Christmas party favors info

Wedding favors are small gifts given as a gesture of appreciation or gratitude to guests from the bride and groom during a wedding ceremony or a wedding reception.

The tradition of distributing wedding favors is a very old one. It is believed that the first wedding favor, common amongst European aristocrats, was known as a bonbonniere. A bonbonniere is a small trinket box made of crystal, porcelain, and/or precious stones. The contents of these precious boxes were generally sugar cubes or delicate confections, which symbolize wealth and royalty. (In this era, sugar was an expensive commodity and was treasured only among the wealthy. It was believed that sugar contained medical benefits). As the price of sugar decreased throughout centuries, the tradition of providing gifts to guests reached the general populace and was embraced by couples of modest means.

As sugar became more affordable, bonbonnieres were replaced with almonds. For centuries, almonds were commonly distributed to wedding guests to signify well wishes on the bridegroom’s new life. In the thirteenth century, almonds coated with sugar, known as confetti, were introduced. Confetti soon transformed to sugared almonds, which later evolved into the wedding favor for modern day weddings. Traditionally, five Jordan almonds are presented in a confection box or wrapped in elegant fabric to represent fertility, longevity, wealth, health and happiness. The bitterness of the almond and the sweetness of the coated candy exemplify the bitter sweetness of a marriage.

Today, gifts to guests are commonly known as wedding favors and are shared in cultures worldwide. Wedding favors have become a part of wedding reception planning, especially in the United States and Canada. Wedding favors are diverse and can range from the classic sugared almonds to small metal items. Some gifts may be personalized with the couple’s names and the wedding date.

The importance of and demand for wedding favors has created a new category of business in the wedding industry where thousands of sites compete selling just wedding favors. Wedding favors have surpassed the term ‘trend’ and have become commonplace among today’s weddings. “Wedding favors are no longer a niche market in the wedding industry. In fact, many wedding favor retailers would probably agree that it is become an industry of its own.”

Play Around the Christmas Tree is an album by Play.

Track listing

1. “Sleigh Ride” – 3:24
2. “Winter Wonderland” – 2:03
3. “O Holy Night” – 3:38
4. “Let It Snow” – 1:48
5. “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” – 1:54
6. “Silver Bells” –2:10
7. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” – 2:07
8. “The Christmas Song” – 3:13
9. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” – 3:55
10. “Silent Night” – 3:04

Personnel

• Anaïs Lameche
• Janet Leon
• Rosie Munter
• Anna Sundstrand

Skipping Christmas (2001) is a comedy novella by noted American author John Grisham. In 2004 the novella was made into a movie titled Christmas with the Kranks.

Plot summary

The story focuses on how Luther Krank and his wife Nora tried to avoid doing the traditional Christmas frenzy.

The plan was hatched by Luther himself after he and his wife took their daughter Blair to the airport for a year long mission to Peru with the Peace Corps. After calculating how much money they spent last Christmas, Luther decides to take a 10-day Caribbean Cruise with his wife this year instead of celebrating Christmas the usual way. No Christmas shopping, no Christmas trees, not even the traditional Christmas party they hosted. Nora reluctantly agreed at first but as the day of the cruise approaches she thinks it’s a great idea as they all miss the crazy commotion people had to endure during the season. Or so they thought……

Blair suddenly calls on Christmas Eve to tell them that she’s at the airport in Miami,FL and she’s coming home with her fiance as a surprise for them. Blair also told them that her fiance hasn’t been to the U.S.A. and would like to see how they spend Christmas, after Blair told him about the decorations, Music, snow and the Christmas party their family always hosted.

All of a sudden the Kranks have to prepare a Christmas party in 4 hours, not to mention getting the house decorated in time for the arrival of Blair from the airport.

Luther’s view on Christmas changes a lot throughout this novel. In the beginning he is looking forward to his cruise the Island Princess. The ten day cruise, full of food and fun was a must. In the end of the, book Luther realizes that family is more important as he reluctantly decides not to go on the cruise.

Christmas Wonderland is an instrumental Christmas album by Bert Kaempfert and his orchestra from 1963.

Tracks

1. The Little Drummer Boy
2. Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
3. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
4. Holiday For Bells
5. Winter Wonderland
6. Children’s Christmas Dream
7. Sleigh Ride
8. White Christmas
9. Toy Parade
10. Christmas Wonderland
11. Jingo Jango
12. Jumpin’ Jiminy Christmas

The Temptations Christmas Card is a 1970 Christmas album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. The group’s first holiday release, Christmas Card features each Temptation leading on various popular Christmas standards and original Christmas songs.

Track listing

1. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
2. “My Christmas Tree”
3. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
4. “Silent Night”
5. “Someday at Christmas”
6. “White Christmas”
7. “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”
8. “Silver Bells”
9. “The Christmas Song”
10. “Little Drummer Boy”

Personnel

• Dennis Edwards: vocals
• Eddie Kendricks: vocals
• Paul Williams: vocals
• Melvin Franklin: vocals
  
• Otis Williams: vocals

Christmas Pie is a village, in Surrey, England. Named after Christmas Pie Farm (1823) a name probably associated with the Christmas family that is mentioned in 16th century records.

References

• Dictionary of English Place Names, A. D. Mills, ISBN 0-19-280074-4

External links

• Normandy and Christmas Pie, local history site

Little Christmas, or Nollaig Bheag in the Irish language, is one of the traditional names in Ireland for January 6, more commonly known in the rest of the world as the Epiphany. It is so called because it was, until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, the day on which Christmas Day was celebrated. It is the traditional end of the Christmas season and the last day of the Christmas holidays for both Primary and Secondary schools.

The name Little Christmas is also found in Slovenian (mali božič).

It is also known as Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas), so called because of the tradition (still very strong in Cork, though only just surviving in the rest of the country) of Irish men taking on all the household duties on that day and giving their spouses a day off. Most women will either hold parties or go out to celebrate the day with their friends, sisters, mothers, aunts etc. Bars and restaurants have a near 100% female clientele on this night. Children often buy presents for their mothers and grandmothers and it closely resembles Mother’s Day in this respect.

“Another Rock N’ Roll Christmas” is a popular 1984 Christmas song by Gary Glitter.

The song is about the fun of Christmas and refers to Rock and Roll music throughout, examples being the lyrics “You’ll be rocking in your stocking” and “Come on, Rock and Roll for old St. Nick“. The song sold very well, hitting the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming Glitter’s most successful song since 1975. Though he was still touring regularly when the song came out, Glitter has often credited “Another Rock N’ Roll Christmas” as a song that gave him a huge resurgence in popularity.

The song was included on the album Boys Will Be Boys, issued in 1985 and was reissued many times, both as a single (including a collectors picture disc) and on other albums.

The track was one of the most played Christmas songs in the UK for many years and is still played today, though not as heavily, following Glitter’s conviction for possessing child pornography.

Step into Christmas is a Christmas song written and performed by Elton John, released in 1973. Though it was originally released as a stand-alone single in 1973 with the B-Side “Ho! Ho! Ho! Who’d Be a Turkey at Christmas”, it was later included as a bonus track on the 1996 remastered reissue of the album Caribou. It also appears on the albums Elton John’s Christmas Party, Rare Masters, To Be Continued, and The Best Christmas Album In The World…Ever!.

Other versions

It was covered by the band The Wedding Present on their 1992 album Hit Parade II, and also covered by The Business for the ‘Bollocks to Christmas’ EP.

External links

• Step Into Christmas lyrics
  

The Christmas Collection, album of the operatic pop vocal group Il Divo. It was released on October 25, 2005 in the United States. The album is a collection of Christmas or holiday-inspired songs.

Track listing

1. “O Holy Night”
2. “White Christmas”
3. “Ave Maria”
4. “When A Child Is Born”
5. “Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)”
6. “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”
7. “Panis Angelicus”
8. “Rejoice”
9. “Silent Night”
10. “The Lord’s Prayer”

“Give Love on Christmas Day” was a Christmas classic soul original by Motown family quintet The Jackson 5. Released to R&B radio in 1970, the song, written by the famed label’s songwriting-producing team, The Corporation, was an ode to everybody to “give love on Christmas” because “no greater gift is better than love.” The song became an oft-covered song in decades to come re-recorded by the kid band that follow the J5’s footsteps, New Edition, for their 1985 Christmas album and was given another overhaul by one of its other members, R&B singer Johnny Gill, in 1990 for an all-star Motown Christmas album. R&B group BlackGirl in 1994 and R&B singer Faith Evans has also covered the song live during a Christmas telecast in 2001. It’s the J5’s and Gill’s versions that are most memorable.

A Christmas Ham is a traditional ingredient in the Finnish and Swedish Christmas celebrations.

Before the arrival of Christianity to Scandinavia, a boar, the wild ancestor of the pig, was sacrificed to the god Freyr at the Yule celebrations and eaten (see Blót). This tradition of butchering a pig at Christmas continued after the Christianization and survives as several dishes (sausages and bread dipped in pork fat) of which the Christmas ham is the most central. Also the Germanic people had a similar celebration as did the ancient Romans, who sacrificed a pig to the Roman god Saturn about the same time Christmas is celebrated nowadays. The ham is considered as important part of the holiday setting as the Christmas tree.

Christmas Interpretations is a 1993 Christmas album by R&B group Boyz II Men for the Motown label. Several of the tracks are originals, written by the group and labelmate Brian McKnight; others are cover versions of traditional Christmas songs.

Track

listing

1. “Silent Night (Intro)”
2. “Let It Snow” (featuring Brian McKnight)
3. “Share Love”
4. “You’re Not Alone”
5. “A Joyous Song
6. “Why Christmas”
7. “Cold December Nights”
8. “Do They Know”
9. “Who Would Have Thought”
10. “Silent Night”

Is It Christmas Yet? was released by The Tycoons in 1998. First album with Presidents of the United States of America’s Chris Ballew, Gigolo Aunts’ Phil Hurley, and Tube Top’s Gavin Guss.

Track listing

1. “Cloudy Cloud”
2. “Every Other December”
3. “To Be There At Christmas With You”
4. “Frozen Christmas”

Christmas cookies are traditionally sugar cookies (though other flavors may be used based on family traditions and individual preferences) cut into various shapes related to Christmas. In the United States, since the 1930s, children have left cookies and milk on a table for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, though many people simply consume the cookies themselves. The cookies are often cut into such shapes as those of candy canes, reindeer, and holly leaves. Oreos are also popular.

See also

• Lebkuchen
• Pizzelle
• Sugar cookie
• Chocolate chip cookie
• Cookie
• Cookie cutter
• gingerbread
• Spritzgebäck
• Pfeffernüsse

External links

• Ginger Cookies Recipe
• Christmas cookie recipes
• Origin of Christmas Traditions by Sarah Lane
• Christmas Cookies lists some popular recipes.
• Snowflakes Recipe Traditional cookies in the shape of snowflakes.

Action Party may refer to:

• Action Party, Canada
• Citizens’ Action Party, Costa Rica
• Action Party, Guyana
• Sardian Action Party, Italy
• Action Party, Italy
• Action Party, Liberia
• Democratic Action Party, Malaysia
• Democratic Action Party, Philippines
• Social Action Party, Thailand
• Action Party, United Kingdom

See also

• National Action Party
• New Action Party
• People’s Action Party

Christmas EP 2004 is an album by Seven Nations.

1. “2000 Miles”
2. “Carol of the Bells”
3. “Away in a Manger”
4. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
5. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
6. “The Rebel Jesus”
7. “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
   

“Christmas” is a song written by Pete Townshend and is the seventh song on the Who’s rock opera Tommy. The song tells how on Christmas morning, Tommy’s father (others claim it is both of Tommy’s parents) is worried about Tommy’s future, and soul. He claims “Tommy doesn’t know what day it is/He doesn’t know who Jesus was or what praying is,” and he wonders “How can he be saved/From the eternal grave?”

Musical themes

Musically, Christmas introduces the See Me, Feel Me reprise. Also there is a short “Can You Hear Me” reprise that will be repeated in the song Tommy Can You Hear Me.

That same Christmas, Tommy is given a game of pinball, foreshadowing to the events that take place in “Pinball Wizard”

Christmas Turkey is a Christmas-themed album released in 1997 by the Canadian Comedy Music group The Arrogant Worms.
It includes a re-recorded version of “The Christmas Song” (which appeared on their debut album).

Track listing

1. “Santa’s Gonna Kick Your Ass”
2. “The Christmas Song”
3. “Santa Got Arrested”
4. “Christmas Sucks”
5. “Things Are Looking Bad For Santa”
6. “Christmas Turkey Blues”
7. “Oh God, I’m Santa Claus!”
8. “Christmas Is Almost Here”
9. “Dad Threw Up On Christmas Day”
10. “The Same Christmas Cake”
11. “Christmastime”
12. “Christmas Blues”
13. “Christmas Hangover”
14. “Vincent The Christmas Virus”
15. “Christmas In Ignace”

Home for Christmas is the second American album by the pop group ‘N Sync, released on November 10, 1998. The lead single from the album, “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays”, achieved moderate success on the radio. It was certified Double Platinum in the US and has sold 4 million copies worldwide.

Track listing

1. “Home For Christmas” (Haase/Morehead)
2. “Under My Tree” (Peiken/Roche)
3. “I Never Knew The Meaning Of Christmas” (Rogers/Sturken)
4. “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” (Renn/Chasez/Timberlake)
5. “The Christmas Song” (Mel Tormé/Robert Wells)
6. “I Guess It’s Christmas Time” (Peiken/Bliss)
7. “All I Want Is You This Christmas” (Briley/Calitri)
8. “First Noel” (Traditional)
9. “In Love On Christmas” (Bennett/Hailey/Hailey)
10. “It’s Christmas” (Ries/Thomas)
11. “O Holy Night” (Traditional, arranged by Wiley)
12. “Love’s In Our Hearts On Christmas Day” (Haase/Lowell/Werking)
13. “The Only Gift” (Christensen/Franzell)
14. “Kiss Me At Midnight” (Renn/Lamb)

Other Christmas Songs

Two other ‘N Sync Christmas songs that did not make it on this album but on other compilations are:

• “I Don’t Wanna Spend One More Christmas Without You” (Found on “Now That’s What I Call Christmas Vol. 2″)
• “You Don’t Have To Be Alone (On Christmas)” (Found on “The Grinch” soundtrack)