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The WASP and the Money Dance: A Wedding, and a Lesson in Manners

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The WASP and the Money Dance: A Wedding, and a Lesson in Manners

Hugo Schwyzer
Feb 26, 2021
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The WASP and the Money Dance: A Wedding, and a Lesson in Manners

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My first marriage, more than 30 years ago, was to a girl who had grown up in a Filipino Catholic family.

At our wedding reception – in West Hollywood, at what was then the Bel Age and is now the London Hotel -- we had a "money dance." Ladies pinned bills to my morning coat; male guests dropped cash and checks into a little bag my bride carried.

When we pl…

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