I recently went through my desk calendar at work to note how far out the wedding was on a given month (silly I know). When I got to October there was The Sweetest Day listed on the 19th. I did a Google search and came up with this:
"Annually, on the third Saturday of October the United States celebrates Sweetest Day.
This tradition originated in Cleveland in 1922, when Herbert Birch Kingston, philanthropist, and a candy factory employee, decided to help the destitute orphans, poor people and all those who have wretched existence.
Kingston gathered a small group of residents, and with the help of his friends, they organized the distribution of small gifts to somehow support the hungry people who had been forgotten and ignored by the government.
During the first day of sweet movie star Ann Pennington distributed sweet gifts to 2200 Cleveland newspaper boys as a token of gratitude for their work.
Another popular film star Theda Bara distributed 10 000 boxes of chocolates to Cleveland hospital patients and to those who came to see her film in a local movie house."
We are still contemplating whether or not we will do a program but I thought this could be cute on the reverse side. Or maybe one on each table as a fun fact. Have any of you heard of this day? Do you think it would be cute to tie this into our wedding day?