Dartmoor town haunted by bride murdered minutes after her wedding

DevonLive ^ | 28 JUN 2021 | Howard Lloyd

[SamAdams76]

Those wedding dresses are expensive. The young woman marrying my son is paying $3,000 for her dress.

[proud American in Canada]

Me too! Watch every paranormal show on TV!

And in Ottawa there is a tour of haunted places every fall. :)

[Jamestown1630]

I think my corespondent is in New England...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Generally it was blue but there were the occasional white dress. But usually not pure white.

But then she was rich so it could have been.

[BipolarBob]

Yep.

[BipolarBob]

That’s the thing about Arkansas. No matter if you’re divorced or separated, it doesn’t matter. She’ll always be your sister.

[nickcarraway]

White fragility.

[JohnBrowdie]

. . . and she voted by mail for biden.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

BTW Mary Stewart wore a white gown for her first wedding.

That was around 1550.

[Jamestown1630]

Eloping is a lot cheaper.

If that seems antisocial, get hold of an old Emily Post manual from about the 1930s. Great instructions for having a lovely but inexpensive wedding at home.

Drives me nuts that people spend enough on weddings in recent decades to have put a sound down-payment on a very nice house - and in a few years, the couple is divorced anyway.

Go Figure.

[proud American in Canada]

When I got married, I refused to pay thousands of dollars for a dress that I would wear once in my life.

I bought a nice dress for $300 or maybe $200. And I asked my bridesmaids to get something they could wear again.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

More a case of white shows every spot and stain and there was a major lack of Clorox back then.

[Night Hides Not]

I love a good ghost story...

Then you'll love San Antonio. A couple of weeks ago, we took my sister and her family to Fredericksburg and San Antonio. We spent 3 nights at the Menger Hotel, a stone's throw from the Alamo.

Teddy Roosevelt's ghost is known to haunt the hotel's bar, where he recruited soldiers for his Rough Riders.

There are at least two other hotels in downtown San Antonio with ghostly activity.

[proud American in Canada]

Well, I refused to ask my parents for the thousands of dollars! LOL!

[Jamestown1630]

I’m sure there have been exceptions.

(Also drives me nuts that women marrying for the second or third time, wear white - and a veil! - these days...)

[Bigg Red]

I remember reading once that it was Queen Victoria of England who locked in the tradition of the white wedding gown. Not positive if it’s accurate

[proud American in Canada]

That is very interesting.

I bet they wanted to use them again. White would be impractical.

[SamAdams76]

True. The whole wedding industry is out of control.

As father of the groom, I get off rather cheaply. I'm paying for the rehearsal dinner and contributing to the honeymoon. But it will be a $40,000 wedding when all is said and done. Crazy.

[ETL]

Re: white bridal gowns in the 1600s...

Generally it was blue, but there were the occasional white dress. But usually not pure white.

Arrre you a... gh-gh-ghost???

Or are you 400-something years old??

:)

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve worn three bridesmaid dresses, thoughtfully chosen by the brides to be ‘reusable’.

Never wore any of them again. Hope the thrift store where I donated them made a little money.