Winter Wedding Theme

Christmas time is a very popular time for couples to announce their engagement. Family and friends are gathering to celebrate the Christmas season, and this is a perfect time to let them all know the happy news that you are getting married.

With many family and friends living in different geographical locations, times like Christmas sees everyone ‘coming home’ for Christmas. For this reason, the Christmas season is also a popular time to celebrate a wedding.

When looking for the best Christmas wedding favours, there are many beautiful choices for the bride to consider. One very elegant choice is the Crystal Snowflake Glass Coaster set. These beautiful coasters make winter weddings especially elegant as there are four substantial glass coasters frosted with delicate snowflakes.

A great choice when choosing your Christmas wedding favours is the Elegant Snowflake Design Wine Bottle Stopper. These decorative and useful mementos are the perfect memento for your guests to take home. Each of these unique favours features a chrome stopper base wrapped with a black rubber gasket with a detailed three dimensional chrome snowflake perched at the top. Each wine bottle stopper comes individually packaged in a deluxe box with a clear top and a black, snow-flake decorated bottom, tied with a white organza bow with an attached snowflake design thank you tag.

The Flower of Love in Romantic Red Collection of guest book, ring pillow, designer pen base, bridal garter, cake serving set, cake topper, unity candle and toasting set is very stunning. This striking collection features romantic parchment roses with a musical backdrop. In combination with the pure silk douppione shantung fabric and natural mulberry paper, this beautiful ensemble is the picture of romance. The white and red colour scheme is pure winter colours—dramatic and romantic at the same time. With black accents this colour scheme is formal and traditional at the same time, and any wedding favour in these three colours would be appropriate.

The stunning “snow flurry’ flocked glass ornament place card holder/photo holder set provides a lovely motif for gifts of the season. It is a snow-lover’s delight inside and out, making it the perfect favour for your winter wedding. The outside of the clear, snow-globe ornament is adorned with white, flocked snowflakes, and inside is ‘drifting’ snow. It comes with place card holders for your wedding reception seating plan, and your guests can later use this as a Christmas tree ornament or a photo holder on their fireplace mantle. Either way, this beautiful gift is versatile and an elegant reminder of your wedding.

Christmas wedding favours are a lovely way to thank your guests for sharing your seasonal wedding day with you. They are a keepsake that uniquely expresses your personal style and taste, and they will trigger a memory each time they see your Christmas party favor in their home.

The candle manufacturers, like any good company, are never ones to turn down a new trend. The advent of unity candles into Protestant weddings some 30 or 40 years ago was just such a trend and today has become a booming business for the makers of all things waxy and flammable.

The act itself is packed with symbolism, the creation of a tradition that involves the entirety of both the bride and groom’s in-laws in the act of joining in matrimony. The mothers of both the Bride and Groom will light a candle, and depending on just how symbolic said families are, the grandparents might light those candles for the mothers. The Bride and Groom will then take their freshly lit candles and light the unity candle, a single flame between them to symbolize their union. It usually takes place after the vows are completed.

The origins of the unity candle are still fuzzy, as no one will own up to the initial introduction of the tradition. Born in America within the last 50 years or so, some believe it to have sprouted from the Catholic Church, although the rite itself is not permitted in Catholic weddings now as it’s not part of the wedding Mass.

Like Valentine’s Day and any other candy coated holiday that Hallmark invented, some even believe it to be the result of a marketing guru within the candle making companies themselves thinking of new ways to spread their product. The truth may never be known, but the history is entertaining nonetheless.

Some will even point to a particular wedding on General Hospital in 1981 in which the symbolic lighting was performed, but there are records of the Unity Candle being lit earlier than that in Protestant ceremonies. The appearance of the candle on a show like General Hospital no doubt didn’t work towards curbing the newly created tradition though.

As for the importance of the ceremony, it’s a symbolic show of unity under God, but also under the eyes of two families coming together. The use of a unity candle is just one more way to show visually how two people feel about each other on the most important day of their relationship. The candle itself means nothing, it’s the act with which it is lit, and that’s more than a good reason why the origin itself isn’t necessarily as important as the thought behind the act.