Wedding favours

Wedding favours labelled: Svea Strandman’s wedding, 24 October, 1886.

NM.0216836

JOY AND PROSPERITY
Confectionery as mementos of weddings and christenings became popular in the middle classes in the late-19th century. Decorated with infants sculpted in sugar and symbols of faithfulness, love, hearth and home. In the 1960s, a few families would still order such confectionery for special family occasions.