The Tradition of the Sixpence
According to tradition, during the early 1600's the Lord of the Manor presented a sixpence to the bride as a wedding gift.  Toward the end of the seventeenth century, it became the custom for the bride's parents to give the sixpence as a dowry gift to the groom

.As time went on the custom of using the sixpence as a good luck coin continued into the 1800's.  Today brides throughout the British Isles, the U.S. and other countries world wide, still place a sixpence in their left shoe for good luck.

Family Traditions.
A bridal sixpence can be placed in the wedding album after the wedding and kept intact to be passed down for daughters and/or daughters-in-law to wear on their own special wedding day.

Special Dates
Many brides choose a sixpence minted in the year of a parent or grandparent's birth or wedding anniversary as a special tribute to that person/persons.