Wedding Ring Bearer Experiences
Adults looking back on their boyhood remember the ring bearer or page
costumes that they wore and the weddings they participted in:
My aunt ressed into being ring bearer at her wedding. I wasn't interested, but my parents inisted. It wasm\n't until the day of the wedding that I learned of the redculous costume she had selected for the ring bearer. I survive the wedding, but the wearing the little boy's outfit they had me dolled up in was really embarrassing.
I was about 10 years old when I served as a ring bearer. It was
1962. Actually I was rather excited about it until I got a look at the costume my sister had
selected for me. It was a white short pants suit with especially short
shorts and white knee socks. I was horrified as it looked like such a sissy suit. I wore shorts to play in during the summer, but I never remember dressing up in shorts and wearing knee socks--especially white sissy-looking girlish knee socks. The wedding was bad enough, but I got into a fight at the reception after the wedding because my cousins were teasing me. John
Hall
I was a pageboy three times at two of my aunts and one of my uncles
weddings. I was aged 7, 9 and 12. The first two times I quite enjoyed
myself but the third time I thought I was too old. When I was 7 and 9, I didn't mind wearing formal clothes as my mother often made me dress up in formal wear. The first pageboy suit I wore was the most fomal. It consisted of white stockings up to my knees,
black velvet trousers, white shirt, pink bow-tie and cumberland and black velet hat. I remember I didn't want to hold hands with the flowergirl but the rest of the day I enjoyed. The second time I wore a sailor suit and at that wedding I had the most fun. The third time I thought
was going to be dredful but wasn't to bad, as I only had to wear
trousers, shirt, waistcoat and bow-tie. Even though for nearly a year
later at every speical event I was made wear that suit. But luckly that years Christmas was the last time I was seen in that suit. EG (Ireland)
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