I used to love the Bel Age. I mention it in my first book and while researching was in LA asking all over Sunset Blvd "Do you know where the old Bel Age used to be?" Finally someone told me. I was literally standing in it (I was booked at The London that weekend.)
Money dances were always a part of weddings I went to growing up! Not in the Filipino tradition, of course, but in some other Midwestern white people way. Basically you waited in a long line to give some designated person a dollar (or whatever amount you wanted, but IIRC, I think we called them "dollar dances") to dance briefly with the bride and/or groom. I remember my mom giving me a dollar to dance with my uncle at his wedding in the 90s. I stood on his feet because I was so little 😅
I love this so much. All of it. Oh, how glad I am not to have heard On Eagles' Wings for a long long time. How I wish I'd met your grandmother - what a beautiful soul.
I used to love the Bel Age. I mention it in my first book and while researching was in LA asking all over Sunset Blvd "Do you know where the old Bel Age used to be?" Finally someone told me. I was literally standing in it (I was booked at The London that weekend.)
This was so lovely to read.
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Money dances were always a part of weddings I went to growing up! Not in the Filipino tradition, of course, but in some other Midwestern white people way. Basically you waited in a long line to give some designated person a dollar (or whatever amount you wanted, but IIRC, I think we called them "dollar dances") to dance briefly with the bride and/or groom. I remember my mom giving me a dollar to dance with my uncle at his wedding in the 90s. I stood on his feet because I was so little 😅
I love this so much. All of it. Oh, how glad I am not to have heard On Eagles' Wings for a long long time. How I wish I'd met your grandmother - what a beautiful soul.