The Tradition of Wedding Favours
Wedding favors are traditionally small gift for wedding guests are used, is placed on each dinner table, because at the end of the meal or reception as the guests leave. Favors can be anything, but often confectionery. Favors modern, such as lottery tickets, miniature bottles of spirit, gifts, and even good. Since they are small, they seem cheaper at first, but if you realize how much we have to offer a unique gift for each customer, the cost may be … Especially when you add in the packaging, tapes, maps, names, ornaments, etc.
Drawing on traditional marriage, a small package of five sugared almonds is or’dragĂ©e, wrapped in a cloth or a small box. Each tablet symbolizes something that all couples new hope – health, wealth, happiness, longevity and fertility. The contrast between the layer of sweet and bitter almonds, is also said to symbolize the bitter sweetness of marriage. There is an old superstition that if a single woman sleeps with the package under her pillow, she dreams of her future husband. This tradition comes from Italy, was the first festival in pill form and that’s just thrown confetti – but probably do not want the bad sugar thrown at you at your wedding!
The first wedding favors were in Europe and called fresh, which means a small box of jewelry, from precious materials such as glass, porcelain or precious stones. Inside were cubes of sugar – an expensive commodity in those days, and have medicinal properties. As sugar prices fell, candy has become more accessible to the general population and tradition, candies and sweets of marriage was born.
If you want to give something more modern, so anything goes! You can keep giving something sweet and chocolate dragees or jelly beans. Many couples choose to have something together to symbolize their new life as a seed packet to give their names and their wedding on the packaging or in a small pot with a plant growing. Choose something that goes with the theme, or is for a period of years as a staff Christmas tree ball, a chocolate Easter egg.
At first glance, does not seem quite right that after all the money in one place, a photographer, a cake, flowers and a wedding dress, then you have to pay for a gift for each guest. But before you decide it is a tradition to live, think about what is a wedding. It’s not just the celebration of two people, but two groups of people. Two groups of family and friends, but never later, is related by marriage. If you need a big day is the same thing? Also, like most visitors to a new outfit for a wedding, and many have paid nights or trips to buy, not cheap for them either!