Interesting parallels with Filipino culture. We do that dance as well. It's called the money dance. The guests would place money in envelopes and pin it on the bride's dress or groom's clothes. Then the bridge or groom is obligated to the dance with the person pinning the money. Sometimes they would also pin the dollar bills together with the final bill pinned to the bride.
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Originally Posted by jade12
I hear ya loud and clear on that one lol, I LOVED those envelopes so much I left with them, when my ex and I were leaving the reception hehe ;o) I also left with a big basket full of cash from our dollar dance too (not really a dollar per dance, more like 10 or 50 if you're an Italian LOL).
If you've never heard of that tradition (I think it's polish), but anyway the bride and groom get up on the dance floor and people line up to dance with them, but they pay you to do it. Back in the day a dollar was alot of money, so they figured this was a nice way to build a nest egg for the bride and groom to have some cash to start up with. Most weddings that I've been to usually you get $5 per dance and it's not a full song obviously because it'd take all night lol if you're family is like the size of an Italians LOL (whic includes your 5th cousins 4 times removed hehehe;) and you can usually walk away with some nice coin!
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