Sending the bride 12 presents is a wedding custom in Taiwan.
Do you know: The objects chosen to give as gifts have words that sound similar to Chinese words for ‘plenty and fast boy’.
The custom dictates that the groom gifts the bride 12 presents, which may include shoes, jewellery, pagoda-shaped candies, etc. After the gifts are given, the groom’s letter of betrothal is read aloud. The bride returns the gesture by giving 12 gifts of her own, which may include goldfish and chopsticks!
