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Originally posted by AGDee

There are many things we do in this society that are greedy. What about showers? The whole point is to "shower" the bride and groom or mother to be with gifts. Is that not greedy? I wasn't raised Catholic and I was furious with my parents when all my friends were having First Communion parties and making TONS of money and I didn't get to. Most of them got bikes too. Welcome to America!

Dee

Oh for my communion I had a HUGE party at Arnaldo's with lots of dagos. It was fun times .

I've only been to a few American weddings (aka non-Italian) and I've never seen the dollar dance at any of them. My cousin in NY, the dj played a song that went "1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, dollar" but I don't remember giving them money. But those weddings in NY have enough entertainment with the costumed dancers and litte crazy gifts going around (like Mardi Gras masks).

And to whoever said that "getting a chance to talk to people at the wedding" was no excuse, have you ever been involved in a wedding? I was a bridesmaid in my brother's wedding and even I didn't get much of a chance to talk to people. We were too busy running around, doing the bridal dance. My brother and sister in law were so busy going table to table talking to people and making sure things were taken care of.