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| Easter Celebrations : Easter Cards |
Easter greeting cards are exchanged to welcome the advent of the festive season. Read about Easter E cards.
During special occasions and popular festivals people reach out to
greeting cards to convey their blessings and wishes. In today's time
when people find themselves hard-pressed to spend quality time with near
and dear ones, exchange of greeting cards becomes a convenient tool.
Easter cards originated in Victorian England when a stationer added a
greeting to a drawing of a rabbit.
Since then people have taken to sending Easter cards in a big way.
Easter card designs that express spiritual sentiments and wishes for
spring, and feature popular icons and religious symbols of this spring
holiday are extremely popular among the masses. Besides a wide array of
easy-to-send paper cards, customers also have the option of adding their
own personal message along with the card greeting.
In Great Britain alone, there are more than 800 publishers producing
2.6 billion greeting cards a year. The industry even has its own version
of the Oscars, called the Henries - named after Sir Henry Cole, who
produced the first commercial Christmas cards in 1846. The greeting card
industry in Great Britain is worth more than £1.2bn a year.
More than 20 percent of Easter cards are given to children, a fact that
substantiates the popular notion of Easter being kid's favorite
festival. According to American Greetings, Easter is now the fourth most
popular holiday for sending cards, behind Christmas, Valentine's Day,
and Mother's Day. In recent years, people have taken recourse to e-cards
to express Easter greetings.
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