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I'm still trying to get past the fact that your grandmother has a Facebook page! I'm impressed by her technological adaptability!
I know a woman in her early 70's who talks with her grandkids via skype. I'm pretty much sure I want to be her when I grow up.
I am wearing my grandmother's wedding dress from 1953 for our July wedding. She told me last weekend that the $280 her parents spent on her dress 56 years ago was an outrageous amount of money :)
That's so cute and really funny!
By the way, because I'm a huge dork, I decided to convert 1958 dollars into 2009 dollars and a $250 dress then is equivalent to an $1850 dress today. So she wasn't really that far off!
haha I talked to my grandma about my wedding this past weekend. She told me that the only thing she did for her own wedding was show up for dress fittings (her mother made her dress, this was in the late 40s) and make potato salad. She said they had a ceremony at the church-- which her MIL decorated with no input from her and a cake/punch reception in the fellowship hall afterwards (her MIL made the cake too). After that she said her and my grandpa headed to the city to get wedding pictures done with the wedding party then they went straight to the hotel (wink wink). The two families headed back to my great grandma's house without the happy couple and they ate ham and potato salad.
Times have changed :)
Haha. FI's grandparents have a facebook, too! They're not on often, though. lol.
I love that conversation! lol.
She's a snazzy lady (who has techy grandkids that keep her up to date! :P). She said she wanted a FB account so she didn't feel out of the loop.
@AutomneMariee: Thanks for converting! I was thinking about finding a dress similar to hers and comparing the price tags. But I'm not so sure I want to know...inflation. It's ughly.
I'll have to ask her if her dress was considered expensive at that time...from what I know of her youth, I wouldn't think her family could afford much!
An older woman in my office was telling me how back in the day when she got married she asked her florist for an arm bouquet, and the lady wouldn't do it for her because it wasn't "traditional". So she ended up getting what she wanted at another florist, and now my coworker claims to have "started" arm bouquets lol.
I was gonna say that $250 was a lot of money in the 1958... Thanks @AutomneMariee for the conversion, haha!
I love how your grandma is on Facebook-- that is too cute. And I'm not an "old timer", but I feel the same way about some of these brides' budgets on SYTTD! :)
My grandma spent $25 on hers in 1954 in the middle of South Dakota and bought it while my grandpa sat out in the car...he still likes to complain about that.
This is so cute!
I'm not sure about her wedding dress but I know that my Grandpa had to make monthly payments on my Grandma's $50.00 engament ring!
My grandparents have the bill from the hotel they stayed at on their Honeymoon. It was .25 cents a night!
My grandpa hasn't gotten on facebook yet, but he gets new computer gadgets and cell phones more then I do! He even has a bluetooth earpiece for his cell phone!
Your grandma sounds awesome!!
When we first got engaged, my grandma told me "No matter how much money you spend, the next day you'll be just as married as the next person." Words to live by at this point in my life!!
I love that your grandmother has a FB page! LOL My parents were married in 1960 so um… yeah - there's been a TON of talk like this. I think my parents paid less than $20 per person for their wedding. I think my grandparents eloped & just wore their Sunday best.
@Appleblossom - def. sage advice.
Not sure what my grandma spent on her wedding dress, (they have both passed away), but my mom said she bought hers for $250 in 1980. I bought mine for $800 in 2009... Using the inflation calculator mom would have paid $700 for her dress in 2009, so I guess I didn't do too badly! I think the budgets on SYTTD are outrageous!!!! But doesn't mean I don't love to watch!
Adorable!! Most of my family thinks I can throw a wedding together for less than 2000.... which would be totally doable if my mom still lived in her house on four acres, but alas they downsized into a house on 1/2 an acre and there's no way that's going to work!
That's so cool your gram is on Facebook! Mine still asks me about "inter tubes, no, webs, right?" and how they work LOL ;-)
in 1970 when my parents got married, they honeymooned in the "7-11 motel" somewhere near their home in southern CA. My mom says it was nicer than the name suggests, but my dad likes to rib her about how cheap he was for their honeymoon night!
My FIs parents got married at the JOP and have been married for 43 years. My parents had a church wedding and have been married for 37 years. Both sets of parents have the same advice...married is married, no matter how you do it...LOL.
I can't see myself spending $1K on a dress much less the $10K budgets I see on that show. I love watching it though =)
My first wedding (in 1977), I wore a $100 dress ($353.80 in today's dollars). This one, I "splurged" on a $450 dress. As far as I'm concerned, $10,000 was about right for a budget for the whole wedding--not just the dress.
Mine will be about 1000... and its honestly making me sick, but its important to my mom that we have it made. Some things aren't worth the battle.
Well, i could go into inflation, but, I won't :-) I'll just leave it at the this:
1n 1958
House: $30,000
Average income: $4,650
Ford car: $1967-$3929
Milk: $1.01
Gas: $.24
Bread $.19
Postage stamp: $.04
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti, 15 1/2 .oz can.: $ .19
Corned Beef: $.59 lb.
Swiss Steak: $.75 lb.
Libby Tomato Juice, 5 (46 .oz) cans: $1.00
Kraft Carmels, 1 lb pkg: $.37
Milk: $.42 half gal.
Uncle Ben’s Rice, 14 oz box - $.19
Sunkist Oranges, 5 lbs.: $.49
Cantaloupe: $.05 lb.
Celery: $.04 lb.
Tuition at Harvard: $1,250 yr.
Nathan's Hot Dog: $.25
Roundtrip airfare London to New York: $453
My parents got married in 1973. My grandma made my mom's dress and her 3bridesmaids. I think all in all they probably spent about $200. Mom and dad paid for the wedding themselves. It was in a church with cake (square- not popular for the time) and punch after. It wasn't a huge deal, just family and a few friends. Much different from the 100+ wedding I'm planning with 6 bridesmaids. I wanted dearly to wear my mom's dress (still do), but my mother was a wisp of a thing in 1973 weighing in at a whopping 93lbs (good for her short stature). Unfortunately the thin gene skipped me and I've surpassed her in weight and heigh (yay), plus my busty mom didn't happen to pass on that little gem of a gene. So basically putting me in that dress would be like putting a large dog in a tiny dog house (analogy thanks to my barking hound at the moment) My grandmother and grandfather on her side married in 1946, granny was 14. I have no idea what the wedding was like and wish I could ask now 
- maybe mom knows.
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I saw this conversation on my grandmother's Facebook page (!?) and had to share it with all of you!
Friend: Okay, am I totally out of touch with reality? The lowest budget I have ever seen on “our” show is $2000. That seems like a HUGE amount of money to spend on a dress you are going to wear once. Some of these women have a $20,000 limit (or no limit at all)!! I know it’s a special day and all that, but it’s about the… marriage, not about the wedding for goodness sakes! Am I totally delusional? Did your girls’ dresses cost thousands?
Grandmother: Are you serious? My wedding gown cost about $250 in 1958, and Daughter M wore it. Daughter L probably didn’t cost more than that. We put Daughter A’s wedding together in 2 weeks in time for start of senior college for her & son-in-law. We bought short Gunne Sax dresses off the rack at a dept. store, & they were lovely. I made Sister M’s and my bridesmaids’ dresses. You can just watch the personalities on “Say, Yes” and know the marriages won’t last.
I love it! And the comma she puts after Say is priceless, haha.(This is my grandmother's dress, for reference. Satin and lace with a gorgeous open shoulder neckline and SLEEVES. FTW.)
Thoughts? Have you heard "old timers" talk about weddings like this before?