Posted on 06/28/2021 7:45:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Totally agree!
Makes me irritated by a episode of one of my favorite shows, Friends.
Monica wants a huge expensive wedding and Chandler gives his savings to her for that.
I find that selfish.
Wow! Yet another reason to move to Texas! Lived there for a while. Love that state!
Not a state to be “messed with.” ;)
Unless you were wealthy you never had a wedding dress at all. You just wore your best dress with maybe a flower garland in your hair and left it at that.
Merchant class might have a veil that was used at all family wedding.
Wealthy people did have very nice dresses made but unless they were queens they expected to wear them more then at the wedding.
A lot of our current customs seem to come from that era. I think that commonly having Christmas Trees indoors does, too.
Yeah, I suppose it never works out. But some teenagers got lovely prom dresses!
:)
All the best,
Julie
Did you ‘see’ anything?
It is accurate. Before Victoria, white was a "mourning" color. The link is HuffPo but they are correct.
One reason white was unconventional in Queen Victoria’s time is that it was generally seen as the color for mourning, according to The Washington Post. Members of the royal court also thought the queen’s white dress was too restrained for a royal, as it wasn’t overly embellished, Time reports.
We Can Thank Queen Victoria For Popularizing White Wedding Dresses
That is very interesting.
The wedding industry has become out of control.
Others on this thread have pointed out that they have to cough up exorbitant amounts of money for their children’s weddings. It’s just not right.
Save the money for a downpayment on a house.
I never thought of that!
I hope some young ladies had fun at their proms sashaying in peach and pink...
I think white is the mourning color in some Asian countries, too.
We paid a little under $16K for our daughter .... included putting up some hotel rooms for family.... my husband worked for the resort. Yes you are right it should have run $36K or more, but paid at cost.
Yes. Japan dresses their dead in white.
Creeperific!
Would you rather women wedding for the second or third time wear a a white dress - or a dress where they are letting it all hang out?
I would like them to be discreet and elegant. Flowers are enough to indicate a very special occasion.
A froufrou white wedding dress and veil is sort of a lie, for a second or third marriage, isn’t it? Certainly ‘things hanging out’ - as if nobody has seen them before - would be.
But I’m very old-fashioned in certain ways...
I once addressed a letter using red ink, to a Korean person.
I was severely admonished - they told me that letters addressed in red ink indicated death, to them.
I’ve never seen corroboration of that anywhere else, but I trust that it’s true; so I don’t get creative with my mail letters anymore :-)
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