Money Dance

There are also some interesting variations in different parts of Greece. I have been to a wedding in Macedonia where some young men paraded to music all around the guests at the wedding, bearing a HUGE platter on their shoulders which held large whole roasted pig – guests added money to the platter for the bride & groom
The pig tasted good, too when it had been carved up and served to everyone !

A few Macedonian families have been known to to this in Canada, but the custom is dying out .There is no longer any chance of enjoying a great cook-up of traditional foods, but instead everyone sits down to an enormous fancy “catered” meal in an over-the-top, over-decorated Banquet Hall (My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a mild version of what is fast becoming a “Greek Custom” of its own) June S