They're, um, entertainment. They advertise quite a bit in the Chicago area, but I only had the misfortune of seeing them once. People dress up in these weird-ass people-with-gigantic-heads suits and sing and dance. We were eating dinner when they came in to do their routine, and I guess we were supposed to act like we thought it was cute and funny. WTF.

Dollar dances (with both the bride and the groom) are very common in our area/social circle. Most of the family/friends' weddings we've been to have the dollar dance, and the guests usually have a lot of fun with it; I went to one where the groom's brothers kept trying to up each other on the amount they gave to dance with the bride. It can be nice because sometimes, that's the only chance you may have to talk to some people one-on-one.

If I am a guest at a wedding and don't know the groom well, I won't do the dollar dance.

We had one at our wedding. People probably would have been surprised if we had not had one.

Ahhh...I remember those debates on Ultimate Wedding, The Knot and Wedding channel message boards. Boy the claws do come out! :D

I find it hella tacky but that is just me

Needless to say, we did NOT do this at our wedding

Are you KIDDING?!?!?!? That would NOT be at my wedding. Ok, no matter what you think of dollar dances..... THAT is tacky. :)

Hmm, maybe guests could pay a dollar to dance with the people in the "weird-ass people-with-gigantic-heads suits"? Would that be tacky?

:p

LOL. I think I would rather pay them to LEAVE and never come back!!! :)

I think they're tacky. If people want to give you $, they'll give it to you as a gift.

Why do people have to make it sound like such a bad thing? The dollar dance does not make the bride or groom a "5 cent whore". Damn.

It is not about "needing money". Why can't people just relax and have fun? Stop being so judgemental over what other people choose to do at their weddings. If you don't like it, don't do it at your wedding. It's as simple as that.

It's just another thing that may be perfectly common in one place, and thought of as tacky in another.

I do not think they are tacky.

Can we have another thread about how tossing the bouquet makes girls look desperate? :rolleyes:

Dude, the point of this thread is for people to express their thoughts on the dollar dance. Many people find it tacky. If you don't, cool, but it's not really fair to hate on others for expressing opinions.

I think saying that the dollar dance makes someone look like a 5 cent whore is a little bit excessive. If I were ISUKappa, I would have been offended by that comment.

Um, hi. Thanks for essentially calling me a whore.

It doesn't bother me that you think it's tacky. I'm sure there were people who attended my wedding who thought it was tacky. But it is commonplace and tradition in our area. (In case anyone was wondering, I come from a solidly middle/upper middle class family and the majority of our friends/family come from a similar socioeconomic background.) I'm sure that more people would think it's tacky that we also **insertfaceofhorrorhere** had a cash bar (beer and wine were hosted, mixed drinks were not). I don't care about that either. All that mattered is we were able to have the wedding we wanted, on the budget we planned and every single guest that attended said they had a great time (those that can remember it, anyway). Two years later people are still talking about how much fun they had at our wedding.

Did I think it was tacky the wife of one of my husband's coworkers wore white platform sneakers for her wedding shoes? Hell yes, but I would never say that to her. It was what she wanted for her wedding, who am I to tell her that's wrong.

PS - I'm at least a $2 whore. :p

Never heard of a dollar dance. One of my coworkers had a money dance at her's. The bride and groom danced with each other and people stuff money in pockets, the jacket and down her dress. (Yeah I dunno about that.) And it was for any amount.

I dunno how I'd feel about some of my crazy relatives stuffing money down my dress...

But she made it sound like a tradition.

LOL on the platform sneakers.

And you guys, I think ariesrising's post was supposed to be a joke.


On the whole, I think it's tacky, but if it's traditional in your area it will probably not be perceived as "tacky," and that should matter more than what people on GC decide.

Besides, I think a lot of things are tacky. I think that a cookie table would be tacky, but those Pittsburgh kids sure seem to love it. ;)

Seriously, nice post!!! Thanks. :)

It's only tacky if you buy the cookies from Giant Eagle instead of baking them. That gets you exiled to, like, Delmont.