{"id":1223,"date":"2014-10-31T02:38:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T02:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:39:43","slug":"fun-wedding-money-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/fun-wedding-money-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun at a Wedding Money Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the funnest parts of my job as a busy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officiantguy.com\"><strong>Los Angeles wedding officiant<\/strong><\/a> is that I get to meet people from all over the world and learn about their wedding traditions.\u00a0 I recently had the privilege to marry a couple with Armenian heritage and, after their ceremony, they celebrated with the &#8220;money dance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/armenian-wedding-officiant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1225 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/armenian-wedding-officiant.jpg\" alt=\"Armenian Wedding Officiant | Los Angeles County Weddings\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/armenian-wedding-officiant.jpg 600w, https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/armenian-wedding-officiant-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Different cultures celebrate different versions of the wedding money dance.\u00a0 At the Armenian couple&#8217;s wedding several guests tossed bunches of dollar bills over the bride and groom as they danced.\u00a0 Parents, relatives and friends all participated.\u00a0 A few young children had fun with it and kept picking up\u00a0handfuls of dollars so they could throw them to again rain down on the wedding couple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A little research taught me that the wedding money dance originated in Eastern Europe and was a way to help a couple pay for their wedding, to be spent on the\u00a0couple&#8217;s\u00a0honeymoon or to simply\u00a0give\u00a0a young couple a little extra cash with which set up their new household.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/money-dance-wedding-officiants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1228 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/money-dance-wedding-officiants.jpg\" alt=\"Money Dance Wedding Officiants | Los Angeles County Weddings\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/money-dance-wedding-officiants.jpg 450w, https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/money-dance-wedding-officiants-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen the wedding money\u00a0dance take a few different forms.\u00a0 At a Latin couple&#8217;s wedding different guests pinned money on the bride&#8217;s dress before they took a turn as her dance partner.\u00a0 At another wedding, the bride passed her shoe and guests put money in it.\u00a0 Of course, the bride passed a different shoe than she was wearing because high heeled shoes do not hold a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A wedding in Armenia, Mexico or a Los Angeles wedding\u00a0is always a happy occasion but shower of money makes any celebration a little happier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/los-angeles-officiants-for-weddings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1226 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/los-angeles-officiants-for-weddings.jpg\" alt=\"Officiant | Weddings LA\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/los-angeles-officiants-for-weddings.jpg 600w, https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/los-angeles-officiants-for-weddings-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Any time you and your partner\u00a0 need a marriage ceremony wherever you want in the Los Angeles area, telephone the ideal wedding officiant.<\/p>\n<p>You may well enjoy the wedding that you want. Chris Robinson is an LA <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officiantguy.com\">officiant for weddings<\/a><\/strong>. Chris has been performing nuptials and issuing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officiantguy.com\/california-marriage-license\/\"><strong>CA wedding licenses<\/strong><\/a> for decades for a great number of couples. Chris could undoubtedly become your ceremony officiant for just about any kind of marriage service from a faith based ceremony to a non-religious wedding as well as easy add-ons from handfasting ceremonies to sand ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Should you be arranging to marry somewhere in the periphery of SoCal contact the ideal ceremony officiant in Los Angeles a telephone call at (310) 882-5039 or (562) 547-3255 or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officiantguy.com\/contact-officiant-guy\/\">email here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the funnest parts of my job as a busy Los Angeles wedding officiant is that I get to meet people from all over the world and learn about their wedding traditions.\u00a0 I recently had the privilege to marry a couple with Armenian heritage and, after their ceremony, they celebrated with the &#8220;money dance&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/fun-wedding-money-dance\/\" class=\"read-more inline\"><i><strong>&#8230;Click Here to Read More&#8230;<\/strong><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,23],"tags":[273,274,252,250,16,272,30,12],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny","category-wedding-ideas-for-you","tag-armenian","tag-dance","tag-fun","tag-funny-2","tag-los-angeles","tag-money","tag-officiant","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}