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It is the custom of the bride to give wedding favors at the wedding reception as a thank you for the presence of the wedding guests at her wedding and for helping to make it a more memorable day and also for the event to be memorable to the guests . No one knows exactly when this custom began, just that it is old. Some people think it started in Italy as long ago as the eighth century. It is known that at the end of the nineteenth century it was considered the popular thing to do. From royalty giving out silver to the noble class giving out a few treasured almonds in a cardboard box everyone was doing it.
It depended on the culture of the country what the wedding guest could expect for a favor. In early England, bride's brave love knots made of fancy lace with the addition of ribbons for wedding favors. In Malaysia hand, decorated eggs were given because this was the sign of fertility. It became the tradition in Italy to give chocolate candy filled with almond paste or chocolate covered almonds, which had a hard candy coating. In Spain, theyave each wedding wedding a stem full of orange blossoms. The Middle Eastern countries cave five candy-coated almonds in different colors in a small container as a symbolic offering of five good wishes, happiness, wealth, longevity, fertility, and good health. In Greece, a wedding favor was a glass eye to protect the guest from the evil eye.
The party favor is an area where the bride can add a personal touch and have a little fun doing it. The favors she chooses to be given out at her wedding are a reflection of her taste, but they also serve to memorialize her wedding. The favors can become a part of the wedding decoration and theme. The favors can be given to each couple at the wedding or to each individual it is up to her and the budget she wants to maintain.
There are different ways of presenting the wedding favors to the guests; it does not seem to matter if they are given at the beginning or at the end of the reception, but generally since the guests will not all leave at once either at the beginning of the reception or during the reception would seem to be better. If the eating arrangement is not buffet style, the gifts may be given or placed at each table along with the table setting. As the bride makes the rounds with her new husband to speak to all the guests she might carry a pretty decorated basket and hand out the favors, or the couple can have a small child carrying a basket following them as they make their rounds to hand out the wedding favors to the guests. Other people can hand out the gifts it does not have to have the bride and groom.
More often than not, the favors are purchased from a favor retailer but the bride and whomever she chooses to help her, the bridesmaids, members of the family, or friends can make even suitable ones themselves.
The wedding favors do not have to be expensive almost any small gift can be given, from a few pieces of candy or nuts wrapped in cellophane and tied with a ribbon, or even a small cardboard box with some sweets in it. Companies selling favors also offer favor containers of various types that are equally important as part of the gift.
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Source by Aaron C Hu
