You Know You Are Old When

[fiddlearound]

Back in the day, attended Wurst Fest frequently. New Braunfels is only ten or fifteen miles from San Marcos where I attended good old SWT.
Even saw Myron Floren, the accordionist from the Lawrence Welk show. He played the fest often.

 

[sixdogs]

Come to think of it, perhaps that's why my family liked the Larwence Welk show. We ALWAYS had polka's at family weddings LOL Seemed polkas were a way of life back then for both sides of my parents family.

Yes. I don't know who it was or where the family came from but everybody did the polka. Hungarian, Polish, Italian, whatever...at the wedding there was at least a polka or two and the obligatory conga line back then. Remember the conga line at a wedding? And thee Bunny Hop?

Here's Lawrence Welk doing the Bunny Hop. This is great stuff. Love the skirts; love the music...

 

[sixdogs]

Skip to about 30 seconds for a Conga Line dance and the way it was back when it was fun. Stuff from today lacks the organization and empathy of the moment the old days had. Just my opinion.

 

[Sigarms]

Yes. I don't know who it was or where the family came from but everybody did the polka. Hungarian, Polish, Italian, whatever...at the wedding there was at least a polka or two and the obligatory conga line back then. Remember the conga line at a wedding? And thee Bunny Hop?

Both sets of grandparents came off the boat in the early 1900's from Eastern Europe.

Growing up when I went to church (dad was carreer military so we moved around a LOT in my early years as a kid), there WAS always Polkas for any gathering.

The one thing I can't understand, and I have no clue when it became the thing to do, is to shove a piece of cake in your wedding partners face when a couple was getting married and you fed your spouse a piece of the cake that was first cut.

My wife and I got married in 2005, No shoving cake in each others face. Why would you want to do something like that to the person who you plan on spending the rest of your life with?

Just me bitching about something that makes me sound exactly like my dad, which means I'm getting old.

Perhaps 30 years from now people will be bitching about Tik Tock or however you spell it.

 

[Sigarms]

Wife and I requested a polka band for our wedding back in 1985.

Wife and I got married after 5 months after we met (I was 37, I was certain this was the one). Wedding was at my "home" church about 500 miles away from where we lived.

Wedding "song" my wife and I danced to was by Lee Ann Womack. Because my dad loved the 40's big bad era as well, we had a DJ (in part for doing the wedding so quick).

Just as many Polkas as Glenn Miller.

I'd still at least want a Bryan Adams song in the wedding songs as well

All that said, seems wedding are becoming a big production now with how much money you can spend. I looked, what we spent on our complete wedding was $6,200 in todays times per inflation rate from 2005.

Look at my timing belt question recently here. Although my wife and I are really different people and at times complete opposites, we are so much alike in core values.

 

[sixdogs]

Both sets of grandparents came off the boat in the early 1900's from Eastern Europe.

Growing up when I went to church (dad was carreer military so we moved around a LOT in my early years as a kid), there WAS always Polkas for any gathering.

The one thing I can't understand, and I have no clue when it became the thing to do, is to shove a piece of cake in your wedding partners face when a couple was getting married and you fed your spouse a piece of the cake that was first cut.

My wife and I got married in 2005, No shoving cake in each others face. Why would you want to do something like that to the person who you plan on spending the rest of your life with?

Just me bitching about something that makes me sound exactly like my dad, which means I'm getting old.

Perhaps 30 years from now people will be bitching about Tik Tock or however you spell it.

We went to a lot of Italian weddings where guests would dance with the bride and pass her an envelope of cash. LOTS of $$ to give the new couple a start. It was an honor to dance with the bride. I represented my family at a wedding, danced and gave her the envelope as a very young kid.

At Hungarian weddings the groom's friends would get together and "steal" the bride. Big event, lots of laughs and excitement but the groom always got her back.

I forget what nationality had a "money tree" on a table and people would clip cash to it. I would have liked a tree like that as a kid.

An unnamed group always seemed to have a fist fight at the end but it recovered to end OK. No real harm done.

Never saw cake pushed in someone's face until the modern era and don't get it. In the old days someone would maybe get a dap of frosting on her nose but that's it.

Weddings were great in the old days.

 

[Sigarms]

At Hungarian weddings the groom's friends would get together and "steal" the bride. Big event, lots of laughs and excitement but the groom always got her back.

After our wedding reception, everyone came to my dad's house (my mom past away before my wife and I met).

That is a tradition in a lot of Eastern European countries ("stealing" the bride).

We are all dancing the living room in my parents house.

Family comes to tell me that they took my wife.

Let's just say I didn't take it well, and I got my wife back

3 things in life you don't mess with is a mans dog, money and wife, not necessarily in that order

 

[Sigarms]

Never saw cake pushed in someone's face until the modern era and don't get it. In the old days someone would maybe get a dap of frosting on her nose but that's it.

Weddings were great in the old days.

We got married in 2005.

Even back then seems the norm was to push cake in your partners face (keep in mind to you "modern era").

That's why both my wife and I agreed we would not do something that stupid IMO.

News flash... when you say "great in the old days" is a sign you're getting old

 

[sd455dan]

Maybe it has been posted already, and really isn't funny but when you start attending more funerals than Weddings....

Lawrence Welk . My grandparents loved that show. It came on (reruns?) weeknights from 7:30 -8:00, which signaled bedtime for them.

My mom used to go to out dancing at halls in Nebraska when the LW band was playing locally.

 

[Sigarms]

My mom used to go to out dancing at halls in Nebraska when the LW band was playing locally.

You made me look for the first time. Thank you.

Lawrence_Welk

It actually explains a lot growing up as a kid with your aunts and uncles, and why Mr. Welk so popular (long read on the mans life, but well worthwhile IMO).

Kind of ironic when I watched the Smothers brothers show with my dad.