Then you have the garter belt ritual, while the brides sitting there and her husband is taking the garter belt off with his teeth, there’s a circle of men gawking at her exposed leg. What is up with that????
Making noise with your cutlery on the plates indicates you wish the bride and groom to kiss, that one I enjoy, as you see some really passionate couples going at it, much to the chagrin of the mother in law, I love it!
The one toast that really needs to be removed is when they say “aguri figlio maschio” which literally means, “congratulations, and hope you have a boy” I have always felt this was the most demeaning thing you can say to anyone. What of all the lovely young women sitting there thinking “don’t women mean anything”. That’s gotta go!
There’s one that you don’t see very much, thank God…and it was when money was pinned onto the wedding dress by other men so they can dance with the bride. Here’s where a lot of smelly, older men got their kicks and the bride had to endure it!
There’s never been a tradition whereby women got to shove money in a groom’s belt for a dance, hey now that’s an idea!
Seriously, why would anyone have to pay for a dance? Old tradition was that the couple got to make a few extra bucks, well with times a changing, women felt it wasn’t something they didn’t want to do anymore and let’s be honest here, you’ve already given the envelope with money, you’ve more than paid your way in! So dance with your own wife!
Tradition is what makes a culture and it’s wonderful to keep the ones you wish to keep because they mean something to you, but not because you have to make others happy.
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