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Wedding Set – Toki

This set was made for two people that were made for each other. A matching set that will be able to show the abstract concepts of love and connection and commitment that being wed to another is about.

You can see in this image how they were sitting in the piece of pounamu before being separated. They had been in this position for a very long time, right from their first creation deep under the earth under tremendous heat and pressure. Only just now being separated to go one with each of the couple.

The lashings are white with a piece of light brown and light brown with a piece of white. This is another symbolic way of showing that I will always be with you. A thread of your life is not being woven into mine.

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