Sterling Wedding Cup
Offering a sterling wedding cup made in Germany. Measures 5” tall. The top basket has a floral motif and so does the body. In addition to using this on the wedding day, these can also be used as jiggers. A little information about wedding cups.
Wedding Cup : Wedding cups originated in Holland in the17th century and were popular throughout Europe. The woman’s flared shirt forms a second cup when inverted (the top cup swivels always staying level and the object was for the newlyweds to dring the contents of both cups without spilling. Accomplishing the difficult feat was said to bestow good luck on the bride and groom.
Legend says the two part cup was created in the 1700’s to win a bride. A nobleman in Germany was upset when his daughter refused to marry her rich suitors because she wanted to marry a goldsmith. Her father imprisoned the goldsmith and his daughter became ill because she was denied her true love.
The nobleman thought he could rick the daughter by agreeing to the marriage if the goldsmith could do an impossible task-make a cup that two people can drink from at the same time without spilling a drop. But the clever and talented goldsmith made a silver figure of the girl. Her skirt was hollow so it could be used as a cup. Both of the lovers could drink from the cups at the same time.
Today, the wedding cup symbolizes love, faithfulness, and good luck for the bridal couple that drinks from it.
Offering a sterling wedding cup made in Germany. Measures 5” tall. The top basket has a floral motif and so does the body. In addition to using this on the wedding day, these can also be used as jiggers. A little information about wedding cups.
Wedding Cup : Wedding cups originated in Holland in the17th century and were popular throughout Europe. The woman’s flared shirt forms a second cup when inverted (the top cup swivels always staying level and the object was for the newlyweds to dring the contents of both cups without spilling. Accomplishing the difficult feat was said to bestow good luck on the bride and groom.
Legend says the two part cup was created in the 1700’s to win a bride. A nobleman in Germany was upset when his daughter refused to marry her rich suitors because she wanted to marry a goldsmith. Her father imprisoned the goldsmith and his daughter became ill because she was denied her true love.
The nobleman thought he could rick the daughter by agreeing to the marriage if the goldsmith could do an impossible task-make a cup that two people can drink from at the same time without spilling a drop. But the clever and talented goldsmith made a silver figure of the girl. Her skirt was hollow so it could be used as a cup. Both of the lovers could drink from the cups at the same time.
Today, the wedding cup symbolizes love, faithfulness, and good luck for the bridal couple that drinks from it.
Offering a sterling wedding cup made in Germany. Measures 5” tall. The top basket has a floral motif and so does the body. In addition to using this on the wedding day, these can also be used as jiggers. A little information about wedding cups.
Wedding Cup : Wedding cups originated in Holland in the17th century and were popular throughout Europe. The woman’s flared shirt forms a second cup when inverted (the top cup swivels always staying level and the object was for the newlyweds to dring the contents of both cups without spilling. Accomplishing the difficult feat was said to bestow good luck on the bride and groom.
Legend says the two part cup was created in the 1700’s to win a bride. A nobleman in Germany was upset when his daughter refused to marry her rich suitors because she wanted to marry a goldsmith. Her father imprisoned the goldsmith and his daughter became ill because she was denied her true love.
The nobleman thought he could rick the daughter by agreeing to the marriage if the goldsmith could do an impossible task-make a cup that two people can drink from at the same time without spilling a drop. But the clever and talented goldsmith made a silver figure of the girl. Her skirt was hollow so it could be used as a cup. Both of the lovers could drink from the cups at the same time.
Today, the wedding cup symbolizes love, faithfulness, and good luck for the bridal couple that drinks from it.