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08-25-2003, 12:37 PM
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#19891
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Uhh, not being from West Virginia and having never attended a wedding involving West Virginians, can you tell me what the dollar dance is?
Anne
I'll duck back behind my rock now.
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You pay a buck to dance with the bride. Not to be confused with the Maid of Honor's Five Dollar Fellatio. |
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08-25-2003, 12:41 PM
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#19892
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I didn't do it.
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Prior to that wedding, I'd never seen the practice before.
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Actually, I've never been to a wedding where this sort of thing happened. Until someone mentioned it here a while back I never knew it existed.
Maybe because most of the weddings I go to are jewish, well that or it is a committment ceremony. Has anyone been to a jewish wedding where someone did this? |
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08-25-2003, 12:43 PM
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#19893
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pop goes the chupacabra
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I won't defend this practice too strenuously, but the dollar dance does allow guests some one-on-one time with the bride and groom that may not otherwise be feasible. Doesn't make it not tacky......
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Dance cards do the same thing without the strip-club tenor of the dollar dance. |
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08-25-2003, 12:44 PM
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#19894
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She Said, Let's Go!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: hollerin' for Heras
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
How could it possibly considered anything but tacky to suggest that the bride, on her wedding day, is willing to sell herself to any and all comers?
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And for a freakin' dollar, no less! At least she's not being directly pimped by the groom...
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08-25-2003, 12:47 PM
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#19895
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Steaming Hot
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Giving a three hour blowjob
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by leagleaze
Oh I don't know, given the whole original purpose of marriage in the first place. Wasn't her family just selling her?
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We received a herd of goats for my sister. And a bunch of other stuff. I kid you not. (heh, heh, a goat pun). |
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08-25-2003, 12:48 PM
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#19896
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Too Good For Post Numbers
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Just dropping by to say that the dollar-dance comments are truly exposing the snobs amongst us.
Last I read, this tradition exists over about 75% of the country. Only wedding I've been to in the last four years - and this counts MN (several), CA, AR, MIA, and Balt - WTF state is that in, anyway?) that didn't have one was the wedding where virtually everyone who knew the B&G considered them "too snobby by half".
It's not the dollar. It's the point in the evening where everybody gets their three minutes alone with the B or G to say congrats.
Sheesh. Give people a little money and it goes right to their egos . . .
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08-25-2003, 12:48 PM
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#19897
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by leagleaze
Actually, I've never been to a wedding where this sort of thing happened. Until someone mentioned it here a while back I never knew it existed.
Maybe because most of the weddings I go to are jewish, well that or it is a committment ceremony. Has anyone been to a jewish wedding where someone did this?
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Most of the weddings I go to are Catholic, and most of those are latino, and I've never seen dollar dances there. |
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08-25-2003, 12:49 PM
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#19898
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In my dreams ...
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I won't defend this practice too strenuously, but the dollar dance does allow guests some one-on-one time with the bride and groom that may not otherwise be feasible. Doesn't make it not tacky......
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That's what the receiving line is for.
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08-25-2003, 12:50 PM
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#19899
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rank subjugation jack
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Yes, my child loves Teletubbies...
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Originally posted by bilmore
Just dropping by to say that the dollar-dance comments are truly exposing the snobs amongst us.
Last I read, this tradition exists over about 75% of the country. Only wedding I've been to in the last four years - and this counts MN (several), CA, AR, MIA, and Balt - WTF state is that in, anyway?) that didn't have one was the wedding where virtually everyone who knew the B&G considered them "too snobby by half".
It's not the dollar. It's the point in the evening where everybody gets their three minutes alone with the B or G to say congrats.
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Thats why you also have the B/G walk around to each table to say howdy to all the guests - escorted usually by a parent who knows who 7/8s of the people at the wedding actually are. |
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08-25-2003, 12:52 PM
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#19900
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I didn't do it.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 2,371
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Most of the weddings I go to are Catholic, and most of those are latino, and I've never seen dollar dances there.
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Go figure.
Maybe they aren't as common as you think Bilmore, given the number of people here who had never even heard of them. At the weddings I have been to the bride and groom circulate and make sure to see everyone there, and also, there is a receiving line.
And it took a lot of money to make me egotistical, thank you very much. What do you think, I'm cheap? Sheesh. |
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08-25-2003, 12:53 PM
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#19901
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She Said, Let's Go!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: hollerin' for Heras
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Quote:
Originally posted by bilmore
Only wedding I've been to in the last four years - and this counts MN (several), CA, AR, MIA, and Balt - WTF state is that in, anyway?) that didn't have one was the wedding where virtually everyone who knew the B&G considered them "too snobby by half".
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Which didn't stop them from attending to enjoy the free food and booze, I gather...
Jesus H. Christ. Maybe we should call off all these things until it's evident that guests and hosts alike are fit to leave their houses and interact with others.
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08-25-2003, 12:53 PM
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#19902
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rank subjugation jack
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Yes, my child loves Teletubbies...
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by leagleaze
And it took a lot of money to make me egotistical, thank you very much. What do you think, I'm cheap? Sheesh.
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Aint law school debt a bitch? |
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08-25-2003, 12:53 PM
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#19903
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Genius Known As ABBAKiss
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wonderland
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
That's what the receiving line is for.
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Still not one on one time, and in my experience always rushed. I would rather have my time when people are relaxed and having a good time.
Ah, so glad I eloped. I hate silly formalities, and I am pretty sure I don't even know how to spell ettiquette. But my reception ROCKED. |
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08-25-2003, 12:55 PM
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#19904
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I didn't do it.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 2,371
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by MisterEbola
Aint law school debt a bitch?
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Sing it brother. |
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08-25-2003, 12:55 PM
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#19905
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 11,873
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Wedding Question
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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I won't defend this practice too strenuously, but the dollar dance does allow guests some one-on-one time with the bride and groom that may not otherwise be feasible. Doesn't make it not tacky......
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I think I read about a similar practice in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle -- apparently it was a wedding tradition for the Polish (?) immigrant community for each man to dance with the bride, then to leave a monetary gift (not a dollar, but a real gift to help the new couple get started in their lives).
No idea if people from W Va or whereever the dollar dance is practiced have inherited this tradition. It seems weird to me....but dismissing others' traditions with a sniff of "oh, so tacky" always strikes me as a touch snotty.
Particularly when it comes from a board full of big city lawyers who are all anxiously waiting to see photos of each other's tits next week. |
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