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Raku Small Pottery Wedding Vase by Jeremy Diller

• 3" x 3" x 2"
• Small wedding vase with feathers and gemstones.

Traditional wedding vases are made by the groom’s parents about a week or two before the Christian marriage ceremony. When the vase is complete, the groom, accompanied by his parents and other family members, presents it to the bride at her home. The bride gathers everything she will need to begin a new household with her husband, and the parents of the couple give them advice for a happy and successful marriage.

Indian holy water is then placed in the wedding vase, which is turned and offered to the bride. She drinks from one spout, turns the vessel and offers it to the groom who drinks from the opposite spout. This simple exchange unites the pair as a married couple.

Ceremonial Indian wedding vases are treasured and protected for the entire married life of the couple. If one spouse outlives the other, it is tradition to present the wedding vase as a gift to another couple as a way to celebrate their happy married life. These vases are never sold, even as works of art.

Miniature hand made wedding vase.  Signed by artist Jeremy Diller.  all Indian wedding vases have some features in common: two openings (drinking spouts) are connected by a single handle. The two spouts symbolize the two individual lives, and the handle symbolizes the union of these two lives in marriage. Diller (California) Raku product is individually hand made in Jeremy's studio and infused with love. Each piece is hand formed and fired in an outdoor kiln to over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. Molten hot, it is placed in a pit with dried brush and mesquite shavings that burst into flame. The varying conditions of the raku process assure that each piece is "one of a kind."

Apache Wedding Prayer - 

Now you will feel no rain,

for each of you will be shelter for the other.

Now you will feel no cold

for each of you will be warmth to the other.

Now there will be no loneliness,

for each of you will be companion to the other.

Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.

May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through the years.

May happiness be your companion,

and your days together be good and long upon the earth.

Generously donated by Sharon O'Connell, the Program Coordinator for the Connecticut Program.

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