September 19, 2025 • 6 mins
Would you pay per minute to dance at a wedding? One couple in Bristol, England, went viral for doing just that—charging guests to hit the dance floor to fund their honeymoon. Half the internet calls them evil, the other half genius. From “dance fees” to selfie taxes and bouquet toss charges, we break down the most outrageous wedding money hacks trending online.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You may never want to go to a wedding again.
That's the Jewel Show. And why do I say that?
Because one couple is going viral for the ridiculous thing
that they did at their wedding. Half of the internet
is calling them evil and the other half are calling
them genius. So what did they do and will become
a new trend that will make everybody respond to wedding
invitations with the big no from now on. We'll tell
you what it is right after this, Before you say
(00:22):
yes to going to any wedding, you have to hear
what I'm about to say, because you may never want
to go to anybody's wedding ever. Again. It's the Jewble Show.
One couple is going viral for the ridiculous thing that
they did at their wedding, and half of the internet
says they're the worst people on the planet, and the
other half says that they made a great decision and
their geniuses account they do well. What they did might
(00:42):
have also inspired a whole bunch of new wedding trends
that people are outraged about. But here's the story and
what social media users are calling the boldest wedding hustle ever.
A couple in Bristol, England, has gone viral after charging
their wedding guests by the minute to dance. Whoa wait, yeah,
but that's actually ridiculous. Their names are Ben and Sophie
(01:03):
Mark Simbo thirty four. They set up a card reader
at the edge of the dance floor during their wedding
reception with a hand painted sign that read slide to chatshaw,
but tapped a tango three pounds per minute. They basically
a little over three dollars American per minute. No, they
were serious. What the idea was to recoup honeymoon expenses
well adding a bit of spice to the reception. According
(01:24):
to the groom, No insist it was all in good fun.
Guests were handed a QR code with their dinner menus
and reminded throughout the night via MC announcements. Remember, folks,
love don't cost a thing, but dancing does. So they
literally charged their guests to dance during the reception per minute.
Did anybody even bother?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I feel like if I saw something like that, I
would just I would boycott it, Like I'm out. Yeah,
I would still give you money for your honeymoon if
we were cool, But I'm not going to give you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Actually I would dance. I might give you money for
the honeymoon if you didn't charge me to dance. If
you charged me to dance, I'm taking back my gift.
I'm literally going to walk up to the gift table
and take get bad and.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know what, you know what you're in that arrhythm.
You should pay me to be dancing at your wedding.
You want to see what this does?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Whoa who. Despite a little bit of pushback on social media,
with one comment to writing if I wanted to pay
the dance, I'd go to Zoomba, the couple actually raised
a little over twelve hundred pounds whoa suckers from the
tap to dance donations at their wedding reception. You know
that was Grandma, and they reportedly planned to use the
proceeds for a snarkling excursion into Loom.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That's it, well, I mean, yeah, good for you, but
also that's so nut Well bride said, we already have
plates and towels, but what we didn't have was a
jet ski adventure for two and now we do.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
All for charging their guests to dance at the reception.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Why don't they just do what most people do, which
is what well, they just like have a registry for
their honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But also at the weddings they have like a have
you done like the boot dance? Like you put money
in a boot?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, there's that, and then there's the other dance where
you check pen dollars to the bride's stress or whatever.
They probably did all of that to and also charge
their guests to dance. That's the ridiculous thing to me
is that people actually did it. I would not pay
at somebody's wedding a dollar a minute to dance on
the dance floor. No way, I would go dance without paying.
Be like, what are you going to do? Kick me out?
Do you have security here? You're going to escort me
(03:14):
off of the premises? Even more awkward at your wedding.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I've heard of people that have charged for like tickets
to their wedding, Like there was that whole trend where
people were inviting anybody who wanted to come just to
the party a ticket, but also they're guests, so like
you would pay per person, like for your meal, for
your drinks and all of that ahead of time. So
I've heard of that, which is also still kind of ridiculous.
But I get it, money's tight, But isn't that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
A wedding, Like you are putting on a celebration. Do
have people you love come and celebrate you.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah? So, Like, I don't understand why you charge them
when it's you. You're trying to pay you to go
to your wedding. You're the one having the wedding. I
didn't go, Hey, you guys should have a wedding so
I can come. Yeah, like you're having the wedding. It's
in me right, exactly me.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Listen, I would show up to a pot luck. We
could do that. We could do a pot luck in
the backyard. You don't have to go all extra and
then make me pay for your extra, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
There's also a new trend of couples charging for the
bar at their wedding to pay for their honeymoon, and
wedding planners online because of this are sharing the most
ridiculous things they've seen couples do at their wedding to
get money for their honeymoon. Okay, one person said that
a couple that they planned a wedding for did toast tokens.
Guests are given one complimentary speech, but if they want
to say anything else or another toast, it cost them
(04:26):
five bucks, which might be a great idea because there
are some people you don't want to be speaking o
the wads, so you're like, yeah, five bucks if you
want to say anything Uncle Charlie, Yeah, heyn in the
drunk guys. Uncle Kevin who's like drunk at.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
The bar, is gonna be like, I got your sweethearting
give you twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I'm going to turn around fifty bucks, Uncle Kevin, or
it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The wedding planner for this wedding said that she was
shocked when Grandma had to venmo them five bucks to
finish a poem. She wrote, ah, no I even held
Grandma to it. There's a couple in London that got
married and charge people to dance on the day floor
in their reception per minute. And because of that, wedding
planners are sharing the most ridiculous things they've seen at
(05:05):
weddings that they've planned. Somebody else had a selfie tax.
There was a sign of a photo booth and it
said smiles are free, but photos are four dollars in
ninety nine cents per picture. What per download? Is a photo. Yeah,
so you had to pay for the download because they
wanted to get money for their honeymoon. Most of the
stuff is for people trying to get cash for their honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But what I just realized is when you think of
how long a wedding is, those last at least like
the reception, like what three hours? Maybe they people are
charging permanent to dance and they want everyone on the
dance floor, right, how much money is that? That means
they're if you were going to dance and say two
out of the three hours, that's one hundred and twenty
minutes times three dollars per minute.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Wow. One wedding planner said that she planned a wedding
where the couple had to pay to catch the bouquet.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
What this is silly, you guys, This is silly. This
is not a side hustle. This is not a job.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
No. But also no one would just go to the
danceport to catch it. Said they were charging people fifteen
dollars if they wanted to stand in the bouquet toss circle.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, my last the last wedding I was at, my
friend looked at me and she goes, hey, do you
want me to toss the spoquet or not because it's
just you.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And I was like, I've been to weddings where it's
only been one person waiting to catch the bouquet and
it's hilarious, Like where's it gonna go, who's the next
one to get married. I didn't even want it.
You may never want to go to a wedding again.
That's the Jewel Show. And why do I say that?
Because one couple is going viral for the ridiculous thing
that they did at their wedding. Half of the internet
is calling them evil and the other half are calling
them genius. So what did they do and will become
a new trend that will make everybody respond to wedding
invitations with the big no from now on. We'll tell
you what it is right after this, Before you say
(00:22):
yes to going to any wedding, you have to hear
what I'm about to say, because you may never want
to go to anybody's wedding ever. Again. It's the Jewble Show.
One couple is going viral for the ridiculous thing that
they did at their wedding, and half of the internet
says they're the worst people on the planet, and the
other half says that they made a great decision and
their geniuses account they do well. What they did might
(00:42):
have also inspired a whole bunch of new wedding trends
that people are outraged about. But here's the story and
what social media users are calling the boldest wedding hustle ever.
A couple in Bristol, England, has gone viral after charging
their wedding guests by the minute to dance. Whoa wait, yeah,
but that's actually ridiculous. Their names are Ben and Sophie
(01:03):
Mark Simbo thirty four. They set up a card reader
at the edge of the dance floor during their wedding
reception with a hand painted sign that read slide to chatshaw,
but tapped a tango three pounds per minute. They basically
a little over three dollars American per minute. No, they
were serious. What the idea was to recoup honeymoon expenses
well adding a bit of spice to the reception. According
(01:24):
to the groom, No insist it was all in good fun.
Guests were handed a QR code with their dinner menus
and reminded throughout the night via MC announcements. Remember, folks,
love don't cost a thing, but dancing does. So they
literally charged their guests to dance during the reception per minute.
Did anybody even bother?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I feel like if I saw something like that, I
would just I would boycott it, Like I'm out. Yeah,
I would still give you money for your honeymoon if
we were cool, But I'm not going to give you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Actually I would dance. I might give you money for
the honeymoon if you didn't charge me to dance. If
you charged me to dance, I'm taking back my gift.
I'm literally going to walk up to the gift table
and take get bad and.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know what, you know what you're in that arrhythm.
You should pay me to be dancing at your wedding.
You want to see what this does?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Whoa who. Despite a little bit of pushback on social media,
with one comment to writing if I wanted to pay
the dance, I'd go to Zoomba, the couple actually raised
a little over twelve hundred pounds whoa suckers from the
tap to dance donations at their wedding reception. You know
that was Grandma, and they reportedly planned to use the
proceeds for a snarkling excursion into Loom.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That's it, well, I mean, yeah, good for you, but
also that's so nut Well bride said, we already have
plates and towels, but what we didn't have was a
jet ski adventure for two and now we do.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
All for charging their guests to dance at the reception.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Why don't they just do what most people do, which
is what well, they just like have a registry for
their honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But also at the weddings they have like a have
you done like the boot dance? Like you put money
in a boot?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, there's that, and then there's the other dance where
you check pen dollars to the bride's stress or whatever.
They probably did all of that to and also charge
their guests to dance. That's the ridiculous thing to me
is that people actually did it. I would not pay
at somebody's wedding a dollar a minute to dance on
the dance floor. No way, I would go dance without paying.
Be like, what are you going to do? Kick me out?
Do you have security here? You're going to escort me
(03:14):
off of the premises? Even more awkward at your wedding.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I've heard of people that have charged for like tickets
to their wedding, Like there was that whole trend where
people were inviting anybody who wanted to come just to
the party a ticket, but also they're guests, so like
you would pay per person, like for your meal, for
your drinks and all of that ahead of time. So
I've heard of that, which is also still kind of ridiculous.
But I get it, money's tight, But isn't that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
A wedding, Like you are putting on a celebration. Do
have people you love come and celebrate you.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah? So, Like, I don't understand why you charge them
when it's you. You're trying to pay you to go
to your wedding. You're the one having the wedding. I
didn't go, Hey, you guys should have a wedding so
I can come. Yeah, like you're having the wedding. It's
in me right, exactly me.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Listen, I would show up to a pot luck. We
could do that. We could do a pot luck in
the backyard. You don't have to go all extra and
then make me pay for your extra, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
There's also a new trend of couples charging for the
bar at their wedding to pay for their honeymoon, and
wedding planners online because of this are sharing the most
ridiculous things they've seen couples do at their wedding to
get money for their honeymoon. Okay, one person said that
a couple that they planned a wedding for did toast tokens.
Guests are given one complimentary speech, but if they want
to say anything else or another toast, it cost them
(04:26):
five bucks, which might be a great idea because there
are some people you don't want to be speaking o
the wads, so you're like, yeah, five bucks if you
want to say anything Uncle Charlie, Yeah, heyn in the
drunk guys. Uncle Kevin who's like drunk at.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
The bar, is gonna be like, I got your sweethearting
give you twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I'm going to turn around fifty bucks, Uncle Kevin, or
it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The wedding planner for this wedding said that she was
shocked when Grandma had to venmo them five bucks to
finish a poem. She wrote, ah, no I even held
Grandma to it. There's a couple in London that got
married and charge people to dance on the day floor
in their reception per minute. And because of that, wedding
planners are sharing the most ridiculous things they've seen at
(05:05):
weddings that they've planned. Somebody else had a selfie tax.
There was a sign of a photo booth and it
said smiles are free, but photos are four dollars in
ninety nine cents per picture. What per download? Is a photo. Yeah,
so you had to pay for the download because they
wanted to get money for their honeymoon. Most of the
stuff is for people trying to get cash for their honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But what I just realized is when you think of
how long a wedding is, those last at least like
the reception, like what three hours? Maybe they people are
charging permanent to dance and they want everyone on the
dance floor, right, how much money is that? That means
they're if you were going to dance and say two
out of the three hours, that's one hundred and twenty
minutes times three dollars per minute.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Wow. One wedding planner said that she planned a wedding
where the couple had to pay to catch the bouquet.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
What this is silly, you guys, This is silly. This
is not a side hustle. This is not a job.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
No. But also no one would just go to the
danceport to catch it. Said they were charging people fifteen
dollars if they wanted to stand in the bouquet toss circle.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, my last the last wedding I was at, my
friend looked at me and she goes, hey, do you
want me to toss the spoquet or not because it's
just you.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And I was like, I've been to weddings where it's
only been one person waiting to catch the bouquet and
it's hilarious, Like where's it gonna go, who's the next
one to get married. I didn't even want it.
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