Wedding Ring Bearer Experiences

Ring Bearer Memories

Adults looking back on their boyhood remember the ring bearer costumes they wore and the weddings they participted in:

I was a page in three weddings and a ring bearer in one. At 4,7, and twice when I was 9 years old. This occurred from 1958-1964. I remember my outfits very well. My mother still has a photo of me in all occasions. One is in a frame in her hall. I wore a saffire blue velvet suspender short/culotte, with a white blouse, shoulder width ruffled round collar, white knee socks, and gearge washington slippers.
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

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