The scene is a reception in a popular banquet hall, with 300 guests celebrating the union of a fine, upstanding young couple. There's a table at the entrance for people to leave gifts, but most of the guests have come bearing envelopes containing cash or checks, and they hand these envelopes directly to the bride, who stuffs them into a silk bag which she leaves at her place setting as she mingles with guests.
  "That's an awful lot of money to leave unattended," says her maid of honor, but the bride laughs and says, "Come on, it's a wedding, we know everybody here. It's not like someone's going to steal it."
  She's right, the bag isn't stolen-but someone reaches in and steals the envelopes, replacing them with a bunch of envelopes containing nothing but strips of paper. Because the heft of the bag feels the same, the bride doesn't discover the shocking theft until well after the reception is over.
  "There were 300 guests at that wedding, plus all the people who worked for the banquet hall," she says to her new husband. "We're never going to find out who did this!"
  The next morning, before they leave for their honeymoon, they get a call from the groom's brother, who had spent the entire wedding running around with his video camera, shooting everything in sight.
  "I was up all night watching the tape," he says. "You guys better come over. There's something you need to see." The couple hurries over to the guy's house, and he pops in the tape, with the video cued to the moment of truth.
  "This was when everyone was on the dance floor for Celebration," he says. "Well almost everyone. Look in the background, at the head table…"
  As the bride and groom lean forward, the groom's brother hits the pause button and then begins to advance the tape frame by frame. A man in a tuxedo enters the picture and quickly removes the contents of the bride's bag, replacing them with the worthless, paper-stuffed envelopes. "Oh my God," sobs the bride…. For it's her very own father.