Wedding favors

[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.