Historical wedding favors throughout the Ages

Items such as garden and fall favors and silver wedding favors have been a tradition for centuries. When searching for ideas for your unique wedding favors, try looking into the past for inspiration. This is particularly helpful when planning a themed event.

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Ancient Egypt

In ancient Egypt, the concept of the marriage dowry was backward, making for some truly personalized wedding favors. The potential groom and his family would travel to the bride's home. He would pay her money to prove to her family that he could make a good living and protect their daughter,s standing. Cold hard cash was definitely a different type of wedding reception favor. He would also buy personalized wedding favors for her, usually Gold or a Gemstone.

If she accepted his offer and the ceremony proceeded, personalized lover savers wedding favors such as fresh wheat was thrown into the air to represent fertility.

Ancient Rome

The traditional gifts of jewelry and bridal shower favors from the groom to the bride were present here. But of more interest is the gift of childhood toys that the bride made to the Roman Gods. How's that for inexpensive wedding favors?

After the ceremony, the bride would lead a parade to her new home. Tasty edible wedding favors such as small food treats would be thrown to the crowd as the parade passed through. For special bath and soap wedding favors, the bride would attach wool and spill oil on the entryway before being carried across the threshold. A typical personalized tealight wedding favor would be small flaming torch and a vessel of water.

Are you looking for candle wedding favors? How about a floating heart candle wedding favor, a wedding cake candle wedding favor (you can add a lace votive wedding favor) or wedding conversation hearts for something different?

Ancient Japan

In Japan, gifts such astuxedo wedding favor boxes were not exchanged in person. They actually used a go-between named a Nakado. This individual brought the gifts from one family to another. The handcrafted personalized wedding favor gift box included drinks and clothing, as well as "gifts of happiness and fortune".

Scotland

In old Scotland, wedding favors could even be used as a form of punishment. In this strictly religious society, if any of the Wedding guests were guilty of a transgression they were subjected to a different kind of personalized wedding favors. They were made to stand in a barrel of cold water the day prior to the ceremony. During the actual service they had to attend soaking wet, with the minister pointing out who was at fault and why. (Brings new meaning to committing a Wedding faux pas.)

• coffee and tea wedding favors
• personalized favor pens
• place card holder wedding favors
• photo album wedding favors

We have all the wedding shower favors to make your day extra special.