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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 12:51 PM Original message |
Does anyone else find wedding "Money Dances" repulsively materialistic and tacky? |
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Droopy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. If I ever get married |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 12:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. The world is filled with wonderful wedding traditions…. |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. I've never heard of that. |
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Reverend_Smitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. me either... |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. It started out in Eastern Europe, but has spread quite a bit |
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dropkickpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. It left the "slums" of eastern europe |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. See post #2. |
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dropkickpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. It's actually not that tacky when practised by |
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ReadTomPaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Pinning money to clothes is what I am referring to, and it's tacky no matter who does it. |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:32 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. *This* Croat/Serb finds it incredibly tacky |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Nobody does it on the Hungarian half of my family, either. I'd never even heard of it. |
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dropkickpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:43 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I've seen it mostly at polish weddings here |
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Maraya1969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Many years ago when my uncle married the men lined up and put |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 02:23 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. My daughter married into a Polish family and they had a chair dance. |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
14. Smashing cake into each other's faces is the tacky event that I can't stand. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 02:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. For me, tacky is spending more on a wedding than some small countries' GNP! |
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QueenOfCalifornia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
17. Without even reading any of the comments |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
18. most weddings these days ARE pretty damn materialistic - this wouldn't |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
19. yes i hate it, jeez that's crass |
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Cabcere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
20. I'm really tempted to make a copycat of this thread |
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Callalily (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
21. Although it seems very |
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