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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
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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Well I'm not sure if they did the same thing or not back in the day, my Nona's best friend was Polish and she was the one that suggested it when they were planning the reception, we also had special table cloths that were put out that everyone signed (can't remember which culture that's from) but they had to give us a bottle of wine in order to do so. I've still got tons of it that I haven't even touched yet in my fathers wine cellar LOL ...
These are not traditions that you'd see at a "normal" Italian wedding, but anything to do with money and wine, is OK in my family. Not too mention 4 bridal showers and listening to my Nona continuously say (while I was opening gifts), "thadda one is notta so good, we take thadda one back and getta primo" or "huh you owna two restaurants and this is what you give my bella?" LMAO (you don't be cheap at an Italian wedding either, because Nona knows who makes how much money, what gift she gave their kids 20 years ago and there WILL be a comparison in public or not LOL, so you might just be sitting in the hot seat hehe;o)