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When giving wedding gifts,
everyone wants to buy something special and something beautiful. However, how
many decorative china plates, tea sets or crystal goblets does one couple need?
This wedding season, what about giving wedding gifts that are both special and
beautiful AND something that the couple you love will actually use?
Luxury throw blankets offer
the perfect solution to the thoughtful wedding gift giver. While the delicate
wedding china remains untouched but once or twice a year, luxury throw blankets
offer the couple something both more practical, but also something literally
warming that the two can enjoy year after year. What better romantic gift to
give than a luxuriously soft blanket under which the couple can cuddle near the
fireplace when the nights get cold? Not only does a luxury throw blanket
provide literal physical, warmth – a highly attractive feature – it also
provides the psychological comfort of something elegant that provides the ideas
of luxury and romance.
In one variation of the
Lakota wedding ceremony native to the Dakotas, a woman would start making a
blanket when she had found her true beloved. Upon completion of the blanket,
she would wrap the blanket – large enough to encompass two – around her
shoulders and approach her chosen man. Standing before him, she would open her
arms, and if the man received her embrace, enclosing the blanket around them,
they were immediately married. While today's wedding traditions are much more
involved, the romantic, unifying symbolism of a marriage quilt or blanket exists
in many cultures.
Throw blankets may also be
monogrammed for the ultimate personal touch – either the couple's new initials,
wedding date, or other signifier may be stitched into the luxury fiber, further
demonstrating the uniqueness of the gift to the couple. Who wants cold silver
plates or delicate objects that are hardly ever used? Giving wedding gifts that
last and that symbolize union is a sure way to make the gift you give memorable
and enjoyable year after year.
For more luxurious gifts of
beauty and durability that will envelop your favorite couples in comfort, visit
our sister site, Elegant Linens, at
www.elegantlinenspc.com
For more information on
Lakota and other indigenous wedding traditions see the links below:
http://www.aaanativearts.com/article1522.html
http://www.lunacountryweddings.com/packages-nativeweddings.htm
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