Wedding favors

[pinkyphimu]

OMG I forgot to mention my cookie table!! I can't wait for the cookies, but unfortunately, ours will be purchased from a bakery. My grandma was the one to make all of the cookies and she is in a nursing home. The coordinator at our venue told us a story about how when she first started working there 20 years ago, she had never heard of a cookie table. They had all of these boxes of cookies under a table to put out after dinner. She started putting them out one box at a time, rather than spreading out the various types of cookies, and she was nearly attacked by little old ladies wondering why she didn't think there cookies weren't "good enough." She said she learned to take out a few cookies from each box! LOL

[PhoenixAzul]

Cookie table evangelism is go!

[SWTXBelle]

I could live on cheese straws. Yum.

[cuteASAbug]

Originally Posted by lilsunshine214

Nobody ever told me of the tradition of putting in under your pillow! I just thought I was getting tricked!

I've never heard of that. What's the tradition?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

I've never heard of that. What's the tradition?

As described above:

Originally Posted by AGDee

These are Jordan Almonds and the Italians refer to it as Confetti. It is a long standing Italian tradition (my great grandparents even did it in the late 1800s). You are NOT supposed to eat those! You are supposed to put them under your pillow that night and you will dream about who you are going to marry.

[hannahgirl]

Cookie tables are amazing! We had everyone making cookies for ours...family, friends, friends of friends. My mom and I had them dropped off or we picked up all the cookies and put them on trays the morning we had to take everything to the reception hall. We had 22 trays of cookies which has AT LEAST 100 cookies on each tray. Plus we had cookies left over! I think we had at least 100 dozen cookies made. Here is a picture of what our cookie table looked like: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a313/andreadg9/Our%20Wedding%20-%20August%202007/andrea0033.jpg

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by lilsunshine214

My family is hardcore Italian from the east coast! Literally it was a travesty when my immediate family moved to Ohio because no one in my family had ever left the NY/NJ area. Anyway, when I told my mom I was considering not having favors she went bug-eyed! It's unheard of in my family!

On a funny note: I remember being in 2 weddings as a kid and being so upset that the candy in the tulle was hard to get to and hard to eat! I remembering being a 4 year-old flower girl, "That candy was about to break my teeth!" Nobody ever told me of the tradition of putting in under your pillow! I just thought I was getting tricked!

Maybe they didn't want you dreaming about who you were going to marry when you were only 4? Maybe my family made up that story totally so we didn't break our teeth on them! Maybe your family realized that making "getting married" the be all end all goal of your life was silly? Or, maybe it's just a Sicilian thing? I don't know! My family could've duped me for all I know! LOL

ETA: They also told us we were supposed to put the cake under our pillow to dream about who we would marry. I always ate mine though. Maybe that's why I'm divorced??? I screwed up!

Although my family came to Detroit from PA (not quite Pittsburgh... Uniontown), the cookie table thing didn't follow. There was always a dessert table and when we were younger, the desserts were homemade by the elder generation of women.. cannoli, pizelle, pinolata, etc. I was never big into the Italian desserts though so I stuck with cake. As we got older, the dessert table ended up catered because that generation was too old to do it and everybody else was too busy.