--- title: "Nigerian Money Spraying Highlight Video | WeddingEditor" url: https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/nigerian/money-spraying/ last_updated: 2026-10-11 --- # Money spraying, kept as the joyful moment it is Spraying is a celebratory custom at many Nigerian weddings: as the couple dances, family and friends shower them with banknotes, often placing them on the couple's foreheads or letting them fall around them, while helpers gather the notes. It is a sign of joy, generosity and good wishes, and how it is done varies by family and community. Upload the wedding as a WeddingEditor project, say when the spraying happened and who took part, and WeddingEditor's AI editing makes the highlight. Spraying often happens during the couple's dance and again during family dances, so it may appear more than once in your footage. [Start your first wedding](https://app.weddingeditor.ai/sign-up?redirect_url=/dashboard) ## How to get a highlight that features the spraying 1. **Upload the reception or traditional footage** Spraying often happens at the traditional wedding and the reception. Upload the day or days that include it to one project, with every camera's files. 2. **Point the edit to the right dances** In the moments question, say when the spraying happened, for example "first dance, then the parents' dance, then the friends' dance", and name the relatives who sprayed. Use the avoid question if the family prefers not to show close-ups of cash. 3. **Review the highlight** Processing typically takes 24 to 72 hours. Watch the edit in your project, download the 1080p MP4, and send revision notes by email if you want more or less of the spraying; up to two rounds are included. ## Spraying moments to list - **The couple's first dance**: Guests stepping forward to spray the couple as the dance begins. - **Parents and elders**: The parents or grandparents spraying, often a moment the couple treasures. - **Friends crowding in**: The couple's friends surrounding them, the notes falling and everyone laughing. - **The helpers**: Ushers or relatives gathering the notes, if the family is happy for that to be shown. - **The couple's reaction**: The bride and groom smiling, dancing on as the notes fall. - **A grandparent's turn**: An elderly relative stepping onto the floor to spray the couple, often met with the loudest cheer of the night. ## What to know about spraying on camera - **A sign of celebration**: Spraying expresses joy and good wishes for the couple. It is common at many Nigerian weddings and practiced differently from family to family. - **It happens in waves**: Spraying often comes during several dances: the couple's dance, family dances and dances by groups of friends. - **Faces over cash**: The best moments are usually the faces of the people spraying and the couple's reaction, more than the notes themselves. - **Family comfort comes first**: Some families are happy to show close-ups of the notes, others are not. Agree it with them and use the avoid question. - **Original sound**: The band or DJ and the cheering stay as recorded; real audio and music work together, set by your audio preference. - **Not only at Nigerian weddings**: Spraying is also part of celebrations in some Ghanaian and other West African communities, and at Nigerian diaspora weddings abroad, where families often keep the custom alive. ## Spraying moments and what to note in the preferences | Moment | What it looks or sounds like | What to note in the preferences | |---|---|---| | First dance | The couple dancing, guests moving in | "Keep the first wave of spraying." | | Parents | The parents spraying, often emotional | "Feature the bride's father spraying." | | Friends | A crowd around the couple, loud cheering | "A short moment of the friends' circle." | | Helpers | Notes being collected | "Avoid close-ups of the notes being gathered." | ## What is money spraying at a Nigerian wedding? Money spraying is the custom of showering a dancing couple, or other dancers, with banknotes as an expression of celebration and good wishes, practiced at many Nigerian weddings and in some other West African communities. Not the same as: It is not part of the ceremony itself and not a formal gift exchange; it happens during dancing, most often at the reception. ## Money spraying video questions ### Can the highlight end on the spraying? Yes. Write that in the moments question, for example "end on the first dance as the notes fall". ### Can I ask for no close-ups of the money? Yes. Use the avoid question, and the AI editing will follow it. ### There were several rounds of spraying. Which will be used? The ones you list. Name the dances and the people, and the AI editing chooses from those moments. ### Will the cheering and music be kept? Yes. The edit keeps the sound recorded in your footage, including the band and the crowd. ### Can the AI editing tell whose family is spraying? Only from your notes. Describe the people by aso ebi color and relationship, for example "groom's aunts in emerald, spraying during the parents' dance". ### Is the spraying a separate project? Usually not. It is part of the reception or traditional wedding footage, so it belongs in that project's edit. ### Does WeddingEditor decide whether close-ups of money are acceptable? No. Some families are happy to see the notes and some prefer faces only; that is their decision, not WeddingEditor's. Write it in the avoid question, for example "no close-ups of cash". ## More for Nigerian weddings - [Nigerian wedding video editing](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/nigerian/): The whole wedding - [Nigerian wedding reception highlight](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/nigerian/reception/): Where most spraying happens - [Aso ebi highlight](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/nigerian/aso-ebi/): Families in coordinated fabric - [Nigerian traditional wedding highlight](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/nigerian/traditional-wedding/): The traditional day - [Igba nkwu highlight](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/igbo/igba-nkwu/): Dancing and spraying at an Igbo wedding - [All cultures](https://www.weddingeditor.ai/wedding-video/cultures/) ## The cheers, the faces, the falling notes Create your account, upload the day, and say which dances to feature and who stepped up to spray the couple. 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