Gifts for a medieval wedding

It's interesting:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I shall try to be brief. I do have a habit of rambling with my speeches, so you might feel like you've walked into the Oscar ceremony by ..."

Good day and well met! Ye have been invited to a medieval themed wedding. The pageantry and costumes make these themed weddings a lot of fun and very memorable.

Anyone can look at the bridal registry and and get the happy couple a melon baller or a set of Fiesta ware, but it can be a lot more fun to provide a gift in keeping with the theme of the day.

1. Traditional Gifts

   • In medieval times, the bride's family would provide a dowry. This is essentially a payment to the groom to thank him for marrying their daughter. The groom's family would provide a house and a means of income. Money is actually the most traditional gift you could give! According to medieval-weddings.net, it was also a custom of the time for the groom to provide small and valuable pieces of furniture to the bride as a thank you for performing her wifely duties.

   Mead

   • Mead, or honey wine, is an alcoholic beverage similar to wine but made with fermented honey instead of grapes. It is often blended with other fruits to make a very sweet and tasty drink. It is a more traditional medieval drink than champagne, and many medieval weddings feature a mead toast. It has even been suggested that the term "honeymoon" is derived from the practice of drinking honey wine for a month after marriage as a way to have sons. It could be a nice touch to provide a bottle of mead to the newlyweds. the website GotMead.com can put you in touch with a commercial meadery near you.

   Medieval Jewlery

   • In medieval times, many peasants could not afford rings. It was a common custom for the peasantry to break a coin in half, with the bride and groom each keeping one piece. You can give your couple a sweet and touching reminder that they are now two halves of the same whole by giving them each a necklace with half of a coin on it. There are also many on-line vendors that provide jewelry of the period, which would be a nice keepsake for the bride.

   Medieval Costumes

   • If the bride and groom are having a medieval-themed wedding, there is a good chance they enjoy other medieval-themed events like Renaissance faires. There are dozens of Renaissance and medieval-themed clothing stores online. If you know the couple's sizes, you can buy them something nice. If you don't, play it safe with a gift card.

Source: www.ehow.com

Tags: Gifts medieval, bride groom, family would, family would provide, Gifts medieval wedding