What a lovely story. Yes, I often read 4 wands as a wedding card for exactly this reason. I suppose many cultures have married under such canopies but it is most famous for Jewish weddings. i've largely given up on the idea of defining or identifying spirit Guides. As someone removed and disconnected from my ancestry--ancestral guides aren't necessarily a thing for me. Still, in particularly deep meditations I often get a sense that I am healing generational trauma. I have an intuitive sense of extending the healing 7 generations back. Usually through the maternal line. Nothing to do with spirit guides per se--just a thing that organically happens during intense self-healing sessions.