Formal Wedding Favors
When you want to give a personalized wedding favor as a gift that you know they’ll really appreciate, consider one of Lasting Glass Impression’s many formal wedding favors ideas. These versatile wedding favor gifts can be placed anywhere in the home as a reminder of your appreciation on this special day. They will catch and reflect the sunlight for a rainbow effect that is truly stunning. They will brighten the recipient’s day and remind them of your thoughtfulness every time they look at them.
You’ll love how they glow with the warmth of the room lighting, and they will love how you’ve personalized a special gift just for them.
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Formal Wedding Favors For The Bridesmaids and Groomsmen From Our Affiliates
A Brief History on Formal Wedding Favors
Formal Wedding Favors are small gifts given as a gesture of appreciation or gratitude to guests from the bride and groom during a wedding ceremony or a wedding reception.
This tradition of distributing formal wedding favors is a very old one. It is believed that the first wedding favor, common amongst European aristocrats, was known as a bonbonniere. A bonbonniere is a small trinket box made of crystal, porcelain, and/or precious stones. The contents of these precious boxes were generally sugar cubes or delicate confections, which symbolize wealth and royalty. (In this era, sugar was an expensive commodity and was treasured only among the wealthy. It was believed that sugar contained medical benefits). As the price of sugar decreased throughout centuries, the tradition of providing gifts to guests reached the general populace and was embraced by couples of modest means.
As sugar became more affordable, bonbonnieres were replaced with almonds. For centuries, almonds were commonly distributed to wedding guests to signify well wishes on the bridegroom’s new life. In the thirteenth century, almonds coated with sugar, known as confetti, were introduced. Confetti soon transformed to sugared almonds, which later evolved into the formal wedding favor for modern day weddings. Traditionally, five Jordan almonds are presented in a confection box or wrapped in elegant fabric to represent fertility, longevity, wealth, health and happiness. The bitterness of the almond and the sweetness of the coated candy exemplify the bitter sweetness of a marriage.
Today, gifts to guests are commonly known as formal wedding favors and are shared in cultures worldwide. Formal Wedding Favors have become a part of wedding reception planning, especially in the United States and Canada. Formal Wedding Favors are diverse and can range from the classic sugared almonds to small metal items. Some gifts may be personalized with the couple's names and the wedding date.
The importance of and demand for formal wedding favors has created a new category of business in the wedding industry where thousands of sites compete selling just formal wedding favors.Formal Wedding Favors have surpassed the term ‘trend’ and have become commonplace among today’s weddings. "Formal Wedding Favors are no longer a niche market in the wedding industry. In fact, many Formal Wedding Favor retailers would probably agree that it is become an industry of its own."
