Lucky Bag ~ of luck love and serenity

Wish-bones are said to bring very good luck and serenity into your home, This is my lucky wish-bone which I kept from my wedding. For our marriage toast we had real wish-bones wrapped in silver foil and tied with a satin ribbon with the names of each guest attatched so that people knew who sat where etc. After My Dads speech, my Mum rattled a silver spoon against a Champagne bottle to gain the attention of all the guests so that they could raise a toast to my husband George & I.

After everyones flute was filled with Champagne, my Mum stood up & asked all the guests to stand up too. Everyone of us rose expecting to raise glasses for drinking to the happy coupkle etc. Instead of asking the guests to raise their glasses, Mum asked them all to pick-up the wish-bone which was placed on each table, wrapped in silver with silver satin bows & a silver jingle-sleigh bells, the wish-bones looked great as place-tags on the tables, but no-one was expecting them all to contain actual real chicken wish-bones which Mum had collected since I was a child especially for my wedding day...& so everyone held their wish-bone, faced the person sitting next to them, each taking one side of the wish-bone in each hand & Mum asked everyone to make a marriage wish for George & my marriage.

On the count of three everyone pulled their side of the wish-bones & you could hear the brittleness of bones snapping & wishes being made right across the hall, the bells attatched to the ribbons were jingling & then everyone gave us a huge round of applause before raising their glasses to seal the wishes they had made for us. George & I didn't snap our wish-bones though as a symbol of our never to break-up and seperate...this is my actual wedding table wish-bone.

I left these three things which I have in my luck, love and serenity bag untill last because I wanted to save the best till last as is the traditional thing to do.

When my Nan gave me this little blue silk bag she put something very, very special in there with the old penny. She filled the bag with her love which she had for me, she filled the bag with her belief she had in everything I do, she filled the bag with the faith she had in me...the penny was put in with these things to remind me of the three most priceless things in life, things which were worth no more than the old penny but things which were so precious and valuable, three things which I would always have an abundance of in my life. Oh what a wonderful Lady my Nan was, to think that she thought of everything to ensure my happiness, to ensure I knew I was loved, to ensure I believed and always had faith in myself and above all ...faith in GOD !