Dollar Dance?

Don't do it!

Not necessarily... I think the majority of Americans don't know their cultural/ familial heritage. It's kind of a shame, but maybe also a necessary by-product of creating a separate cohesive culture. For example, a large majority of the families where I am from come from German immigrant settlers, but that is the extent of what I know about it. However, we still celebrate Octoberfest even though none of the families identify as German now. Nobody knows if they are part of the original German families or not... Other things include singing christmas songs in German when caroling (again, nobody is actually German), having gingerbread houses, and probably other things that I don't recognize as being traditionally from another country. Those traditions are firmly part of our community as separate entities from the country of origin. It is not at all difficult for me to imagine a small Polish community forming across the creek and doing the dollar dance, and then it catching on and continuing throughout the generations in much the same manner. Now families don't know if they are Polish or German or English or Scot or...etc. but the community still has elements and traditions from each of those original cultures. So to say that our traditions are money grabby since we don't identify with the country of origin almost feels offensive to me, when it is surely as much as part of our community as it is for any other community where it is more "acceptable."

Anyways, this was more for the sake of philosophical argument. I still don't like the dollar dance on principle, and this is not the hill I want to die on. Thanks for your insightful comments @BeachDreams and I can appreciate what you are saying

I'm Polish and if I didn't do a dollar dance my family wiuld feel really insulted. I haven have to include some polkas to the song list. My family reallygets into itand makes it super fun.

Unless its part of your culture don't do it

Nope

I'm white and my FW is Filipino. We have been to three weddings that were part of my FW's family/friends and they have all done dollar dances, as it is a large part of the filipino culture. It is expected. And it is important to my FW so we will be doing one (even though I really don't want to since my family won't know what the heck is going on lol) but I want to make my FW happy and respect her culture.

Uhm, I did not know this was a thing.. but definitely not. I would be a little like wtf as a guest. Esp after I just gave you cash in a card or a gift.

Popular opinion on here is no. I've only witnessed one ever, at a wedding this past summer and it was awkward for me because I already thought it was tacky, and the dj was trying so hard to get people to pay to dance it was weird

I would feel very awkward as a guest in this situation

I'm definitely not a big fan of it.

Now if Magic Mike showed up I would all over that action.....but no.

@Nonna If it comes down to it, yes I'll be like "okay honey, you go do the dollar dance, I'm gonna go get a glass of champagne and watch"

I wouldn't. I always thought they were super awkward.

If it's not part of your culture don't do it- it's tacky otherwise.

I had never heard of the dollar dance until FH brought it up and told me what it was. He said maybe we should do that! I was like noooooo thank you. And then my two friends got married last month and did the dollar dance (cash bar mind you) and it was HORRRRRRRIBLY AWKWARD TO WATCH. It was a super young crowd, MOH was running around the dance floor with a basket trying to collect money from the drunk people still dancing who had no idea what was going on, SOOOOO BAD OMG

Just don't.

Tacky. Don't do it

Only appropriate song to do a dollar dance to: Make it Clap

If it's not apart your culture, I'd have to say no.

I was reading the comments in these thread and H glanced over my shoulder and read the words "dollar dance." He made a face and said, nope, we didn't need to have that. Then he asked, isn't that called stripping? I did explain that it is sometimes (but not always) done as a cultural tradition. I find them just awkward.