Handfasting

Handfasting is a magical wedding ritual that can be performed by good magical beings, best done if presided over by a High Priestess at sunrise or sunset.

Appendices

 * (Book of Shadows text:)

Handfasting

 * Handfasting is the eternal joining
 * of two people in Love.
 * It is a sacred ceremony of commitment
 * presided over by a High Priestess.


 * Best performed at a time
 * of sunrise or sunset when both
 * the Sun and the Moon are present
 * in the joining of the two Lovers.

The Ceremony

 * The High Priestess says:
 * We are gathered here today,
 * to unite two souls as one.
 * Do you (name) and (name)
 * join us here of your own free will
 * to acknowledge the eternal bond
 * shared by both of you.


 * The man and woman say I do.


 * The man and woman turn to each other, join hands and recite their vows.
 * The High Priestess then continues:
 * Here before witnesses (name) and (name)
 * have sworn their vows to each other.
 * With this cord I bind them to those vows.


 * The man and woman then chant:
 * Heart to thee,87c3a51b25e1ddc5ef36ae0945046f94--leo-wyatt-season- 244x193.jpg
 * Body to thee,
 * Always and forever,
 * So mote it be.


 * The Priestess as well as attending family and friends say "so mote it be" and the couple embraces with a kiss.

Piper and Leo's Vows

 * Leo
 * Piper, through all the tears and struggles, I always knew in my heart that we'd make it here. I promise to love and respect you from this point forward as your husband, as my wife, my lover, my friend, and my soul mate. All I am is yours.


 * Piper
 * Leo, you are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I was afraid that you were too good to be true, that maybe I didn't deserve someone so pure and beautiful and loving as you are. But here we are surrounded by the people that I love the most and I feel so proud, and so blessed to be your wife. Leo, I was born to love you and I always will.

Notes and Trivia

 * Piper is the only sister to be married using this ceremony.
 * In "Bride and Gloom", a season 3 episode of Charmed; Dantalian performs a similar ritual called Dark Binding between Prudence Halliwell and a warlock named Zile in an attempt to demonize the original Charmed Ones and the Book of Shadows. The ceremony worked, but after Phoebe and Piper got Prue a "divorce" by vanquishing Zile, it was undone.