Instagram<\/a> video below, during the ceremony, Kiera and Payton pricked each other\u2019s fingers.<\/p>\nThey each added a drop of blood to a silver goblet before drinking from it.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBy the deepest covenant two souls can make, the sharing of blood,\u201d Jessi state as officiant. <\/p>\n
\u201cBlood has been recognized as the sacred carrier of spirit,\u201d she acknowledged.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt holds your history, your ancestors, and your very essence,\u201d Jessi described.<\/p>\n
She advised the bride and groom: \u201cYour individual lives have entered this cup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jessi instructed: \u201cDrink and receive the life, love, and truth of one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThere was also handfasting<\/h2>\n
The ceremony also involved in Jessi Draper walking the couple through a handfasting ritual.<\/p>\n
Hand-fasting is an ancient marriage ceremony involving using a length of cord or ribbon to link the hands and forearms of newlyweds.<\/p>\n
Like the blood-drinking, these are not Mormon rituals. <\/p>\n
A number of religious traditions might include one or both of these acts, but they can also be done for their spiritual meaning or <\/em>for their purely symbolic meanings.<\/p>\nTwo people have chosen to combine their lives. That\u2019s beautiful. And so was the ceremony that Jessi officiated.<\/p>\n
\nThe video did, unfortunately, receive some odd hateful comments \u2014 some of which were extremely colorful and dramatic.<\/p>\n
Some accused the couple\u2019s nuptials of being witchcraft, which they seemed to mean as a negative. (Could Trump\u2019s acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao have a whole bunch of sockpuppet accounts?)<\/p>\n
Even for those of us who might prefer more bloodless ways to symbolically (or spiritually) link our lives, it was a lovely ceremony.<\/p>\n
Jessi\u2019s life has transformed dramatically since viewers first got to know her just a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s great to see that she became such a beautiful part of her sister\u2019s nuptials while Hulu cameras (presumably) were not running. We hope that she and the newlyweds can tune out the weird haters.<\/p>\n
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