Dollar Dance

...oh and i might add, that everyone plans on the fact there was always a dollar dance and would purposely bring cash.

I will be doing one. We always have so much fun at them. We also have girls dance with the bride and guys dance with the groom asking with the normal guys with bride and girls with groom. To me I would rather have a special moment with someone over a card out money just handed to me.

I've never seen it done but I also haven't been to many weddings in my adult years. Met with our videographer who asked if FH and I were doing it. Said he had one couple make $900!!!! My guest wouldn't know what it was hell I barely know much about it. Not something I will do but if it's the norm in your circle I say go for it!!! I think it's so crazy how people fail to understand that what is normal for them is not everyone's norm

Saying "We have to do it because it's our cultural" is rather silly (not that you asked me) styles, traditions, etc. change all the time-- if you don't want to do it, then don't. In 20 years it will have all changed, anyway. If you want to do it, then own that, and don't say, "i have to for cultural reasons". it used to be that all weddings were civil (a looong time ago), then the church took over the performing of weddings. Now many people are married outside the church-- things change. Do what you want that feels comfortable to you.

In the Mid-West this was popular when I was growing up and is not inappropriate at all if done in a place where it is culturally normative. You know what I LOVE about the dollar dance??? It's a sweet moment for the guests to tell the bride one-on-one how beautiful she is, what she means to them and how happy they are for her!!! It's ten times better than the receiving line, although that is also standard in a Mid-Western wedding. For large weddings, it's an especially great way for guests to get that small moment to chat with the bride.

My mom was offended that I didn't do one at my first wedding, and she's annoyed that I'm not doing one this time. She is half Polish, and for our extended family, it's a fun activity. But we don't live in Minnesota any longer, and my friends would be mostly bewildered by it. I will say when I was talking to a group of friends about our wedding and talked about it and what it was, they thought it was fabulously entertaining, and said they would participate should we decide to do it. We won't, but it really is a way to touch base with the bride and groom, especially if they don't do a receiving line (which is, by the way, considered a really outdated tradition in my part of the world).

We will not be doing one, but every wedding that I have been to has had a dollar dance.

Yeah I'm not doing that. I think it's one of those wedding things that are completely pointless.