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non clicky poll: money dance at weddings
did you have one at your wedding?
do you think it is a normal event at a wedding in wa/seattle?
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Re: non clicky poll: money dance at weddings
We had one at our wedding. I think it's kind of a toss up here, I've been to a lot of weddings with them and a good number without. I felt a little weird about the idea, but everyone I talked about it with said just go for it, it's the one time you can get people to pay to dance with you without being a stripper lol. It got us a lot of extra cash for our honeymoon.
It's a personal decision though. It's certainly not out of line, but I know people who weren't fans of the idea and I totally understand their reasoning too.
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We did not have any dancing at our wedding.
I've never been to a wedding with a money dance.
We definitely didn't have one. The only wedding I've been to that had one was DH's mom (her third wedding), and it was just one of the many uber tacky things about that wedding. Honestly, I think they're really tacky/tasteless. And I'd probably judge if I attended a wedding with one. But I'm a horrible person
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Our friend had a partial cash bar for her wedding, and everyone talked about how tacky it was, too.
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This.
Boo, I guess I'm tacky
It was family that brought up the idea initially, and I ran it by friends and only decided to go with it since I'd seen it done a lot at other weddings.
I can definitely see it being tacky for a 3rd wedding. I'd also consider a cash bar tacky.
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I'm sure every one of us did something that someone considers tacky
i guess i'm tacky too because we had one and we made 350-450 on it.
it was SO much fun, all of our guests loved it and people came back multiple times!
i guess the moral of the story is that i'm not above dancing for money.. but most of you are. LOL!
just joking. no one wants to see that. maybe chubby chasers! LOLLLL
I didn't have one at my wedding. I think they're tacky.
I think it depends on the culture the couple comes from. I've seen them done before here, but I always think the same thing - TACKY.
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This
I didn't have a money dance at my wedding, but I did "get low" and "backed it up" to Lil Jon's Get Low in my wedding dress with no shame.
I've never been to a wedding with a money dance, and I think most of my friends and family would be confused if there was a money dance at a wedding. I think it's a total cultural thing, in some circles it's okay, and in others it isn't.
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This! I have only been to one wedding with one. I chose to walk around with no shoes and a giant beer mug. I am sure that was klassy!
super classy.
it's your wedding, do what you want.
but your wedding was SUPER beautiful.
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We didn't and I've rarely seen them. The only one I can remember is myr friend; they're both Mexican and it's normal/expected in their culture.
did you have one at your wedding?
No
do you think it is a normal event at a wedding in wa/seattle?
I've only seen this at 1 wedding.
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Didn't have one at our wedding. But I have seen one. It was my friends wedding, he's from here, his wife from CDA Idaho. Guess they just wanted to!
Absolutely all of this. That said, if I had never heard of one and saw one at a wedding, I'd be a little nonplussed unless it was explained as a tradition from either the bride's or the groom's culture.
I'm sure we did some tacky stuff at our wedding (our centerpieces were Legos, not flowers, e.g.!), but... :P I don't care. It was our wedding and I loved every bit of it.
Totally. We played house music, and danced to Barbara Streisand
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My mom invited some of her friends/neighbors who I grew up with to my shower in my hometown, and they weren't invited to our wedding up here. We didn't invite all of DH's aunts/uncles/cousins (we only invited the ones we actually knew well/spent time with).