Vases for Our Sand Ceremony

Should I add anything to the skinny ones??

Just wanted to share some pics of the vases that I bought for our sand ceremony...obviously doing a sand ceremony made the most since to us since we're having a beach themed wedding on August 7th, 2009!! I've been in love with the blue seashell vase for a while now...long before we even decided on going with a beach themed wedding!! I was just planning on buying it anyways from Old Time Pottery and using it as decor for our home, but now it'll have special meaning and significance behind it too since it'll contain our sand that we will be joining together on our wedding day!!

I don't know about any of you ladies on here who are doing a sand ceremony too, but I personally don't like the idea of just buying colored sand and then combining it into a vase...to me that completely takes away from the meaning behind the sand ceremony that we're trying to express in the first place (but I'm not knocking anyone who is using colored sand though!!). I mean the reason why we even decided to go with a beach themed wedding in the first place is because I grew up about 30 mins. away from Virginia Beach, VA, and my fiance grew up about 30 mins. away from the Gulf of Mexico here in Mobile, Alabama. So what we plan on doing instead of using two different types of colored sand is that my fiance will get some sand from right near where he grew up and I'm getting my parents to bring some sand down from Virginia Beach (because they still live in Virginia) on the plane lol!! But to me, this is the best way to literally represent both of our lives up to this point (by having sand to represent where each of us grew up and where our roots are), and then by combining our sand together it will symbolize the lives that we've both lived up to this point as indivduals, but now those lives will be blended as one!! Anyways, enough about that...so we'll be using real sand because it seems more symbolic to both of us and besides once we pour each of our sand into the middle blue seashell vase, you wouldn't really be able to see the different colored sand anyways lol!!

I just have one quick question for you ladies...since we're using real sand in each of our skinny individual vases, it'll probably look pretty plain. So do you think I should add anything to the skinny vases?? I'm planning on adding blue ribbons with a starfish in the middle of it to all of our ceremony items like the ring bearer pillow, guestbook, toasting flutes, cake serving set, etc., so do you think I should make it all match?? Or should I do something different like maybe adding our first initials to each of our vases using some little rhinestones or something?? So do you ladies think I should add anything to them...or should they just be left alone since the blue seashell vase is so colorful?? Thanks in advance for your help!! ;-)