Apart from purchasing silver ornaments for wedding dresses and bridal headdresses, affluent families would commission experienced silversmiths to make silver baskets to hold betel nuts and cigarettes, silver make-up cases, silver hooks for mosquito nets, and so forth.
及至成年婚嫁，嫁妝中銀器多寡，象徵著娘家的財力，早年富商仕紳之女出嫁，除了各式首飾、鳳冠綴飾外，裝檳榔和香煙的花籃、化妝用的粉盒、紅眠床的蚊帳鉤......，無一不是請技藝嫻熟的銀匠用細銀打製而成。