Wedding Coins

macbookair

is the exchange of wedding coings still a tradition. Does anyone know where they can be purchased?

ABajaninCork

My husband gave me a coin when we married. It was engraved with our names and the date of our wedding. I think you can get them at most jeweller's. I would suggest going to a smaller family one.

If you're in or around Cork, then I can get the name of the place my husband got mine, if you wish.

im invisible

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McCloskey_A

Our jeweller that did our rings, gave us our wedding coin,

Gatica

yeah, guy that made our rings gave us a coin. I'd never heard of that tradition before so we still have the coin, but it went unused. Just ask your jeweller if they have them..

Penny Dreadful

Its up to each individual couple. We thought it was a little silly and so opted not to do it. We've been at a couple of weddings since and some couples did and others didn't.
Do what you would like OP.

Chocoholic84

We got our coin from our jewellers.

helimachoptor

macbookair wrote: »

is the exchange of wedding coings still a tradition. Does anyone know where they can be purchased?

My wife and I did it, I didnt know about it til the rehearsal...

Muckit

Our jeweller just gave us one when we bought our rings. Engraved and all with our names and date. Nice gesture, then again, we'd paid him enough!

macbookair

Many thanks for all your help

Prenderb

We got a couple of coins from the central bank commemorative collection. Nice designs, might be worth thinking about?

Berty

I only found out about this today in gleesons goldsmiths in Shannon. They provide it engraved free of charge with the wedding bands. I googled it and found this discussion. She described it as providing the coin as a symbol of "all that I have" and doesn't have to be in te ceremony but it might be a nice gift to give the brides father to give to the bride on the morning of the wedding saying "xx said to give you this". It would be in a box so he wouldn't really know what it is. A nice surprise if you didn't want it in the ceremony.

Senna

We lost ours, it was at the ceremony and was never seen after that:D, I know another couple that lost theirs too. Nice small token, but neither of us were too worried when it got lost.

spade

I was bridesmaid and lost the one belonging to the couple. They seem to have forgotten (thank goodness). To replace it I did a lot of research online and you could get them on amazon

Berty

Senna wrote: »

We lost ours, it was at the ceremony and was never seen after that:D, I know another couple that lost theirs too. Nice small token, but neither of us were too worried when it got lost.

spade wrote: »

I was bridesmaid and lost the one belonging to the couple. They seem to have forgotten (thank goodness). To replace it I did a lot of research online and you could get them on amazon

I suppose when they are so cheap people don't think twice about them. We lost a whole table at a wedding once(used for ceremony outdoors).

hoodwinked

My grandmother gave us the silver dollar that they used at their wedding and in a bizarre twist my husbands uncle gave him a silver dollar his parents gave him!

so we of course decided to do the tradition and it was a nice way to bring our grandparents into it (three out of the four are deceased)

our jeweller also offered us coins but due to the above we turned him down.