Added: 11/28/2005 |
The history of wedding favor and its modern trendsA custom of throwing rice and confetti and giving favors at weddings and special occasions originated with the Romans in 400 B.C. In ancient Rome, a groom said goodbye to his bachelor-hood by distributing walnuts to his friends. The guests threw walnuts and hazelnuts, the forerunners of today's rice and almonds during the wedding ceremony.
During the 15th century, it was customary at the English court to give little boxes of precious metal, filled with almonds to symbolize good wishes for the coming year. In France, from the time of Louis XIV through the Napoleonic era, friends exchanged boxes, filled with almonds.
The custom of giving wedding party favors, as keepsakes, to celebrate the beginning of the couple's family life was born in Italy during the eighth century. In the beginning, only noble families practiced this custom. In the wedding of Victor Emanuel of Savoy to Elena of Montenegro, favors of solid silver were given to their nearly two thousand guests. By the end of the 19th century, the wedding favor had gained acceptance and popularity among all social classes, and even peasant couples could distribute their almonds in a golden cardboard box.
Nowadays, the types of wedding favors are many. There are wedding favors that reflect cultural heritage. For instance, Indian couples give their guests boxes, filled with spices like cardamoms, cloves, peppercorns and cinnamon, while Chinese present their guests with chopsticks.
In addition, a wedding favor can reflect your wedding theme. For instance, if you have a retro wedding theme, you can use the following retro wedding favor ideas: the first retro wedding favor to consider is to recollect the sweetness of those already gone days and present the guests with such old favorites, as candy cigarettes, Bit'O'Honey, Necco mini rolls and Boston Baked Beans.
Another popular retro wedding favor is to serve quality European bonbons in mini martini glasses for a memorable blast to the past. Think more about options of retro favors on your own, there are many ideas, connected with the past that you can successfully employ.
Generally, your theme is a prompt for you, as well as the season, the day of month and week, accompanying events in your city, etc. For instance, if you plan your wedding for winter months, your wedding favors can include sparkling ornaments, snowflake cookie favors, white chocolate snowflake favors and other winter items. If you are having a Mexican theme wedding, you may want to give out bottles of salsa or pots of a flowering cactus.
Finally, the trend discussed above (the conformation of the wedding theme and wedding favors) is the most modern option today. The guests can take home a small element of your wedding, a wedding favor. A wedding favor that reflects the theme of your wedding will remind your guests about your wedding for a long time. However, when you speculate over the wedding favor types you will offer your guests, do not think that your guests expect some expensive wedding favors, they would like more some inventive, as well as personal presents.
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