One variant of the money dance has people pinning money to you.
Mad skeevy.
I went to a Polish wedding where this occurred. Mostly, old friends of the bride's father who boozily attempted to use 'safety' pins. Lot's of fumbling around the bodice.Icky, icky, icky. And, I kid you not, by the end of the evening, the bride's dress was blood stained.
The couple was very young and could certainly use the money, but it all just came off as barbaric.
I'm a much bigger fan of the Italian tradition exhibited during the last wedding I officiated...ornate envelopes stuffed with dough. There seemed to be a competition for who had the nicest envelope, but no blood was let.
I think the husband takes the garter off his bride, tosses it to all the single dudes, and the dude who catches it has to slide the garter onto the leg of the lucky lady who caught the bouquet.
Yeah, that's teh one I've always found mad skeevy.
And I've heard of and seen the money dance thing but also find it horrible.
So at the wedding I attended with the garter thing -
Grandma. Caught the bouquet , the DJ ( what was he doing on the floor) caught the garter. All was well 'till the DJ tried to get cute and put the garter above grandma's knee and she pulled out a switchblade. (Did I mention that the groom's family was Italian and from jersey.)
All was well 'till the DJ tried to get cute and put the garter above grandma's knee and she pulled out a switchblade.
They should have filmed that and showed it every Christmas.
None of this makes me want a to-do. Although, I must say that major family gatherings with Daniel's family are tons of fun. I haven't been in the same room with any of my own family in years, so I have no idea....
I want to see that on youtube: "grandma pulled out a switchblade during the wedding..."
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Tep, FWIW, you and your husband to be may have "all of what you need", but unless you are both hiding wealth we don't know about, I kind of doubt it. Note: Home Depot and Lowe's have registries...
Certainly, having everything you need does not preclude wanting nice(r) things. Matched sets and whatnot. or luxury items.
We registered on Amazon and included lots of things like DVDs and a lawn zombie.
I'm just terribly sad Teppy is non-glutinous, so I can't persuade her to take ME as her helper for wedding-cake tasting at The Bonbonerie.
A small wedding is just as complicated as a large one in many ways, I think. We had about 65 people, and I still had to answer questions for the caterer about which flatware style which is the kind of thing I'd hoped to avoid. My parents mostly stayed out of it (but paid for it all) except to add steak and ice cream to the menu.
Sox and I both had some sibling rivalry to roll our eyes over, because our fathers are 12.
