Penny in the shoe

The original poem was:

Something old,

something new,

something borrowed,

something blue,

and a silver sixpence in her shoe.

I had an actual silver sixpence in my shoe. However, even in the UK, the sixpence is obsolete. (They've gone to a decimal currency, in which coins come in 5 pence and 10 pence, not sixpence.) And they stopped being silver in 1920. So many people now use a penny instead of a sixpence.

Thanks for this lol! I tried looking this up on google and nothing was there! I've never heard of this.

I have two if anyone would like and am always looking for more. Plmk if you need

Hi Tina! I would love one, how do I go about getting one? thank you!

Ashley, I hope to be around in '16 so watch for posts

@Tina I would love a penny. however I am not sure how to pm.

Seattle, please send me an invitation to connect (Under "Planning Tools" then "Couple we Know" and then we can message

Tina I'll add you and then bug you over the winter/spring

Thank you Bestie!

As 2d bride says, it's just the end of the poem. I didn't have one and remembered as my DOC was beckoning me down the aisle...luckily we got one just in time, and I stuck it in my bra since my shoes were open toe.

Lara, I love it!

Mine were sandals so the photog intertwined it. Others use a bit of sticky tack stuff

Thank you Tina. you are wonderful

Tina, that looks great!

I really waned to stay traditional so I got mine off ebay and it's an old sixpence from back when they were still silver. You can look on ebay and etsy and find quite a few if you really want to go that way, but obviously it's more money than the $.01 of just grabbing a penny. I love mine because it's a love token which basically means it has a name hand engraved on it (from times when money was short and people didn't often buy jewelry so they would do that instead and just wear the coin). It already had a hole drilled so that was easy and I just put it on an anklet to wear. I didn't want to put it in my shoe as it was uncomfortable to me and based on my shoes I thought it would fall out.

Reggie, that sounds so cute!