To Have and To Hold Scented Soy Candle, Wedding Vow Gift

The label wraps an amber jar, and the terracotta rules sit unusually well against that glass, close enough in tone to look chosen rather than accidental. Four lines of engraved capitals fill the front. Lit in the evening the flame backlights the whole thing and the type darkens against the glow. Soy wax, cotton wick, around forty hours of burn from a single jar.

Soy burns slower and cooler than paraffin, so the scent releases steadily instead of arriving all at once. Let the first burn reach the edge of the jar and trim the wick between uses. As a gift it suits an elopement or a small courthouse ceremony, where a large parcel would be out of proportion and something for the evening at home is closer to the mark.

• Soy wax poured into an amber glass jar
• Cotton wick, roughly 40 hours of burn
• Burn the first light to the edge to avoid tunneling
• Trim the wick to a quarter inch between uses
• Poured, labeled and shipped in the USA