Wedding Cups

The wedding season, usually the spring and fall, brings us lots of engraving jobs for the bride, groom, and all members of the wedding party.  We do pewter bracelets and jewel boxes for the bridesmaids, jiggers and beer tankards for the groomsmen and many wedding cups for the bride and groom. The use of a wedding cup in marriage ceremonies is an ancient tradition with roots going back to Jewish, German and Celtic cultures.  With strong symbolic meanings, a shared toast and drink of wine between the newlyweds is becoming an ever more popular and fun part of the wedding ceremony.   The wine, with its sweet taste and bitter edge, stands for the moments in life where the couple will experience their ups and downs.  The cup symbolizes the pledge of life long togetherness.  And the drink from the cup, with the shared wine represents a shared life. Lately, as this is the wedding season, we have been engraving l oving cups, wine cups and pewter trays to use in the wedding ceremony.  Typically, the tray will have the name of the bride and groom with the date of the wedding and is used to carry the goblets or cups.  Our orders on the cups vary since there is no rule as to how the cups should be engraved.  Some will have the name of both the bride and groom, some will have the wedding date and others will leave it off.  There are wedding goblets that have the bride's name on one cup and the groom's on the other, again with or without the date.