"Unlike many cultures, the money in this dance goes to the children not to the bridal couple. Sicilian and Greek families are about the future, and families, are about children…not about the husband and wife as their own little couple worrying about themselves, their pleasure, their personal satisfaction, their fulfillment. The bridal couple exists to build the future not to satisfy their own selves to fulfill their own personal wishes.

Their wish, among the traditional way of looking at things, it’s to build a future through their children to guild up society through their children to make the world a better place through their children.

That is not the same as living through your children.

It is saying that the future is what is important. The world is not about you that one day you will die but the world will go on, and your children will go on and how you raise them how’ you nurture them’ the values you still in them’ will be what will change/grow/benefit this world.

The dance is a blessing on the couple, and a wish that they will be able to achieve these purposes without too much suffering and hopefully with joy."