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[21stamps]

The dresses are crazy. Here is a popular one near me. https://www.camillelavie.com/prom/all-prom-dresses/

For an additional fee, they will register your dress, and make sure no one else purchases it to wear at your event. I remember a mom telling me a few years back that runs another $100.

The registering is pretty nice though.. it never happened to me, but there was two classmates in the same dress at one of my dances. I felt horrible for them.

I think what’s so nice about prom dresses now is that most of them can be worn again within a year or two. In the 90s the dresses were just so PROM.lol.

I made it a point to choose bridesmaids dresses for my wedding that weren’t typical bridesmaids dresses. They were just Nicole Miller formal gowns, and could totally be worn again to any formal event. I’ve been in so many weddings over the years when I had to buy some expensive bridesmaid dress that went to Vietnam Vets right after the wedding. Couldn’t do that to my gals, even though two of them did it to me.

(TMI alert) One wedding I was the maid of honor and had to go to VS to buy silicone inserts so the dress would actually look decent on me.

 

[93boomer]

I think our entire wedding cost less than $600.

Spoiler

Our Disneymoon cost way more View attachment 281603

Sounds like ours

 

[93boomer]

We spent more on our disney honeymoon too. Well worth it!

We went to Daytona for our honeymoon.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

We went to Daytona for our honeymoon.

Not race week i hope

 

[93boomer]

Not race week i hope

Haha nope. It was in September.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

The one tonight is the longest. 4 bands, senior awards and recognitions, reception following. Because there are so many groups, it is held in the gym. I estimate that to be about 2 hours in the bleachers for me.

Love the music though, and hearing what the seniors have in mind for their next step.

If you sit in the upper most bleacher, will you have the ability to lean against the wall?

 

[DryerLintFan]

The dresses are crazy. Here is a popular one near me. https://www.camillelavie.com/prom/all-prom-dresses/

For an additional fee, they will register your dress, and make sure no one else purchases it to wear at your event. I remember a mom telling me a few years back that runs another $100.

That registering option is really cool! My mom hand made my prom dress, so I didn't have that issue, but if it were store bought I totally would have paid that fee!

 

[MouseDreaming]

If you sit in the upper most bleacher, will you have the ability to lean against the wall?

That is what I am aiming for! Wish me luck!

 

[MouseDreaming]

That registering option is really cool! My mom hand made my prom dress, so I didn't have that issue, but if it were store bought I totally would have paid that fee!

My DD will be very disappointed. If I am shelling out that much for a dress, she can pay the registry fee, if she is so inclined.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I think our entire wedding cost less than $600.

Spoiler

Our Disneymoon cost way more View attachment 281603

As Mr. Ferret will insist I got married in the stone age. My wife's father hated me for taking away his caretaker for his old age and also because I was equally nasty to him as he was to me. However, he did pay for the reception. The menu was chicken qtrs., that's it, no choice. No bar, no music, just a meeting room at the local Holiday Inn and that was that. My wife's gown was hand made by a friend of hers and we had our wedding in a chapel on the University of Vermont Campus because it was cheap. She was a student and I was in my last year in the Air Force and we had very little money.

The Honeymoon consisted of 2 nights in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal and three more nights in Quebec City at the Le Château Frontenac. Then I was back on duty on the following Monday and she had classes. I don't remember how much it cost total (in baubles and beads) but, I know it wasn't much.

 

[21stamps]

As Mr. Ferret will insist I got married in the stone age. My wife's father hated me for taking away his caretaker in his old age and also because I was equally nasty to him as he was to me. However, he did pay for the reception. The menu was chicken qtrs., that's it, no choice. No bar, no music, just a meeting room at the local Holiday Inn and that was that. My wife's gown was hand made by a friend of hers and we had our wedding in a chapel on the University of Vermont Campus because it was cheap. She was a student and I was in my last year in the Air Force and we had very little money.

The Honeymoon consisted of 2 nights in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal and three more nights in Quebec City at the Le Château Frontenac. Then I was back on duty on the following Monday and she had classes. I don't remember how much it cost total (in baubles and beads) but, I know it wasn't much.

My dad at first said that he wouldn’t pay for my wedding because it wasn’t in a church, then he had a change of heart.. but then I didn’t want him to pay for it because I know he would think it was ridiculous and I didn’t want to hear his lectures. So, we told him that we were paying for it. He got offended and I had a rough patch with my parents for about a month or so.. my mom would call me and ask why I would do that to him.. it was a mess. I thought they would be happy!

Anyway, it all worked out in the end, but if I had to do it over, I wouldn’t make the same choices.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

As Mr. Ferret will insist I got married in the stone age. My wife's father hated me for taking away his caretaker for his old age and also because I was equally nasty to him as he was to me. However, he did pay for the reception. The menu was chicken qtrs., that's it, no choice. No bar, no music, just a meeting room at the local Holiday Inn and that was that. My wife's gown was hand made by a friend of hers and we had our wedding in a chapel on the University of Vermont Campus because it was cheap. She was a student and I was in my last year in the Air Force and we had very little money.

The Honeymoon consisted of 2 nights in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal and three more nights in Quebec City at the Le Château Frontenac. Then I was back on duty on the following Monday and she had classes. I don't remember how much it cost total (in baubles and beads) but, I know it wasn't much.

I wouldn't be so rude sir. I am sure it took place in the Iron age at least

 

[Goofyernmost]

My dad at first said that he wouldn’t pay for my wedding because it wasn’t in a church, then he had a change of heart.. but then I didn’t want him to pay for it because I know he would think it was ridiculous and I didn’t want to hear his lectures. So, we told him that we were paying for it. He got offended and I had a rough patch with my parents for about a month or so.. my mom would call me and ask why I would do that to him.. it was a mess. I thought they would be happy!

Anyway, it all worked out in the end, but if I had to do it over, I wouldn’t make the same choices.

My Father in law seemed to get over it and actually seemed to warm up to me, but, in the literal end, the reading of his will, the entire family was mentioned except me and even my wife got the very short end of the stick against her brothers. That would be the only reason why I would try to avoid hell because I am pretty sure I would have to see him again and nothing I have ever done deserves that kind of punishment.

 

[21stamps]

I’ll add that if I ever do get married again, it will be a small gathering on a beach or a boat.

My wedding was gorgeous, but it’s really just one day in your life. It’s the after the nuptials that really matter.

 

[21stamps]

My Father in law seemed to get over it and actually seemed to warm up to me, but, in the literal end, the reading of his will, the entire family was mentioned except me and even my wife got the very short end of the stick against her brothers. That would be the only reason why I would try to avoid hell because I am pretty sure I would have to see him again and nothing I have ever done deserves that kind of punishment.

Wow. I’m so sorry. That’s absolutely horrible.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Wow. I’m so sorry. That’s absolutely horrible.

Well, the family did manage to circumvent the old crap head after he died. Her two brothers felt that it was just plain wrong and they directed the lawyer handling the estate to divide the proceeds to three equal shares. (3 siblings = 3 equal shares. I told them to just leave me out of it and the rest to be divided as was mentioned in the will. I didn't put up with the old coot my whole life, they did, so they deserved equal treatment.

 

[21stamps]

Well, the family did manage to circumvent the old crap head after he died. Her two brothers felt that it was just plain wrong and they directed the lawyer handling the estate to divide the proceeds to three equal shares. (3 siblings = 3 equal shares. I told them to just leave me out of it and the rest to be divided as was mentioned in the will. I didn't put up with the old coot my whole life, they did, so they deserved equal treatment.

That’s great! I’m glad the siblings came to that on their own. Shows they’re a good family.
It’s amazing how nasty and selfish and spiteful people can become when writing/changing a will, and then the family members disgusting behavior after a death. It’s good to hear that your wife’s family wasn’t like that when dividing assets.

 

[Songbird76]

As Mr. Ferret will insist I got married in the stone age. My wife's father hated me for taking away his caretaker for his old age and also because I was equally nasty to him as he was to me. However, he did pay for the reception. The menu was chicken qtrs., that's it, no choice. No bar, no music, just a meeting room at the local Holiday Inn and that was that. My wife's gown was hand made by a friend of hers and we had our wedding in a chapel on the University of Vermont Campus because it was cheap. She was a student and I was in my last year in the Air Force and we had very little money.

The Honeymoon consisted of 2 nights in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal and three more nights in Quebec City at the Le Château Frontenac. Then I was back on duty on the following Monday and she had classes. I don't remember how much it cost total (in baubles and beads) but, I know it wasn't much.

Was that in style when you got married? That style reception, I mean. Because looking at the pictures for my mom and dad's reception, it was similar. They had a cake and everything, but I don't think there was any sort of dancing at all and I think it was just held in the back of the church. I was engaged in college to a guy (I broke it off) and we went to his brother's wedding and there was no dancing. In fact, they had a dinner for the family and wedding party and then the reception was held after the dinner, in a hotel room and as that was the only wedding my bf had ever been to, he thought that's the way all wedding receptions were, so he didn't want to have any dancing at our wedding and I was devastated because I was so looking forward to all the silly traditional things that I was used to from all the weddings I had been to. But it seemed that his family didn't do that for their weddings and he knew nothing different. So I was wondering if that was even in style when you got married...all the weddings that I went to were post-1980, so I don't know what wedding receptions were like prior to that.

 

[Goofyernmost]

That’s great! I’m glad the siblings came to that on their own. Shows they’re a good family.
It’s amazing how nasty and selfish and spiteful people can become when writing/changing a will, and then the family members disgusting behavior after a death. It’s good to hear that your wife’s family wasn’t like that when dividing assets.

No, they were great. The rest of us got along very well. My Mother in Law was a wonderful person who, unfortunately for all of us died within the first year of our marriage and my wifes two brothers are still alive. Even though she and I had been divorced for 17 years before she passed away last year, I have stayed in contact with my, by marriage, families to this day.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Was that in style when you got married? That style reception, I mean. Because looking at the pictures for my mom and dad's reception, it was similar. They had a cake and everything, but I don't think there was any sort of dancing at all and I think it was just held in the back of the church. I was engaged in college to a guy (I broke it off) and we went to his brother's wedding and there was no dancing. In fact, they had a dinner for the family and wedding party and then the reception was held after the dinner, in a hotel room and as that was the only wedding my bf had ever been to, he thought that's the way all wedding receptions were, so he didn't want to have any dancing at our wedding and I was devastated because I was so looking forward to all the silly traditional things that I was used to from all the weddings I had been to. But it seemed that his family didn't do that for their weddings and he knew nothing different. So I was wondering if that was even in style when you got married...all the weddings that I went to were post-1980, so I don't know what wedding receptions were like prior to that.

It couldn't have been in style at the time, because the comments about it were anything but filled with cheer. We got married in 1972 and as far as I remember parties were a big thing at the time.