What in the heck is this???

I've seen people transfer cards from a full card box into a bag, but never seen anything like this. This is so weird!

I've seen that bag before.... It's for the money/dollar dance

I've never seen one in real life, but I have on Nurse Jackie the showtime show. I think the bride carries it around and people put money in it. Tacky indeed.

I immediately think of the Gilmore Girls episode where Lane gets married and all the Koreans line up to get food to go and put an envelope in the money bag. Hah. But I doubt people actually use this! I wish I could click the link but I'm on my phone!

I think it's cultural. Some cultures it is common for the couple to go table to table collecting money. No one really brings cards they just hand cash to the couple. It's weird to me though.

My boss actually suggested it to me as well when I mentioned making a card box. She said she'd seen it done at a lot of weddings in her day where they just walked around with a bag to collect them.

In traditional Italian weddings, the bride carries a small silk bag like this, and the guests put envelopes of money in it. Sometimes they pass it around the guests at the ceremony instead.

It's a cultural tradition. Much like an Irish bride might see a "wedding broom" and think "what is this?" but it's an African wedding tradition.

Or how smashing plates at Greek weddings is a tradition (they make special wedding plates to smash, by the way.)

Dang. I just couldn't imagine walking around expecting people to give me money like that.... I mean I even feel awkward making a registry...

I think its for the money dance?

It stems from an old Italian tradition. It's tacky now but 70 years ago it was very popular.

Ahhhhh yes... The bag. I've only seen this at my cousins weddings in New York in the 80's. It would get passed around person to person and they'd shove money in it. I remember one had run out of bags because they were so full that people started putting money onto a table and then my uncle just grabbed the entire table cloth and threw it over his shoulder like Santa. She made out with over 10k. Italians man..... Just throwing money at people like it's no one's business!

In my family tradition the best man is supposed to take my shoe and pass it around and people are supposed to put money in it. Not sure if I want to do that but hey it worked for my mom in the 70's she said she made about 75 bucks

So....decorating several boxes and displaying with the words "Cards" is not tacky????? Sorry hun but, the money bag is just another version of a purse. My family would refuse to put their cards into a box. To them, a card is a gift and should be handed to the bride and groom.

I guess it's all about how you use the bag. I am expected to visit every table to greet every guest. At that point they will hand us a card. So, I would prefer to stuff the card into a bag discreetly and not walk away with a bunch of cards in hand.

Just because people don't follow a tradition, doesn't necessarily mean that it's tacky. It's just different.

This was what was used to collect cash gifts BEFORE there were card boxes............ No one had card boxes, they were considered tacky because it didn't offer the bride and groom the chance to say thank you face to face and that was only 40 years ago.

I married an Italian, and I didn't get money thrown at me.

If you saw the wedding sequence in the movie "The Godfather", his daughter had a money bag that people would come up and put envelopes into. I think it's called a "busta" because it's to give the couple a boost into their new lives. And yes, they did use them at weddings of people of Eastern European backgrounds, like Hungarians, Polish and Slovak people--they were for the "dollar dance." The MOH held the bag and people put money in and danced with the bride. The best man had a tray of shot glasses of whiskey--when you finished your dance, you got a shot. Many times relatives of the bride would put in more than a dollar at a time, plus they would line up several times. I know that now it is considered tacky, but you all are too young to remember the days when only wealthy people could go to college, so most people, especially here in this part of the country, worked in steel mills and coal mines. And those jobs didn't pay much, so it really was a help to the young couple. Okay, history lesson over--sorry.

Traditionally in my family this is used for a dance. The bride will dance with men, whom will put money into the bag, and the groom will dance with women whom will pin money or stuff them into any pockets. In spanish they call it the "dollar dance" but people will give you as much as they want.

European tradition. You wear the purse during the money dance.

I did the money dance, but used a birdcage instead.

Few of my friends did it too at their wedding. It was a lot of fun!

In some cultures, especially asian cultures, it is expected that you will Make money from your wedding and it isn't considered tacky at all... My mom was just talking to her dental hygienist, who is Cambodian, and they have some Crazy weird traditions!! Everyone coming to the wedding brings about $100-150 and they pay the bride and groom to do things like hug... kiss.. dance... peel a banana using only their mouths... Sounds hilarious and fun, but of course in MY culture it would be seen as tacky and crass... *sigh*

They Made $3,000 from their wedding, and what I mean by that is that they made All of their money back that they spent on the wedding Plus $3,000.... Whereas half of us go into debt for our weddings... sounds like they have it right really... wish money wasn't so taboo in our culture. I was talking to a friend of mine and she said that for all of their Asian holidays they are given cash, its expected and it is good luck, etc.

All the weddings I went to when I was little (Italian family) the bride carried a money bag and received the cards, cash, checks that way. It was the time of the evening the bride & groom walked around the room to every table and thanked their guest for coming. Now there are receiving lines and card boxes.