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2. Bride price - Wikipedia

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   Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, [1] bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry. Bride dowry is equivalent to dowry paid to the groom in some cultures, or used by the bride to help establish ...

3. Luckenbooth brooch - Wikipedia

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   The Luckenbooth brooch is a traditional Scottish love token: [1] often given as a betrothal or wedding brooch. It might be worn by a nursing mother as a charm to help her milk flow, [1] and/or be pinned to a baby's clothing to protect it from harm. It was known as a witch-brooch by people using it to save children from the evil eye.

4. Las arras - Wikipedia

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   Las arras, or las arras matrimoniales (English: arrhae, wedding tokens, or unity coins[1]) are wedding paraphernalia used in Christian wedding ceremonies in Spain, Latin American countries, and the Philippines. The tradition is also followed, with varying names and customs, in other countries and communities bearing degrees of Hispanic ...

5. Party favor - Wikipedia

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   A traditional wedding and party favor. Wedding favors are small gifts given as a gesture of appreciation or gratitude to guests from the spouses during a wedding ceremony or a wedding reception. The tradition of distributing wedding favors is hundreds of years old. It is believed that the first wedding favor, common amongst European aristocrats ...

6. Marriage coin charm - Wikipedia

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   Marriage coin charms can display various symbols related to marriage. [1] They may depict dates and peanuts symbolising the wish for reproduction, lotus seeds symbolising "continuous births", chestnuts symbolising male offspring, pomegranates symbolising fertility, brans symbolising sons that will be successful, "dragon and phoenix" candles, cypress leaves, qilins, bronze mirrors, shoes ...

7. Gift economy - Wikipedia

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   Wedding rings could be considered a commodity, pure gift, or both. Rather than emphasize how particular kinds of objects are either gifts or commodities to be traded in restricted spheres of exchange, Arjun Appadurai and others began to look at how objects flowed between these spheres of exchange (i.e. how objects can be converted into gifts ...