Wedding favours are beautiful traditions that are common around the world. Different countries practice them in a unique way and have their own way of expressing their love and gratitude to the loved ones. Wedding favours are considered to be a part of the appreciation that the family extends to the guests and friends who are attending the wedding.
Wedding favours are small trinket boxes that contain sweets or gifts that are given to the guests after the wedding ceremony is over. These gifts can be of many kind, shape, size and color. In the early times of European aristocrats Wedding favours were given only to guests attending royal and rich weddings. These gifts included sugar cubes, which were at that time a symbol of royalty. This was a practice in the rich families and these sugar cubes were packed in beautifully studded porcelain boxes.
As years went and sugar prices dropped, the contents of these Wedding favours changed to confetti. Confetti included white Jordanian almonds that were sugar coated to add a touch of sweetness. Fancy cloth such as velvet tied with ribbons were also a part of the Wedding favours collection. Soon after when gifts became a lot more affordable many families with modest means also started to practice the distribution of Wedding favours. The contents of these boxes changed from time to time and have progressed to a large degree in today’s world.
Many designers have come up with creative and fancy ideas for gifts and these ideas and samples are available on websites and also in physical stores. In the progressive world of online shopping the customers love to browse the huge collection of designs, sizes and shapes of Wedding favours.
The commonly searched gifts include colorful candies packed in transparent plastic boxes that are shaped in squares, rounded or even rectangular. Some creative shaped boxes include butterflies, flowers, and even a three-tier cake. Many brides and grooms like to choose plain white mints or even follow the real tradition of white Jordanian almonds that are sugar coated. One can always have a mix of different sugar coated dry fruits that include almonds, peanuts and cashew nuts. Depending on the budget many families choose to keep their Wedding favours simplistic. There are many options available to choose from for a simple budgeted wedding and also an extremely rich one.
In different countries and cultures the tradition varies as they distribute a mix of sweet and salted dry fruits in their Wedding favours. These mixed dry fruits are usually packed in fancy cloth pouches tied with colorful ribbons. Family members at home usually make the pouches and it is a celebration to have all family members involved in the making of these Wedding favours. Some families include the same dry fruits in a small shot glass instead of pouches. These Wedding favours also contain cards with initials and names of the brides and grooms.
Occasionally Wedding favours include gifts that are more of utility items rather than candies or dry fruits. Such gifts are table-mats, mittens, tea-coasters, wine glasses, salt and pepper shakers and also bottler openers. People can browse websites and select the gifts they like best.
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