I like to have a button on my pillow for luck, but the silver button in a Christmas pudding was for a batchelor. I think also the thimble may have signified an old maid. So neither very suitable for a wedding garter!Other Christmas pudding charms were a boot (for travel) a horseshoe (for luck) and a ring (for marriage).A friend of mine says in her family they also had a small silver pig (for a laugh) - but pigs are also lucky.A real boot is sometimes tied to the back of the bride and groom's car after the wedding, so that would be quite appropriate. >A silver button is one of the charms stirred into a Christmas pudding so it >may well be and it could certainly go on a garter. A silver thimble and a >small silver coin are some of the others .... Bridget Marrow in Pinner, Middlesex.
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