Goomba wrote:
> Michael "Dog3" wrote:
>
>> I never did understand the money tree thing. There is another
>> custom I don't understand either. The dollar dance. It looks like
>> the bride is being pimped out for cash. I've seen both of them at
>> different weddings. Both in the midwest. Maybe it's a midwestern
>> thang except I've only seen it a couple of times and it's not common
>> at every midwestern wedding I've attended. People that are too busy
>> or lazy to shop for a gift <pointing at myself...lazy>, they write a
>> check. I don't see why I have to flip the bride a $20 bill for a
>> dance on top of it or tack a bill on the tree. Michael
>
> I think it comes from lower socio-economic groups who tried to help
> poorer couples set up house, not unlike a mutual aid society. Not the
> same thing as these days where people should be working and self
> sufficient before marriage. It was survival then, now it is greed.
> Tacky as hell too.

I lived in Upstate New York for a brief year and saw the Dollar Dance for
the first time. Hadn't seen it before that time, nor since. I don't know
what custom it's from, but I think it's tacky, too.

kili