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re: Wedding "Money Dance" Question
Posted on 4/13/16 at 7:51 pm to forever lsu30
Posted on 4/13/16 at 7:51 pm to forever lsu30
Class. Wife and I made sure that shite wasn't happening at our wedding.
Your inviting people to a party your hosting, you don't request money, money which is probably given on top of the gift they already brought/sent.
Your inviting people to a party your hosting, you don't request money, money which is probably given on top of the gift they already brought/sent.
This post was edited on 4/13/16 at 8:14 pm
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Posted on 4/13/16 at 7:54 pm to AubieALUMdvm
Looks like there are at least 2-3 guys here who did money dance - downvotes
Posted on 4/13/16 at 8:18 pm to forever lsu30
I've been to many weddings in Minnesota that have a money dance. Here, the maid of honor collects money to dance with the groom and the best man collects money to dance with the bride. You give a few bucks, get to chat with the bride (or groom) and they get some cash for their honeymoon. I don't see the harm?
Posted on 4/13/16 at 8:18 pm to AubieALUMdvm
We did a Money dance at our wedding in S La. I've been to more weddings with them than not. It's usually when the bride and groom are young and starting out and on first marriage.
Most of the weddings I've attended that have done it are middle to middle upper class.
I could care not less because I'm not caught up in how people perceive me and I think it's great when a young couple does it. It can help them pay for their expenses on a honeymoon by friends and family giving $10-$20 and a moment to wish them good luck and to enjoy their honeymoon.
And it shouldn't be pinning money. The best man and maid of honor usually collect it for them.
Most of the weddings I've attended that have done it are middle to middle upper class.
I could care not less because I'm not caught up in how people perceive me and I think it's great when a young couple does it. It can help them pay for their expenses on a honeymoon by friends and family giving $10-$20 and a moment to wish them good luck and to enjoy their honeymoon.
And it shouldn't be pinning money. The best man and maid of honor usually collect it for them.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 8:22 pm to slackster
That wedding was 20 years ago.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 8:27 pm to Jake88
I havent been to a ton of weddings but i have always seen money dances. I dont find the money dance as tacky as a gift registry. Gift registry = trashy.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 8:36 pm to diat150
We had one at our wedding. We were also 24 yrs old, recently out of college, and broke.
It was great. Paid for a good chunk of the activities we did on our honeymoon. Of all the wedding I've been to I can think of maybe 2 where they didn't have a money dance. Both of those being couples who were pretty well off.
As some others said it's just a fun way to dance with the bride/groom say congrats and give them a little cash.
No one is out there begging for money.
It was great. Paid for a good chunk of the activities we did on our honeymoon. Of all the wedding I've been to I can think of maybe 2 where they didn't have a money dance. Both of those being couples who were pretty well off.
As some others said it's just a fun way to dance with the bride/groom say congrats and give them a little cash.
No one is out there begging for money.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 8:36 pm to forever lsu30
Its cultural. Its an African, mostly Nigerian custom. Others have adopted it though and made it uncool. I went to a Nigerian wedding last summer and they racked up 7k.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 8:47 pm to BhamDore
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Its cultural. Its an African, mostly Nigerian custom.
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The money dance, dollar dance, or apron dance is an event at some wedding receptions in various cultures. During a money dance, male guests pay to dance briefly with the bride, and sometimes female guests pay to dance with the groom. The custom originated in Poland in the early 1900s
Posted on 4/13/16 at 8:52 pm to diat150
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Gift registry = trashy
Sure, ok. It must be miserable to see a money dance or a gift registry and immediately think that a couple is begging you for money and/or telling you what to get them.
The reality is that a money dance is purely optional and the vast majority of guests do not participate and a wedding registry saves the hassle of asking someone what they would like for a gift, not to mention the fact that many registries omit gifts as they're purchased so people don't buy the same things.
To be honest, I wish an ongoing gift registry existed for everyone. It would be nice to just check a registry every year for Christmas or birthdays and see what someone wanted but hadn't yet received.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 9:17 pm to slackster
I've been to two Vietnamese weddings, a wedding in the Woodlands (LA boy and TX girl), a wedding in Georgia, Houma, Raceland, Thibodaux, Larose, Vacherie, Chauvin, Dulac, Morgan City, Scott, Monroe, Shreveport, NOLA.... All of them had money dances.
I've never been to a wedding that didn't have a money dance that I can remember.
I've never been to a wedding that didn't have a money dance that I can remember.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 9:18 pm to forever lsu30
I've never been to a wedding with a money dance.
Which I don't go to a whole lot of weddings unless I absolutely have to. But I think it must be a regional thing because I had never heard of them until seeing the first of about 100 threads about them on here.
Which I don't go to a whole lot of weddings unless I absolutely have to. But I think it must be a regional thing because I had never heard of them until seeing the first of about 100 threads about them on here.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 9:21 pm to CHEDBALLZ
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, a wedding in Houma, Raceland, Thibodaux, Larose, Vacherie, Chauvin, Dulac, Morgan City,
My condolences.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 9:22 pm to forever lsu30
It's a class thing. Couples that don't have a lot to start with should have them.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 9:25 pm to forever lsu30
Class thing
Posted on 4/13/16 at 9:30 pm to SippyCup
Seen it done several times. First time was in South Dakota.
Great opportunity to ask the bride which bridesmaids put out.
Great opportunity to ask the bride which bridesmaids put out.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 9:31 pm to jrodLSUke
I don't think it's a class thing. I've been to low class weddings that didn't have them, and high class weddings that did.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 9:35 pm to ULSU
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I've been to 3 weddings in BR, 2 in New Orleans, and a bunch in Florida and the Northeast. Never seen it. Couples I've spoken to typically got $6-9k at the wedding wedding, just in envelopes. Didn't have to do any trashy dance begging for money.
It's a country Cajun thing. As such, it has a certain charm. Of course, also as such, it can often be seen as trashy, inasmuch as there is certainly a large trashy segment of such people.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 10:00 pm to forever lsu30
been to about 10 weddings outside of LA and never seen a money dance there and my friends from AL have never heard of them.
Been to about 10 weddings in LA and probably 8 had money dances.
Definitely regional.
Been to about 10 weddings in LA and probably 8 had money dances.
Definitely regional.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 10:28 pm to forever lsu30
trashy and for poor people. I haven't been to a wedding in the last decade where people did that. If you need money that badly you shouldn't be having a ceremony.
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