The Filipinos in Luzon such as Ilocanos, Pangasinenses, and Tagalogs share an interesting wedding practice. This is the pinning of peso bills on the bride’s gown and the groom’s suit while the couple dances. A contest is held between the bride’s family and the groom’s family as to who pins the most money on whose clothes, the bride’s or the groom’s. After the dance, or series of dances, they unpin the money and figure out who won, and loud applause goes to the winner. The money is then combined and given to the couple to spend as they wish.
Many Western practices, however, have been adopted in Filipino weddings. These include the couple cutting the wedding cake and giving each other a bite, letting loose a pair of doves and tossing the wedding bouquet to unmarried women as a way of predicting who the next bride will be. In some instances, the ceremony of the groom removing the bride’s garter from her thigh and tossing this to the bachelors is done to see who the next groom will be.