds up the Loving Cup and says the following.
Minister: This Loving Cup is symbolic of the pledges you have made to one another to share together the fullness of life. As you drink from this cup, you acknowledge to one another that your lives, separate until this moment, have now become one.
Minister hands the Loving Cup to Bride and Groom.
Minister: Now drink to the love you've shared in the past.
The Bride and Groom sip from the Loving Cup
Minister: Drink to your love in the present, on this your wedding day.
The Bride and Groom sip from the Loving Cup
Minister: And drink to your love in the future and forever more!
The Bride and Groom sip from the Loving Cup and hand it back to the Minister
Minister: As you have shared the wine from this Loving Cup, so may you share your lives. May you explore the mysteries of the Loving Cup and share in the reflection of love in one another's soul. From love all things proceed and unto love they must return.
May you find life's joys heightened, it's bitterness sweetened, and all of life enriched by God's blessings upon you (or. . . and all of life enriched by the love of family and friends).
This lovely cup on its tray has a land impact of 2 prims and is entirely mesh. It can be worn (it has a built in ao so you can walk and serve unlimited copies of the drink from the cup) or it can be set out. If you do set it out, it will res upside down. Turn it over..(rotation 0,0,0)
As with all our work, we will be happy to customize it for you for an additional fee if you contact Kitty in world. We would also be happy to change the texture on the bar or on any of the drinks contained here in. Contact Kittycat Ninetails inword please.
By the way, custom means we do different textures on the decanter or barrel, and perhaps on the cups/mugs/horns/glass inside plus edit the chatter the cup does. We are more than happy, at no additional fee, to change out any drink in any of the decanters for any others. We have no way of knowing what you like to drink, and do not consider taking a barrel and shifting the drinks in it to something else as custom. That is just good customer service.
Kittycat Ninetails
JohnQ Ballyhoo
Vasa Vella
- romantic
- wearable
- built in ao
