Handfasting is an ancient commitment ceremony that includes a binding together of the hands of the couple with a ritual cord. Handfasting is a symbolic ceremony to honor a couple’s desire for commitment to each other; to acknowledge that their lives and their fates are now bound together. Hence the name, handfasting, which means “hand fastening” and is also the origin of the slang phrase “to tie the knot.”
The Art of Handfasting
2009
