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Millennials are getting married, and the Globe is on it
By adamg on Sun, 01/17/2016 - 1:18pm
The Globe Magazine this week is all about weddings, with the centerpiece a trend story about how millennial weddings are different from earlier weddings, because millennials incorporate personal touches and little reminders of their lives into their ceremonies and even gowns, unlike their older sisters and mothers - and they're rejecting the big, expensive weddings of the past, as exemplified by one couple getting married at this little, obscure place called the Copley Plaza.
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The Post-Millennials
can't arrive fast enough. Millennials are so 2015.
Marketing targets
Obviously, the 20 to 30's market is what business goes for - always have. Speaking as a crotchety Gen-Xer I'm sure it must have been annoying to see used flannel shirts and heroin chic marketed to us 20 years ago...but honestly, was it AS fucking annoying as these twats?? I find it hard to be objective, so can someone help here?
In my day we bought used
In my day we bought used clothes that looked like new. These days kids pay for new clothes that look used. (And in some cases dirty).
So not into the dirty greasy too skinny no ass droopy "looks like there is a poop in my pants, definitely skid marks" hepatitis c look.
"Old Looking Clothes"
People have been saying the above for at least 25 years -- probably longer. The "worn" clothes look goes back to at least the 1980s.
Yeah, you're pretty much
Yeah, you're pretty much completely wrong on that one.
Acid wash done by manufacturers became popular in the late 1980's. And even before then, in the 1960's, young people were trying to age their jeans by dumping them in bleach and leaving them out in the sun.
If anything, thanks to the internet, the millennial generation is the most informed and most competitive about buying quality used clothing. Some of the major online players that drove this new age of online quality vintage even came from the Boston area, Giuseppe Timore of An Affordable Wardrobe, Zachary DeLuca of Newton Street Vintage.
Correction: People in the 60
Correction: People in the 60's beat their jeans for good reason. Denim in the 60's was like cardboard, it had to be washed (I'd even do with stones) multple times before you could even wear them.
And no, millenials aren't better at buying used clothes. Many of us have been doing it long before you were around.
Especially ....
... those virtually indestructible (and remarkably stiff) Sears-brand jeans.
Flannel Shirts
Nirvana et al wore pretty much what every young adult and adult male in Western Washington wore for decades - hoodies, flannels, t-shirts, jeans, logging boots. It was practical clothing for people who worked outside. My grandfather dressed like that.
I remember how amused my great uncle was to start seeing his lifelong wardrobe become chic and appear on runways and store windows.
But, hey, millennials are a HUGE generation compared to Gen X ... so they will get way too much of their pop eating itself and regurgitating back at them in the latest advertisingly trendy way.
Agreed. Who'd ever think my
Agreed. Who'd ever think my husband (ex) was a fashionista.
Construction boots, flannel shirts, jeans and t shirts. That's all he had and it's all he needed.
Suddenly it became fashionable and everyone looked like him and his brothers. He's laugh at how much people were actually paying to look like him.
Of course the difference between him, your relatives and those that dressed the part were like night and day.
Yeah, no
One, all the weddings they cite are high-end (The Taj???).
Two, the wedding industry is awful. Planning my wedding was the only time I was consistently called names and insulted by businesses where I was looking to spend a chunk of money, as part of some crazy high pressure sales tactic that upsold by insulting your choices and alternating by calling you tacky or unreasonable or irresponsible for asking for something they don't sell.
Instead of saying, "We only sell bridal bouquets that cost $200 and are the size of a trash can lid, try somewhere else," you get "Well bridal bouquets are supposed to be that size and with exotic flowers, your guests will be expecting that and I don't know why you think we can do one that's smaller. That's how we do things. If you wanted to be difficult you should have booked this three years ago."
Good for them.
Expensive weddings are a racket. Put the money toward a house or your kids' education.
Oh, FFS
You're absolutely right. After being a bridesmaid in several of these
catastrophesextravaganzas, I got married in my living room and used the money to re-landscape.I stopped buying the Globe when they started targeting their publication at Wellesley instead of the rest of us.
This makes me all the happpier
My younger son works weddings with our neighbor (extravagant lighting, video, and photography). He comes home from each one saying "if I EVER get married, meet me at City Hall. We'll go to a bar and watch soccer for a reception".
Is this because
they know they will never actually be able to buy a place here? So just blow their money on a too fancy wedding.
evergreen
they can run this article twenty years from now just changing the generation name. In fact it probably ran twenty years ago.
In the eyes of the law, no
In the eyes of the law, no matter how much money you spend or personalize on the wedding, you only have a piece of paper notarized as a marriage certificate to show for it.
While in the eyes of the law
While in the eyes of the law you can have your wedding at the city hall, the pictures I have from my wedding and the memories created at the reception party are worth the money we spent (it was less than my monthly salary, in case there are concerns).
I'm usually not the one to spend money on frivolous things but sometimes being a tightwad just makes for a less enjoyable experience.
Brick and mortar weddings?
They aren't tweeting tor texting vows, using Facebook, Instagram, Skype, or facetime?
I got a new Chrome app
And boy was it worth it.
what's the app?
n/t
"Millennials to Snake People"
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-snake-peop/jhki...
You're getting old, Gaffin
They run this issue annually, so basically you should do what I do- ignore it.
In 6 months they will be coming out with an issue featuring summer homes of the same people. I hope your monocle doesn't fall off your face then.
Just feel grateful your little one isn't reading this issue. Yes, she's young, but old enough to think that weddings should be like that.
What do you think we discussed over breakfast?
This article. Much eye rolling ensued. She told me to stop when I insisted she was not a millennial, but the next thing - a decennial.
Decennials are a thing?
Decennials are a thing?
Hey, now
Just because I was born in the 90s doesn't mean I want a wedding that involves mason jars!
oy gevalt
The last wedding I went to was at some sort of club or resort or whatever in the boondocks that only hosts weddings. The bride and groom and the groom's kids spent about 15 minutes pouring different colored sand into a big jug together, to represent the ~*~blending~*~~ of their family. It convinced this particular millennial that she will get married with no muss and no fuss at City Hall, and throw a party for friends and family later.
Indeed
My wedding was 15 minutes of talk at a self-uniting ceremony followed by a simple party precisely because the four weddings we'd been to in the past couple of years ranged from complicated to extravagant on a logarithmic scale. The KISS principle applies equally to engineering as well as romance.
It'd be nice if they
It'd be nice if they interviewed at least one person doing their wedding on a shoestring budget...or like a budget period. these are all luxury hotel venues! I guess only wealthy people weddings are worth mentioning...
Well, that's
who the advertisers want to target-- the big spenders.
That's the sad part
Wealthy people spending big bucks on a wedding is no problem - they have the bucks, no big deal. The sad part is when not-so-wealthy people spend an inordinate amount of money on a tacky wedding. Each to his/her own, I guess.