It’s called “poverty.” You’ve probably never heard of it.
Here’s the great thing about Etsy. As repellant as some of the shit is that I find there, there is always something worse.
Today I present one of the most insensitive features I’ve ever seen on the Etsy blog. And as usual, it’s celebrated in a circle jerk of obliviousness, complete with hipstermatic photos and dipshit Etsy drones yammering in approval.
Yes it’s a poverty wedding! How fun is that? They dressed like actual poor people! They even did some research:
We got to work researching the Depression era and hobo culture. As we prepared to make everything for our wedding, we collected feed sack dresses and old work boots, antique hand-stitched quilts and jug band instruments. After reading that the word “hobo” may be a syllabic abbreviation of “homeward bound,” we fell in love with the notion!
They fell in love with the very idea of penniless, homeless migrants, drifting from town to town, looking for work! Those hobos were just yummy, with their faded antique quilts and feed sacks, and those super cute boots they always wore. That whole period was just so desaturated and Brother Where Art Thou, which is also totes adorbs.
Okay, maybe many hobos found themselves having to leave their families in order to find enough work to support them, or maybe they escaped from harsh lives in orphanages. And, okay, maybe they died on train tracks or sweltered to death in locked box-cars. And maybe when they did finally find some work, they were set upon by thieves who took everything from them and threw them off of fast moving trains.
Don’t be such a downer! They had totally awesome trash can fires!
The important thing is, hobos were all clowns who had bandanas tied on sticks, like in cartoons.
Anyhoo, it was a super cute wedding. But I can’t help thinking that they could have done so much more with it.
Here are some ideas you can use when you have your own hobo themed depression era wedding!
• Souvenir photos on a lice ridden mattress in the weeds
• Tuberculosis screening tent
• Steal your own dinner
• Cigarette rolling contest with butts you find on the street
• Sterno martinis
• Hobo Stew bar
I’m sure you can think of lots more. Just remember to have fun with it. Golly, that’s why the Flying Spaghetti Monster made poor people in the first place!
August 2, 2011 at 1:47 pm
i was going to post this on the index card thread. unfuckingbelievable.
August 2, 2011 at 5:37 pm
okay i’m going to cheat a little, by posting this at the top as a response to you…
no. you know what’s unfuckingbelievable? the depression era-themed restaurant my sister and brother-in-law took me to in seattle around 30 years ago! i still haven’t gotten over it.
they served you various forms of stew and hard=tack rolls on tin plates, and your table water was served in mason jars – i kid you not. meanwhile, enormous black and white photos of depression/dustbowl scenes lined the walls, a la dorothea lange. people living in tents. people in food lines. hobos in railway yards. etc. etc.
i’m not making any of this up, i just wish i could remember the name of the restaurant … ‘the food line’ maybe?
halfway through i just burst into tears and sobbed. and i do mean burst. my sister and brother in law, self-proclaimed liberals, were just amazed, didn’t get why i felt the way i did …
August 2, 2011 at 5:42 pm
That’s so bad it’s actually somewhat comical.
August 2, 2011 at 8:06 pm
i wish i could feel human suffering so acutely and cleanly as i did in my 20s. losing that ability to connect like that also loses one’s ability to articulate as well … i couldn’t really capture in words the reason why i was sobbing. i could then, but not now.
August 2, 2011 at 5:57 pm
please I’m begging you – please tell me that f-ing place burned down or something.
August 2, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Better yet… if it went out of business and the owners went bankrupt and got a little taste of poverty themselves. I bet it wouldn’t be nearly as nostalgic to them.
August 2, 2011 at 8:01 pm
oh, i would love to tell you it burnt down or they went bankrupt … i couldn’t find anything remotely similar when i tried to google it just now … fingers crossed!
August 4, 2011 at 2:48 am
There’s a place near my home called “Hard Times Pizza”. Drove by the other day – out of business. Not kidding. I laughed and laughed and laughed and….
August 4, 2011 at 1:21 pm
I’ve lived in Seattle for nearly ten years, and I’m certain it no longer exists, or at least was renamed/re-envisioned, because I’ve never heard of it.
August 2, 2011 at 6:17 pm
There was more than one of those restaurants because I wandered into one when I was about 25 – I’m 54. It is exactly like you described it but was in S. CA. The tables were wooden picnic tables with benches and waiters dressed in faded jeans and caps. Same art that you mention and I was in shock. They served the food in graniteware bowls or on the same kind of plates. I was with a couple of other people when I said… “I have to get out of here.” They thought I was crazy because they loved (((LOVED))) going there.
August 2, 2011 at 8:03 pm
how odd! actually i was living in west l.a. at the time i went to visit them! don’t remember your restaurant in so cal, but yes, the tables were picnic tables, etc.
and the odd thing was, it wasn’t cheap to eat there.
August 2, 2011 at 10:38 pm
you’ve jogged a memory – the wait staff DID wear some sort of cap … not baseball …
is there some sort of hat that is iconic of the depression era?
August 4, 2011 at 2:51 am
As I recall, Tom Joad, in The Grapes of Wrath, wore a cap given to him by the prison staff when he left. I think it looked something like a driver cap or an Irish cap, if you know what I mean.
August 2, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Is it the Breadline Cafe?
August 2, 2011 at 8:10 pm
i just googled that, and apparently the breadline is not directly in seattle. the restaurant i went to was near pike’s place market. i can still feel the thickness of the mason jar against my lips.
August 3, 2011 at 11:47 pm
I use mason jars as ‘glasses’ because I have so many of them, and they are cheap to replace. I’ve used them for forever. I’m farm folk and use them to can food to feed my family later in the year.
BUT~ this sort of restaurant makes me sick.
August 2, 2011 at 7:05 pm
I should open a Russian themed restaurant and make my patrons get in line for bread…while the photos of people dying in Gulag’s line the walls.
August 2, 2011 at 7:18 pm
It can be just over the border from my Nazi-prison-camp-themed restaurant where they don’t feed you anything at all.
August 2, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Where they don’t feed you anything at all, AND make you do all of the labor. Additionally, you should also pack in three times as many people as the Fire Marshal permits in an establishment of that size. Keep the place filthy but bribe the health inspector to turn a blind eye.
You should be nothing if not authentic.
August 2, 2011 at 10:07 pm
You could visit these restaurants for some inspiration: http://www.thedailymeal.com/four-restaurants-where-youll-never-ever-get-table
August 3, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Yea, just steer clear of the LARGE “oven” in the back of the restaurant.
August 5, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Heh… that comment about Russia, along with the restaurant talk made me remember an Onion article from a long time ago:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/russian-television-scores-hit-with-new-game-show-w,658/
August 2, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Hey, Mason Jars are awesome. Don’t let this experience give them a bad rep for you. I own several Mason Jar dishes. Because I don’t have a lot of money and they’re free…
August 2, 2011 at 8:57 pm
This made me so sick to read. Who the fuck does this shit? I remember my grandfather telling me about the depression and how little they had to eat and how hard things were… I could understand backwoodsy or western or country kitsch. But this goes too far. This is perhaps one of the most ignorant, self-riteous (totally spelt wrong) things Ive ever heard of. And that’s saying something.
August 2, 2011 at 9:10 pm
my mother had stories too …
but how different is it from today when we just witnessed the poor being sold down the river of federal cutbacks just to appease the lunacy fringe in washington dc.
we’re all gonna be drinking from mason jars soon…
August 2, 2011 at 10:12 pm
My husband’s grandmother recently passed. I was lucky enough to hear her amazing stories about this era before she left us. She was 93 when she died and she remembered the depression like it was yesterday.
She was a “well-off” family. Meaning her father owned a grocery store so they could do extravagant things like drink milk, and wear the fancy flour sack dresses with the little patterns on them. Of course they never made any money because they were too busy making sure people in the community had enough to eat while handing out endless good will.
Every time I buy an apple or milk for my little girl from the store I think how lucky I am, even considering me and my husband only banked 18k combined last year due to layoff after layoff.
So yeah, go fuck yourselves hobos.
August 3, 2011 at 10:48 am
My grandmother’s stories about the Great Depression were all about conserving water. She made sure you finished your glass of water at the dinner table. She said she was the one to pump the water and there was only one pail allowed a night.
That’s kinda how I feel that wedding should have been. “NO! YOU ONLY GET ONE GLASS OF WATER!!!!!!!”
August 3, 2011 at 11:54 am
Yeah I admit this rubbed me wrong too. If they want to have a shabby chic wedding or something thats fine but dont call it Depression Era Hobo because thats just insensitive and tasteless. My grandma used to tell stories about how they would take eggs from birds nests just so they could eat. People are still suffering today and youre having a wedding poking fun at it. Tasteless.
August 2, 2011 at 10:01 pm
My dad would have just LOVED that restaurant (note the sarcasm dripping). He told me not long before he died that his Dustbowl Oklahoma parents never went to a restaurant in their entire lives because they were always so careful after the Depression. And he ran away from home at 14 years old, completely deaf, because so many aunts and cousins moved onto their farm because they were the only people who had FOOD in the family. Around that time my great uncles were working in coal mines for room and board and not one penny of pay–like thousands of other American men–because it meant they weren’t at home eating the little food their wives and children could scrounge up. So. Fucking. Romantic.
August 3, 2011 at 1:02 am
I worked as a bank teller in the late 90s, and we had elderly people who banked with us and were still so traumatized by the Depression that they still didn’t quite trust banks not to fail, 60+ years afterward. And that particular bank weathered the Depression and had been around for about 150 years, in one form or another.
August 4, 2011 at 1:39 am
Fortunately their fears were completely unfounded.
Oh, wait…
August 3, 2011 at 2:56 am
Was is Po’ Folks?
http://www.pofolks.com/
It’s halfway between “Depression Chic” and “Shitty Cracker Barrel Knockoff.”
August 3, 2011 at 1:51 pm
no, doesn’t look like it. this place was only stews and then for desserts, pies. and they also offered these absolutely HUGE cinnamon buns to take home.
and it was a somewhat pricey place, IIRC.
August 6, 2011 at 6:19 pm
OMG, there was one of those in Anaheim, CA, may still be there. We went to a wedding reception there for a workplace friend – of course, hers wasn’t themed, I think it was something they could afford.
I think it’s more of a “you gotta perdy mouth”, kind of a po’ folks….
August 3, 2011 at 10:08 am
In her book, Red China Blues, Jan Wong mentions that when she was in China in the late 80s:
“Retro-hardship became hip. People flocked to nostalgia eateries like Beijing’s Remembering Bitterness Restaurant to listen to blind accordion players while sampling famine era menus of fried locusts and boiled weeds.”
The name of the restaurant comes from the Cultural Revolution when people were forced to attend “Remembering-the-bitterness-of -the-past-in-order-to-better-savour-the sweetness-of-the-present lectures. The presence whose sweetness they were supposed to savouring during those lectures was a horrible era of political oppression.
August 3, 2011 at 11:53 am
Because when you’re going to a restaurant you totally need a reminder that some people don’t have money.
The fuck is wrong with people?
August 3, 2011 at 1:54 pm
yeah, exactly – and some of them are the people who are waiting on you.
the restaurant was exactly like the wedding: you got to play at being a hobo with your tin plate, and your mason jar. beyond the utter repulsivity, insensitivity, etc. it was just plain fucking stupid.
August 4, 2011 at 2:51 am
Maybe this is a Southern thing, but lots of people I know use Mason Jars as glasses, and not just to save money. There are even ones made with handles on them for that purpose.
Only mentioning it because I don’t want anyone to walk into a restaurant with Mason jar glasses and think they’re being offensive or poking fun at the poor, because that isn’t the case. I think the photos were over the top tasteless and offensive. Someone mentioned Po’Folks and I also wanted to mention that wasn’t the point of that restaurant, it was just super cheap food but yes, it sucked.
August 5, 2011 at 5:32 am
I live in Seattle, so I was curious and did some research. The restaurant was called the “Breadline.” I found reference to it in a blog on VintageSeattle.org: http://www.vintageseattle.org/2011/02/25/smith-tower-1972/
August 8, 2011 at 3:06 pm
yes, i think that was it…it was part of the pioneer square revival/restoration. because that area was so adrift in poverty, it made for a tasteful seamless transition, i presume.
thank you!
August 16, 2011 at 11:12 am
OH GOD. Was it Po Folks?
August 2, 2011 at 6:06 pm
thank god I don’t read the Etsy blog ever, because my head wants to explode.
August 2, 2011 at 6:52 pm
With all the perverse things Regretsy has introduced me to, I have NEVER had the reaction of wanting to go hide in the corner and rock myself and cry. But tonight I do.
August 2, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Please Take your comments to etsy! I feel some optimism coming on, we might actually get this taken down!
Then again I probably wrong.
we’ll probably all just get our accounts deleted
August 2, 2011 at 9:38 pm
What’s next? An adorable evening at auschwitz?
These people are insane. The ever increasing stupidity of the world is starting to keep me up at night. I’m almost ready to get rid of my internet. I already avoid the news. cripes.
August 2, 2011 at 11:36 pm
me too! the stupidity of most people is really beginning to overwhelm me. thanks to the internet, i’m in touch with vast swathes of people i would never otherwise meet. and while i’m delighted to find so many kindred spirits, i am amazed at the vast quantities of sheer mediocrity out there. especually in washington dc, which i’ve started paying more attention to since obama was elected. man! some of those politicians are mind-numbingly dumb.
August 3, 2011 at 1:04 am
I forget which “Law” it is that says: “The sum total of human intelligence on the planet is a constant. The population is increasing.”
August 3, 2011 at 1:45 am
well, that would certainly explain it.
August 4, 2011 at 1:42 am
I can identify with this.
August 3, 2011 at 11:03 am
I am all for weddings, and all for love, but I find this so insensitive.
Listen, I’m all for mean insensitivity, especially when Brian can’t stop tweeting about what bitches we all are. And being that I am an insensitive cunty bitch:
You can find their wedding website and wedding blog easily by googling “hobo wedding”, where you can then come upon their WEDDING REGISTRY:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wedding/1FTOBBTLC605N
where you can still buy them a $179.00 self-cleaning cat litter box or an ipad.
But they did already get their $75 tea kettle.
hobo-chic!
I’m angriest at etsy for posting this. I understand that this couple may feel attacked at this point, however it was their choice to have it featured on etsy to begin with, and naive to think everyone was going to love it.
August 3, 2011 at 2:00 pm
i just took a look at their registry.
frankly i would feel mighty used as a person, if i were a guest to that wedding. first you have to fuel their weird wedding fantasy by entering into dressing in period costume. then you have to fork over more bucks to fuel what is obviously the continuation of that fantasy into their home life with retro cherry red appliances, etc.
if you want me to fork over a $75 wedding gift, i expect salmon mousse and champagne at the reception.
August 3, 2011 at 7:56 pm
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August 3, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Hey Andy, “these are real people” too:
A woman stoned to death for falling in love
A video of two women buried up to their necks and stoned to death
A 13 year old stoned to death for being raped by her brother
Does that look like what your friends went through?
Grow the fuck up. No one who posts anything publicly has the right to expect unanimous positive reaction. You want that, post to a Flickr pool where only your friends can see it. Otherwise, the rules are the same for everyone. I don’t get to tell people to only say good things about this site. I don’t demand that no one be critical of what I do. And I don’t go to Amazon to shame people into removing bad reviews of my book by quoting fucking Shirley Jackson.
You and your friends continue to embarrass yourselves by appropriating the suffering of others.
August 3, 2011 at 10:44 pm
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August 3, 2011 at 11:42 pm
These “real people” put their story out there on the internet, on a site viewed by millions of people. This is the reaction their story elicited. You don’t get to dictate how people react to the things you do.
August 2, 2011 at 1:48 pm
I’d give my right arm to half one-tenth your ability. Bravo.
August 2, 2011 at 2:26 pm
a hobo would give their right arm for a meal and a warm place to sleep.
SO CUTE!!!!
August 2, 2011 at 3:46 pm
And most of the time, it was the barn. I guess that would go with the theme of their wedding, no?
What I found the most ludicrous, and I’m not entirely sure why (maybe it’s the hipster-ishness of it all) was the picture of the guy standing there with a pipe in his mouth.
Oh, and there was nothing humble or down to earth about this wedding. Looking at the pictures, there are dollar signs all over the damn place.
August 2, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Just the rental cost of the tents put them way over the cost of my wedding and reception. We got married at the courthouse and had lunch afterwards at a local Mexican place. My sister and I wore short dresses that my mom sewed up out of cotton. The end. I could not have asked for anything better and my sisters’ big weddings were horrible hot things with lots of drunks that cost my parents a fortune and don’t even ask me about my brother’s wedding-it was just as pretentious as this crap.
August 4, 2011 at 1:47 am
Best wedding I ever went to (apart from my own and I’m biased) was in a local church and the reception was in a carvery pub. I wish more people would do that rather than spending a fortune on wedding catering – it was January and we had a choice of roast beef, roast chicken or roast pork with roast potatoes and gravy. It was awesome! Also the groom was Ghanaian, so half the guests were too, and Ghanaians really know how to get a party going!
August 2, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Guests had a dinner choice of “beans in a can” or “dumpster surprise”.
August 2, 2011 at 2:05 pm
You can chuck grapes at the happy couple instead of rice, a la “The Grapes of Wrath”.
August 2, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Or to be true the ending of Grapes of Wrath, *spoiler alert* maybe the bride breastfed the “starving” guests.
August 2, 2011 at 2:38 pm
That’s what came to my mind, too, when I read the grapes thing.
I understand why they didn’t include that in the movie, but, holy crap, does that ever end the book on the most possible down note.
At least The Jungle ended with hope. Fantasy hope, sure, and hope we know never came to pass, but hope just the same.
August 2, 2011 at 6:12 pm
A lactard-hobo themed wedding…. catering provided by the bride in the barn? I’ll pass.
August 2, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Can we throw rocks at them instead?
August 2, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Make them menstrual moonstones and you’ve got yourself a deal!
August 2, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Or if you’re really into Steinbeck, “Of Mice and Men”.
August 3, 2011 at 7:44 am
Of Mice and Men? So…they have a large, mentally handicapped guy accidentally kill the bride half way through the wedding while the groom wears one gloves filled with lotion to keep his hand soft? The best man shoots the mentally handicapped guy at the reception instead of a toast. Damn, this wedding sounds awesome!
August 2, 2011 at 6:23 pm
are you making this up? Please say yes. Please?
August 3, 2011 at 6:05 am
I know quite a few people who grew up poor in the 1920′s-1960′s, and they vividly remember eating lard sandwiches.
This could be an interesting reception dinner.
August 2, 2011 at 1:50 pm
You NAILED it. I was completely horrified when I saw this. I was thinking
“thank god people who SUFFERED through the depression will most likely NEVER see this.”
August 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Yeah…you know…the people who were displaced from their homes and moved across country to be kept in virtual slavery on farms…owe my soul to the company store and what not…
August 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm
God, Hipsters have alot of time on their hands.
August 2, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Hey man, you’re just assuming they’re hipsters. They might merely be dumbfucks.
August 2, 2011 at 3:08 pm
The difference between the two being…?
August 2, 2011 at 3:16 pm
You mean those words aren’t synonyms?
August 2, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Hipsters are a special subdivision of dumbfucks who have a knack for bastardization and awkward senses of trendiness.
August 2, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Nah, being Depression-era themed, they’d have to be ‘bum-fucks.’
August 3, 2011 at 12:59 am
what’s the difference you ask?
hipsters are more self-referentially absorbed, while dumbfucks lack the ego involvement to be so.
just one opinion.
August 2, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Her/his grandmother actually assisted in this. Grandma Rose described the football sandwich idea as well as clothing design.
That means their family were hipsters before hipsters were cool. She’s third generation hipster.
August 2, 2011 at 2:28 pm
“I was homeless before the stock market crash of 29″
August 2, 2011 at 4:17 pm
“My family was jumping out of windows way before Black Friday.”
August 2, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Wow, I never knew my grandparents were so cool! Two room cabins for ten kids? Sharing a single pair of shoes with your sister? SO FUCKING AWESOME.
August 2, 2011 at 6:53 pm
“Glenn Miller was great before he went mainstream.”
August 2, 2011 at 2:34 pm
I cannot believe, even given their clueless starting point, that people could RESEARCH extreme poverty and not switch their idea to helping the hungry, perhaps by asking for donations as their gifts? What a pair of self-centered assholes.
August 2, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I am currently planning my wedding, and we are really feeling guilty about it considering that there is a famine in Somalia currently. So, we decided that instead of offering “guest favors” we are giving to a charity in the name of our guests and we are also giving a percentage of all the money we receive to the charity as well.
August 2, 2011 at 2:56 pm
This is a fabulous idea! Should hell ever freeze over, and/or the horsemen of the apocalypse gather and I get married, I’m absolutely doing this. I’ve got somewhere to live, food, clothes, and friends; why would I need presents!
Awesome way of thinking!
August 2, 2011 at 3:26 pm
I guess the Migrant Mother look is the new heroin chic?
I’m a fat, middle-class, suburbanite, and I still think this is crass beyond words.
August 2, 2011 at 6:01 pm
best comment ever, and this entire post from Etsy marks a very f-ing disturbing trend for the new “ownership” at the big E.
August 2, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Do you think Grandma Rose’s full name was Rose of Sharon?
August 2, 2011 at 3:26 pm
>_> im not quite sure how they researched this yet missed the total sense of poverty, hopelessness, or devestation of the era.
hobo= homeless.. not homeward bound
my grama lived through the era and she gets anxiety whenever the pantry isnt quite full enough or the dogs dish isnt full. she was one of the people who risked being shot or poisoned by sneaking onto farmlands and stealing food from crops just to get by.
most people these days dont drive by farm crops and say “quick stop the car im guna steal food” they just drive on by. im pretty sure the idiots who thought this was “cute” never experienced starvation other than getting hungry five minutes before dinner… pretty sure everyone had shoes too.
August 2, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Apparently the phrase “Depression Era” threw them off. In Dumbfuck Hipster Land the word “depression” must mean the opposite of what it means in here in Fat Slag Land.
August 2, 2011 at 8:52 pm
The thing is that they could have emulated the freedom of some ‘hobos’ of the 50′s and 60′s – the beat generation before the hippies came around. They were travelers by choice. Instead, they did this.
August 2, 2011 at 10:17 pm
i think you just hit on the part of whats so offensive about this for me.
the whole hobo thing how it was approached and researched the “styles and clothes” n shit. as if it was a culture of choice with a style and people had the OPTION to live that way.
people today have NO concept how bad things were then. my grama was speaking to me yesterday talking about her uncle being in the black market for stamps (for dummies, i don’t mean postage stamps). he gave her his ‘shoes’ stamp because she had none.
August 3, 2011 at 11:48 am
It was always my understanding that “hobo” referred to train-travelling migrants originating from the Hoboken, NJ railroad. But hey, that’s not what Wikipedia says…
August 2, 2011 at 1:50 pm
What’s next? A holocaust hoedown? For party games play hide and seek under the beds and in the closets!
Idiots.
August 2, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Pick your wedding ring out of a box full of gold teeth fillings!
Totes vintage.
August 2, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Oh Totes!
I’m going to start renting out my grandmother’s two-room house where she grew up with 10 siblings all piled up together. They weren’t poor! They were Depression-Era Hipsters!
August 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
So cool they were cold.
August 2, 2011 at 3:10 pm
My grandma really dug her Depression-Era childhood home – especially when the enormous Galveston roaches would drop down on her from the ceilings!
August 2, 2011 at 6:03 pm
anthropochick – my mom and aunt tell the same kind of stories about snakes in Virginia. we’re talking Appalachia poor
August 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm
My grandmother really dug living in the Depression Era too! …. literally lived in a dugout home in the ground during the Dust Bowl. Or maybe that was just a lifestyle “theme”.
August 2, 2011 at 9:17 pm
No, you’ve gotta upcycle those fillings to make the ring! Not to mention, using “old gold” is environmentally friendly.
August 2, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Famine in Africa after party.
August 2, 2011 at 2:20 pm
This is okay. You know hipsters won’t eat much anyway. Gotta keep that figure ya know. (I’ll eat their portion)
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Damn shame I am already married or else I would have a Holocaust-themed wedding. It wouldn’t bother my husband (named after a Holocaust survivor) or his family AT ALL.
August 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Adorable personalized lampshades as table gifts!
August 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Am I going to hell because I laugh/cringe/laughed at this?
August 2, 2011 at 2:13 pm
*GASP*, you are a baaaad person. And I kind of laughed at that.
August 2, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Yes. And I will meet you there.
August 2, 2011 at 2:26 pm
We were all headed there long before this. Enjoy Hell, Devils!
August 2, 2011 at 2:35 pm
As I German Jew, I have to say…I shouldn’t have laughed at that. But I did.
August 2, 2011 at 7:23 pm
I read this whole thread to see if anyone made a lampshade reference or if I was going to get to do it.
August 2, 2011 at 9:56 pm
yep. see you guys there!! Save me a seat overlooking the river of fire
August 2, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Renew your vows in front of the clerk, have your bouquet and jewellery taken for security and you can just leave your handbag over there. And don’t forget to hand in your shoes – you won’t need ‘em in the fancy showers !
Just writing that made me feel uneasy. *twitch*
August 2, 2011 at 5:31 pm
“Honey, it’ll be great! It’ll be like your grandfather was there!”
August 2, 2011 at 2:00 pm
I’m glad you said it first, because my thoughts were, “Next it’s what? A holocaust wedding? Runaway slave wedding? How about an Irish peasant wedding, and everyone can talk about starvation and if they think the potatoes will come in next year?
I realize we do romanticize the Depression here and always have, but seriously…this is tacky.
August 2, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Sadly, the slave wedding has been done.
http://jezebel.com/5820577/colonial+themed-wedding-included-authentic-all+black-servant-staff
http://jezebel.com/5821657/colonial-wedding-pictures-taken-down-those-involved-apologize
August 2, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I was going to post about this wedding. You know, it’s one thing to want a kind of an ‘Out of Africa’ wedding theme because you think the clothes looks cool (I mean, I look awesome in khaki and I love some good boots and a pith helmet) but it’s another thing when you get the wait staff in on your crap. I already had to do a depression-era wedding way back in the early 90s. Rich people had it. So very ironic.
August 2, 2011 at 2:20 pm
oh my fucking…what in satan’s name made them think this was okay!?!
August 2, 2011 at 2:21 pm
damienma: Not only did they have the waitstaff on it, they traveled from England to *drumroll please* SOUTH AFRICA to have it.
I think I’m going to hold my Imperial Japanese-themed wedding in Nanking.
August 2, 2011 at 3:29 pm
I just about literally rolled off my yuppie exercise-ball chair when I saw that.
August 2, 2011 at 7:01 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Movie guys, I was talking about the movie.
August 3, 2011 at 1:07 am
I got it, ensoul. And laughed sardonically.
August 3, 2011 at 5:52 am
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August 3, 2011 at 9:46 am
I read on etiquettehell.com about a Civil War-themed wedding that did indeed have an all-black waitstaff. Tacky beyond belief.
August 3, 2011 at 9:50 am
@thebluebells: Yes, they ought to know better. And you ought to know better than to make rape jokes.
August 4, 2011 at 7:04 am
Holy shit – what were these stupid people THINKING?
August 6, 2011 at 4:16 pm
It’s like when I had to attend a wedding for a friend at the Whitehouse of the Confederacy. She worked there as a historian, but that didn’t make me feel any less ashamed and mortified as I walked in dressed all fancy and ready to party.
August 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm
I attended a wedding (of two white folks) in rural South Carolina held in the chapel of a restored slave village. It definitely had a hobo-like quality about it, especially when a rat ran through and ran over everyone’s feet right in the middle of the ceremony. I was still a broody teen at the time, or I would have tried to be more offended. Mostly I was just bored.
August 2, 2011 at 2:01 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Will the attire be concentration camp chic?
August 2, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Pin the star on the Jew?
August 2, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Finally, the one occasion for which this would be appropriate: http://www.regretsy.com/?s=anne+frank
August 2, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Well, why not? There’s already greeting cards for the occasion. (See “Despite Everything I still believe people are really stupid.” Yes, and tasteless.)
August 2, 2011 at 3:14 pm
I was thinking a Chernobyl reception – the flashing alarm lights could be the strobe lights for the dance floor, the fallout could be represented by a fog machine and glitter in the air, and the punch could be bright green. It would be totes unique and Russian.
August 2, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Kiiiiinda actually sounds like fun, if left out of context. Or hell, just be even tackier and sew an third arm onto the bridesmaids’ dresses.
And the bride wearing the giant vaginadress.
August 2, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Or they could just fly over and get married in Japan.
…too soon?
August 2, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Party at Ground Zero, a B movie starring you…
August 2, 2011 at 7:18 pm
NO! Chernobyl is clearly appropriate for a baby shower, not a wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Oh that will go nicely with my cancer themed wedding.
August 3, 2011 at 9:50 am
Sounds inspiring! I know the perfect theme song for that party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqJTVfyH60E
August 2, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Not holocaust related, but I’m thinking should I ever get sucked into that horror known as “large wedding” I’m definitely replacing the chicken dance with hide-and-seek.
August 2, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Hell, I distinctly did not want shit like the chicken dance or the hokey pokey played at my wedding and it was anyway. I’m still pissed over that and it was 3 years ago. The damn macarena, too. I rolled with it because it was my grandparents’ doing and they’ve been more like my parents, but I was hoping for just one event where I didn’t have one or both of those bloody tunes.
August 2, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Oh, I always hide in the attic. No one ever looks there! It’s genius.
August 2, 2011 at 9:31 pm
How about a Jim Crow wedding where all the groomsmen are in black face and all the bridesmaids are dressed like Aunt Jemima. Help yourself to the separate-but-equal buffet of watermelon and fried chicken. Run back to the table while dodging police dogs and water hoses. It’ll be sooooo cute!
August 4, 2011 at 7:25 am
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August 2, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Holy Hobos! Did they not have to read “The Grapes of Wrath” in school? How can you romanticize destitution? Only middle class white people would have this theme for their wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 1:52 pm
They need to re-enact the part where the one brother gets it in the nads. Forever.
August 2, 2011 at 1:54 pm
And then the bride can breast feed a dying man in front of her wedding guests. You know, to make her vows more meaningful and symbolic and shit.
August 2, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Just don’t dare giving him formula!
August 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
ONLY if he’s circumcised.
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
I was just thinking: “I hope their invitations were printed on the pages of Grapes of Wrath. Particularly the sections where people die, Rose of Sharon’s afterbirth gets burned, and she has to breastfeed the dying man. FESTIVE! KITSCH!”
August 2, 2011 at 3:35 pm
You mean they didn’t eat the afterbirth?
August 2, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I thought it was tradition to make prints with the afterbirth and mail them out as thank you cards
August 2, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Yes, and they will lose their shit at anyone who dares criticize them, too!
“How DARE you say we aren’t being ‘sensitive’? We are remembering our forefathers in every sip of faux ditchwater gin and every fly we shoo with our vintage paper fans and every bite of delicious gourmet “hobo hash” we had delivered from that quaint little place in Williamsburg that’s only open on Tuesdays and Saturdays while the sparrows are singing. THAT is sensitive!!!”
August 2, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Check out the Facebook Regretsy page to see how they lost “their shit.”
August 3, 2011 at 9:17 am
oooo, I missed it, what happened?
August 2, 2011 at 2:24 pm
No but I did read “The Jungle.” I’m surprised the book didn’t smell like hobo honestly based on the story. Man talk about De-press-ing!
August 2, 2011 at 6:59 pm
I didn’t read the Grapes of Wrath, but I watched it in Film Studies along with other Depression-era films. I hated that period. I just couldn’t take the piling on of misery. I can’t imagine how horrible it must have been to actually live through it.
August 2, 2011 at 7:01 pm
And my Dad grew up poor – youngest of 10 and even he didn’t have it that bad. They didn’t have very much, but they had a roof over their heads and my grandmother always made sure they had food and clothes.
August 2, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Of course they had to read The Grapes of Wrath- ultra condensed version..
http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/steinbeck.grapes.shtml
The Grapes of Wrath
By John Steinbeck
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard
Tom Joad
Our farm has been taken away. Let’s go to California.
(They do. On the way, there are calamities, and people DIE, because this is the Great Depression when times were HARD, and it was a struggle just to hold on to one’s DIGNITY.)
THE END
August 2, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Wow…as someone who is poor…and comes from depression era sharecroppers, thank you Hellen for mocking these asshats.
August 2, 2011 at 2:38 pm
I’m with you. At the rate my life is going my wedding will look similar and it won’t be a theme. The people of the Great Depression would fly the biggest finger to this happy couple. Celebrating complete poverty and suffering because you think the fashion is cute is so wrong.
These stupid people think this is the only way they can have a unique, down-to-Earth wedding?
August 2, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Yeah, it’s one thing to have done some of the fashion – some of the clothes in the 30s were pretty cool – but to tie it in with “hobo-chic” (seriously, wtf?) and moonshine and bindles and all that is just bizarre. A girl I knew as a kid got married a year or so ago and they did a very vintage 1920s/30s thing and it was really simple, beautiful, and elegant without making a mockery of the hard times of anyone. And I find that amazing, since they definitely strike me as hipsters.
August 2, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Yeah, just fucking “Wow”. Did they make it authentic and serve cat tacos?
My step-dad took off at 12 years old to ride the rails. It was that, or go to the work farm for trying to steal a chicken. His brothers and sisters were starving, his mom couldn’t feed them all. When the farmer caught him, he was beaten so badly his older sister had to carry him home.
Poor kid made it all the way from Ohio to Texas without finding food. Some hobos felt sorry for such a young’un, and fed him a taco. My dad, a life long animal lover, cried for two days because he ate a cat taco to keep from starving to death.
Can you even image, a little kid, beaten up, traveling alone, and going four days without food? Even as adults, these hipster douchecanoes would never have survived it.
August 2, 2011 at 3:16 pm
This is the saddest thing I’ve read in a long time. Kudos to your stepfather for surviving it!
August 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm
August 2, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Well. I’m sad now.
August 2, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Sounds like Jean Valjean…That’s so sad…
August 2, 2011 at 4:21 pm
As someone who has actually been homeless, all I can say is “fuck hipsters”. I’m still recovering from debt I accrued while living on the streets and borrowing from every goddamn person I know.
August 3, 2011 at 1:19 am
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August 2, 2011 at 1:51 pm
So much for “women always marry up”.
August 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Don’t worry, I’m sure that they– I mean, their trust funds– shilled out $30k for the wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 5:23 pm
What’s cute is that the blurb she wrote about them mentions their share of shallow pockets… yet the description of what each of them does for a living seems to negate that. They both have decent, stable jobs. They might not be wealthy, but it sure doesn’t seem like they’re hurting financially.
August 2, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Shallow here meaning “superficial”. Like those jeans you buy, not realising the pocket’s just tacked on and useless. Like this couple’s sense of decency.
August 2, 2011 at 1:51 pm
But, like, during the depression there were heaps of poor people. It’s just too mainstream!
August 2, 2011 at 2:37 pm
But they did it in dreamy, creamy, vintage tones with historical accuracy! :::barfs:::
August 2, 2011 at 3:02 pm
And with photogs! Dreamy, creamy “antiqued” photos, worthy of a “Life” cover!
August 2, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I’ve begun to hate the word ‘creamy’.
August 2, 2011 at 3:38 pm
60s/70s style photography. Poor people certainly didn’t have acces to colour film in the 20s… so much for accuracy.
August 2, 2011 at 7:17 pm
And they used that God damn “vintage” filter! Nothing says, “I have no f3cking photography talent or abilities at all” like the God damn vintage filter!
Have I mentioned that I hate the “vintage” filter?
August 2, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I want to punch this woman (and her husband, for going along with what was probably her stupid fucking idea) in the cunt.
August 2, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Good luck punching her husband in the cunt. However I suspect is testicles are on display on the family mantle, because surely there are not two people who could actually come up with this crap. Otherwise, match made in hell.
This whole thing is a Satan sandwich with a side of Satan fries, to paraphrase one of our representatives.
August 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Oh, I fully suspect that he has his own upcycled, DIY hobo-chic, whimsicle vagina for punchin’.
August 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:08 pm
I bet he does have a cunt. I bet it is hand knitted from vintage wool found in an old barn, and hangs from a rough leather cord he pulled out of a pair of worn work boots he thinks a hobo may have worn.
August 2, 2011 at 2:16 pm
She probably got the idea from “iCarly.”
http://news.change.org/stories/were-not-laughing-nickelodeons-icarly-mocks-homeless
August 2, 2011 at 2:19 pm
August 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:40 pm
WOW. Spectacular cluelessness. Let’s mock the homeless, kids!
August 2, 2011 at 7:53 pm
My high school had people dress up for “school spirit days”, the only days you could be out of dress code. They did a hobo day, and a group of students came wearing dress code with cardboard signs around their necks saying something along the lines of “there are millions of homeless in the United States, it is not a joke and it is not cool”.
August 3, 2011 at 1:14 am
Were you on of those kids, Notthatproud?
Their parents should be really proud of them for standing up like that.
August 2, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I get the appeal of not wanting to dress up for your wedding, but that bride probably shouldn’t have chosen overalls.
August 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm
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August 3, 2011 at 2:35 pm
I am confused by the removal of my comment. Not only have I never seen removal before (except by red thumbs), I honestly and truly thought that it was a picture of two women. I support gay marriage (why shouldn’t gays and lesbians get nagged to marry by society like the rest of us?)and clearly stated that I was not being snarky in my comment. It appears that I was not the only who was confused, and I don’t think any of us were hostile,(see number of thumbs up CrossedPromise has) just surprised.
August 2, 2011 at 3:31 pm
It’s NOT????
August 2, 2011 at 3:36 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Yeah that’s not the bride that’s the husband, though I initially had the same thought!!
August 2, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I find it disturbing that they have the same haircut.
August 2, 2011 at 5:56 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 7:12 pm
but it was so cute when Brad Pit and Jennifer Aniston had the same haircut when they got married
August 2, 2011 at 8:07 pm
I can deal with a bunch of red thumbs down, but comment removed? And I’m seeing A LOT of them, I’m not trying to piss you off Helen/Bronc but this is a first for me. If i crossed some fuckery line I didn’t know about I’m sorry.
August 2, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Also, if all I did was piss off the people in the pic, well they can both collectively suck my “fun sized” dick.
August 2, 2011 at 10:11 pm
You have to have the same haircut when you’re mocking poverty- don’t you know hair cuts and styling takes money?
August 4, 2011 at 12:37 am
I cleaned up comments making fun of their weight and general appearance. I deemed them unnecessary to the discussion.
Sorry, it just got to be too much.
August 2, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Don’t forget, the bride has a twin.
August 2, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:42 pm
We’re gonna keep all the basketweavers on Etsy busy for YEARS.
August 2, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Yep, it’s going to have to be a pretty big handbasket for all of us!
August 2, 2011 at 6:11 pm
At this rate, I might have to make my own..
August 2, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Something tells me these hipsters think they’ve been doing it before it was even a “thing”. Little do they know…
August 2, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Don’t forget to put up all your guests in a Hooverville Shanty town! It isn’t a hobo themed wedding until someone gets tetanus from the “door” or dysentery from shitting in communal trenches!
August 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Ha! They put them up at the Sheraton.
August 2, 2011 at 2:12 pm
When I saw that, I was really pissed that they weren’t true to the theme. Stupid fuckers.
August 2, 2011 at 7:40 pm
That was the icing on the proverbial hobo cake…er, pie in this case.
August 2, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Someone on Facebook said that was the most expensive hotel in the area. I’ve stayed at the Desmond, which is actually IN Malvern, and I’m guessing it was nicer. Sheratons in the US can be iffy.
August 2, 2011 at 3:23 pm
I hear pinworms are trendy in parts of Hipsterdom too.
August 2, 2011 at 3:59 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 1:53 pm
There was a ” Colonial Africa “wedding I read about last week. Just as horrifying.
August 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm
OMG yes I read about that….truly horrifying.
August 2, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I’m betting there was at least one old great grand grandmother who lived during the Depression who RSVPd with F**k you.
August 2, 2011 at 1:54 pm
I hope so.
August 2, 2011 at 2:05 pm
I would have, regardless of age.
August 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Hell, my grandmother would have RSVPd with that. She got married in an office workers uniform during WWII, with the only jewelry being a string of biting fleas around her collar. She was ecstatic that she got to wash her hair for it.
August 2, 2011 at 3:32 pm
I would have.
I was a history major. Focused on 19th and 2oth century U.S. history.
August 2, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I think that is absolutely horrid. The idea of having a very different themed wedding is cute, but it is just a mockery.
Talk about fuckery. :I
August 2, 2011 at 1:58 pm
yeah, why couldn’t they have called like a 30′s themed wedding, or a “old time” wedding..or maybe a farm themed wedding..geez.
August 2, 2011 at 4:03 pm
I was thinking either farm themed or country.
August 2, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I was trying to write something clever but having been a “hobo”, I find this utterly moronic and offensive. Yes. Of all things, this is what offends me. I can’t wait until they try to make AIDS themed weddings or genocide themed weddings. Societal issues are soooo adorable!
August 2, 2011 at 1:57 pm
I wish my period of homelessness was so elegantly catered.
August 2, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I’m sorry that happened to you. My dad’s quasi homeless (he gets disability and half his pension but it’s not enough for him to live on. He’s couch surfing right now and eats what he can fish. It kills me that I don’t make enough money to support him. Anyway…pity party, that way —->) and I grew up poor. These idiots have no idea what being poor is really like. I hope one day that they do.
August 2, 2011 at 2:38 pm
I lucked out and completely by chance met a wonderful person two years ago (who is my soon-to-be husband) that helped me get back on my feet.
And I can guarantee you, we’re not having a hobo-themed wedding.
(Also, much love to your dad! I know how hard it is to break out of a cycle like that. The worst part is people who have never been in that situation and don’t understand what it’s like. “Oh, you get disability? YOU HAVE IT EASY!” Yeah, it’s a cake walk. That’s why I fish, not because I have to but because it’s my fucking hobby.)
August 2, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Truth is if they had donated half their money (as spent on clothes alone) to a homeless shelter, it would have impacted more people.
They could have even had their reception in a soup kitchen.
August 2, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Congrats on your upcoming nuptials! I’m glad you’re back on your feet.
I don’t tell most people that my dad’s on disability because they’re judgmental. They often assume it’s laziness or that ‘he doesn’t want a job’. He worked construction his whole life and is physically unable to work. He finally got the hip surgery he needed and surprise surprise, his hip replacement has been recalled. It’s a majorly FML situation. Through it all he’s upbeat though. He has some seriously amazing friends who keep him from living in his truck at least.
August 2, 2011 at 4:14 pm
stephsparkle, EXACTLY! Thanks for saying that!
August 2, 2011 at 6:16 pm
@Spocktopus: Congrats! I spent a couple years being homeless, or living out of seedy motels when I could afford to, and a few more years couch surfing. I’m just finally getting my life back together, with the help of some friends and my amazing boyfriend. Hearing about someone else making it is really uplifting right now.
Good luck!
August 2, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Ahh..yes. Nothing screams elegance like that roll of toilet paper tied with rope, hung around the back of a car headrest. Oh yeah, just having toilet paper was living high on the hog!
August 2, 2011 at 1:57 pm
ETSY wedding slumming. You’re doing it wrong!
August 2, 2011 at 1:59 pm
I concur. Where is this line going to be drawn? Maybe the invitations were printed on a page from the Diary of Anne Frank.
August 2, 2011 at 4:13 pm
My mom grew up in projects, getting passed back and forth between her dad (and his second wife) and her mother (and the girlfriend du jour). Wherever she was living, she got the shit beat out of her by all adults present (grandma especially enjoyed watching her girlfriends beat mom), and from the age of 8 she was cooking, cleaning and raising her three younger siblings and her one older siblings.
So while she was never technically HOMELESS, she was poor as shit. And to this day she gets really freaked out and angry if we don’t have enough food in the house to last for like a month. She actually got mad at me once because I asked her to stop coming over to my apartment and leaving sugary drinks and snacks.
I just can’t imagine thinking “Let’s glamorize poverty by spending lots of money to make a pseudo homeless wedding, but make it more posh!”
August 2, 2011 at 4:23 pm
It’s like in Zoolander and this is the Derelicte line of weddings.
The only difference is that movie was parody and this is real life. Those are two lines that should never, ever cross.
August 2, 2011 at 8:48 pm
I grew up pretty poor, not homeless but poor. Whenever i start to get stressed now about money now i feel an overwhelming need to stock the pantry – irrational need… it can be overflowing with canned goods but i feel the need to get more…. childhood – leaves you with weird addictions for life….
August 2, 2011 at 10:51 pm
My grandmother was born in ’33. She still saves plastic forks and used containers, and even has been known to wash off styrofoam party plates and keep them for reuse later, just in case. She’s got a serious packrat syndrome from growing up during the Depression. And the food she makes! She “stretches” things even when she doesn’t need to, like putting baked beans and canned spaghetti together because the sauces are close to the same colour.
August 4, 2011 at 1:37 pm
I’m a food hoarder – but we didn’t grow up poor. I’m not sure where it comes from. My only theory is residual insecurity from losing a house when I was 3 (after taking out a mortgage and moving hundreds of miles, my parents found the house was a disguised wartime hut and completely worthless).
Amazingly we got through that without ever being homeless, but we shifted from house to borrowed house for a while, and little kids pick up stuff like that.
Howbeit, I feel happiest when I have about 4 weeks’ worth of food in the house. I’m glad I’m not the only one!
August 2, 2011 at 1:53 pm
there is no way to mock this that is any greater mockery than itself.
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 6:38 pm
We can always dump kerosene on them anyway. Call it Vintage Delousing.
August 2, 2011 at 2:13 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Fuck. Trying to fix my fail again
August 2, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Italics invasion !!!!
August 2, 2011 at 4:27 pm
I’m sorry. I have HTML fail. Never again, I swear.
August 2, 2011 at 10:43 pm
I was wondering about that…I thought it was my lame-ass computer at first!
August 2, 2011 at 1:54 pm
My grandma would SHIT HERSELF if she saw this. Anyone who actually had to live dirt-ass poor during the depression absolutely knew that you didn’t want to be seen as poor. People might know, but you had your DIGNITY and PRIDE even if you had NOTHING ELSE.
Excuse me. I have to go fume.
August 2, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Truth. That and these sorts of themed weddings would not be invented for multiple decades to come.
August 2, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Yeah, my great grandfather’s brother had to live in a box car with his 13 children… this sounds like a joke, but it’s real… My great grandfather became the town drunk and died 30 years later of liver failure because he couldn’t deal with the fact he was unable to support his family…
August 2, 2011 at 6:38 pm
The story of your great grandfather’s brother is tragic, as is, that many American men and women are living in poverty, right here, right now, in 2011. Many American children go to bed hungry, every night.
August 2, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Stay here and fume–you’re among kindred spirits.
August 2, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Word. Mine had a slightly crazy mother on top of financial woes so they moved if great grandma suddenly decided she hated the wall paper. They had to rent out every room in the house until they were eventually living in the attic. Then they would move again and start the whole process over. Fun times.
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Most of the comments in the thread are gushing about how fucking cute this wedding was with the brides sister saying how magical her twin is… I clicked on her store… I’m preeeeeetty sure she was featured in Regretsy for her lady pillow. Ring any bells anyone?
This kind of thing clearly illustrates the clusterfuck that is the hipster takeover of etsy.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46351543/yes-she-can-can-humpastuff-plush-pillow
August 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm
I still think that thing looks like a Silent Hill end boss.
August 2, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Best comment ever!
August 2, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Pyramid Head’s ex-girlfriend?
August 2, 2011 at 2:05 pm
The sister also says how one of the brides friends came in regular clothes and she stuck out like a sore thumb. The comment drips with disdain. Seriously? You shun someone for not coming in costume to your offensive wedding party? MAYBE she was too poor to buy some scarily expensive vintage depression era wanna-be outfit off Etsy like the rest of you twatwaffles…
August 2, 2011 at 2:09 pm
I’d rather believe she showed up in support of the couple, but dressed normal in a subtle protest to how stupendously fucking stupid the whole wedding was.
August 2, 2011 at 2:45 pm
If I had been invited I would’ve worn something in protest too but gone the other way with it. I’d make a dress out of my cleaning rags, spend the week before the wedding in the wilderness (in my new dress) hunting my own food with a butterknife and befriending a scraggly dog to follow me. My plus 1 date would be a guy I found panhandling on the street so he could enjoy a decent meal.
August 2, 2011 at 2:09 pm
It’s takes a lot of cash to look so poor.
August 2, 2011 at 2:26 pm
I know, right? The comments are all, “Oh,how great that you didn’t have an over-expensive, commercial wedding!” She bought half the stuff from Etsy. That adds up.
August 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
”Introducing the first ever erotic pillow art, Humpastuff Plush” Someone never saw Dorothea Tanning’s work from…the 70′s.
http://www.dorotheatanning.org/images/work_image/70.5.03rainydaycanapethumb.jpg
August 2, 2011 at 3:20 pm
What the hell is this thing? Seriously, it looks like a mediocre Knoll chair with a tumor.
August 2, 2011 at 6:36 pm
these people dont know any more who dorothea tanning is than they understand that poverty is a problem. they havent seen it, they dont know it. besides, they invented everything. ie: not just menstrual art, but menstruation.
August 2, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Yep, I saw that too.
August 2, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Holy carp…I know some gay men who would KILL for one of those just for the camp value…
August 2, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Why, yes! You’re right!
http://www.regretsy.com/2011/04/23/weekend-flashback-no-head-for-you/
August 2, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Yep. I remember many fun comments about the snatch pocket.
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Sounds like a White Trash Hootenany!
-_-;; Why do people like that breed?
August 2, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Oh, honey. I live in an extremely rural part of Arkansas. I can assure you that even Ozark white trash (which is its own breed) isn’t this tacky…..
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Why stop with Depression Era? Why not the middle ages, when the class system was in full effect? A little bubonic plague is just what this wedding needs! Dysentery is a popular theme you could use as well. Beat your serfs, bed their wenches and watch out for Mel Gibson in blue face paint, looking for retribution. Congrats on your big big cupcakey day!
August 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm
hahahahaha bubonic plague wedding day! sounds like a great time!
August 2, 2011 at 2:47 pm
There are SCA weddings:
http://www.kelthaven.org/wedding/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZG46SoUZ_4
August 2, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Ours was an SCA wedding – but it was something we already did. We were PO (the joke was, “too poor for the other o and the r”) and it was just about the only way we could afford to have a halfway nice wedding, where most of our friends could come (they’d be there anyway). We just asked a friend to officiate at an event we were already attending, nobody needed to make new clothes for it, though I loaned some of my existing outfits to my mom and grandma.
My dad wore an outfit from one of his historic music performances and provided the music, my mom took pictures, my friend Nikki made the cake and surprised me with bouquet. Our big wedding present was a set of toasting glasses and the cake cutting set. It was a potluck.
Oddly, the hobo chic wedding kind of seemed to be wanting to evoke that kind of community, without actually doing so.
August 2, 2011 at 5:08 pm
When we were active in the SCA, we had a 5th wedding anniv./ handfasting. Everyone came in already made outfits they had and the ones who didn’t have any, wore loaner garb.
We cooked the food and a friend took the photos. Even handmade the invitations myself. And that was that, spent maybe $100 on everything.
Our actual wedding itself was in front of a Justice of the Peace in the courthouse. And dinner at Golden Corral.}:P
That was 18 years ago this Thursday.
August 3, 2011 at 4:47 am
@Strangebaby – the comment regarding their attempt to evoke community makes sense to me. Our wedding was a ‘folky’ wedding, which makes sense as we are folk musicians and most of our friends are folk musicians. We had it in our backyard, my mum made my dress, people brought food instead of presents, and our musician friends bought their instruments. The session started about ten minutes after the vows had been said! (This will surprise no one who knows musicians.)
Like your wedding – it was a tradition which arose from our communities, which makes for a very natural, lovely day. This type of themed wedding, starting as it does from a really appalling choice of subject matter, could not have been natural, and was always going to be, at the very least, tacky and offensive.
August 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm
It’s not so much the themed wedding, its the dressing up in poor-drag that’s a little off-putting.
August 2, 2011 at 10:27 pm
But in SCA weddings, and Victorian/Edwardian themed weddings, and even that bizarre mess in South Africa where they wanted to be Meryl Streep, the participants were pretending to be members of the wealthy fortunate class, not the paupers.
August 2, 2011 at 3:39 pm
the best part is whoever gets to play the role of “lord of the Manor” has first fuck with the bride! Huzzah!
August 2, 2011 at 9:11 pm
As has been mentioned, SCA does Middle Ages weddings a lot. I’m in the SCA, and if I were to get married (likely to my wonderful boyfriend, another Scadian) it would be an SCA wedding, as that’s where most/all of our friends are. I bet we wouldn’t even reach $500, and that’s counting food and the garb to be made (mostly by me, since I’m lazy and don’t have a lot of garb at the moment anyway).
August 2, 2011 at 10:00 pm
My friends had a medieval them for their wedding. No plague, lice, people dropping dead at 30 of old age, bad teeth (except his brother) or inquisition.
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Part of me is wondering if they just came up with the most deranged shit they could think of in a transparent bid to try to appear on OBB.
August 2, 2011 at 7:34 pm
It’s not that hard to appear on OBB, and I hope that OBB would have a bit more taste than that (Offbeat Bride, for the uninitiated).
August 2, 2011 at 8:28 pm
I really think Ariel does have more sense than that… I admit, when this popped up on here, I immediately clicked over there with my fingers crossed and hoped I wouldn’t see it. I didn’t. Crisis averted.
August 3, 2011 at 1:56 am
Though we may see a post on the shitstorm. Hell, I’ll submit it.
August 3, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Are you on the Tribe?
http://offbeatbride.ning.com/forum/topics/hobo-chic-wedding-controversy?xg_source=msg_com_forum&id=1190964%3ATopic%3A2403439&page=1#comments
August 4, 2011 at 11:26 am
http://offbeatbride.com/2011/08/hobo-wedding
Ok it’s on there. Knew it was a matter of time.
August 3, 2011 at 2:51 am
I appeared on OBB. It wasn’t that hard, and I didn’t need to do anything offensive. I jsut needed to wear purple and have a cake with skulls on.
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
“We can walk just fine, but thought, what the hey… let’s act like we’re paralyzed and get married in wheelchairs! It’ll be a hoot!” Morons.
August 2, 2011 at 2:01 pm
yah…which reminds me of one of the other big problems at the time POLIO!
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Wow. This is horrible. I have nothing funny to say other than that I hate people. “We shared a single bean in matrimony.” Fuck you buddies.
August 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Also, did they spend their honeymoon if a cardboard box? I missed that.
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Well, it’s an interesting idea. But coming from a long line of [Lutheran] clergy, I can hear multiple generations of ancestors whirling in their graves at the very thought.
Also, the question “why would anyone want to fake being destitute? at a WEDDING?” is jammed too firmly into my craw to be easily dislodged.
August 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Most people save destitution for after the wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Hahaha! Oh, the truth of that!
August 2, 2011 at 2:50 pm
They spent substantial cash to fake being destitute.
They required their guests to spend money to fake being destitute.
I have one dark suit. If someone dies I wear a dark tie. If someone gets married I wear a bright tie.
August 2, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Is it me, or does that guy in the overalls look like Vincent from EUREKA? Maybe Hurley from LOST? And, did someone pee on his overalls before he put them on?
August 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm
He probably pissed them himself when he realized what he was taking part in.
August 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm
If that’s the case, maybe they should just start planning the Potato Famine themed annulment.
August 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Over/under on the marriage? 3 years tops when he sees the credit card bills putting him in actual destitution.
August 2, 2011 at 6:11 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 6:32 pm
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August 3, 2011 at 1:21 am
When I read Vincent, my brain immediately supplied “Edgar-Bug from ‘Men in Black.’” Then it went, “oops, wrong Vincent.”
August 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm
My great-grandmother’s stories from surviving in that era were never so whimsicle… :\
August 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Oh, I don’t know. My 90-yr-old father has some real knee-slapping tales about what his family had to do to survive the Great Depression. What a pity he couldn’t have attended this lovely themed wedding! I’m sure he would have had some choice remarks for the clueless couple.
You know, I bet someone could havea really cute wedding using the Bataan Death March as a theme!
August 2, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Trail of Tears? Those Indians had cute moccasins.
August 2, 2011 at 3:38 pm
I’m seeing a Wounded Knee pinata.
August 2, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Maybe a Custer’s last cake stand?
August 2, 2011 at 6:24 pm
I don’t know, Custer strikes me as more of a pie-guy.
But maybe that’s just because he sounds like custard.
August 2, 2011 at 6:32 pm
The wedding favors can be blankets pre-loaded with small pox!
August 3, 2011 at 1:26 am
I was too sober to make this joke earlier: Holocaust Wedding, invite 6 million friends. Mazel Tov!
I will go rot in hell forever now.
August 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm
This woman actually says they “busted [their] butts off” for months to prepare for this wedding. And she described the outfits as “hobo-chic.”
When will the idiocy end?
August 2, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I like that they had to work hard to make everything look like it was old, used, ruined, and dirty…
August 3, 2011 at 9:55 am
Next it will be “hobopunk”.
August 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Those were the fucking good ol’ days, man.
August 2, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Also yay, now I’m not ruining things anymore!
August 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm
I am surprised at the lack of cardboard boxes in these photos.
August 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm
And boom. Someone linked us. Queue butthurt.
August 2, 2011 at 6:26 pm
I’m still waiting for the flounces.
August 2, 2011 at 10:25 pm
August 2, 2011 at 1:57 pm
but they called firsties!
August 2, 2011 at 1:57 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 1:58 pm
No, you’re not. You didn’t plan this wedding, or choose it to go on the front page.
August 2, 2011 at 2:07 pm
That makes you third worst, which is ok because no one remembers who comes in third. You’re safe.
August 2, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Stylistically, some of it I like. A lot of the decor is cute and the bride looks really nice in her dress. That being said, the lighthearted glamorization of homelessness and a dark time in America’s history is unconscionable. The aesthetics I can get behind, but not the intent.
August 2, 2011 at 6:46 pm
As “1930′s” themed it’s cute. As “hobo-chic” it takes a hard left into bad-taste-burg. Maybe it is more “authentic” to include the bad bits, but this is not a museum, its a wedding; and the pairing of “dirt-poor” and “happiest day of our lives” is weird at best, insensitive at worst.
August 2, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I feel like there might have even been ways to like the *style* of the wedding without going all out to make it hobo-themed and such.
August 2, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Yeah, to have a theme of 30s aesthetics could be nice… especially if you tried to do some of the things people needed to do at the time, like make the wedding clothes and food. Then you could learn about history by doing, *and* save money (admittedly, it would take a hell of a lot of time and energy).
August 2, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Reading about everything she bought for the wedding and it sounds like she paid alot of money to make a wedding look like she’s poor.
August 2, 2011 at 1:58 pm
You know, she really feels like she can relate to the whole “Depression” thing too, because there was that whole summer after her secondhand iguana died where she felt sad every, like, three days. And that was the same time that the direct deposit from her parents’ trust fund got screwed up, and she totally didn’t know how she was going to pay for her next order of gluten-free vegan cookies. So the theme really was perfect for them in so many ways.
August 2, 2011 at 6:49 pm
The iguana probably committed suicide.
August 2, 2011 at 1:58 pm
It’s fun to be poor!
You know, as long as it’s just pretend and I still get my trust fund.
August 2, 2011 at 1:58 pm
My great-grandfather was a “hobo”…his mother used to beat him severely and when he was 12 he ran away from home and as he put it “rode the rails”. I didn’t realize there was such a pop-cultural significance to escaping child abuse and being homeless.
August 2, 2011 at 2:01 pm
WELCOME TO ETSY!
August 2, 2011 at 2:02 pm
here here.
August 2, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Yeah… I ran off the second I was legally emancipated and bounced from shitty, temporary housing situation to shitty, temporary housing situation, sometimes breaking the law to feed myself.
It just doesn’t get any more totes adorbs than that, amirite?
August 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm
O for sure I was totes adorbs losing weight like crazy living alone at 17 because all I ate was rice! It’s so chic to be jobless and poor!
Maybe when I get married I’ll use that time in my life as my theme! I’ll put the theme right above my registry info for Crate&Barrel on my invites.
August 2, 2011 at 5:28 pm
OMG but I bet you were super skinny and totes adorbs and ugh! I just wish I could lose weight like you! OMG I’m so jealous you skinny bitch!
LOLOMGBBQ!!1! J/K! Hugs!
August 2, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Don’t worry DesertBlooms. It’s almost 10 years later and I’m chubby chunks mcplus-size pants these days. I’m not hobo-chic wedding rich or anything, I can just sort-of afford to not live on rice and buy icecream when it’s on sale.
August 2, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Jecca – nice response on your blog. Thank you for pointing out the destruction of the vintage quilts for table runners – I cringed when I read about all that carefully constructed history being rent apart. To this day, I refuse to watch “Titanic” because they destroyed actual historic vintage garments in the shipwreck scene.
August 2, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Seconded.
August 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Wait- people READ that? O.O
Thank you! Also, I didn’t know that about Titanic… not that I really needed a reason to dislike it, mind.
August 2, 2011 at 4:05 pm
I read about the quilt table runners and buntings and I wondered why my sister and I spent weeks repairing my grandmother’s quilts. We could have cut them up for table decorations!
August 2, 2011 at 4:32 pm
as a former curator of textiles, I cry inside about those quilts. There is a rich and fascinating history to be learned from vintage quilts.
August 2, 2011 at 4:40 pm
I got so pissed off when I first learned of that. There’s so much we could’ve seen and learned from those vintage and antique garments. I think the fashions of the time period were beautiful and it was a real tragedy to see them destroyed like that.
August 2, 2011 at 6:04 pm
The very thing that screams that these folks have no clue or respect for actual history. Unfortunately they probably didn’t have much to go by, due to the changing of historical facts from year to year, and fortunately, because they have right to do their wedding anyway they want to, no matter how wrong they may be.
August 2, 2011 at 10:04 pm
The quilts pissed me off as well. I am insanely jealous of those who can quilt. We don’t throw quilts out in this house. They just kind of dissolve after awhile or end up grafted into another blanket or garment.
August 3, 2011 at 10:12 am
Oh, man. After struggling to keep my it together as the comments brought back memories of my own family’s Depression stories, the quilt thing just did me in. My gramma lovingly made quilts that I would give my eye teeth to have today. If I discovered some privileged brats shredding her work for their wedding decor, I’m afraid I’d go berserk.
August 4, 2011 at 6:33 am
My husband’s Gramm made us a quilt for our wedding gift – she’s been hand-quilting most of her life, and when she showed me some of her finished ones I was amazed at the time and skill and love that went into them.
If anyone *ever* cut up our quilt, I would cut *them*. Just thinking about it pisses me off.
August 2, 2011 at 9:30 pm
i clicked over to yr blog.
GOOD JOB.
August 2, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Thank you!
August 3, 2011 at 2:54 am
ps. i shouldve said that i clicked over to yr blog too. i didnt properly wade thru the previous replies. i did want people to know they could click over to yr blog via yr name, so i posted it. hope it helps.
August 2, 2011 at 1:58 pm
It looks to clean to be a “hobo” wedding. Looks like trailer trash wedding to me.
I hope they don’t make babies.
August 2, 2011 at 6:52 pm
The trailer trash would have had the decency to have their wedding at the nearest White Castle.
August 2, 2011 at 1:59 pm
And then their parents used their timeshare at the Hilton to pay for their glamorous honeymoon in the Mediterranean.
The next morning they woke up with bed bugs in their clothes from an undetected hotel-wide breakout. A sign on the doorknob conveniently read ‘Irony.’
August 2, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Maybe they’ll un-ironically lose their jobs after they get married. Then they can actually BE poor! How romantic!
August 2, 2011 at 2:01 pm
I can’t wait for the baby shower though. I wonder if they’ll theme it even more retro, they’re going Biblical. Exodus baby! “So we, like, read the bible, not the King James but the Squire Andrew version, you’ve probably never heard of it, and during our research we came across Exodus. And we though, how whimsicle and fun this would be. Everyone will bring their first born children and all the men will dance around the room with upcycled bamboo swords, striking them down”. Ugh.
August 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm
My gift would be a baby’s mobile depicting the plagues. All of the frog and flies would be drawn like Hello Kitty characters!
August 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
I see Goatse-styled unhealable boils too! Oh this would be perfect!
August 2, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Someone has already made a Plagues of Egypt item for children:
August 2, 2011 at 3:47 pm
The one on the bottom makes it look like they were beset by a plague of those squeaky stress clowns whose eyes bug out when you squeeze them.
August 2, 2011 at 6:38 pm
My dad thought it would be hilarious to get this “Bag of Plagues” http://www.partycity.com/product/passover+bag+of+plagues+10ct.do?sortby=ourPicks&size=all&from=Search&navSet=passover
to use for Passover Seders. After the fourth glass of Manechevwitz “wine” this excellent prop makes its way out to illustrate a story otherwise dulled by an overall theme of oppression and slavery.
To fully appreciate and enjoy such things one must possess a good sense of jew-mor.
August 2, 2011 at 9:46 pm
I am getting that for my nephew, who is Jewish. (His Dad is Jewish, my sister is an athiest.)
August 2, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Wow. A plague of clowns, I don’t remember reading about that one. God must have been really pissed.
August 2, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Well, they didn’t have Amway back then.
August 3, 2011 at 1:25 am
I don’t remember a plague of clowns in Exodus.
August 4, 2011 at 1:59 am
Even the Old Testament god draws a line at plagues of clowns.
August 2, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Last I checked the word “hobo” had nothing to do with being homeward bound. The word comes from the men that went around looking for work on farms and they were called hoe boys, thus hobo. Damn hipsters…
August 2, 2011 at 2:50 pm
You expect anyone these days to do any real research?
August 2, 2011 at 2:52 pm
After much research (I googled it), hobo was also a term used for soldiers that were “homeward bound” from the American Civil War (1860 to 1865). This is according to Urban Dictionary which you know is truth itself.
So not only did the romanticize a terrible period in history, they romanticized the wrong one period.
August 2, 2011 at 6:38 pm
I just learned the derivation of the term hobo at the official Hobo Museum in Britt, Iowa, and like GPepper says, it’s from the back-breaking work many of them did–when they could. Stupid hipsters.
August 2, 2011 at 2:01 pm
I understand the idea of non-materialism…I think that’s great. I think keeping materialism out of your wedding if you choose to have it that way is even better. It saves time, money and stress and I have been to some truly gorgeous low-no budget weddings.
But this…This is none of those things. They probably spent more to get this hobo fest together than the weddings I’ve been to in my adult life combined.
I understand themed weddings too. But there is a level of tact and class that is so easily tossed to the side when you bring in a theme. Celebrated being ‘homeward bound’. Make your wedding reminiscent of a ‘simpler time’ by keeping things simple.
But Jesus Christ, don’t dance around on the grave of Woody Guthrie and say it’s an homage.
August 2, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Agreed, there really doesn’t seem to be anything simple about this wedding at all.
August 2, 2011 at 5:47 pm
But, the bean! The single bean! What could be more simple and pure than that?!
August 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
You know, this would have been a beautiful wedding if it wasn’t for all the hobo overtones/clowns/overalls.
Everybody wants to be poor yet nobody wants to be poor.
August 2, 2011 at 10:32 pm
That reminds me of something Paul Mooney once said… something I don’t think I can bring myself to type out.
August 2, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Way to catch my reference!
August 2, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Exactly. I think people often spend way too much on weddings, but spending a ton of money to make it look like you didn’t spend money is fucking ridiculous.
I read a lot of wedding blogs since I’m a florist, and I’ve seen a lot of simple, country-theme outdoor weddings that were beautiful. They really could have gone this way and had a similar feel to it without being insensitive assholes.
August 2, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Sadly, I predict that a lot of very low budget weddings are already going on for non-hipsters. And will continue for some time. Which makes this fuckery all the more obnoxious.
August 2, 2011 at 9:15 pm
I get furious when I see all the wedding-themed reality shows where the bride’s budget is enough to buy a brand new car (or a house), and I think about people who do not have a car, or a house, or enough to eat.
And then I see these hipster fuckers creaming themselves on how quaint their bullshit “hobo-chic” wedding is, but it’s still all about showing off–but masking the ostentation in vintage poverty.
August 2, 2011 at 9:35 pm
if yr not being materialistic, you dont house yr guests at the sheraton.
August 2, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Oh, no I thought the hobo clown picture was something HK added to this. Oh no oh no they did not have that as actual decoration.
August 2, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Wait….seriously? That was real? I just assumed that was a bit of added fuckery. That does it. I’m done with people.
August 2, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I thought it was April’s touch as well. But if it’s authentic then I suppose I can totally go for a good ol’ southern style plantation wedding for myself and my partner. Little mammy figurines as table decorations, bouquets hanging from nooses, whipping the guests as they come through the door?
August 2, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Don’t forget randomly disappearing guests as they’re “sold off” to plantations far away…
August 2, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Oh, what a cute parlor game! “Sorry, Buffy – you drew the short straw! You’ve been sold “Down the River! Buh-bye, now!”
Now go sit in the corner and read “Pudd’nhead Wilson” until you come to your senses.
August 2, 2011 at 2:01 pm
They had popcorn in paper bags and peanuts in little burlap sacks, awww how quaint!
If they REALLY wanted a cliche ass hobo wedding they would have had hooch in paper bags, people in burlap sacs (o wait, that was the maid of honour in custom burlap overalls) and beans in a can fresh out of the fire!
Fucking hell… some people have no shame
August 2, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Better, Jamaica Ginger extract in bags … BEST if you could get real TOCP for it and give everybody Jake Leg.
August 2, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Thank you! I couldn’t remember Jake Leg. I was stumped. That would be a true party favor here.
August 2, 2011 at 2:21 pm
I had to Wikipedia the exact additive that was the neurotoxin in Jamaica Ginger extract.
August 2, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Most hobos take months to plan their weddings— its always worth the amount of work tho because they always turn out to be super cute. I hope someone was playing a harmonica with an overturned hat at the gift table.
August 2, 2011 at 5:53 pm
15 months, to be exact.
August 2, 2011 at 2:02 pm
I’m not sure who I’m more annoyed at, the people who put this wedding on or the people commenting about how ‘creative’ and ‘awesome’ it is.
August 2, 2011 at 2:05 pm
I blame Etsy for putting it in the front page. The commenters can’t help themselves, they’ve been trained to only respond to palettes.
August 2, 2011 at 2:07 pm
The commenters still need a boot to the head.
August 2, 2011 at 3:03 pm
And one for Jenny and the Wimp!
August 2, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Yeah, I read a few of the comments and nearly threw up the wonderful non-vegan gluten, dairy, and cruelty-filled cupcakes I made for myself.
August 2, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Get your wedding photos done during a real dust bowl storm! Watch as your make believe lives are ruined. Live off of boot soup and unwary squirrels to make this a truly authentic experience!
*Warning – Dust Bowl may cause dustiness
August 2, 2011 at 2:11 pm
**And the early death by choking of your first born.
August 2, 2011 at 2:46 pm
If they only did their RESEARCH enough to know that the Great Depression was a nasty time to live, especially for farmers in the Dust Bowl area.
I wonder if they could even imagine what it would be like to wake up with grit in your teeth, in your food, in your clothes, in your hair, in what you’re drinking, in your bed, every damn place? People DIED because of the dust storms that engulfed the region.
The insensitivity of these hipsters is astounding. Thank you for posting a picture of this. Not many people know what the Dust Bowl is.
August 2, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Public school history classes gloss over so much. Curriculum is all about cramming names and dates into kids’ heads so they can score higher on a standardized test. Augh.
August 2, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Trust me, I understand (I’m a teacher). Much of what is read in English/Literature classes is based on historical fact. History and English go hand in hand, so I saw to it that my students had basic historical background knowledge before we started reading.
August 2, 2011 at 5:53 pm
English teachers fight the good fight. I was lucky enough to have two majorly awesome English teachers in high school.
August 2, 2011 at 4:02 pm
“Not many people know what the Dust Bowl is.”
Which just makes me even more annoyed at the dismal state of education. I mostly mean in the US but I know we’re not the only ones. Still.
I could write pages about how sick it makes me that we don’t seem to value education at all. But that’s for my blog, not here.
/endrant
August 2, 2011 at 10:44 pm
The average U.S. classroom may be lacking, but at least there’s show choir. That’s right – kids are learning about history with jazz hands. I wonder when Glee will do a Dust Bowl themed episode?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD9MnFzjxT0
August 2, 2011 at 11:18 pm
You mean the Dust Bowl doesn’t have anything to do with football?
August 3, 2011 at 3:25 pm
“You mean the Dust Bowl doesn’t have anything to do with football?”
That’s what my students thought when they first heard of it.
I used to have one of those “Think Different” Apple posters of Charlie Chaplin behind a camera on my wall. I lost count of how many times I had students ask me, “who’s that guy?” One even thought it was Hitler because of the mustache.
Speaking of Hitler… I was introducing the Holocaust to my students because, you know, their parents don’t teach them anything, and in order for them to understand Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, I needed them to do research. They started complaining, so I said, “OK, tell me…. who’s Hitler?” A student blurted out, “didn’t he invent something?”
All wasn’t completely lost because the students who DID know who he was gasped.
Oh, the stories I could tell about education!
August 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm
You know that famous picture of the migrant worker mother and her small children? Here’s what the little girl had to say a couple of years ago:
August 2, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Off topic: As a birthday present I bought myself a book titled The Contact Sheet edited by Steve Crist. It’s yet another collection of famous photos, but it includes the contact sheets from the shoots—the almost famous. The picture of the migrant worker mother and her child is included with four other shots taken of them taken at the same time. Fascinating book.
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0978607694
August 3, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Fascinating article, thanks for linking.
August 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm
As people who organize steampunk events, we became fed up with romanticizing imperialism, sexism, classism, racism and all the other wonderful -isms that came with Victorian costuming and re-enactment. We decided to fight back at one of our bigger events by making the overall theme “soup kitchen”, basing everything on How the Other Half Lives. We did it not to romanticize that fantastic, creamy period of debtors prisons, rampant infant mortality, & overcrowded conditions for those who could afford any housing at all. We did it to say “F*ck You” to all those costumers who think Victorian is just about as fluffytastically romantically yummylicious as you can get. Somehow I don’t think this is what the bride was going with here.
August 2, 2011 at 9:18 pm
I’m not into steampunk, but this summer a friend took me to a convention. Throughout the day I just got more and more uncomfortable with all the -isms, especially the glorification of the British aristocracy and colonialism. I left with a very strong desire to not bathe for weeks, wear unwashed clothes, and then go around touching all the people in fancy dress and asking for spare change.
August 5, 2011 at 9:02 pm
I find that at the Dickens Faire, and such, they DO have the underclass running around–and it’s supposed to be cute as hell.
I hate the Victorians.
August 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Did any of you see the colonial africa wedding? All the servants were black and there was even a picture of them ‘humourously’ oppressing one.
I mean, this is fucking terrible and offensive- would it really have killed them to have a 20′s wedding, or a farm-themed wedding which would have allowed them to do a lot of the same things?- but the horribly racist wedding still takes up all my ire.
August 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Level 5 Insensitive Jackassery?
August 2, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Oh, those levels only go in the negative direction.
August 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Here’s a thought. If she’s so damn enamored with the idea of hobos, why doesn’t she hie herself and her groom down to an inner city shelter and spend a few days volunteering there. I can guarantee that afterwards she will find nothing glamorous in the life of a hobo–and maybe she’ll pick up some sensitivity and tact along the way.
August 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Somewhere I read this piece of advice for young women making their way in the world, and it’s never steered me wrong: “Just wear a bra. It’s not like you’ll look back and wish you hadn’t.”
August 2, 2011 at 6:35 pm
THAT is the most offensive thing you find about this entire debacle? I think your rose-colored glasses need a good scrubbing.
August 2, 2011 at 10:38 pm
No, I just meant in addition to everything else. Trust me, I’m shocked that someone would feel that this theme would work for anything, let alone a wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 10:42 pm
*would be appropriate for anything, whoops, hit the button too soon.
August 2, 2011 at 2:08 pm
“The Only Sane Person In The World says:
While creative in its own right, I find this new “style” tasteless and bourgeois. There is nothing trendy about the great depression nor abject poverty.
20 hours ago”
August 2, 2011 at 2:11 pm
they get extra points for using the b-word.
August 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm
I think I want them to have my babies.
August 2, 2011 at 2:26 pm
I want this person to be my new best friend. Someone tell them they’re always welcome here.
August 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Someone should actually sign up for an etsy account with that screenname, and use the picture Helen uses.
August 2, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Someone has, its smallandpissed’s vintage shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/theonlysaneperson
August 2, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Flippin’ awesome!
August 2, 2011 at 2:09 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
A few years ago I had a dog who was found by people in a homeless camp. I named him Hobo. People thought I was TERRIBLE. I don’t seem so bad in comparison.
August 2, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Shout-out to The Littlest Hobo?
August 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:11 pm
I believe the correct term is “faux-bos”
August 2, 2011 at 3:31 pm
In France we have an actual expression for this style of hipsters, Bobos, short for “bourgeois-bohème”. Speaks for itself I guess.
August 2, 2011 at 5:11 pm
http://www.amazon.com/Bobos-Paradise-Upper-Class-There/dp/0684853787/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312330259&sr=8-1
“Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There.”
August 2, 2011 at 2:20 pm
There’s plenty to mock here without resorting to their appearance…
August 2, 2011 at 4:19 pm
…I know there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit here and all, but could we leave their weight and faces out of it?
August 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
My kids are obsessed with the (romanticized) idea of hobos, but they’re 7, 10 and 11. And they volunteer at the food pantry and comprehend that vast gulf between that silliness and the reality of being poor, rather than “playing” poor.
Tacky.
August 2, 2011 at 2:21 pm
You’re doing one hell of a job raising kids! They’re probably more grounded now than the cupcake brigade will ever be.
August 2, 2011 at 2:10 pm
While the whole thing is a mockery… My heart just dropped when I read this ” I also found perfectly worn quilts that I cut for table runners and buntings.”
They have to be as insensitive and tasteless as possible, then they go and destroy thousands of hours of likely hand sewn quilting? OMg, can I cunt punt them both!?
August 2, 2011 at 2:18 pm
WHAT.
I couldn’t read the actual Etsy article. As much as I love looking at wedding porn on sites like Offbeatbride, this one is just too fucking much.
Good thing, too, because I probably would’ve died in a fit of rage-apoplexy if I’d read that quote in its native habitat. Perfectly worn, likely antique, hand-sewn quilts… and she… cut them up… for her white trash hootenanny?
August 2, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Again: WHAT?
She could have probably spent a lot more on her wedding with what those quilts might have been worth before she destroyed them.
Reading the Etsy fluff piece just made me even more sad and confused.
August 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm
^^THIS^^
I see red and get all stabby when people mutilate antique quilts
August 2, 2011 at 7:41 pm
The sad thing is there was more handmade about those quilts than there is the vast majority of things on Etsy.
August 2, 2011 at 2:53 pm
That part kills me. In the spirit of TRUE thrift, those quilts could have been donated to those in need following the wedding. Now, they’re unusable.
August 2, 2011 at 3:31 pm
A friend of mine who owns a fabric shop refers to heavily damaged quilts as ‘cutter quilts’ and often trims away the shattered silks/rat hole/water stains to turn what’s left back into something beautiful.
I have an inkling that this is not what was done here.
August 2, 2011 at 8:23 pm
That is saving, repurposing, respecting the work put into them. There’s nothing respectful about hobo-wedding-folk.
I may knit, spin, crochet, and sew (novice) but I cannot yet quilt and the whole epic-ness of it just amazes me.
August 2, 2011 at 9:10 pm
I’ve been collecting feed sacks (the colorful printed ones, more or less), and I can’t make myself cut into them. And they are just squares of FABRIC.
August 2, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Wow- I planned my wedding in 14 days and funded it with my student loan refund. It looked kind of like that except the groom actually wore a suit and we didn’t have tents or a room block. I thought it was a pretty nice wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 4:14 pm
I don’t believe that for a second.
…you got a student loan refund?
August 3, 2011 at 5:42 am
Well yeah: $250 for books and art supplies that semester was spent on a dress and an officiant. I’ll be paying for that with the rest of my school loans for the next 40 years.
August 3, 2011 at 5:44 am
and I almost forgot- we had a 6 foot hero for the guests (but I think my parents paid for that).
August 2, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Have any of you seen the pictures from the “Colonial Africa” themed wedding? An English couple went to Africa to have an authentic Colonial Africa wedding, complete with an all-black staff dressed in colonial staff costumes. It’s horrific.
http://jezebel.com/5820577/colonial+themed-wedding-included-authentic-all+black-servant-staff
The original blog post by the photographer with the rest of the pictures was taken down after it went viral, but this post on Jezebel has a couple of examples. The one at the top pretty much nails it.
August 2, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I’m glad you had the link, I couldn’t find it. Fucking disgusting, isn’t it?
August 2, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Can you imagine if I, as a Midwesterner, went down to Atlanta to have an authentic prebellum wedding, complete with African-Americans dressed as slaves serving us?
People have no fuckin’ common sense, as both these weddings prove.
(is prebellum a word? I know antebellum is, but… fuck it. I’m owning it.)
August 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm
The possibilities are endless. Imperial Japanese-themed wedding in Nanking, anyone?
August 2, 2011 at 2:33 pm
I think I’ll have mine on the rez! Those little red skinned people are just *so* cute.
August 2, 2011 at 5:25 pm
They don’t dress the staff as slaves, but there are a lot of antebellum mansions in the Atlanta area that serve as event facilities.
And yes, some of them do wear hoop skirts and serve mint juleps.
August 2, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Antebellum is the word you’re looking for, actually.
(Don’t get mad. I’ve been called a know-it-all, but I do it out of love!)
August 2, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Katastrophe, Ok, thank you, for some reason I had it stuck in my head that ante- meant after and referred to the immediate post-war South. But it totally does refer to the pre-war South.
I blame my muddledness on my irritation with this wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 8:26 pm
… speechless. I’ve laughed quite a lot on this site. Lots of fuckery. But these “themed” weddings just leave me without words.
August 2, 2011 at 2:11 pm
This is the wedding of hipper-than-thou cartoonist Brian “Box” Brown. He was on one of my favorite podcasts, going on about the awesomeness of the hobo wedding. Super douchey. Here’s another blog about the wedding: http://adelaideshomesewn.blogspot.com/2011/05/sarah-and-boxs-hobo-wedding-sneak-peek.html
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August 2, 2011 at 3:19 pm
fuckery. ’nuff said.
August 3, 2011 at 9:34 pm
One of the comments on Adelaide’s blog was about how like “omg it was so sweet, herp derp”, the usual bullshit. And then this:
“We even had a few authentic hobos – some neighbors just strolled into the party!”
ARE YOU SERIOUS. SERIOUSLY.
August 24, 2011 at 1:13 pm
(because I am late on this business….)
Your link, merelywords: I think what pisses me off about this site/wedding is that she’s calling it “Hobo era”. It’s the thirties, woman. There is no such thing as “Hobo wear”. This would be properly termed “Whatever a lower class working citizen wore.”
I didn’t read the etsy article, because Helen’s post just makes me bang my head against my desk. Who gets excited about people who were homeless and poor?! I’m sure, that if time travelling existed, that a hobo from the 1930′s would be just THRILLED with her wedding.
Christ. I don’t mind themed weddings– hell I’d like one Regency style– but for God’s sakes, BE CLASSY!
Oh wait. This is Etsy we are talking about. Nevermind.
August 2, 2011 at 2:11 pm
As someone who was actually forced from my home to live on the street as a teenager – I can’t say how many times I have been sitting in my air conditioned home that I now mercifully live in and think, Gosh I REALLY miss washing out my armpits in the Greyhound bus station.
You know what though? I totally had super cute boots.
Fucking serenity now.
August 2, 2011 at 2:12 pm
The bridesmaids had to resort to prostitution in order to afford rouge. Hey, at least it was accurate.
August 2, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Did she give her dog back its bandana after the wedding?
August 2, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Oops – just read some more; Did HE give his dog…..
August 2, 2011 at 6:58 pm
I am going to refrain from making the joke that I’d like to make here because it would be in poor taste.
See how that works, hobo wedding people? When something is in poor taste you just DON’T DO IT. Quite a novel concept, really.
August 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm
And they sailed off to their honeymoon in a boxcar. Friends and family saw them chug away slowly, expressing their wishes that the couple wouldn’t get beaten half to death by a railroad bull.
August 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm
I’m not getting married yet, but when I do, I’m going to have a retro 2010 themed wedding, complete with oil-covered sea creatures, actors hired to play unemployed workers waiting in line for government checks, and a snow machine to cover my guests cars in a blizzard while they’re at the reception. I can’t wait for the pictures!
August 2, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Aside from the usage of the words “totes” and “adorbs”, you just made my day. I saw that ridiculous wedding earlier and was…somehow not surprised.
(I do realise that the aforementioned words were used sarcastically…oh gawd…I HOPE you were using those words in jest…)
August 2, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Oh, and while we were never homeless, my family was so dirt poor we were close to it a number of times. This couple has never experienced real poverty, the bone-grinding desperation of it, or they wouldn’t take it so lightly.
August 2, 2011 at 2:17 pm
She also annoys me talking about how they wanted to be simple and non-fussy and how they had a limited budget. I can guarantee that this travesty, buying antique clothes and quilts and accessories, costs easily 3 to 4 times at much as my actual simple wedding is costing me.
(sorry to repeat Anninyn’s post with mine above. It wasn’t there when I clicked “Comment” I swear!)
August 2, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Our wedding cost £3000 including the honeymoon. It didn’t look simple, but it bloody well was. Because we had no fucking money.
I’m a believer in ‘the right budget is what you can afford’ and if you can afford 7,8,9k, go right ahead.
But something about spending thousands of pounds emulating the grade of poverty people claw desperately to escape seems wrong to me.
No, you know what? It’s sick. It shows a fundamental lack of empathy and understanding. And people say we’re heartless, cruel and evil.
August 2, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Our wedding was a 2 hour road trip to Elkton MD courthouse and a weekend at the Long Branch Hilton. Cost maybe 300 dollars.
August 2, 2011 at 4:58 pm
My dog ate my Mum’s $300 shoes and she found ones for $30 she liked more in a second hand shop the day before her wedding. Her wedding was gorgeous and she doesn’t even remember what those expensive shoes looked like.
August 2, 2011 at 2:18 pm
I mind dove into some layer of hell and skidded to a stop at “entwined bootlaces.”
No one needs that picture in their head. I don’t know that manscaping was in fashion at hobo camps, but somethings just shouldn’t be discussed. Especially at a wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 2:18 pm
A “depression-era inspired” wedding could be beautiful. A “hobo-themed” wedding is just kinda tacky. As soon as you bring the word “theme” into it, you’ve gone too far.
August 2, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I have no plans to get married at any point in the foreseeable future. However, I’ve always said that my wedding will be “wedding themed” with a girl dressed as a bride and some guy dressed as a groom and flowers everywhere with a fun party after. So unique, I know. Clearly I should change my vision to something more PC… Like a Pearl Harbor themed wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 2:19 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:25 pm
It’s ‘even evil has standards’.
August 2, 2011 at 2:26 pm
There is a definite “feel for the room” on Regretsy. I guess it might be best explained as the difference between “Laugh to keep from crying” and “Laugh because you don’t know what it means.”
August 2, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Totally agree. There is a string of holocaust themed wedding jokes above. Those people (myself included) know the holocaust was horrific, and would never actually make light of the holocaust. Rather, they’re using it as an example to point out the lack of tact in this hobo wedding.
In comparison, the Diary Anne Frank wedding card was just clueless.
August 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Because there are many POOR fat ugly jealous losers on here?
I’ve never been homeless. But know people who are close to it now and this just… grinds my goat. It would be cute if it wasn’t so ripe with the pompousness.
August 2, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Its because it is not only offensive nonsense, its Etsy endorsed offensive nonsense. This is so WTF for me it stops the snark train.
August 2, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I’m slightly scared of the thorough thumbs-downing I’ll get for this, but I’ll say it anyway: I think a lot of times where we direct our outrage is influenced by where HK steers the good ship Regretsy. If she makes a post that makes fun of something, we jump in and make fun of it. If she makes a post that criticises the social injustice of something, we jump in and criticise the social injustice of it. I’m not saying we’re always mindless sheep, I’m just saying that’s the nature of this blog sometimes.
August 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm
You zagger you. You get a thumbs up.
The Internet. The land of mobs and genitals.
(I’m still grinded by this though.)
August 2, 2011 at 2:57 pm
On the other hand, I’d have found this morally offensive wherever it turned up. And if I disagree with HK I just don;t post, so I imagine other people do the same, which is probably why it seems to go that way.
It’s just where the ‘bad thing’ shows up moderates exactly how I react to it. I have the same emotional reaction, I just express it differently according to where I am.
August 2, 2011 at 3:11 pm
I’m pretty confident that I’d find this repugnant even if I hadn’t seen it on Regretsy… I’ll make the argument, though, that it’s not so much “steering” as it is her knowing her audience, and what it’ll respond to.
August 2, 2011 at 3:43 pm
I thumbs up you for saying this, response be damned. I do, however, have to disagree with the sentiment. In a case such as the I’m-a-dumbshit-dressed-as-a-hobo wedding here, the social injustice begs to be mocked and HK just gives us the venue. Etsy’s happy cupcake police wouldn’t allow for such discourse. I’m all for someone else rooting through the sunshine, rainbows, and other forms of general fucktardeness there for point out the truly lame. I haven’t the tolerance for b.s. that requires.
August 2, 2011 at 3:54 pm
I did see this earlier, and I was offended. My great-grandfather rode the rails to escape an impoverished, over-populated and underfed household, leaving to support himself and leave more resources available for his siblings. Until her death, my grandmother worried about the banks collapsing and returning to poverty. (I thank heaven she died before she could see it come true.)
I was upset and offended by the tastelessness of the event. I groused and again threatened to move to another planet if one became available. Then, like I believe many of us do, I decided to quit wasting time on tacky, clueless behavior and I QUIT LOOKING AT IT.
As the saying goes, I may not agree with what you say (or do) but I’ll defend your right to say it. I just reserve the right to disagree.
August 2, 2011 at 5:22 pm
I can totally see how it might look that way – and maybe sometimes it is true. But I think Regretsy is what it is because we can think for ourselves.
Dror is a perfect example. When HK first introduced us to Dror, she was mostly neutral. It seems it would have made more sense for us to all jump in and mock him. And look how that turned out!
August 2, 2011 at 6:29 pm
I saw it on the front page before I saw it here, and wondered how long it would take to get here. It turned my stomach too. I get so tired of fake bullshit and PCness that it isn’t even funny and I truly believe it is the spreading source of the mediocrity we are forced to endure in our daily lives by these people. I guess Mz Killa is rubbing off on me.
August 2, 2011 at 8:12 pm
I saw the cover photo for this on the Etsy blog this morning and felt angry. I found it offensive from the get go. You don’t glamorize homelessness as some light-hearted lark about people traveling home. It’s disgusting. I didn’t need HK or anyone else to inform that opinion.
August 2, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I’m just going to repost infidelicity’s brilliant quote from above: “It’s takes a lot of cash to look so poor.”
These people are clueless, tacky, and hipster-stupid, and Etsy endorsing this obnoxious behavior is reprehensible.
August 2, 2011 at 4:47 pm
I agree. I mean, I get that these are people who probably never faced poverty wasting a bunch of money to play hobo, but I don’t see it as morally offensive, just vapid and tasteless (hobo-chic?), and I just don’t get the seething that’s going on.
I mean, people have been dressing as hobos for decades. It’s Americana, though I do think it could have been done with more sensitivity, and without cutting up old quilts–that part does offend me.
August 2, 2011 at 6:46 pm
My first “Hidden due to low comment rating.” I have arrived. =)
August 2, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Oh christ they’re from Malvern (according to the invite in the article thingy). When I lived in Philly, I used work virtually down the street from their block of rooms Sheraton hotel. Yeah, trust me, they probably haven’t heard of poverty. It’s very “ladies who lunch” there. I can’t tell you how many times some soccer mom almost ran me off the road in her Land Rover because she was late for her spa day. I’m kind of bitter about the whole area.
August 2, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Romanticizing events can be a way of coping with a tragedy. We do it with WWII, the Depression, The Spanish Civil War, but theme weddings clearly cross the lines.
This is a big fat shit sandwich wrapped in a Dorthea Lange photograph and hung in an old timey outhouse.
Bravo! Marie Antoinette would be proud.
August 2, 2011 at 2:22 pm
God, this is so ironic because I’m spending an inordinate amount of time and money planning a Pompous Hipster themed wedding. You should see my vintage upcycled raw hems dress. It matches my pygmy-skull fascinator perfectly! And when I see my man in his skin tight blue tux that makes his crotch a toxic jungle of sweat, I know I’ll tear up behind my oversized red plastic glasses.
August 2, 2011 at 2:22 pm
I really hate the idea of making weddings performances. I don’t mean people picking a fun theme that suits them and making it fun. I like the idea of funky weddings for funky people. I mean the people that want their wedding to be different just because. It should be about the couple whether that means a wild party or a simple thing surrounded by family. If you are not a hobo I do not see why you would want a hobo wedding, and if you actually had to deal with homelessness I would hope your wedding would be focused on more positive aspects of yourself.
I can see why Etsy doesn’t give a shit, because the wedding as performance is likely big business for them with all the handmade stuff and level of personalization that is accessible through them. What they fuck do they care if that means people start spouting off about offensive stuff, its all about being eweneek and speshul just like everyone on Etsy.
August 2, 2011 at 2:47 pm
It’s ironic — I’ve helped plan a wedding for a homeless couple (they met at the Narcotics Anonymous meeting our church sponsors), and we all pitched in to make sure they had the best day ever, with no reminder of their homeless state. (Last I heard, they were still together, still clean and sober, still looking for work but had a room in a local facility for homeless/at risk adults.)
August 2, 2011 at 7:50 pm
arelkay, this warms my heart. This is the antidote to offensive hipster hobo-posturing
August 2, 2011 at 3:14 pm
That’s a big part of what blows my mind. I love Offbeatbride, I love unique weddings, but those weddings showcase the personalities of the two people coming together.
This is just two hipster dipshits who heard a (probably inaccurate) etymology for the word “hobo” and decided they liked the idea one day.
August 2, 2011 at 2:25 pm
I am so glad you posted this. I saw this earlier today and cringed. When I scrolled down thru the comments to see who the first nay-sayer was among all the hoo-haa cupcakes, I cringed even more when, alas, there was no clear light of day to take away the darkness.
August 2, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Let’s hope that it is the not only the first, but also, the LAST hobo-themed wedding in history.
August 2, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Sometimes, when you think of something no one else has done, it’s because it’s a really bad idea.
August 2, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Like that friend of mine who mixed coffee and tea together to make a new drink.
For example.
August 3, 2011 at 12:17 pm
My son did that, but then again he was 8 and he has aspergers.
August 2, 2011 at 6:21 pm
This will be my new mantra.
August 2, 2011 at 2:27 pm
“throwing out the book” on traditional weddings means you just do the exact same things as traditional weddings, but with a unique, more insensitive style!
August 2, 2011 at 4:29 pm
You don’t hire some stuffy florist to make trendy flower arrangements, you emulate the look of wildflowers in a tin can by ORDERING FLOWERS AND VINTAGE CANS ONLINE!
We should run with the idea of taking a simple, cheap concept and making it expensive and complicated. Maybe people can start buying those oval pearls to throw instead of rice? Make sure someone hand sands them so they have that authentic dull finish!
August 2, 2011 at 2:29 pm
I’m just upset that “Freddie the Freeloader” wasn’t invited.
August 2, 2011 at 2:31 pm
If one of my progeny happen to decide to have a recession wedding… No joke, I’m writing them out of the will. That’s along with the if you become a republican or if you buy a Brittany Spears album riders.
August 2, 2011 at 2:35 pm
My brother joined the Young Republicans when he was a freshman in college. My dad said “I know kids experiment a lot in college, but couldn’t he do drugs or have some gay experiences instead?”
He’s healed now. Praise Jeebus.
August 2, 2011 at 9:12 pm
You’re allowed to do both.
August 2, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Aww, come on, look what you did. We were having a great snark-fest against these faux-bo idiots and YOU had to bring politics to the discussion. Republicans aren’t bad people. They just have different ideas of what is right.
So, anyway, thumb me down if you want.
August 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm
I love how they “took the rule book and threw it out the window”, and then they had save-the-date cards and printed invitations, party favours with custom labels, flowers and flower arrangements, a professional photographer, “cocktail hour snacks”, and it took months to plan and to redecorate the house. Way to really challenge and defy those traditional wedding customs, guys.
August 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Never in my life have I felt the urge to defend the noble hobo, Helen. It’s not so much that I love hobos, as it is that I hate stupid theme weddings that get inflicted upon people.
August 2, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Charlie Chaplin is not amused.
August 2, 2011 at 2:37 pm
“Fuck you guys, I was a tramp before it was cool. I did it even BEFORE the Depression!”
August 2, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Chaplin is the original hipster?
August 2, 2011 at 2:40 pm
“And the mustache? It was my trademark first! Fucking Hitler was just a poseur wannabe!”
August 2, 2011 at 7:21 pm
@RosieB – They’re the same person if you were to believe the history themed ride at the end of Idiocracy.
August 2, 2011 at 2:34 pm
I so hate middle class fuckwads who romanticize poverty I can’t even think of anything funny to say. This is a huge thing here in hipsterland, guys with ZZ Top beards & suspenders, bars blasting hillbilly music. I clawed my way out of a trailer in Ripley County, Missouri too get away from that shit, and these idiots think it’s cool….
August 2, 2011 at 8:05 pm
These idiots don’t think “it’s” cool. They think it makes them cool to make fun of, or have fun with, lesser people than themselves.
It also allows them to add some superficial color to their bland collective monologue without being in danger of actually developing an interesting personality.
August 2, 2011 at 8:49 pm
I don’t think they think they are making fun of or having fun with lesser people.
It seems to make them feel as if they are suffering with these quaint people of old, but in a painless way. You know – “We are newlywed poor, circa 2011, we don’t own a house yet. At our wedding we celebrated the poverty of our grandparents – now let’s watch Netflix while checking facebook and blogging. Let’s order in.”
August 2, 2011 at 2:34 pm
what i want to know is this: why are the first 200+ comments singing praise for such an insensitive themed wedding?
August 2, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Because it’s bad to call out on Etsy.
August 2, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Because there are a plethora of sellers on Etsy who use that as a form of promoting their stores.
August 2, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Gasp, gag … did you read some of the comments?
This looked like so much fun. I love Hobo Style
Congratulations – love the Golden Coffee Tin! Monica TheIDConnection
“Brown bags of popcorn and burlap sacks of peanuts”…I absolutely love it…..”
With the exception of handbags, when the fuck did Hobo become a style!?? And doesn’t “Golden Coffee Tin” sound like one of those websites we were scaring ourselves with last night?
August 2, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Like so many other things, the internet has ruined the word “golden” for me forever.
August 2, 2011 at 2:35 pm
When my husband and I were married 15 years ago, we had the wedding in my parents’ backyard on an Iowa farm, it was decidedly casual with a lot of sentimental, vintage elements. Cattle came up to the fence line during the reception, there were flies everywhere – including the punch bowl. I had no idea it was hip. I just thought we were rural and budget-conscious.
We did include plastic flies from Archie McPhee in the thank you cards. I can’t even think of anything snarky to say about this wedding that hasn’t already been said. So I’ll just shake my head and weep for today’s youth.
August 2, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Today would have been my grandma’s 100th birthday. She married my grandpa in 1929, her first baby was born in 1931, second in 1933. They lived in a shack in a fruit orchard, and they gleaned the trees after the harvest season to feed their family. My grandpa was a carpenter, and would travel for hundreds of miles to find work, to mail home a few dollars to support his children. My grandmother sewed baby clothes from flour sacks, and took in mending to help pay the bills. His brother came to California on the bottom of a train car, he would lash himself to the undercarriage and pray that belt would hold. Once he got here he found little work, and in order to stay warm at night he would go down to Santa Monica beach, dig a hole in the sand, line it with newspaper, and bury himself. Things eventually got better for them, but there were years of just barely scraping by, wondering where the next dollar would come from.
So, to sum up, FUCK YOU AND YOUR DUMB ASS HOBO CHIC!!!
August 2, 2011 at 2:36 pm
I hate people.
August 2, 2011 at 2:36 pm
I cry bullshit on authenticity, unless the bride and groom’s first dance was to a washboard and jug rendition of Reba Mcentire’s “Fancy” sung by the mother of the bride.
August 3, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Eh, Bobbie Gentry did it first and did it better.
As for the bride and groom. My great grandmother, at the age of 16, had to drag two small children-my grandmother and great uncle across the country, alone. She didn’t do it to become fodder for some asshole hipster wedding. She did it because she had to. I think I’ll ask her what she thinks of it.
They didn’t call it The Great Depression because it was fun.
August 2, 2011 at 2:36 pm
I was poor and unemployed and unable to pay my rent before they had their wedding. Posers.
August 2, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Oh man, this inspires me to invite all of my friends over for a homeless themed sleepover – Remember BYOB! (Bring your own box)
August 2, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Hamletta – the photos you’re talking about are by Dorthea Lange. It’s sad to hear that the little girl felt so ashamed about them, but at least Lange’s heart was in the right place. She used them to raise awareness of the situation, and I think she did influence the govt to help. She didn’t take the pix b/c she thought it was chic or cute… More than can be said for this couple, eh?
August 2, 2011 at 5:30 pm
The mother was most ashamed of them – that’s why the most famous picture from the set has her turned away from the camera.
August 2, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Sorry, got that backwards (see post below) – the mother had the children turn their faces from the camera.
August 2, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Someone explain to me again why it’s totally tacky for me to want to have a crossover Star Trek/Star Wars wedding, but this is ok?
August 2, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Only if you make sure Spock kicks Jar Jar’s butt.
August 2, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Fuck no, Jar Jar is not invited!
(But I may make an exception if you’re willing to pay for the pictures of said ass-kicking.)
August 2, 2011 at 4:04 pm
The thing is, there are so many purists to offend. Maybe if you added Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter? And then an Excalibur in a rock wedding cake with a killer rabbit on it so the SCA folk and Monty Python quoters aren’t left out.
August 2, 2011 at 4:09 pm
WHO IS TELLING YOU THIS? It sounds awesome! But of course, I’m a total geek. Don’t listen to them; follow your dream!
August 2, 2011 at 7:14 pm
I officiated the wedding between Xena and Gabrielle during Xena Night at The meow Mix in NYC.
August 2, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Oh, the mixed genre there is tacky.
August 2, 2011 at 2:39 pm
I’ve been thinking of ways to top this.
The only theme I can come up with that’s more insensitive is a “juvenile burn ward” theme wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Oooh, oooh, I can top that! “Hurricane Katrina” themed wedding! Wedding march is a Dixieland jazz band playing “Singing In the Rain”…
August 2, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I can Top both of you. Google Manzanar.
August 2, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Hmm… Government internment of foreign-looking U.S. citizens could be the Next Big Thing in event planning. What a great idea for a Super Sweet Sixteen party!
August 2, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Hurricane Katrina didn’t wreck New Orleans. The shitty Federal Levee System did. So maybe they could have an “inept government agency” themed wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 3:46 pm
I was thinking a Khmer Rouge themed wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 7:10 pm
You forgot the “Compton Ghetto” wedding, inspired by the popular annual frat party put on by UC San Diego students.
August 2, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:52 pm
I find it tasteless but I do agree with some of your points. I mentioned in my comment below something along the same lines. The name is just wrong. They could have done a 1930s style wedding, casual and simplified, “country-inspired” or whatever, using family traditions, instead of calling it hobo chic or whatever. That’s what bothers me.
August 2, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Considering the number of people for whom homelessness is not just a “lifestyle choice” but what they go through every day (a friend of mine had to move from California to Arkansas to move his family in with his parents after exhausting job opportunities here…and he was lucky to have parents who could take them in), I find it in extremely poor taste.
August 2, 2011 at 2:41 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Right, because they just happened to have “feed sack dresses and old work boots, antique hand-stitched quilts and jug band instruments” laying around, so they made do with “what they had.” And I’m sure dirt poor folks trying to get by during the Depression thought of the grungy clothes they had to wear as “hobo-chic.” Give me a fucking break.
August 2, 2011 at 3:06 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 4:01 pm
It’s not about whether you’ve been poor or not, the point people are making here is that this wedding, while I’m sure had many good intentions, was tasteless.
You can enjoy the aesthetic of an era, even a war torn one, without glorifying the hardships of the people who lived through those times. You say you like the 40′s, does that mean you’re going to enact an SS themed wedding complete with asking your jewish friends to identify themselves and hide under the seating of your wedding party? No, it certainly does not.
It’s not taking “yourself” less seriously, it’s understanding that trivializing the hardships of our history is what contributes to the apathy and dismissiveness of our culture.
August 2, 2011 at 4:03 pm
“When you ride the line of poverty, you find beauty in simplicity. You should try it.”
This is the most disgusting comment here. Because there’s nothing more beautiful than having to watch every single fucking cent you spend so your bank account doesn’t overdraft. Or going without medicine and treatment for chronic health problems. Or wondering if you can put your pride aside and go to the food bank. Or losing friends because you don’t have the money to spare to even go out for coffee. Or taking cold showers for months because the gas got turned off and you can’t pay the bill. So beautiful in it’s simplicity!
Let me guess, when you were “poor” you were actually just forced to live on a student budget or something like that. Let me tell you nothing beats the constant stress of knowing you are barely hanging on by thread and you could be homeless next month.
TL;DR: Go to hell.
August 2, 2011 at 4:15 pm
I think this is exactly the problem with this whole topic. These kids identify with the hobo thing because they *think* they’ve been close to it. Struggling to make rent, having to cook at home instead of eating out, maybe even having a car repo-ed. But if you haven’t been there (and for the record, I haven’t), you can’t know what it’s like or how you think you’re riding the line of poverty and someone else is looking at you and wishing they could build themselves a little house in the space between you and the line.
August 2, 2011 at 5:07 pm
There’s nothing beautiful about sleeping on the floor because beds are too expensive, or eating nothing but dry cereal three times a day.
You should try it.
August 2, 2011 at 5:17 pm
“When you ride the line of poverty, you find beauty in simplicity.”
We were dirt poor when I was a child. The first place I remember us living was a little rent ‘house’ on the edge of a senile old woman’s farm that used to be a chicken coop. The roaches were almost as big as I was and my mother had to walk to her job, because my father was the only one of the two that had a working car and he was living in another city and sending us money as he could. We went on like this for nine months.
Nine months. And this was the early eighties, the Reagan recession, not the Depression.
Stop your romanticizing bullshit. Poverty is an ugly state that does ugly things to people, and watching someone like you getting your smug all over this discussion with “well poor people just do it simple, you shouldn’t be so serious” is more than a little disgusting.
August 2, 2011 at 6:37 pm
This has nothing to do with “finding beauty in simplicity.” This is about white-bread suburban hipsters (who – let’s face it – have never honestly wanted for anything) cultivating some bogus concept of “hobo-chic” to prove to everyone how unique their “taste” is. Maybe you didn’t notice, but this wasn’t a “Finding Beauty in Simplicity”-themed wedding; it was a Depression Era/Hobo-themed wedding. Do you know what actually happened during the Depression — do you know about the pain, famine, and personal anguish that Americans endured during this time period? Do you know how many people went without basic necessities because they had no means of acquiring them? If you did, I’m sure you’d be shutting the fuck up right about now.
The Depression was a shitty time — it’s not a fucking fashion statement. Admiring the aesthetic of a particular time period is nothing like romanticizing periods of collective suffering. Learn how to tell the difference.
August 2, 2011 at 2:58 pm
I don’t see it that way. My grandmother was a teenager during the Depression and because of yhr lack of food and much needed nutrients, she suffered horribly in her old age with osteoperosis. Not enough milk to go around when she needed it most.
It’s a shame the couple didn’t include watching the documentary “Riding the Rails,” (about teenagers who lived during the Great Depression, some setting out on trains to find work to support their families, and some who did it for the adventure) as part of their research. Or, better yet, read “Grapes of Wrath” to better understand what it meant to starve and to be forced to work for almost nothing to support a family.
There’s nothing aesthetically pleasing about any of that wedding, nor do I think they are romanticizing the era for making the most of what was had. People had to stand in line for basic staples and even then it wasn’t enough. No, this is plain ol’ hipster kitsch.
August 2, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Except, as many have mentioned, it wasn’t a “Depression Era Themed” wedding it was a “Hobo Themed” wedding. A “Depression Era” theme could have been done tastefully and beautifully highlighting making the most of what you have, as you mentioned. Because they narrowed the theme to “Hobo” it looks like they are intentionally mocking poverty. To expand on your example, they didn’t have a “Summer of Love” themed wedding (a span of time with as many positive attributes as negative) they had a “Race Riot” themed wedding (also part of the Summer of Love).
August 2, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Or a 1920′s themed wedding wouldn’t (shouldn’t) focus on Polio … just for another example.
August 2, 2011 at 4:38 pm
I love this comment.
August 2, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Any wedding that offers ball tripping is a wedding I will attend.
August 2, 2011 at 7:54 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 7:56 pm
And if you weren’t clear on it being a “hobo-themed” wedding, there’s the “We shared a bean!
” joke, followed by the line wherein it is stated that it is “THE FIRST HOBO-THEMED WEDDING.”
August 2, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Holy shit, I thought picture of the fire and the clown hobo were just to make fun of them. That is from the actual wedding?!
August 2, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Apparently! That’s what I thought too at first.
August 2, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Not as tasteless, but nearly as insensitive is this WWII themed wedding:
http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/couple_tie_knot_40s_style_1_1021775
complete with blackout, sound effects (sirens, bombers, declaration of war), and scenes of trenches.
August 2, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Where are the fleas? And the Cat soup?
August 2, 2011 at 3:46 pm
I tend to give people in the UK more leeway when it comes to deciding what should and shouldn’t offend them regarding the war(s). People who lived in the US during WWII can only imagine what British citizens were enduring; a friend of my mother’s spent part of her youth in a tube station, listening to air raid sirens and falling bombs and not knowing what would be left when they emerged again. The sound of a siren during the night terrified her the rest of her life. For many, even the young whose parents or grandparents suffered, war-themed events are seen as a way to shake off the nightmares and take away the power of fear, not a way to belittle or diminish what they went through.
August 2, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Looks like Etsy has blocked all comments that don’t exhibit drooling praise for this bullshit travesty. If I weren’t already married, maybe I’d have a Derelicte-themed wedding. Garbage bags and shopping carts — soooo OOAK.
August 2, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Looks like some negative comments made it through, but now there’s nothing. Looks like you’re right.
August 2, 2011 at 2:55 pm
yeah i went to post a comment and it didnt go through. so i started a thread in bugs category about it because im sure etsy would never stifle free speech….
August 2, 2011 at 8:16 pm
And yet, here on Regretsy, there is so much “Comment removed” emptiness…
I hate censorship. I hate it EVERYWHERE.
August 2, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Both this and the colonial-themed wedding (!!!) are incredibly, blatantly tasteless. As many have mused – how long til we see a Holocaust-themed wedding? It’s as if the more time passes, the more some brain dead morons think horrific is now “cute” and “retro”.
Aaaaaand……that’s a MAN?!?! Gads, the bride looks more masculine.
August 2, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Also, the groom looks underage. Maybe it’s a hobo thang?
August 2, 2011 at 8:04 pm
He looks (and acts, from what I’ve read on his Twitter and webcomic [which, for the record, is awful]) like an overgrown 12-year-old.
August 2, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Here’s the latest panel. Hah!
August 2, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Now that’s just an insult to hipsters…
August 2, 2011 at 10:40 pm
And it’s an insult to M4 weddings. And armless homeless children. And he wishes his hair was that thick and luxuriant.
August 5, 2011 at 9:22 pm
That’s an insult to urine.
August 2, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Not to utterly digress from how ridiculous the hobo-themed wedding is in general, but, is it just me, or does the “bride” on the invitations look like she’s got a beard?
August 2, 2011 at 2:52 pm
now that you say it, kind of.
But what surprises me here is “Hobo Casual”? there are categories for this? What does “Hobo Formal” or “Hobo Sportswear” look like?
August 2, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Yeah, I pointed that out earlier. I may have missed that day in history class or it was glossed over.
August 2, 2011 at 4:27 pm
They look like they’ve been …arranged to marry on the invite. They aren’t looking at each other, they certainly don’t appear happy in fact they look kind of anxious, and they’re standing at 7th grade dance distance. Besides the human display factor on the platform banked on both sides by flaming oil drums. Are they being sold at market in some horrifying dystopian future??
August 2, 2011 at 6:25 pm
The GROOM drew this. And he flattered himself, but not his bride. Just to add to the fuckery.
August 2, 2011 at 6:38 pm
i hope he did not wear shoes the entire time.
August 3, 2011 at 4:52 am
It looks to me like they’ve been put up on that platform to be judged by hundreds of people offended over something they’ve done.
Except in the picture, it looks like they understand not all of the opinions will be positive.
August 2, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Aw look, he’s barefoot because he’s all poor in stuff. So cute. -_-
I’m confused though…The Sheraton is a place where hobo’s (what we now call homeless people)can stay? Well that just solves the whole problem then…Yaaaaaaaay!!!
August 2, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Here’s hoping he steps on a rusty nail, since tetanus shots don’t fit in with the whole hobo/poor thing.
August 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm
She looks like Mose from The Office.
August 2, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Hobo…. casual. I’ll leave my tattered grease-stained tuxedo pants at home then! Isn’t it such a relief to the guests when the bride doesn’t insist everyone get all dressed up?
I’ll wear the barrel I sport on Casual Fridays. Totally appropriate.
August 2, 2011 at 2:45 pm
I think I am just going to have to have my own etsy shop to make up for my crap teacher salary. Yes, we will sell tampon headdresses, personalized stationary, and, as I teach all English language learner students, we will now have our very own immigration themed party planning service. All events will be planned in the around a theme – the working mexican immigrant. Extra services, like a mock trip across the rio with a coyote will be discussed once a contract is signed.
Fucking bullshit.
Fresh Out of Gold Stars
August 2, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Ugh, those comments are kinda worse than the article for me. “Tingles”? Really? “Hobo-style”? Because being poor is a style? 1930s wedding theme, sure, but I doubt anyone that lived through the Great Depression or was an actual “hobo” would want to relive that via a wedding. Wanting to do a wedding like your grandmother’s simple 1930s wedding, taking some traditions and customs from the time? Sure, that’s fine. Calling it a hobo-style great depression themed wedding is just… tasteless.
August 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm
“You really did it up good! The pictures look like they came straight out of the 30′s! Except the gaunt haggard tired skinny faces are replaced by well fed, laughing loving ones! I love this idea! Thanks for sharing it with all of us.”
-comment left on the Etsy thread
Trying to determine if that’s a burn, or sincerity.
August 2, 2011 at 3:08 pm
I’m going to take it as a burn so my faith in humanity and humility last another day.
August 2, 2011 at 3:10 pm
I am going to go with trying to slide under the mod radar burn.
August 2, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Definitely a burn, and a lovely one at that!
BTW, the comments on the blog are getting nastier by the minute…awesome.
August 2, 2011 at 2:49 pm
“attire is hobo casual”
Really? I was not aware that hobos had more than one outfit to choose from. They must have glossed that over in history class and the movies.
Bunch of smacktards.
August 2, 2011 at 2:50 pm
You can’t buy class. or taste. or self-aweness.
August 2, 2011 at 2:51 pm
*awareness. fuck.
August 2, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Actually, self-aweness kind of fits. They impress themselves.
August 2, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Gods help me – I was reading the discription on their site.
“After reading that the word “hobo” may be a syllabic abbreviation of “homeward bound,” we fell in love with the notion.”
I freaking hate hipsters.
So for kicks I calculated the cost of the brides outfit alone (since she helpfully included links to the stores and the names of the items)
The “Ruffled cotton voile dress” – $129 (http://www.etsy.com/listing/73775166/vintage-white-cotton-gauze-dress)
The “vintage millinery crown” – no such item could be found on the etsy store she linked and I couldn’t find one that matched her photos. However comparable items on Etsy run from $30-200
“delicate cutout oxford” – again, no such item could be found on the etsy store she linked. Closest I found was this, for $25
http://www.etsy.com/listing/78201036/slip-on-etienne-aigner-oxford-flats-8-85?ga_search_query=oxfords%2B&ga_search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_5378571
Plus shipping, anywhere from $199 to $369.
August 2, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Not counting the other ‘authentic items” she picked up off of Etsy.
The “one-of-a-kind feed sack overalls” for the bridesmaid don’t exist on the store she linked – I think she did a search for “vintage” and linked likely-looking stores to look more chic.
I need a drink.
August 2, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Wait, wait – found more dumb.
“I also found perfectly worn quilts that I cut for table runners and buntings.”
I really hope the quilts she cut up were some Chinese knockoff stuff and not real quilts or my grandmother’ll do cartwheels in her grave.
August 2, 2011 at 3:05 pm
My mom, the quilter, loved that bit.
August 2, 2011 at 3:37 pm
An alternate theory is that it’s from “hoe boys”–homeless men who would do day labor for food and pocket change.
That would have been an interesting wedding: Come see us get married . . . and turn over a 40-acre field by hand.
August 2, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Fucking hipsters.
August 2, 2011 at 2:54 pm
I sort of felt the need to post this after seeing the last picture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiO6qpL6YR8&ob=av2e
August 2, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Please start watching at 6:08…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV2ZKKtoefk
August 2, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Awesome, thanks! And Rob Paulsen was in it, bonus!
August 2, 2011 at 2:58 pm
i can see all the hipster guests now, out shopping for “poor” clothes and giggling. “does this look old enough to you?” “maybe we could rub a little dirt on it or rip it to make it look more authentic.” and then as they pass a homeless person on the way to starbucks, they cross the street to avoid contact.assholes.
August 2, 2011 at 4:34 pm
This is probably my favorite comment on here. I hope you don’t mind, I quoted you on my blog because it rings so completely, sickeningly true.
“OMG, I found the perfect feed sack dress! It just needs to be a little more faded and dirty. Ew, a creepy homeless guy! Don’t look directly at him, or he’ll ask for money.”
August 2, 2011 at 2:58 pm
They should get together with the folks from the colonial Africa wedding. It’ll be the party of the century!
(sorry for the duplicate comment, but YOU MOVED IT!)
August 2, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Ugh… just did a stalkerish overview of this couple. The verdict: they are dreadful people.
August 2, 2011 at 3:18 pm
I enjoy some of Brian’s webcomic work. “Everything Dies” is a favorite of mine.
But sometimes it’s like with actors or writers, I rarely want to meet my idols.
August 2, 2011 at 3:20 pm
He needs to develop his own personal style if he wants me to read his comics any further. Ugh.
August 2, 2011 at 3:00 pm
One more thing for everyone discussing the South African wedding. Watch the movie “Whitey.” Something to disturb everyone. Black people in black face makeup, for starters.
August 2, 2011 at 3:03 pm
August 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm
I’m sure they’d be proud.
August 2, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Nothing beats the Hobo life, Stabbin’ folks with my hobo knife. ….
August 2, 2011 at 3:06 pm
what the fuck is HOBO CASUAL?!
but I will also say this – there were plenty of Hobo’s (Hoboes?) back in the day that actually chose this lifestyle. One of my Maternal Grandfather’s Brother’s along with some Cousins did this. My Mom used to say that they chose this as a way of seeing the “land”. They actually rode the rails and were happy to live hand to hand. They would do odd jobs here and there for a meal and then take off again. – This was during the early 1930′s.. and the family was pretty poor as it was.
My Mom would also say that she thought it was because they just didn’t want to work. Which, is probably true.
August 2, 2011 at 3:07 pm
And to think my grandparents were too busy starving to realize they were trendy. Can you eat barnwood?
August 2, 2011 at 3:10 pm
August 2, 2011 at 3:15 pm
August 2, 2011 at 3:17 pm
As a former hobo, I don’t find this nearly as offensive as you might think.
I’ve actually always wanted to open a hobo-gourmet restaurant out of an old boxcar and hire buskers off the street for entertainment.
August 2, 2011 at 3:18 pm
I love that their invitations indicate that the dress for the wedding is “hobo casual”. Is there such a thing as “hobo formal”?
August 2, 2011 at 3:21 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 3:23 pm
I think when I get married, I want a nautical theme, but less kitschy, more vintage, a little for rustic and gritty… I know!
SLAVE SHIP WEDDING!
Did you know the slaves had their own wedding ceremonies and marvelous dances while they sailed across the mighty Atlantic on those storied vessels?
BLACK FACE SLAVE CHIC ATTIRE
August 2, 2011 at 4:00 pm
But is it “slave casual” or “slave formal”? I NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO THRIFT FOR!
August 2, 2011 at 4:09 pm
“Slave formal” just sounds pretentious. “Slave picnic attire” probably will work.
GET READY TO JUMP THE HANDMADE BROOM WE BOUGHT ON ETSY, GUYS!
August 2, 2011 at 3:25 pm
we are not having a wedding, we are having a legally binding commitment based ceremony. we are having it on halloween (at some point in the future, not this year, he only JUST convinced me I should marry him)
our plan is to have it in the evening and having trick or treating for the kidlets, the centerpieces will be bowls of halloween candy and everyone gets a trick or treat bag. We feel this will encourage mingling cause our families have never met. Also… costumes = way less expensive than wedding formal. and I cannot be blamed for how miserable the bridesmaids and maid of honor are with their dresses.
Plus doing it on halloween is important to us and we don’t want any of the kids to miss out on costumes and treats just because some dumb old adults decided to get married and their parents MADE them go to the wedding!
I mention this because I have now decided that if anyone shows up dressed like a hobo I will most likely laugh in their face.
August 2, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Cutest idea in the world. I will be stealing it.
August 2, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I’m sorry, I might steal that. You has good ideas.
August 2, 2011 at 10:50 pm
you can totally steal my “Laugh at hobo costume” idea, use it with my blessing!
August 3, 2011 at 11:08 pm
my weddign was on halloween 2009. it was the best wedding ever– i hope YOUR halloween wedding is just as kick- ass.
August 2, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Here’s the perfect venue for their hobo wedding:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021173/Americas-city-broken-dreams-50-jobless-destitute-people-set-forest-community-New-Yorks-doorstep.html
August 2, 2011 at 3:29 pm
this is actually going on relatively near where I live, and I’ve been camping in those same forests.
August 2, 2011 at 4:29 pm
We had one where I live too, but the police had to break it up because people were getting killed crossing the highway to get to it.
August 2, 2011 at 3:27 pm
What a fun idea, let’s plan more historical tragedy-themed weddings! We could do a “Cowboys vs Indians” wedding, where the bridesmaids are bound and raped and the children shot like deer. Or a Titanic wedding where everything is elegant and lively, and then everyone is thrown into a tank of ice water and left to die. Or how about a good old-fashioned “ethnic cleansing” hootanany? You can play shoot the savage Injun, shave the Jew, roast marshmellows over the burning witches, whip the Chinese laborer, and pin the molten-hot brander on the slave. Lololololol totes vinnage.
What makes me really sad is that I wouldn’t doubt that hipsters would take any of those above ideas. Because, you know, human repression and poverty/famine are totes adorable, you know, as long as it was a reaaaally long time agoa and those people are totally dead now anyway.
August 2, 2011 at 5:00 pm
I’m a historical Titanic nut and I was thinking the same thing. If I ever marry am I expected to have my future groom be covered in make up to make it look like he froze to death? Do I go down the isle with a life jacket? Have a Captain Smith look alike conduct the ceremony while he’s in make up to look like he’s dead?
I wasn’t even alive in the 1930’s but this makes me offended FOR them! Thank God my grandmother doesn’t know about this!
August 2, 2011 at 5:58 pm
I had a “Titanic” themed Junior prom. I wish I’d thought to go in blue makeup so as to look like I froze and/or drowned. My date would have totally gone for it, too.
As it was, the school didn’t my idea of sinking the gym at the end. Spoilsports.
August 2, 2011 at 7:10 pm
You and I had the same prom theme. I think everyone did in ’97/’98.
I didn’t want to sink the gym, I wanted to douse the prom queen with a firehose.
August 2, 2011 at 3:31 pm
I heard plenty of stories about hobos from my grandmother who grew up during the depression. It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t glamorous and sure as shit shouldn’t be the ‘theme’ of some ‘fun’ wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 3:32 pm
What if none of your guests show up on the big day because they’re all too poor to travel to the wedding? Would the happy couple be upset about having all that money and preparation gone to waste? I mean, the guests are just being true to the theme of the wedding, right?
August 2, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Good thing the couple and their guests could “eat their fill of bbq and pie,” because real hobos sure as shit couldn’t.
August 2, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Holy fuck…as someone who used to be homeless – albeit briefly – this makes me want to throw up. These fucktards need to be forced to sleep in their car for a week and panhandle for their food.
Actuslly, my former homelessness has nothing to do with this. As a HUMAN BEING, I find this disgusting. Shit like this makes me want to jump off a cliff. I wish I was kidding.
August 2, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Don’t jump. The world needs more people who think like you do, not fewer.
August 2, 2011 at 3:42 pm
This reminds me of when a bunch of people at my last job threw a “White Trash” party, complete with fake teenage pregnancies and bad accents. I was the only one who was offended and refused to go. This was in an extremely poor rural area of Arkansas.
The kicker? We all worked for a nonprofit committed to ending world hunger.
August 2, 2011 at 10:57 pm
That is so sad. It just shows how some people are really not cut out for jobs in human services. One thing that disgusted me when I taught was seeing teachers joke and complain about individual students and their learning disabilities.
August 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm
I was going to have a hobo themed wedding but when the leprosy took my wedding finger… well needless to say I was devastated. I called it off.
August 2, 2011 at 3:55 pm
I mean, it’s not like anyone is poor or homeless now. And it’s certainly not like our economy might be headed for times like this again.
August 2, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Hmm. It’s getting dark. Must whistle.
August 2, 2011 at 4:04 pm
I’m working on my family genealogy and my grandmother’s father grew up in a log cabin where he’d often wake up with snow on his pillow.
On my ancestors’ behalf, *I’m” offended that such a devestating period in our history is being made out as no big thing.
August 2, 2011 at 4:09 pm
“We got to work researching the Depression era and hobo culture. We interviewed homeless people, wondering what their dream wedding would be. Those who didn’t say ‘warm bed’ would just cry and were no use. To think, if we were self-aware we could have donated the money spent/not spent on this shit-fest to a charity, or at least invested in a wedding that wasn’t super-insensitive. Now congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Fuckforbrains!”
August 2, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Let’s not forget the legacies of alcoholism and addiction and violence that the stress of poverty engenders, the horrible shit that keeps cycling. The nightmares of wrecked homes and childhoods and desperation that so many of us will spend our lives sifting through. I hope their chic planner helped them provide for those long term totes adorbs accouterments!
August 2, 2011 at 4:26 pm
People romanticize things from all time periods, from pirates (hooray for raping and pillaging!) to medieval times (just what everyone wants, bubonic plague and child brides). This is just another example of someone not thinking it through.
August 2, 2011 at 7:09 pm
I fucking hate all this pirate shit.
August 2, 2011 at 9:37 pm
yes! yes! yes! yes! yes!
August 2, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Let’s see…during the Great Depression my grandmother’s family had to move into one house so that’s eight people living in a two bedroom house. Then there’s the fact that she had to get a paper route because there wasn’t enough money in the house. She had to walk the route until she could afford a bicyle as they didn’t have a car. Her best childhood friend died of TB and her friend’s father commited suicide as he lost his only child.
My grandfather and his brother picked strawberries for extra money. Then the dustbowl hit so the family had to move to California. The family lived out of their car until they could reach California.
Yep, seems like a great theme to celebrate!
Oh man, this pisses me off.
August 2, 2011 at 5:40 pm
yeah, my grandmother had to carry a mattress for several miles with her twin sister because they didnt have a car. it’s real cute. they could make it a race, kind of like a sack race. who can carry the mattress for 10 miles? first one to the finish line wins!
August 2, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Interestingly, another current etsy post is along the same lines,
http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2011/jeremy-hutchisons-err/?ref=fp_blog_image
More specifically it opens like this:
“In May 2010, London-based artist Jeremy Hutchison read an article about an assembly line worker who said he would sometimes deliberately drop something on the ground so that he could have a few seconds of rest while picking it up. From then on, Hutchison was taken with the idea of an intentional error, wondering what would happen if the smooth system of global manufacturing was interrupted. “I used to think globalization made the world seem very tidy. Now I think it makes it vanish altogether,” Hutchison said.”
A worker in a first-world country could get some seconds of rest only by pretending he dropped an object and the artist saw a bloody aesthetic statement.
August 3, 2011 at 12:01 am
Exactly why I hate *Artists.* By *Artists* I mean those who describe themselves as Artists with a Capital A, thank you. Those who do shit like the above. Those who take a picture of a satellite and title it “Sometimes It Looks Like Racism.” In other words, the fuckers I went to grad school with.
August 2, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Is anyone on twitter at the moment? I’m loving the internet argument flamed over a venue twitter. Lots of “omg you’re so offensive regretsy” sorts of butthurt with an equal dose of humor.
August 2, 2011 at 4:30 pm
AT LEAST most of the 20′s hobos have passed on. It’s awful, but that’s the silver lining in this: they can’t see it. …at least, I think not… I hope not. If they get mobbed by zombie hobos bent on revenge, though, it would be a great movie- and it would be whimsical shabby chic with blood…
August 2, 2011 at 4:30 pm
they are deleting negative comments over there faster than you can say STARVATION
August 2, 2011 at 4:30 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 6:24 pm
What kids dress up like hobos for holloween?
August 2, 2011 at 7:57 pm
…actually, lots, where I’m from (eastern Canada). it was a cheap, easy costume.
August 5, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Homeless ones, as far as I know.
August 2, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Several people have posted about their own personal experience with homelessness and poverty. Others have described their parents and grandparents, who took part in raising them. Hardly an obscure relative dredged up to prove a point.
The couple’s blog shows pictures of parties from the 30s, 40s, and 50s in which people dressed as hobos for a costume party. Tasteless then, tasteless now. The difference is that the Main Line socialites who mocked poverty back then apparently did it indoors.
August 2, 2011 at 7:39 pm
These are ADULTS. They claimed to do research on this. They should know better.
In case you hadn’t noticed, a lot of us ARE poor and/or have been homeless. We might have our reasons for taking offense at someone glamorizing being poor.
August 2, 2011 at 9:27 pm
ok, how about this, not only did my grandmother suffer through the great depression, getting married at the age of 15 to escape her family and try to scrape by a little easier with an abusive alcoholic man (read: THE ABUSIVE ALCOHOLIC WAS PREFERABLE TO HER HOME LIFE), BUT I MYSELF GREW UP STARVING FUCKING POOR. is that authentic enough for you? have i now earned the right to be offended? maybe i need to add in the fact that because both my parents worked constantly, it gave my brothers free reign to BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF ME DAILY, to the point that i have a back injury that i will live with for the rest of my life because no one was around to discipline the bastards. but oh, you know so much about poverty, so you can tell us we’re all being mean. boo fucking hoo. 30s style is great, i love it. you know what isn’t great? spending $15k on a wedding themed around a time in history and a specific socio-economic group that SUFFERED. CONSTANTLY. but you know, it was totes cute.
August 2, 2011 at 9:38 pm
IF they hadnt publicized their weddiocy over at etsy, we wouldnt know about it to be infuriated by it, would we?
August 2, 2011 at 10:01 pm
big difference between middle class people who feel poor having a 15K wedding and little kids dressing up for a few dollars
(We dressed our kid as a hobo one year because he accidentally destroyed his home made costume at a school party – and we didn’t have the money to go buy a new one… these are common cheap outfits we low income folks can dress our kids in)
August 2, 2011 at 10:11 pm
You know, I didn’t grow up poor, I’ve never been homeless, but I’m STILL offended by this because I’m a DECENT HUMAN BEING. And this shit is offensive.
August 2, 2011 at 4:45 pm
The bride and groom kept a blog leading up to the wedding. It goes over “hobo-esque” items, mainly found on Etsy, that they like. Good place to get an idea of how much it costs to look that poor.
http://ahobowedding.blogspot.com/
August 2, 2011 at 4:47 pm
As the wise Dolly Parton once said, “It’s EXPENSIVE making a person look this cheap!”
August 2, 2011 at 6:12 pm
I swear they spent more on that wedding than the entire country had during the Depression. It’s disgusting.
The “hobo-yourself” guide for the guys….omfg….
I don’t know how people can even think like this…
August 2, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Or, ya know, her oh-so-period sack dress – an original sack from 1958….yeah, that’s so hobo….
August 2, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Affordably priced at $98!
‘Cause I’m sure real hobos spend a hundred bucks on a dress.
August 2, 2011 at 9:59 pm
I’m sure that $98 didn’t include shipping or tailoring.
August 2, 2011 at 4:48 pm
<img src="http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/images/migrantmother.jpg"
Aw, look! They're "homeward bound".
August 2, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Crap. That’s not what it’s supposed to look like…
August 2, 2011 at 4:51 pm
August 2, 2011 at 4:56 pm
(Longtime RSS feed reader, first time poster)
I wonder if they played “Common People” during the reception?
August 2, 2011 at 5:00 pm
I can’t wait to see Etsy’s feature of the first Auschwitz-themed baby shower.
(Oh yes, I went there.)
August 2, 2011 at 7:55 pm
I think a Haitian Earthquake themed 25th wedding anniversary will be just darling for these two.
Disgusting.
August 2, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Awww Would they make banners out of their arm bands or their striped pajamas?
And for hors d’oeuvres they could put their prized jewels in bits of bread and swallow them whole!
I fucking hate everyone.
August 3, 2011 at 12:25 am
Well, bbq baby is the best baby. (Besides tandoori baby. So tender and mild!)
August 2, 2011 at 5:01 pm
What.
Fucking.
Asshats.
My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression. They remembered giving away some of their own small amounts of food to REAL hobos out of the kindness of their hearts. This pretentious hobo themed wedding shit is making them roll over in their graves.
August 2, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Welp, I just found the bride’s wedding treasury:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTk0MzIzMXwxMzcxNDQ/hallelujah-im-a-bum
I think part of my soul died a little.
August 3, 2011 at 12:43 pm
What part of “I’m a bum” is wonderful?
August 2, 2011 at 5:01 pm
I can only imagine where these two scamps registered for gifts… any ideas??
August 2, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Boxcar, Bath, and Beyond?
August 2, 2011 at 5:14 pm
I hope at goodwill or the dollar store, but I imagine, Macys, Dillards, or Bloomingdales.
August 2, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Oh, oh, I’ve got it! Crate & Barrel-with-suspenders!
August 2, 2011 at 5:09 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Well, everyone brace yourselves: hobo parties are the “in thing” for upscale kids now, complete with homeless themed food, games and costumes. And, of course, Dorothea Lange inspired photos to send home as momentos:
http://royzgirlz.blogspot.com/2011/05/haileys-hobo-party.html
August 2, 2011 at 5:51 pm
….I hate people.
August 2, 2011 at 7:05 pm
I especially hate THOSE people. That has got to be the worst blog in the history of the world. WTF is up with that font?
August 2, 2011 at 7:20 pm
I love how the mom jokes about trying to get rid of their old “ghetto van” and having to deal with her daughter’s torn “ghetto jeans.” Guess what the theme of the NEXT birthday will be?
August 2, 2011 at 6:08 pm
That’s just fucked up…
August 2, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Not to mention… the entire family is posing on BARN WOOD for their portrait.
August 3, 2011 at 2:35 pm
what annoyed me most was having to listen to that annoying Perry song just to look at that blog
August 2, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Can I have a red-scare themed wedding where the DJ yells at everyone to duck and cover?
August 3, 2011 at 12:19 am
I’m going to have a House Un-American Activities Committee party. We’ll all wear sweet Mad-Men vintage outfits, and I’ll have my guests testify and swear a loyalty oath to the US. If they won’t do it, I’m going to contact their employer and try to get the fired. Won’t it be totes adorable and awesome to be so into this period of history? Maybe we’ll even set up some electric chairs as a photo booth! People can pretend to be the Rosenbergs! Squee!
CindarellaPop, can I get the name of your red-scare DJ for the after-party?
August 2, 2011 at 5:17 pm
omg can you get TB from sharing iPhones? The hipstamashit photos from $300+ phones are really capturing an authentic feel of such a happy time in history.
August 2, 2011 at 5:17 pm
As a theme, 30′s fashion is kind of neat.
However, the part about the quilts makes me want to stab them. I do quilting. If my daughter ever cuts up my quilts for runners, I’ll come back from the dead to personally punch her in the lady parts.
August 2, 2011 at 5:20 pm
30′s fashion is very cool, and the bride seems like she’s well-versed in collecting antiques (or should be, anyway…) and they clearly have an eye for style. However…
August 2, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Yeah 30′s fashion is beautiful, I collect a lot of items from that era, however, they went about it the wrongest way possible.
August 2, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Absolutely agreed. Like everyone else here, I had Grandparents who scraped through the depression. My grandmother lost her twin during that time to diseases that were rampant during the depression. I admired her creativity in making things just to get by.
Had they been invited to a wedding like this, they would have just been saddened. We don’t know how lucky we have it today.
August 2, 2011 at 7:06 pm
My mom would cross the country and my grandmother would rise from the grave to beat the hillbilly bajingo wash out of me if I did anything to their quilts.
August 2, 2011 at 5:20 pm
This is just so gross. Poverty is not something to glorify. Maybe the awesome bloggers from etsy should come to Vancouver and I can give them a tour of the downtown eastside, where I work and they can profit from all the “hobo chic” ideas here. Assholes.
August 2, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Two thousand hobo dollars that their wedding song was Common People by Pulp. Except they think it’s sincere and not at all satirical. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM&ob=av2n
August 2, 2011 at 5:25 pm
I hope they get period-appropriate dysentery and lice.
August 2, 2011 at 5:26 pm
I think a theme wedding can be cool; I like their 30′s style details. I think what bugs me most is a) they’re obviously hipsters, which I dislike of all scene kids right now 2)It was clearly NOT a budget wedding; buying vintage is pricey, and so are those tent set-ups.
I guess I wouldn’t have thought the hobo thing was offensive right off, because I don’t know much about the history, but after reading this thread, it was clearly a faux pas. What’s next, Civil War Era freed-slave themed weddings? Maybe with an underground railroad ride?
August 2, 2011 at 5:26 pm
my sister and brother-in-law once took me, years ago, to a restaurant in seattle that was entirely depression-era themed. you drank out of mason jars and they served you various sorts of stew on tin plates. the place was lined with enormous black and white photos of depression era people standing in line, hobos around camp fires, living in tents, a la dorothea lange.
my sister thought it so funny! in the middle of the meal i burst – and i mean burst – into sobs, crying ‘how could you think this was funny? this is awful, dehumanizing…’ etc.
of course i was just being too sensitive! must have been because they are such good liberals!
i think it wass called ‘the food line’.
August 2, 2011 at 5:27 pm
they didn’t show pix of their honeymoon suite…
i don’t know why we are at all shocked to see this wedding – this bed has been waiting around on 14 Treasuries, just waiting for the right hobo.. er happy couple…
August 3, 2011 at 9:49 am
OMG. This set-up was my “couch” when I got my first apartment 20 years ago. Never realized it was such a “treasure”!
August 3, 2011 at 2:36 pm
So great that you remembered this “treasure.”
August 2, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Oh my fucking God, I don’t know why I subject myself to stuff that pisses me off this much, but the twitter thing posted on facebook shows how dim they are.
“I suppose spending $100,000 on our wedding would have been a better way to make an homage to the depression era.”
WTF there is a lot of space between expensive wedding and desprately grasping for some weird theme.
August 2, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Chilled out a bit, and I would like to point out I am more annoyed by Etsy playing this up like this is some awesome idea. I would probably raise an eyebrow hearing about the theme and maybe mock a bit, but the blog post about it being the bestestthingeverohmygosh and it being promoted by Etsy is the more frustrating point.
August 3, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Now wonder Etsy did. Did you read their description and all the links back to other Etsy sellers? It’s like a giant Etsy advertisement.
August 2, 2011 at 5:35 pm
I like how disapproving of someone’s blatant insensitivity is “hating on love,” too. What confuses me most about this comment is that most of the comments here have been about how it’s entirely possible to have an elegant wedding for less than they probably paid, have fun, and NOT be completely offensive in the process.
Or, I mean, shit. Be offensive. It’s your big day. Just don’t let those pictures go up on the internet and expect nothing but asspats.
August 3, 2011 at 7:58 am
Mmmmmm….asspats…..
August 2, 2011 at 5:30 pm
I’ve never approved of hobosexual marriage.
August 2, 2011 at 6:28 pm
A million hobo fun bucks (and thumbs-up) to you.
August 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm
August 3, 2011 at 12:25 am
What’s funny is that sketch kind of looks like the only man I ever loved (I like the ladies.) He is something of a hipster, wears torn coveralls that make the homeless people in his city say “Damn, boy, that ain’t right.” I can guaran-damn-tee even he, clueless as he is, would be totally offended by this shit (and amused by the sketch.)
August 2, 2011 at 5:35 pm
So the bride and groom are such special little snowflakes that they can’t see the problem. Fair enough. I’m thinking Irish Potato Famine for my big day. We can not eat potatoes and wear many layers. The pictures will be great!
My real question is what about the guests? How is it that none of the invites came back with “Sorry, no. I’m not a total fuckstick.”
August 2, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Why stop at the Famine? Think of all the times of human suffering throughout history. You could have a Mao’s China engagement party, a Ground Zero wedding and an African Drought anniversary party. The Human Suffering trifecta for ultimate hipster credentials.
August 2, 2011 at 7:49 pm
OH GOD. A Cultural Revolution themed wedding! My dad would never speak to me again. Wait, that might not be all bad…
August 2, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Just when I think hipsters can’t ruin anything else, they find a new way to offend me.
The thing that blows my mind is that this ‘poverty’ themed wedding cost 100k according to the groom’s twitter feed. They could have had a cute 30s themed wedding for the average-wedding-price of 27k and donated the rest to actual hobos.
Bravo, Etsy, let’s continue glorifying indulged, ignorant jackasses. Like the internet didn’t already have enough.
August 2, 2011 at 5:44 pm
I think he’s being facetious. I hope he’s being facetious. It’s hard to tell through the neckbeard vitriol.
August 2, 2011 at 5:55 pm
God I hope so. 100k is just so much money, no matter what sort of wedding it is, let alone this faux-poverty shit the hipsters are into. It makes me weep for the future.
August 2, 2011 at 6:07 pm
He was definitely being facetious and trying to call out super fancy big 100K weddings.
His argument is moot though as I don’t think anyone here is suggesting that everyone should spend a meskillion dollars on getting married-Kardashian style. We’re just suggesting that maybe you shouldn’t get married in a way that appears to glorify poverty and a horrible chapter in American history.
Now s’cuse me guys… I need to talk to the caterer about my goatse wedding cake topper for my big Vore-themed day.
August 2, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Or, and this is just a thought, maybe get married however you want, but allow it to be a private, family thing and don’t use it to pimp your shop. And THEN get all butthurt when you get a bunch of attention from your attention-seeking behavior.
August 2, 2011 at 7:31 pm
What do you expect from them? Hipsters gonna hip!
August 2, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Bridezilla vore, the next hot wedding trend!
August 2, 2011 at 6:25 pm
yeah, no. He sez they are poor that’s why they had a hobo themed wedding (which doesn’t make much sense to me, I was poor and had a JOP ceremony with BYO reception stuff).
He sez they did this RATHER than spend 100K. as if those are the choices.
A. 100K wedding
B. Faux Hobo wedding
August 2, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Jesus. My wedding was $60. Total.
August 2, 2011 at 5:39 pm
I thought the final “party like its 1929″ picture was some of our own Photoshop fuckery. When I saw it was actually used at the wedding, I was floored by the douche-baggery of it all.
August 2, 2011 at 6:14 pm
I just came back to say just that! I was sure that was a shop-job until I went on their circlejerk of a post.
August 2, 2011 at 5:39 pm
This Etsy “lifestyle” thing is really creeping me out – more than half their blog is about “living Etsy” and some of them read like romance pulp. It’s like a Fox Channel for Admins. If they can’t talk you into listing what THEY want you to list, they want to clone your whole life. I keep thinking please give us some equal time for the other viewpoint, but it’s Etsy. All that money makes them think they’re the thought police.
August 2, 2011 at 5:41 pm
I honestly thought that the “party like it’s 1929″ sign was a photoshop courtesy of Regretsy. How wrong I was- honest to god pic from the wedding. Oh regretsy! How you always make my day better
August 2, 2011 at 5:42 pm
So many comments, so I apologize if I’m repeating; but what really gets on my nerves is everybody blowing each other on the comments section over there. (If you don’t take into account the comments after this was posted over here.)
Seriously. Blowing each other. What a waste of a circle-jerk.
August 2, 2011 at 5:43 pm
http://twitter.com/#!/boxbrown
Oh great, now they are all over twitter “Boo hoo hoo, people aren’t patting me on the head and telling me what a genius I am!”
Well, at least now they can have a little authentic suffering.
August 2, 2011 at 5:52 pm
OMFG, he keeps saying “Oh, so over it, was only mad for 5 minutes” and then ranting away and making stupid cartoons. WTF is wrong with people that they can’t see that that is just plain offensive??
August 2, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Wifey declares that all of the Internet is being a dick: http://twitter.com/#!/MouseTrapVtg/status/98565121659510784
August 2, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Even worse! Etsy people are being mean, too! Oh
noesno!“MouseTrapVtg Sarah Louise Hunt
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@nocarnations @adelinesattic @humpastuff what KILLS me is that actual Etsy members/shop owners are leaving neg comments.
”
I mean, wtf.
August 2, 2011 at 10:37 pm
Dang. Forgot about the “
noes” thing. Apologies – and thank you for the correction.August 3, 2011 at 8:35 am
Jesus suffering fuck, that hipster has the same name as me. All of it.
I think I might have to drink Jif.
August 3, 2011 at 10:37 am
Because god knows, actual Etsy people never say anything that’s not all rainbows and puppies…
August 2, 2011 at 5:44 pm
look who came to the party:
for those who have forgotten:
http://www.regretsy.com/2010/05/06/headless-whores-man/
August 2, 2011 at 5:45 pm
holy shit that’s the twin sister
August 2, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Man, it’s like recursive fuckery.
August 2, 2011 at 6:16 pm
“Al’s Wood Pile”
Good name for a few things…
August 3, 2011 at 5:28 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs1Oov4Gckg&feature=related
Al’s Wood Pile makes me think of Mel’s Rock Pile
Which makes me think of the above link.
August 2, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Well guess who drew their Etsy logo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boxbrown/5297663482/in/set-72157603850601536
August 2, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Deep down Box knows he’d have had a classier wedding, as well as a more intelligent wife and fulfilling life, if he had followed his heart and married the pillow.
August 3, 2011 at 7:37 am
LOL! She stuck out like a SORE THUMB! Get it? Because it’s a hobo party and hobos and hitchhikers are the same thing RIGHT?
Fucking dumbass.
I guess superiority complexes run in the family too because this dumb bitch seems to think that she’s always in the “spotlight” maybe because she walks around with a headless fuck doll.
August 2, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Malvern is just outside Philadelphia. It’s the sort of town featured in that classic Depression-era wedding movie, The Philadelphia Story. Cary Grant did not wear overalls.
August 2, 2011 at 7:12 pm
I didn’t realize it until just now (we are in a corporate apartment waiting for our permanent residence after relocating to Pa) that I am in Chester County, Pa about this close to these douchecanoes. I knew something smelled funny here.
August 2, 2011 at 7:35 pm
I’d like to have seen these guys a little farther east in one of the shitty parts of Philly. “We’re gonna spend $15k to pretend to be poor for our wedding. It’s not offensive to YOU poor people because the people we’re imitating are already dead.”
August 2, 2011 at 7:53 pm
I wonder if this reply is going to nest…
Maybe a “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” themed wedding at Broad and Allegheny?
August 2, 2011 at 8:41 pm
$15k to him is “pretty damn frugal.” I’m spending $3k on my wedding. Maybe I should change my theme to hobo? I hear it’s cute, and oh so chic.
August 2, 2011 at 8:54 pm
15k is frugal? I spent £3k on my wedding and it was so much fun. People like this make me want to spew.
August 2, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Hell, we spent less than a hundred bucks on our wedding. So, yeah… They’re poor my ass.
I don’t begrudge anyone spending whatever they like on their weddings but I am rather weary of people like them claiming to be poor. They have obviously never been through anything tougher than a hangnail.
August 2, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Reminds me of my SIL. Her father was one of the higher ups at Caterpillar. She had $50 bath towels and a $600 bedding set on her wedding registry and thought I was trashy for buying my kid’s clothes at Goodwill.
After 8 years of being married to a youth minister, she has changed her tune. We get along a lot better now! LOL
August 2, 2011 at 11:07 pm
That was supposed to be a reply to intorqueo…….
August 3, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I used to work for Goodwill, there’s nothing wrong with shopping there. I buy my sons clothes there too, at 5 he’s simply to hard on his clothes to justify spending a lot of money on something he will either destroy or grow out of
August 3, 2011 at 3:57 am
seriously though – hang nails hurt like hell
August 3, 2011 at 3:58 am
I can’t remember whose mine was meant to be a reply to!
August 3, 2011 at 7:55 am
Preach it!
August 3, 2011 at 7:56 am
I think we broke Regresty’s comment widget.
August 3, 2011 at 10:19 am
I’ve been married twice, and spent less than $15 000 (CND) on TWO weddings.
August 2, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Yeah, because people who are genuinely poor try to appear clean and well-groomed. They want to look as well-off as possible.
August 2, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Oops, this was supposed to be a reply to Mapleleaves.
August 2, 2011 at 7:46 pm
The Philadelphia Story was about high society. The woman that Katherine Hepburn’s character was based on lived on a 750-acre estate about nine miles east of Malvern.
The remake was actualy called High Society and starred Grace Kelly, who was a wealthy Philadelphian but her father was a brickmason so she was never considered to be among the “elite.”
August 3, 2011 at 8:51 am
exactly.
August 3, 2011 at 9:37 am
Sometimes, yes, that is the case. My mother always tried to make sure we were bathed and clean-looking so that no one would report us to CPS or anything like that. Even poor people have pride, and sometimes the poor person can be living right next door to you, worrying about buying food, and you don’t even know it.
August 2, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Oh, yes, the depression.
That idyllic time of happiness,
Prosperity,
Family togetherness,
and extended camping trips,
I can’t believe that no one involved realized what a horrible idea this was.
August 2, 2011 at 5:50 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Urban Dictionary? Really? Looks like you and the happy couple did the same level of research.
Jack Kerouack (sic) chose the hobo life in the 50′s. This is a DEPRESSION ERA HOBO party, which means it is addressing itself to a specific period of human misery, illness and poverty.
Hobos in the depression era were not motivated by travel.
August 2, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Or wired money from their aunt! Reading Kerouac was such a huge disappointment for me. He didn’t give up anything, live humbly, or forego any luxuries. He just whined.
August 3, 2011 at 12:33 am
The only good thing about Kerouac is that reading him sometimes gets people reading Allen Ginsberg. The bad thing about that is that sometimes those people are hipsters, and then they want to claim him.
August 3, 2011 at 9:54 am
Kerouac wrote “On the Road” on a roll of butcher paper under the influence of meth.
August 3, 2011 at 12:06 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 6:47 pm
I missed the pix of the couple on the road… was that the honeymoon segment?
(and yeah — Kerouac’s book was around the late 40′s early 50′s .. the Beat Generation lifestyle on the road was by choice….would that the Depression era folks had a choice..)
August 3, 2011 at 2:13 pm
this is less ‘on the road’ and more ‘grapes of wrath.’
August 2, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Have you seen their blog? You too can have your own hi-larious hobo wedding. http://ahobowedding.blogspot.com/
Here’s one of their suggestions –no shit!
August 2, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Their blog is just… narcissism and etsy ethos and I’m going to go watch hardcore porn until my eyes stop rolling.
August 2, 2011 at 5:58 pm
You know, I really miss those days when my husband lost his job and we had two babies (one of them two weeks old) and we couldn’t pay the bills or buy clothes for our kids. It just brings back such nostalgia to remember how great those days were. Perhaps someone could theme their wedding off our plight! The invitations could be disguised as utility disconnect notices, and in order to get in the buffet line you have to show your government-issued dinner card. Oh, can’t you just taste the loss of self respect now?
August 2, 2011 at 5:59 pm
I tried to post something snarky, but I am just too fucking angry.
For those of us who deal with poverty every day, who struggle with disability and a bad economy, this is a slap in the face of our efforts to survive.
For those who grew up without, for the depression-era parents who really tried to make nothing last a little longer — this is a fucking insult to the spirit of survival and enormously disrespectful of human suffering.
That the new generation. Entitled, self-absorbed, clueless, insensitive assholes.
August 2, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Bless you, Lemon Bombs.
August 3, 2011 at 1:20 pm
“That the new generation. Entitled, self-absorbed, clueless, insensitive assholes”
Your feelings are totally justified, but please don’t assume this is a generational thing. Entitled middle class brats with no clue what poverty is actually like have existed in every generation.
I’m about the same age as these two and I know I’ve never been truly poor. My parents gave up things to live a mostly middle class existence, though, so I’ve been close enough to poverty to know I have no fucking clue what it’s like just because I have a small apartment or an old car.
August 5, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Point taken. You are correct, it’s not a whole generation.
Also, i deserve a brisk thumbing-down for my typos.
August 2, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Jesus tapdancing christ. I just saw photos on that homesewn blog of the wedding.
Not only did they destroy heirloom quilts for tablerunners and bunting, but LOOK AT THE FUCKING THINGS
They just straight up tore a quilt to bits and tacked it to a bit of ribbon.
I mean, if I had an heirloom quilt that was so badly damaged it was beyond repair, if it had huge holes in and was falling apart at the seams, I might repurpose it into something else, like pillows or something. But I would do it in such a way as to preserve the quilt, and maintain the spirit in which it was made.
The lazy job they’ve done on them (not even hemmed the edges!) pretty much guarantees that the bunting will just disintegrate in short order, leaving absolutely nothing of the quilt it was.
August 2, 2011 at 6:11 pm
OMG, this riles me up more than anything!!
August 2, 2011 at 7:12 pm
I’m sure great-grandma would have appreciated me tearing up her handsewn quilts to use as table runners at a theme wedding. If she wasn’t already dead, she’d probably smother me with said quilts.
August 2, 2011 at 7:17 pm
I hope my mother (a quilter, who has made many beautiful quilts for family and for charity, and who has painstainkingly restored vintage quilts, and various needlework/other fabric heirlooms from her ancestors, immigrants to the US due to hardship, and then depression-survivors) never finds out about the quilts being torn up. Because, you know, I love my mother and would hate to break her heart like that.
August 2, 2011 at 7:47 pm
If I ever, EVER, found out that anyone had done anything even remotely similar to one of the quilts that my great-grandmother had spent so many hours lovingly constructing with her bare hands, I could not and would not be held responsible for my actions.
I am being quite literal when I say I WOULD CUT A BITCH.
August 2, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Huh. Did they try and get rid of the image?
Well, here it is again.
HAH!
August 2, 2011 at 8:37 pm
That…that actually makes me want to fucking cry. Or punch that entitled bitch. Or both.
August 2, 2011 at 8:46 pm
It is especially mind boggling, since it would have been so much easier and cheaper to make bunting out of calico and other country’ish fabrics.
August 3, 2011 at 12:37 am
No,it wouldn’t be authentic, and would also cost less. Neither of those things fits their theme.
August 2, 2011 at 8:58 pm
I have a lot of quilts with big holes and tears in them. I still love them. As quilts. this is disgusting.
August 2, 2011 at 10:24 pm
If it helps, those quilts look a lot more “Wal-mart clearance section” than antiques. It looks more like a “quilt” print than actual piecework.
I sincerely hope that’s the case, anyway…..
August 2, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Hey, we have those lamps!
August 2, 2011 at 6:04 pm
So, I went to sears and bought a clearance-rack dress. I bought my son an outfit from WalMarket that did triple duty – Easter, wedding and school pictures. Hubster wore work clothes. He and I went to the justice of the peace and did the deed for $60. Then we went to my grandmother’s house and had a very small “reception” – the highlight of which was a ‘cake’ made of piled krispy kreme donuts. BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT WE COULD AFFORD, AND WE REALLY COULDN’T AFFORD THAT.
But yeah, this makes way more of a statement. Totes.
August 2, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Sounds like the perfect wedding to me. I know my husband would have rather had Krispy Kreme!
August 2, 2011 at 8:49 pm
One set of my grandparents wore their church suits to the JoP and had no reception because it was wartime and they didn’t have enough rations to cover even a simple wedding. Somewhere, an Etsy hipster is plotting a way to make this a theme.
August 2, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Holy hell. My grandparents suffered through the Depression, breaking their backs on a farm so that maybe, their children just might have food to eat and not have to drop out of school to work in the fields. I’m so damn glad they aren’t alive to see a bunch of self-important, clueless, privileged asshats dilute their grueling lives and hard work down to a cutesy theme wedding. Because omg! Feed sack dresses! Squee!
August 2, 2011 at 6:06 pm
This is what happens when rip-off-artist bands like The Head and The Heart pretend to be Woody Guthrie. They sing songs about The Depression and then go home to their middle class suburbs.
Example: “I wish I was a slave to some age-old trade,” or “like riding ’round on railcars and working long days.” Sure they do.
And now hipsters are having hobo themed weddings.
Coincidence?
August 2, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Exactly. I know those kids, and while I do enjoy their music, they wouldn’t be able to tell their engine from their caboose. Last I heard they were working on something like a hobo rock opera, COINCIDENCE?
August 2, 2011 at 6:07 pm
It’s a shame, the man in the picture actually does a pretty good, well-researched webcomic. He should know, of all people, that this blatant appropriation is not ok.
August 2, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Oh come on. They were just having a Dexy’s Midnight Riders themed wedding. What’s the big deal?
August 2, 2011 at 6:10 pm
I kind of love that they’ll live with knowing their wedding was in terrible taste forever. They’ll never be able to look back on it fondly, and that is punishment enough.
August 2, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Problem—they’ll never know. Either they don’t realize, or they don’t agree. Not to agree is fine—their lives, their standards—but the twitter-fit suggests they don’t even understand there is another point of view.
If you’re waiting for karma to make an appearance, don’t worry. If they have kids, they’ll grow to be teenagers and scorn their parent’s hipness.
August 2, 2011 at 6:38 pm
I’m not sure what’s worse–realizing it was in bad taste and still defending it, or not realizing how offensive it truly is. Which is worse, being offensive or being ignorant?
I think karma’s already made an appearance.
August 2, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Pffff this is so amateur, wait till you guys see the wedding Cloak and I have planned. We’re going full on Holocaust, the guests will even be able to cook their own half-rotten maggot-filled potatoes in tiny handcrafted gas ovens!
August 2, 2011 at 6:17 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 6:32 pm
We have not removed one comment in this thread. If you are a new poster, your comment is held in a moderation queue until someone can make sure you’re not a spambot.
August 2, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Except there’s a whole bunch of “comment removed”‘s above…
But, Salemblack, your comment may just be more difficult to find in a sea of replies, no worries.
August 2, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Yeah, that was confusing me.
August 2, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Those “comment removed” posts are people removing their own comment, I believe.
August 2, 2011 at 8:06 pm
One of those removed comments was mine and I didn’t remove anything.
August 2, 2011 at 8:19 pm
you cannot remove your own comments… give it a try.
something is going on and it isn’t Helen or Bronc removing posts. something FUNKY goin’ on…
August 2, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Maybe people are just posting “comment removed” in italics to mess with everyone. Let me try it:
Comment removed
August 2, 2011 at 9:23 pm
I think they may be removing any manking fun of their appearance. Just a guess considering the outrage on many sides.
August 2, 2011 at 8:08 pm
Whoa… that is totally weird because I don’t see ANY comment removed stuff … when I put in “comment removed” on my view Find… I only come up with the ones where people are talking about comments removed…
do we have different viewers or something?
August 2, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Check post #11. There’s a string of them removed and it continues on down.
August 2, 2011 at 8:17 pm
crap, now I’m finding them… if I just put in the word “removed” I can find them in search.
Those all look suspicious…. because a lot of them have a LOT of thumbs ups…
the only time I have ever seen comments disappear was once when there were a bunch of nasty spammers in who got themselves holy banned…
this is something funky goin’ on.
August 2, 2011 at 8:37 pm
One of them is my comment. My fat, soulless, narcissism is the only reason I found out. After seeing mine I noticed a bunch of others.
I didn’t remove it and I don’t believe Helen and Bronc straight up remove stuff, so, yeah something is fishy in this thread.
August 2, 2011 at 8:44 pm
“Comment removed” is a blog notation. The Find feature in browsers only searches text.
I, too, am confused and a little distressed over all these aparently removed comments. What’s going on? Do I have to start searching for The Perfect FlounceCat??
August 2, 2011 at 8:57 pm
From facebook: “I deleted comments that promoted further contact with the couple, and also comments about the appearances of family members.”
Understood. The terrorists have won.
August 2, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Thank you, issheinacoma.
I feel sick inside, as if I’ve clicked the wrong link…
August 2, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Have the Huffington Post mods staged a hostile takeover?
August 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm
And after the wedding, they could jump on a graffitied, moving box car while we toss empty bean cans and used toilet paper at them. So romantic. *sigh*
August 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Hey guys! I’m thinking of having 1940s/1950s wedding featuring polio! I haven’t hammered out all of the details, but I think I’ll walk down the aisle in a leg brace and cane.
August 2, 2011 at 6:29 pm
and the groom could be waiting in an Iron Lung.
It works because it makes me want to throw up thinking about it…
August 2, 2011 at 6:26 pm
From the groom’s Twitter: “it’s official the “people” on regretsy have no soul, taste or life”
Translation: “I have no concept of how anyone could be offended by my fun, cute and awesome wedding trivialising and glamorising poverty, misery, starvation and homelessness. You must all be fat jealous losers. Plus punctuation is for idiots.”
I’m not really poor – I can pay the bills and eat and buy more craft supplies when necessary, but I’m absolutely offended that the really see nothing wrong with their theme.
August 2, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Also from the groom’s Twitter feed: “It’s messed up too because we made it Hobo-themed specifically BECAUSE we are poor.”
Awhile later:” Ok last bit on this because I want to defend myself on one point: my wedding cost approximately $15,000 not $100,000. That was sarcasm.”
So let me get this straight. They are poor, so they had a hobo-themed wedding, but it cost $15,000. And I don’t have anything close to $15,000, so does that mean I’m not poor? I’m confused. Also, since I obviously don’t have a soul, taste or life, am I allowed to be confused?
August 2, 2011 at 7:13 pm
jesus christ.
I don’t call myself poor, because I can pay my rent, my bills, and buy food. True, my boyfriend is out of work, and has been struggling for months to get a job (any job), but I have a fairly clear idea of what poverty means, and it’s not “oh, we’d love to join you for dinner/drinks/a show/whatever, but we ate out last week so we’d better not”, and so I am not poor.
I couldn’t afford to spend $15,000 on a wedding. I couldn’t afford to spend $1,500 on a wedding right now, actually. I would not *want* to spend $15,000 on a wedding because that seems like a frivilous waste of money to me.
Also because I believe a marriage is way more important than a wedding, but hey.
NO ONE who spends $15,000 on a wedding can go on about how they wanted to avoid the over-commercialised, over-expensive weddings people have these days, or call themselves poor.
August 2, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Seriously. I know I keep mentioning it, but you want to see awesome, creative weddings on a shoestring budget, offbeatbride.com has a ton they could have drawn inspiration from. There was nothing frugal or limited about that budget.
August 3, 2011 at 9:50 am
When my husband and I got married almost 11 years ago, we spent less than $500. We had the wedding and reception in the firehouse we belonged to at the time. It was simple, lovely and fun. The actual cost was more but we are blessed with family and friends that helped knowing that we really didn’t have the money to put on a big fancy wedding.
One friend made our wedding cake as her gift to us. A husband and wife, who are now 2 of our dearest friends, did our photography. They were starting up a small photography business and we got it done free in exchange for them using copies for their portfolio. Most everyone wanted to bring food; we ended up with a huge pot-luck spread that was better than any catering we could have gotten. We’d planned on skipping the champagne toast, but wedding party surprised us with a case of champagne.
The list goes on of the things people did for us that day. I couldn’t have bought a better wedding for any amount of money.
August 2, 2011 at 7:18 pm
I “love” these two posts on their twitter feed.
“@dustinharbin It’s messed up too because we made it Hobo-themed specifically BECAUSE we are poor.”
“Ok last bit on this because I want to defend myself on one point: my wedding cost approximately $15,000 not $100,000. That was sarcasm.”
…$15,000 available to blow on a wedding makes you poor? I must be truly destitute. *eyeroll*
August 2, 2011 at 7:41 pm
The level of entitlement is just astonishing. $15000 is more than a lot of people in the USA country as you earn in a year.
“Box”? You are NOT. POOR.
And speaking as someone who has lived with crushing poverty, with the shame of having friends try to give me their old bedding and towels because mine were stained and I couldn’t afford to replace them, with the threat of homelessness and having to ration both food and electricity towards the end of the month. As someone who has known what it is like to watch that last bag of plain pasta run out and panic, not knowing where the next handful of change will come from that will let me buy more. Whose partner actually WAS HOMELESS and has suffered through that, and who still recognises how FORTUNATE I HAVE BEEN.
Your bullshit that you wanted to EMPHASISE YOUR OWN POVERTY at your bleeding wedding is offensive to me.
August 2, 2011 at 7:46 pm
“the USA country as you”
Apparently frothing rage makes me forget how to speak my own language.
August 2, 2011 at 8:31 pm
that’s more than i earned in the last financial year, and i’m the breadwinner for the household. what the fuck.
August 2, 2011 at 11:43 pm
My husband and I are not poor. Things are a little tight, but we can pay our bills, eat grocery store steaks twice a week, and keep up two WoW subscriptions. We have a very healthy “oh shit” fund for emergencies and both our cars are paid off. Both of us have had the good fortune to not know first hand what being poor really is.
The wedding we could afford was $6,000. That is not an insignificant amount of money, but as my husband and I are. not. poor. we could make that happen. If you can spend $15k on a wedding then you. are. not. poor.* You are nowhere near “poking fun at our own poverty” at that point.
August 2, 2011 at 7:39 pm
To me, there is nothing wrong with shelling out some cash for a wedding. After all, weddings and funerals are the main life events for which American families seem to come together, so I say do a wedding party up right to the best of your means when you’re still alive. However, to try to convince people that you’re “unfussy” and “poor” when you spent 15K on a meticulously planned out “hobo-chic” theme wedding is not only disingenuous, but absurd.
August 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Petite- You hit the nail on the head when you called it disingenuous.
August 2, 2011 at 8:08 pm
I 100% agree. If you have $15,000 dollars to spend on a wedding, even with the help of family, I am fairly sure you do not qualify as ‘poor’. Many people don’t even make $15,000 in a year…
*Loses more faith in humanity*
August 2, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Jesus H. Buggery. $15,000 = £9,000ish. If you have a spare £9,000 to blow on a wedding you’re in no way fucking poor. Amazing how entitled some people are.
If you have enough to eat and pay the bills and maybe a little left over at the end of the month for a few treats or to save, you’re not poor as far as I’m concerned. But my definition and his are obviously worlds apart.
He’s right about my soul though. I’m sure I haven’t got one. But then I don’t believe in souls anyway…
August 2, 2011 at 11:31 pm
It cost us more to move cross-country than we paid for our wedding.
Seriously. We paid more for TRUCK RENTAL than we did for the wedding.
But hey, I guess if you’re as “awesome” as “Box” is, you can go on Twitter and whine about how Regretsians have no souls. I mean, we only help those in need, and have the nerve to be offended by the shit Box and his bride have pulled, from the cutting up of antique quilts (I want to stab that bitch for that), to the “sharing of a bean”, and so forth.
Fuck you, Box.
August 2, 2011 at 10:22 pm
I don’t quite make 15K a year. It kind of makes me sick that someone could whine that they’re sooooo pooooor that they could only spend 15K on their party.
August 2, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Me too, my net is $10,000 in a good year, my wife makes a little more. My wedding and honeymoon cost $2,000, if you include clothing and items that were purchased years in advance (and on layaway) and advanced cash gifts from family that we used to pay for food at the reception, the cake (costco bottom layer, homemade tiers) the one night in a hotel honeymoon gifted to us, and the cash in a card we used to have our honeymoon day lunch and seaplane ride. In other words, we couldn’t have afforded to pay for it on our own. I know I could be much poorer, these people and there 15K wedding are crazy assholes.
August 3, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Not even half that here… I am wanting to have a party in the fall and I’ll be lucky if I can spend $100 or so on it (I’ve been saving up, and trying to see what I can get ahead of time to spread out the cost.)
August 3, 2011 at 8:39 am
These people just piss me off. They spent more on thier wedding then my family of four made BEFORE TAXES AND SHIT all of last year. When my husband and I got married, we were still living with his parents with a child on the way. We spent 30$ on the marriage cert, 25$ on the JP to be married in his office. The following weekend we had a small, family only party. His dad was a member of the American Legion, and we got to rent the building for free so long as we cleaned up afterwards. My mother in law bought sherbert and sprite to make punch and my mom baked the wedding and groom cakes herself. My grandmother had leftover clear plasticware from my aunt’s wedding and brought that down as well as bought a couple of ‘nibble trays’. My step-grandmother bought me a dress on clearence at K-Mart for 20$. I spent 10$ in make-up since I didn’t have any. Total, I think we MIGHT have spent 100$ between everyone involved. For someone to spend 15K to ‘look poor and destitute’… ugh!
August 3, 2011 at 8:45 am
I ran out of characters for my rant, which makes me giggle like an insane woman. But I did want to add that we’ve been married for nearly 11 years now and still haven’t had the money for a honeymoon. So these hipsters can just go suck a big fat rotted egg filled with maggots.
August 5, 2011 at 9:46 am
Poor people dont spend 15k on a wedding. They spend 100 at the fricken courthouse to make it official or they dont do it at all LOL.
I find it ironic they are so poor they couldn’t do a real wedding. I had a beautiful church wedding complete with elegant golf course banquet hall reception for less than 15k.
August 2, 2011 at 6:29 pm
“Cigarette rolling contest with butts you find on the street”
Fun fact I learned at a free rehab I attended; smoking butts you find on the street is frowned upon. You really are expected to unpack, mix, and roll your own cigarette. Junkies and drunks worry about orally transmitted disease!
Something else I was told at yet another rehab; five rollies equal one commercially rolled cigarette and a pack of Kools is worth a blow job in prison! I wasn’t allowed to ask if you could choose suckee/sucker for that pack of smokes because of homophobia. and Jesus.
- the more you know.
August 2, 2011 at 6:40 pm
To the butthurt bride and groom: you chose to publicize your wedding. You wanted everyone to look at you, and fawn over how clever and creative you are. That opens you to critique. Sorry, but you have to take the bad with the good. If you can’t take criticism, don’t shine the spotlight on yourselves.
August 2, 2011 at 7:06 pm
exactly. It’s the internet, what did you expect?
I know Etsy comments are usually a massive circle jerk, but the rest of the internet can be pretty harsh in its evaluation of things.
especially things which are total BS.
August 3, 2011 at 4:21 am
Yup. If it’s on teh internetz, it’s fair game.
August 2, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Mugatu did it WAY better in Zoolander than these unoriginal asshats. Derelicte. It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.
August 2, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Oh my god I had the same thought.
August 2, 2011 at 6:55 pm
What puts it over the top for me i show these people are so utterly delighted with themselves. Gross.
August 2, 2011 at 6:56 pm
bleh, that should read “is how.”
August 2, 2011 at 6:55 pm
August 2, 2011 at 7:01 pm
inspired by the guy’s twitter, it’s flouncecat time.
August 2, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Someone else posted this first — I am sorry, tried to find who did between logging in and now and couldn’t! — but if I was inclined to feel that they maybe meant well but didn’t mean it THAT way… http://ahobowedding.blogspot.com/
“Mended” dresses. Newspaper suits. BARRELS.
My mom grew up in the Depression. She has told me stories of how her youngest sister couldn’t understand why Santa would bring her a broken toy.
That’s all I have to say.
August 2, 2011 at 7:04 pm
“affordably priced at $98″
you’re right, that IS affordable for someone who has lost their home, their job, and all their possessions in the Great Depression.
August 2, 2011 at 7:09 pm
also the “hubby” (i hate that word, but then I hate him so it fits) said their wedding cost a mere 15,000.
pardon me, but since when do poor people have 15K to spend on a wedding?
or does that just reveal how far below poor i am?
August 2, 2011 at 7:24 pm
My parents wedding cost $3k and I think that’s expensive. I haven’t even seen $3k in one place since I had a student loan to pay for school. It’s rare that I even see $300 in one place. So saying they spent a mere $15,000 on their wedding makes them sound like rich ass motherfuckers to me.
August 2, 2011 at 8:31 pm
That’s…just about what I get paid a year as a graduate assistant. So, no. You don’t get to claim to be poor when you spend someone’s yearly income on a single day.
August 2, 2011 at 9:46 pm
What fancy-pants school is paying you? I made closer to $12,000 a year and had to give back nearly $3,000 of it per year in student fees.
August 2, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Just thought I’d share the picture the douchebag groom posted on his twitter in response to the negativity about his wedding.
http://twitpic.com/6029av
August 2, 2011 at 7:07 pm
I usually cant be bothered with having any emotion but I hate this guy.
August 2, 2011 at 7:07 pm
does he just not get it?
its hard to know whether to thumbs up because you showed this or thumbs down because it is so awful.
so no thumbs, but thanks.
August 2, 2011 at 7:12 pm
I agree with the no thumbs, I think it’s an appalling thing for him to do, just gives more evidence to the fact that he is a total fucking asshat.
August 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm
I’ll forego the Shakespearean quote about protesting too much and just say, “Dude has some guilt there.”
August 2, 2011 at 7:22 pm
I’m confused on how he made this better?
August 2, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Dirty hipster!
August 2, 2011 at 8:15 pm
the hobo wedding seems to make more sense now… yes he is a clueless twat
August 2, 2011 at 7:07 pm
https://twitter.com/#!/reiley
August 2, 2011 at 8:53 pm
We should all have a better sense of discression!
August 2, 2011 at 7:09 pm
There is a special rotting hole in dick hell for the bitch who cut up those antique quilts into shitty abominations, which I’m sure she THREW AWAY when the wedding was over.
This is a shitty, disgusting, offensive idea for a wedding, much less to ‘brag’ about it. But destroying something of potential historical value just because you thing that would be cute? Die, bitch.
August 2, 2011 at 7:11 pm
I wish I could press the thumbs up thingy a million times for you.
August 2, 2011 at 8:30 pm
This was my first thought. I have a quilt that my Great Aunt made that I’ve had all my life. It’s starting to get a bit tattered now and it breaks my fucking heart that I don’t have the skill to repair it (if I could, the fabric is so old…). So seeing someone treat antique quilts like that really pisses me off.
August 2, 2011 at 7:10 pm
What bums me out even more is how so many people on the etsy blog comments and her wedding tresury are praising this sick bitch for being unique and how it is such a wonderful idea. What is wrong with people. And we’re the assholes……
August 2, 2011 at 7:42 pm
I’m having a hard time not throwing my laptop across the room from reading all those ass kissing comments.
August 2, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I’m with the above poster. $15k isn’t a thrifty wedding. Not even a little. Call me when you have to eat the leftovers from your wedding for a month because your $4k wedding left you without a penny. Then we’ll talk.
And I thought $4k was extravagant.
That frustrates me so much I can’t even think up something snarky to say.
August 2, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Or when you pay for your $3000 wedding with a $1000 gift and $2000 of military enlistment bonus, only to be kicked out a few months after the wedding and have to repay every penny, with interest, over the next five years while cursing the “extravagance” of your wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Wow, yeah, seriously.
August 2, 2011 at 9:05 pm
$4k? YOU WEALTHY BASTARD
jk, i’m just jealous because i know we’ll never have $4k to spend on our wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Boxbrown has tweeted that he spent $15,000 on the wedding, and this is supposed to be a defense. My own wedding cost $250, and most of it went to the officiant. His wedding seems exorbitantly expensive.
August 2, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Great minds and all that.
August 2, 2011 at 7:45 pm
But don’t you know? They’re poor!
But Yeah, spending $15k and claiming they’re broke?
August 2, 2011 at 7:16 pm
I would give anything to see him try to train hop.
August 2, 2011 at 7:25 pm
This makes me wish I had had the money for that Masque of the Red Death wedding I REALLY wanted.
(You know, instead of the less-than-$500 one I actually had.)
August 2, 2011 at 7:31 pm
the grapes of snark, anyone?
August 2, 2011 at 7:32 pm
August 3, 2011 at 12:52 am
Brilliant, thank you!
August 2, 2011 at 7:44 pm
What are you guys talking about?! This is perfect research for my Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle wedding I’m having next summer!
We’re even making hotdogs!
August 2, 2011 at 7:49 pm
If you’re short on poor people to fall into the grinders I think I know where you can find some hobos….
August 2, 2011 at 7:55 pm
That groom looks like we could “upcycle’ a couple hundred hotdogs outta him.
August 2, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Yes, -1 Me, I deserve it.
Sorry.
August 2, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Having a Depression-era themed wedding, fine. The “We’re gonna party like it’s 1929″ cards are absolutely awful and in no way “cute”. Did some of the guests throw themselves from skyscrapers when they lost all their money in the stock market crash? Did they have to wait in a bread line and hope to get food? Or the job line? What about living in a Hooverville shantytown? No?
The “research” was incredibly poor and it’s a damn shame no one called them on this. Reading “The Grapes of Wrath” would make it clear what a terrible idea they had. (Isn’t that required high school reading anymore?)
Also, having the means to spend $15k on a wedding does not classify you as poor (even if family helped). When we got married, we spent about $3k on a wedding and honeymoon and we still look back on it and think about the thinks we could have skipped to save a little more money.
And don’t even get me started on the quilts…
August 2, 2011 at 7:48 pm
things* dammit
August 2, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Yes. When I saw the “Party like it’s 1929,” I thought it was a ‘shop meant to poke fun at the wedding theme. I had to pick my jaw up off of the floor when I realized that it was actually part of the decor…
I mean, I really don’t think anyone was doing any partying in 1929, all things considered.
August 2, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Not to mention (my boyfriend just pointed this out, and I’m REALLY surprised I hadn’t noticed it before)– they’re defining their wedding, ie the symbol of their hopeful new and happy life together, with a theme of. . . general hopelessness and poverty. Really? That’s how you want to ring in your wedding bells?
He added, “That’s like having a Holocaust-themed wedding. It says a lot about them.”
August 2, 2011 at 8:03 pm
well when you start at the bottom you have nowhere to go but up. of course I think they would fall to pieces the moment their 50″ HD TV was repossessed.
August 2, 2011 at 7:59 pm
August 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Catering.
August 2, 2011 at 8:02 pm
First, I love all the butthurt you’re getting from these… “lovely people”. Second, why would anyone in their right mind theme a wedding off of homelessness and one of the most famously unpleasant times in U.S history??
Love that they spent thousands of dollars pretending to be poor for a day. Why not donate a little of that money to ACTUAL poor and/or homeless people instead?
August 2, 2011 at 8:05 pm
And now we have bonus butthurt! The groom’s twitter feed: http://twitter.com/#!/boxbrown
August 2, 2011 at 9:05 pm
That’s the first time I’ve ever actually read (part of) a Twitter feed. I’ve always avoided joining there just to be ornery. At least now I have an answer for people who ask WHY I haven’t joined Twitter.
“Because I can’t make heads or tails out of ‘conversations’ people have with themselves.”
August 2, 2011 at 9:33 pm
me too….
August 2, 2011 at 8:06 pm
They actually told their guests attire was “hobo chic”. And I thought “Contemporary Business Casual” was a head scratcher.
August 2, 2011 at 8:10 pm
When I first saw this on the front page I was all, “I’m not touching this with a ten foot pole, it will piss me off” and what do you know, I should have listened to myself. It’s hard to snark; it just makes me mad, and depressed that cartoonists I love are rushing in to support him on Twitter. They don’t get it. They just don’t get it. This is true of a lot of people who have never been poor. I get a lot of that shit living on the edge of Silicon Valley. Lotta programmers who make five times what I do, and don’t understand how ‘going out once in a while’ or ‘just buy new clothes’ or ‘just get another one if it breaks’ isn’t so simple.
$15,000 for a wedding from someone who claims to be ‘poor’?! Well, I guess I’m never getting married. Okay, not never. I might be able to save up for that in fifty years. :/
August 2, 2011 at 8:17 pm
I have spent so many wonderful hours lately reading here (thanks to all of you!), laughing until I nearly cried. Today there are tears of anger and frustration…there is something so very, very wrong when anyone thinks of homelessness as cute or charming. What an unbelievably disgusting expression of ignorance and privilege all in one oblivious package.
August 2, 2011 at 8:21 pm
My SiL was telling me about this Bar Mitzvah she went to the other week. The theme was Willy Wonka and the parents hired “little people” dressed as Ompa Loompas to carry in the guest of honor and do a little dance. I suspect they used the same event planner.
August 2, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Oh My GOD!! WTF is wrong with people?! :/
August 3, 2011 at 12:42 am
I know! Oompa Loompas are terrifying, why would you have them at a party? And don’t get me started on that damn song *shudder*
August 3, 2011 at 2:03 am
Did they sing the “What do you do if your kid is a brat” part of the song (from after Veruka fell down the shaft)?
August 2, 2011 at 8:22 pm
This theme is clearly thoughtless and demeaning. Anyone that has visited a homeless shelter can tell you that homeless people are, in fact, human beings and not caricatures. The owner of one I visited clearly spelled out the damaging image that we’ve given the homeless, like they’re some sort of joke. Also, anyone that’s lived on the street will not be in a hurry to celebrate that fact.
How about a trail of tears theme? You could hand out blankets as souvenirs, then crush an entire peoples’ soul.
August 2, 2011 at 8:24 pm
So wait, what comics does this guy draw? I want to make sure I never accidentally read any of them.
August 2, 2011 at 8:24 pm
My great grandmother had four children in this era, and a cheating husband that abandoned her and the kids. She married a man she did not love, and even told him she would never love him, just to keep a roof over the childrens’ heads and provide food for them. She was honest, and hard working. He was honest and hard working, too. He loved her, but she was never a truly happy person again. She worked as an elevator operator at the Rice Hotel in downtown Houston. He was a carpenter who used materials he scavanged to make things to sell. They raised chickens and had a garden. My mother vividly remembers my great grandma killing the chickens herself by swinging them over her head in a circle, breaking their necks. Good times! Let’s all dress in worn, patched clothes and try to figure out how we’re going to feed our families! Assholes.
August 2, 2011 at 10:54 pm
My great-grandma tied the chickens to the clothes line and took off their heads with a hatchet. People still tell me about this. Grandma Lizzie was hardcore. (And yes, her name was Elizabeth and went by Lizzie.)
August 2, 2011 at 8:26 pm
They put the “Great” back in the “Great Depression”!
August 2, 2011 at 8:27 pm
So, seriously, what is causing the comments to get deleted from here? I know it isn’t Helen or Bronc and I know people can’t do it themselves…
scroll up to 11 and around there.. a lot of thumbs up stuff have been deleted… we needs a fix!
August 2, 2011 at 8:56 pm
This is what they have said on Facebook…
“I deleted comments that promoted further contact with the couple, and also comments about the appearances of family members.”
August 2, 2011 at 9:03 pm
thanks for clarifying.
August 2, 2011 at 8:27 pm
I’d really like to take these people- and everyone else who thinks homelessness is cute, or quaint, or anything other than soul-wrenchingly awful, downtown to the homeless shelter where some of my clients have no choice but to live (I’m a case manager) and where my roommate goes and hands out sandwiches every Sunday and let them see, REALLY experience, what it is like to even be around homeless people. I’d really like to make them live it for a week or two so they really know what it’s like to be that desperate. It is not quaint, it is not cute, it is not funny. Homelessness is a huge problem affecting millions of people worldwide. It is NOT a wedding theme!
August 2, 2011 at 8:29 pm
The sad thing is some of the decorations and what have you were actually really adorable and creative. The whole hobo thing taints it all and overshadows the few good aspects, though. I’d love to see these folks walk in my shoes for a day, admittedly . Poverty wouldn’t seem so romantic to them after spending 3 days working outside in 105 degree heat for $50 worth of groceries.
August 2, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Oh look who turned from victim to attacker as soon as a post was about one of her friends lol. Glad we could help you with Glitterbiscuits! *roll eyes*
http://twitter.com/#!/JessFink
August 2, 2011 at 8:39 pm
“@boxbrown @wolfhard it seems so impossible for people to see someone else’s point of view. I wish they could see it just a little bit.”
Other people wish the same of boxbrown et al.
August 2, 2011 at 8:44 pm
*exactly* what I was thinking. Then she says…
@boxbrown I wish someone could share your uncle’s perspective with them. I just wish they could see it it from the other side.
It’s so ironic, that’s all people want is for one of them to just be like oh you’re right, we didn’t think of it that way.
August 2, 2011 at 8:33 pm
I wonder what the vows were like.
“I love you like a hobo likes a good spot on the box car.
My love shall not waver, like the economy, but be as enduring as the tragedy of those who die from poverty and disease.
I carry your heart with me always in my handkerchief on a stick…which is gross when you think about it but totes poetic by the light of this trash can fire.
‘Til premature death, brought on by malnourishment and exposure, do us part.”
August 2, 2011 at 8:35 pm
These hipsters are even doing it wrong. Their wedding wasn’t “hobo” themed. It was “vintage itinerant worker” themed! Complete with barn wood and cat.
But seriously, I find it hard to believe this bride put ANY research into this at all. She probably searched Google for “1930s wedding ideas” and left it at that. If we’re really lucky, she searched for “hobo” as well, but since she doesn’t seem to have even read the Wikipedia page on the subject, I highly doubt it.
August 3, 2011 at 7:16 pm
I bet she searched for “hobo” on Etsy, noted what was tagged with that word, and called it a day.
August 2, 2011 at 8:41 pm
I think when I get married again I’m going for an Ethiopian Drought Victim theme – you can get some super cute plastic flies to stick on your mouth and eyes and everyone gets to walk around butt naked or I can provide super cute sackcloths for them to cover up with. Don’t know how we’ll get the distended bellies but I’m sure I’ll find a way.
August 2, 2011 at 9:06 pm
But Somalian Drought Victims are what’s hot now. You have to keep on trend.
August 2, 2011 at 9:51 pm
godamnit I’m so off trend it hurts – however I did feel that Ethiopian drought victims gave me a retro feel to the whole shebang
August 2, 2011 at 9:16 pm
For $15,000, I’m sure you can work a prosthetic tummy like they use in tv shows into the budget.
August 2, 2011 at 8:42 pm
I am really starting to hate these people. $15,000?!?! Do you know what I could do with $15,000?!?!? Last week I bought my VERY FIRST piece of NEW furniture IN MY LIFE, for my kids. A bunk bed (I had to save up forever!). EVERYTHING else in my house is second hand/thrift store/gift from people who feel sorry for us (this includes furniture, clothes, TV, linens….). If they wanted a hobo wedding they could have spent the day at my apt (which we finally got into last month after having to live with family for two years).
Too all my fellow poor people: I feel your pain. Your stories hurt that organ in the middle of my chest. I hope the best for you all.
As a side note – my sweet grandma who grew up poor, like so many of your family members, spent a summer living in a tent on her family’s piece of land. Because that is all they had. That was after moving a million times into dumpier and dumpier places. She’d think this wedding was just a freaking riot.
douchcanoes.
August 2, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Don’t you know what a romantic, modern-day-hobo life you’re leading? It’s beautiful!
August 2, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Holy crap. For $15,000, I could pay off all the bills accrued when my car went to shit and I had to throw money at it just to keep it going. And afford to pay off the one I had to replace it with when it finally went up in flames on the freeway. And the medical bills from when my job didn’t offer insurance. Oooh, I could pay rent without having to work two shitty jobs and Oh! I could afford to eat! Omg, that would be absolutely wonderful! No more tuna and rice for dinner every night!
Oh the dreams. The wonderful, lovely, non-hobo-not-working-paycheck-to-miserable-paycheck dreams…
*le sigh*
August 2, 2011 at 8:47 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm
WE ARE NOT VISCOUS
Well some of us are a little thick
August 2, 2011 at 9:09 pm
God DAMMIT I love you
August 3, 2011 at 12:50 am
Now, you’re getting syrupy.
August 2, 2011 at 8:57 pm
To me this shows a complete and utter lack of comprehension of Regretsy’s humour. Regretsy’s humour is not needlessly or pointlessly mean- it is ALWAYS making a point and uses humour to critique the absurd, stupid and morally questionable.
This kind of humour has always had a place in our society and always will because its greatest power is the ability to bring perspective to a situation and to prevent us from completely disappearing up our own arses. The world does not evolve from people being blindly nice to one another all the time- we actually need derision and critique in order to better ourselves.
It’s not that we have an inability to see things from a different perspective, it’s that our perspective differs from yours. And that’s ok. We’re allowed to have alternative views on the same thing- not everything has to be some communal hippy wank fest where we all sit around weaving each other into an enormous hemp poncho.
August 2, 2011 at 9:03 pm
The point is not that they couldn’t afford more or they chose to have a wedding in their backyard, the point is that they decided to ‘theme’ it in a depression-era ‘theme’. If they had set the ‘theme’ as ‘brown and orange colors’, maybe we’d have different reactions. Choosing to dress a certain way – especially for your wedding – means that you are CHOOSING the way you are presenting yourself to whomever may see your pictures. So if you dress as a clown, or a giant bumblebee, or cinderella, or Marie Antoinette, that’s what the viewers will see and what they’ll base their opinion on. When you choose to dress like they did and ‘theme’ their wedding like they did – and then share it with the world – the viewer has a right to infer that they are glamorizing a time in history that isn’t exactly ripe for being glamorized. Believe me, if they wore jeans and tshirts and posted pictures regarding their frugal wedding, there would be no posts here at all.
August 2, 2011 at 9:06 pm
They threw $15k at this clusterfuck of insensitivity and you want us to believe that “hobo” was all they could afford? My wedding costed less than $100 and I managed to avoid romanticizing the suffrage of a generation.
August 2, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Yes, that would be the second point. $15,000 wedding does not = poor. They are not poor.
August 2, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Fine then, here’s a picture of my puppy.
Have at it.
August 2, 2011 at 9:25 pm
So cute!!! <3
Or..I mean, that dog is uh.. lazy. Look at that lazy ass dog. How can you stand to have such a cute… I mean, lazy dog. I know I couldn't bear it. And look at that tummy.
I can't do it. That dog is fucking so cute.
August 2, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Yeah your puppy must be really… um… stupid or something, look at that toy it’s cuddling, doesn’t it even know that’s NOT A REAL MONKEY? That puppy is a fool.
August 2, 2011 at 9:56 pm
She lookslike my camilla when she was a puppy. Now I am convinced she needs prozac.
August 2, 2011 at 10:26 pm
She’s 6 1/2 months now and at that ever-hyper stage. But she’s cute, so we live with it.
August 2, 2011 at 10:45 pm
that puppy thinks she’s so cool, because she liked sock monkeys before they were popular.
August 2, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Hey! My mother bought her that sock monkey!
That fucker is WalMart vintage!
August 3, 2011 at 8:31 am
Erm…it…looks like a pitbull or pit mix of some sort? It’s viciously…crushing that poor oh screw it, I’ve got nothing.
August 3, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Your insult-foo is weak. Don’t you know it’s spelled “viscously”?
August 2, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Maybe they aren’t hipsters. Sure look like em though. Maybe they do have angels flapping around shitting good intentions and rainbows in their chests, but the fact remains that their “budget” wedding is really offensive to a lot of people.
Your side has a case of cryabeetus. Think about where many of us are coming from and take some of your own damn medicine! Many Regretsians come from a history of ACTUAL poverty. My mother gives money every Christmas to the homeless shelter she relied on for years because she got back on her feet. Homelessness, destitution, loss, these are harsh realities for many of us and your friends seem to think it’s just a cute idea. Think about how insulting THAT is before you whinge about what soulless, vicious monsters we are. We may be insulting one day of their lives, they insult years of ours.
August 2, 2011 at 10:55 pm
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August 3, 2011 at 12:11 am
I’m in the same boat win some!!! If I lived in Toronto and he wasn’t o so married I’d be alllll over stalking Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics. But he’s Twitter friends with Butthurt McSpackypants and his winsome bride! Same with David Malki and Jeph Jacques!! Jeebus help me if I start seeing his retweets or if he’s in my beloved copy of Machine of Death… or /gasp if there is a second Machine of Death and he’s in that one!!
If I meet Yahtzee at PAX I’m going to see if he’ll sign his story for me ^_^
August 3, 2011 at 6:57 am
Yeah. Like they say, “love the art, hate the artist?”
I mean, while I do love his webcomic I don’t hate him but I feel all like, “*sob* WHY ARE MOMMY AND DADDY FIGHTING?!” especially after reading some of the tweets.
August 2, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Internet protip: You publicize something on the web, you don’t get to dictate what kind of response you get.
August 2, 2011 at 9:57 pm
amen!
August 2, 2011 at 9:25 pm
First of all, maybe its just me but I can’t stand people who leave corporate jobs for art and then act like martyrs for a cause. Not that its a bad thing, its something I wanted to do for a while, but really am I supposed to genuflect as they walk by or can I just look away because I’m not worthy?
Secondly, I just want to join everyone who has already said…they could ONLY spend $15,000 for their wedding. Only??? They’re so poor, but they could afford to decorate from ETSY and send out save-the-date cards? This is family-friendly, pretending to be homeless? Not very creative artists are they?
Also, you don’t have to intend malice to be insensitive, but in this case, you do have to be completely ignorant or incredibly stupid. Dress code for the wedding was hobo chic? Really? That doesn’t seem insensitive to you?? Wake up!
August 3, 2011 at 6:51 am
I wish I could leave my corporate job for art. I wish I could let my husband leave his corporate job for art. But we’ve got kids, so we work our corporate jobs to ensure they have food and clothing and a roof over their heads. Wishes are great but we’re pretty firmly rooted in reality.
Our wedding was in the back yard with a JP friend officiating. My “wedding dress” was a white outfit I found at JC Penney while my husband wore the one suit he owned and regularly wore to work. We sprung for dinner for our immediate family members who attended and never had the big party. No DJ, no photographer, no wedding invites, favors, or buntings. It’s a fucking bummer because that would have been nice, you know? And we’re not even what would be considered “poor”, we’re just frugal and realistic that the money we would have spent on a wedding was better spent elsewhere, like our leach field and our roof.
Grumble.
August 2, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Look. $15000 is more than what most people earn in a year. It is enormously more than most people would even consider spending on a wedding. I have never known anyone in person who spent that kind of money, regardless of whether the wedding was traditional or “quirky”.
A lot of us here, me included, have survived through very real, crushing poverty. The sort where you don’t know if you’ll have any electricity the last week before payday, when food is rationed strictly and you still end up spending extended periods living off of rice and onions, and even that doesn’t save you enough money to reliably cover the bills and rent. Many of us have actually been homeless.
So seeing someone a- pay £15000 on a wedding to play at being poor for a day and b- claim to be poor themselves when spending that kind of money? That is offensive to those of us who don’t get to stop playing at it the next day.
August 2, 2011 at 10:44 pm
A bit of devil’s advocate: One of the tweets by the guy states that while the wedding cost $15K, there were many contributions from family involved. That doesn’t change the poor taste of it, but it does mean that their own contribution may have been significantly less. I don’t know where I’d have been had my in-laws not had a good year with their business. I paid for most of my wedding on my own, but the help from others was awesome.
August 2, 2011 at 11:18 pm
Even so, it is a bit rich to claim poverty. I mean, I understand that most weddings include some costs covered by the parents of the happy couple, but if you’re spending $15000 on a wedding then you’re either still contributing way more of your own money than most people could ever dream of spending on a wedding, or you’re sponging horrifically off of your parents.
And if my parents offered me several thousand in cash for a special occasion, that money would go towards debts, bills and overdue household repairs that I’ve not been able to afford. And fixing my teeth, since I’ve not been financially able to visit a dentist since I was 13.
August 4, 2011 at 1:17 am
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August 4, 2011 at 10:06 pm
According to the US Census Bureau, in 2008 thirty percent of people over the age of 25 and fifteen percent of households had annual incomes of less than $15,000.
August 9, 2011 at 8:02 pm
…I’m very worried for the UK if people are spending that much money on weddings. And possibly very jealous. That costs as much as your average CAR. Most weddings I’ve been to (catering, DJ, the whole shebang) has been a few thousand or less. I dunno what La La Land everyone else you know is living in, Strong, but even to middle-class America, over 10 grand is pretty much an INSANE amount to spend on anything short of a car, a down payment on a house, or a once-in-a-lifetime vacation with the whole family.
August 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm
“The couple are not “hipsters” they are artists who left their corporate jobs…”
Isn’t that one of the main requirements to be a hipster? So ironic.
August 2, 2011 at 10:30 pm
>didn’t have money for a fancy wedding
>spent $15,000 on wedding
?
August 2, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Yeah… my wedding wasn’t super lavish or anything, but it was fancy enough for the kind of people my husband and I are and it cost half of that or less. I made my own centrepieces and some other decorations, and spent a couple hours tying damn raffia bows around candles I didn’t end up even using on account of it turning out to be the hottest day of the year.
August 2, 2011 at 11:06 pm
According to the groom the wedding cost $15,000. Must be nice being able to leave their corporate jobs and have such an “affordable” wedding.
August 2, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Can’t tell if trolling or just very stupid.
Anyway, you clearly didn’t read everyone’s comments. For your pleasure:
15k =/= “affordable” wedding for someone without a job. For the love of God, if they wanted affordable it would be just as easy to spend 1-3k and do just as well. For 15k I could put myself through a year of college, or buy a decent car, or rent a cheap apartment and do pretty well for a year.
“Hobo” themed is a nice big shit in the face of everyone who has ever been homeless or close to it, you know, of everyone who can’t get work and are begging for help or handouts.
They put this shit online. Not everyone is sparkles and cupcakes out here, and I doubt they’re naive enough to think so.
August 4, 2011 at 11:51 am
Yep, I’ve slept in a ditch with a truck-topper on it, with rocks to keep it from blowing away in the high desert wind. Old futon to sleep on, a jug of water I hauled in from town, and eating once every few days… coyotes coming in to sleep with me cuz it was so cold… this is truly a big Fuck You to anyone who is or was poor, homeless, etc.
Hang on… I am unemployed and homeless as we speak! I wonder where I’m sleeping each night, and hope I don’t have to swallow whatever dignity I have left and fuck for shelter. Haven’t worked since last October and my ex-boss is badmouthing me to any one who calls for a reference- illegal as hell and keeping me from getting hired anywhere else! Because I have no money for a lawyer! It’s totes adorbs. /s
In summary: FUCK YOU FUCKING RICH ASSHOLES, FUCK YOUR WEDDING AND FUCK ANYTHING RELATED TO YOU. I hope you people live the REST OF YOUR LIVES knowing what shitty, shitty people you are.
EAT THE RICH!!! /ranty
August 3, 2011 at 12:51 am
If this doesn’t show up on passiveaggressivenotes.com, there is no justice in the world.
August 3, 2011 at 1:00 am
Why do you hate new puppies and baby’s first birthday pictures?
August 3, 2011 at 1:22 am
>>There was no making fun of poverty, other than all of our own!
are you f-ing kidding me? I’m supposed to feel sorry for them because they CHOSE TO LEAVE THEIR CORPORATE JOBS WHEN THE USA HAS RAMPANT DOUBLE-DIGIT UNEMPLOYMENT?????
no, your “friends” aren’t kind-hearted – kind hearted would have been to DONATE 15,000 TO A F-ING HOMELESS SHELTER YOU NITWIT!!!
August 4, 2011 at 8:44 am
Poverty, eh? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Seriously. “Not being loaded” or “being kinda broke” is so far from being really, truly poor that it’s not even funny.
I’m not saying that it’s extra speshul to be a genuinely poor person, just that it’s not something to be taken lightly.
August 4, 2011 at 8:46 am
Ooh, derp. Way to not close your italic-tag, FrkNitwit.
August 2, 2011 at 8:47 pm
How do they not see this as offensive? Would they feel OK about a Mammy/Pickaninny themed wedding? People are free to make their wedding tacky in any way they choose, but I’d still like to know how they can’t see why it is offensive
August 4, 2011 at 1:27 am
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August 4, 2011 at 2:36 pm
I would have thought so too, except they didn’t keep it private- they posted all about it on Etsy which (unfortunately for them) opened up a whole Pandora’s box. I do feel bad that they are upset that people are “shitting on their love”, but I’d also really like to know how they can live in America in 2011, seem to be of at least average intelligence, and still be so shockingly ignorant. You can’t change the way the way people think, but I’d still like to understand why they think that way. Was it just some 100% aesthetic thing, with no regard for history, or….?
August 4, 2011 at 10:14 pm
From the Iowa Supreme Court decision “Cherry v. Des Moines Register” in 1901:
“the editor of a newspaper has the right, if not the duty, of publishing, for the information of the public, fair and reasonable comments, however severe in terms, upon anything which is made by its owner a subject of public exhibition, as upon any other matter of public interest; of privileged communications, for which no action will lie without proof of actual malice…Surely, if one makes himself ridiculous in his public performances, he may be ridiculed by those whose duty or right it is to inform the public regarding the character of the performance.” (bolding mine)
August 2, 2011 at 8:49 pm
My grandparents were survivors of the Great Depression and they taught me a lot about how to function in a world where you can’t take anything for granted. I still thank them for that given the situation I’m in now.
That being said, this whole trend reminds me of the French Royalty right before the Revolution . . . going out to their gardens in Versailles and playing “peasant”. That turned out well for them in the long run, didn’t it?
Got Guillotine?
*yes I know . . . tasteless . . . but I’m poor, unemployed, and pissed and thinking I need to have that on a t-shirt*
August 2, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Including the bit about needing it on a t-shirt.
“I’m poor, unemployed, pissed, and needed it on a t-shirt.”
August 2, 2011 at 9:26 pm
ROFL!!! Not what I meant . . . but you made me chuckle anyway XD
August 2, 2011 at 9:36 pm
I thought dragondoodle meant “Got Guillotine?” But I’d totally take that shirt right there!
August 2, 2011 at 10:11 pm
I did . . . but the other one works as well XD
August 2, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Ooh! Ooh! I need one of those!
August 2, 2011 at 8:55 pm
I’m curious about all of the comments that were deleted.
August 2, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Me too. That’s what I get for being late to the party.
August 2, 2011 at 9:22 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 9:32 pm
i see what you did there.
August 2, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Yeah, I hate it when I don’t arrive on the cutting edge of the fuckery and then half the context has been deleted. :/
August 2, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Wait for it. If they flounce it, posts will come
August 3, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Up at #230…
elizabethdawn
August 2, 2011 at 8:56 pm
This is what they have said on Facebook…
“I deleted comments that promoted further contact with the couple, and also comments about the appearances of family members.”
August 2, 2011 at 8:55 pm
I don’t find the “style” they chose offensive,it’s what they chose to call it that is offensive! =.=
August 2, 2011 at 8:58 pm
1. Please go see “offbeatbride.com” for some AWESOME offbeat weddings that are so cool and non-offensive that you’ll shine and sing with glee!
2. It doesn’t matter how much this wedding cost, its offensive. It could have cost 3 bucks and it would still be offensive. Like the poster who’s mother made the dresses and they got married in court and had mexican food for dinner… she probably paid less than $500 and it was inoffensive in all ways. Saying ‘It only cost us $15k’ just makes the original weddinator sound more ignorant. Should have spent a couple of dollars on reading Grapes of Wrath.
3. White people be crazy.
August 2, 2011 at 8:58 pm
August 2, 2011 at 8:59 pm
I think I spent approximately $75 on my wedding, at the most. Now that’s frugal. I didn’t get an engagement ring either. To be fair though, I didn’t want one. Rings are boring. I’d much rather have an engagement hot tub. Of course, I didn’t get one of those either.
August 2, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Engagement hot tub? I like the way you think. Now, where to put one in a 650 sq. ft. apartment….
August 3, 2011 at 1:11 am
The engagement ring I bought for my ex back in the day was a plain gold plated band from Beall’s. I bought it during one of their One Day Sales, so I could afford the $25 it cost on sale. Granted, it was a piece of shit, but she loved it because it was from me.
I hate these 15k wedding fuckers.
August 2, 2011 at 9:01 pm
You guys, it’s not nice to be mean on the internet.
Unless you want to say catty things about 80′s pop stars, then it is ok.
August 2, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Yay for hypocrisy!
August 2, 2011 at 9:05 pm
I can kind of get the appeal of a wedding done in the 1930s style. I get it. Maybe they really dug of Mice and Men. That’s OK. But they took it way over the edge and were completely disrespectful. When you’re spending money out the ass to make a humble wedding, you’re freaking doing it wrong. If they had made all the quilts and costumes and boiled their single bean from their own garden and repurposed real things they had laying around, I’d have a little bit of respect for this and think it was kind of cool. But it’s not a modest gesture, it’s a full blown attention whoring session. I hope these tards spent so much money on their dumb wedding that they actually are homeless. We’ll see how shabby chic life is then
August 2, 2011 at 9:05 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 9:53 pm
It’s not really necessary to “feel empathy for dead and gone vagrants” when, as many other posters have pointed out, the people here and their immediate families are the ones who have faced actual poverty.
August 3, 2011 at 7:44 am
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August 4, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Why is it only a “mob mentality” when a number of people hold a differing opinion to yours? If they were all agreeing with you, you wouldn’t be calling it a mob mentality, would you? *rolls eyes* Why can’t you just accept that not everyone is going to share your opinion without resorting to cheap insults?
August 2, 2011 at 10:00 pm
but I find the mob mentality on Etsy disturbing when the wedding was described as ‘cute’ – seriously – cute?
August 3, 2011 at 7:49 am
Well, that’s disturbing too. It works both ways.
August 3, 2011 at 5:29 am
I’ll repeat it again. I’m not the only person who has stepped forward and said they were going to ignore this offensive “budget” wedding that cost $15000. Seeing my disgust confirmed on Regretsy meant I wasn’t the crazy person sitting in the corner and talking to the wall about not white-washing history.
To do this wedding when unemployment is so high and then justify it by claiming “but we quit our corporate jobs to be artists so now we’re poor” is absurd. Especially when you somehow cobbled together $15000 and made people buy $100 feedsack dresses off of Etsy.
August 2, 2011 at 9:10 pm
On the bright side, earlier today I was learning about that meatswinging fellow, and now I’m learning all sorts of new stuff about the dustbowl and the Great Depression, so I’d say things are looking up.
August 2, 2011 at 9:11 pm
We spent $60 on my “wedding”, and that was the price of my wedding dress. We got married in my MIL’s living room by a friend of the family.
“Only $15,000″
Fuck. You.
August 2, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Would like to know if this is a record on the most posts in a 12 hour period?
Most of the high volume posts I’ve seen have seemed to have had something to do with menstruation or Mike.
August 2, 2011 at 9:13 pm
also, why this posted where it did. should have been #258 or something and it appears to be #248…
August 2, 2011 at 9:21 pm
If you had started to reply to something and not cancel it, your next post will end up there. I’ve had posts end up in the most fucked up places.
August 2, 2011 at 9:36 pm
wouldn’t it then show up as a reply to thing you didn’t cancel from? I’ve had a couple show up out of time context.
[oh hey someone should tell our visitors it is kinda silly to red thumb posts that aren't making a statement. Makes them look silly.]
August 2, 2011 at 9:13 pm
For those keeping records: The thumbs-down brigade, night-shift, arrived at approximately 8:33 pm. A bit late; Etsy should dock their pay.
August 2, 2011 at 9:13 pm
I like how in the photos of the wedding on the photographers website you can see the guests in the background wearing sunglasses, and taking photos with their flashy digital cameras.
/sarcasm
August 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Also a nice touch… the electric bass guitar.
August 2, 2011 at 9:16 pm
For all the comments removed, this triple dot’s for you
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August 2, 2011 at 9:18 pm
I just got home and followed all of this up like the fat loser I am. The thing that has made me laugh the hardest is the twitter posts, so I had to make my own crappy flouce cat to commemorate the moment.
August 2, 2011 at 9:25 pm
For shame. My parents both grew up in Montana. My stepmom’s family lived in a boxcar (parked, not on a train – kind of an early version of a trailer house). They ate lots of chicken feet in the 30′s. She doesn’t talk about it, but when my dad tells me her stories, there isn’t a lot of whimsy in his voice.
His own family had a house with one bedroom, and the kids slept up in the attic. My dad said the snow would fall through the cracks in the roof and they would wake with snowdrifts on them. Good times – let’s celebrate!
August 3, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Yep. Until the day he died, my grandfather hated to eat chicken. All because of the Depression. After WWII and his kids were all born, he only fed them beef – no joke.
August 2, 2011 at 9:34 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 10:07 pm
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August 2, 2011 at 10:13 pm
actually, depending on the grandma some of the older folks romanticized it to their own children and grandchildren.
“Sure we were poor, but we worked hard. That’s what we’ve lost in this country…hard work” “We were poor but it built Character!” And my grandma told me about her mom making rag dolls and doll clothes for her and her sisters from scraps so they would have Christmas gifts, and that she wished she still had them because they meant more to her then a new doll.
I don’t know….maybe the yearning for some vintage garments and styles are built on what some people took out of their poverty and passed on to their kids and grandkids.
Still cutting those quilts was a crying shame and breaks my heart.
August 2, 2011 at 11:35 pm
MY grandmother was one of those folks who did that. She said that the hard times made everyone more industrious and brought them together as a community.It never sounded fun to me, but she seemed to think that they were all better people for having gone through it.
August 3, 2011 at 5:31 am
The hobos that are romanticized were the Kerouac “let’s travel the roads to find ourselves” hobos, not the 1930s “Dear Lord, somebody please give me a break so I can feed my children and not have them work in a factory 20 hours a day” hobos. Big difference. If they wanted Kerouac hobo, they should have gone with 1950s hobo, not Depression Era Hobo Chic.
August 3, 2011 at 7:55 am
If you’ve ever read Kerouac, most of the 1950s hobos weren’t “finding themselves.” They were homeless, mentally ill, and had substance addictions.
August 2, 2011 at 9:36 pm
I feel like it really wouldn’t have been so hard for them to just go “I’m sorry that some people took offence at our theme, we didn’t realize that it could be insensitive”. People would forgive and forget, and move on. But no.
I just feel kind of bad for them. Only a little bit. They may be ignorant and insensitive, but I think I would die inside if people reacted like this to my wedding. Even if I was stupid enough to have an awful theme, and then further stupid enough to post it on the internet. Thumbs down if you want.
August 2, 2011 at 9:44 pm
I thumbs upped it. I feel bad for them a bit too….not so much here, because, well, its us over here…but it has to sting a bit when they see it on their blog. I mean I don’t care for the theme, but I’ll choose to keep my comments about that distaste over here.
August 2, 2011 at 9:56 pm
I agree… I spewed enough vitriol here, on my own blog, and (to a far lesser extent) on the Etsy blog. I am not going to go over to their territory and raise a stink. That’s going a little far, in my estimation.
August 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm
I too feel a little bad for them, as I’m sure they did not set out to plan their wedding with the intent of mocking an entire generation. It seems like a “30s-vintage-OOAK-seampunk” wedding gone horribly wrong. I love fashion/art from the 20s and 30s…Art Deco, Art Nouveau, The Great Gatsby, etc. If I were getting married, I’d certainly like to whoop it up in that sort of theme. You know, the posh end of that era. It’s because my DAY TO DAY LIFE SUCKS right now.
Crying poor about $15,000 does not do this guy any favors. He’s clearly delusional.
August 4, 2011 at 9:28 pm
I sort of disagree about what the couple set out to do. It wasn’t malicious, but very misguided. They focused on the “hobo” culture – bridesmaids carried sticks and bindles, the groom wore overalls and the invitation depicted him barefoot. No self-respecting poor person would have such obvious signs of their poverty on display at their wedding, but someone far from poor who thinks that being poor is quaint and cute would.
August 2, 2011 at 10:29 pm
I think a lot of the outrage is at the Etsyfying of their wedding. I jumped on the bandwagon a bit early with the outrage, but I am still upset by the blog even if the wedding itself wasn’t that bad. I think the mockery isn;t so much for aspects of their wedding, but the tone in their post and how they flaunt it.
Plus, April has been deleting comments mocking their looks or encouraging harassment, so there is some damage control as far as that goes.
August 2, 2011 at 9:38 pm
My parents got married in Reno, Nevada. My (paternal) grandmother told me all about it. And the lime green miniskirt my mother wore. Her engagement ring was my dad’s grandmother’s. That was in 1970. My parents spent a large portion of that decade without gas for their car or jobs. They lived in a shack in the Santa Cruz mountains. They dug holes in the ground to take a crap. Even in the rain. Even that winter they both got pneumonia.
When I was a little girl in the early 80s we lived for a while in this one apartment where the walls had these wooden slat things with gaps between them. That the roaches would scurry back into when you turned on the light in my bedroom.
I worked with the homeless for years.
This is not cute, this is ridiculous. I’m ashamed to share a species with these fuckers.
August 2, 2011 at 9:42 pm
All respect I had left for these people—which, granted, was none—flew out the window when I realized none of their wedding photography is sepia-tint.
August 2, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Erm…I hope this isn’t deleted for being “offensive” based on commentary on the bride/groom’s appearance*.
I’m just wondering if I’m the only one noticing the likeness between bride and
* If you do find it offensive; just pretend I’m talking about the twin sister. No commentary on the bride here!
August 2, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Late to the party (the hobo themed! party!) but I just wanted to point out a couple things to the bride and groom and their friends:
1. What kind of friend are you that you didn’t smack one or the other upside the head and say, “WTF are you thinking????” At no time did you think, uh, WOW is this Priveleged People Talking? I know Americans like to pretend there are no social classes here, but if anything proves it, this does.
2. And maybe, hypothetical friend, you could have suggested a different theme name–Frugality Wedding, or My Grandmother’s Wedding. Something that could have worked with mason jars and pincurls and vintage prints, but wasn’t, you know, really offensive to those less fortunate.
August 2, 2011 at 10:00 pm
judging by reaction to this I should cancel my blackface themed wedding.
August 3, 2011 at 7:14 am
That depends. How much internet fame can you handle in a lifetime?
August 2, 2011 at 10:04 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37057202@N07/6003952285/in/photostream
August 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm
I’m an IDIOT! Forgot I needed the HTML code.
August 2, 2011 at 10:07 pm
August 2, 2011 at 10:11 pm
This is a for-real, non-snark comment. Can we eliminate the terms “white trash” and “trailer trash” from our collective vocabularies?
For real. For people who volunteer with in soup kitchens, would never mock the needy, the homeless, the destitute, but will use the words “white trash”, I have to ask: when and why is it ever okay to call a group of people garbage?
I understand the point people are trying to make about some judgement of taste or decorum about the bride and groom, but isn’t there some irony in using incredibly offensive phrasing about the poor to do it? I have family on rural farms, barely making it. My paternal grandmother lived in a trailer park because it is all she could afford (but she was incredibly proud to do so because it was better than what went before).
If you have to qualify “trailer trash but I don’t mean your grandmother”… then can’t you find a better phrase that doesn’t call some of our fellow humans garbage?
August 2, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Actually, I’ve yet to meet anyone who has been insulted by the term. It’s a joke to most.
Coming from a person with a background (hell a current) descriptive of the term….
August 3, 2011 at 8:05 am
right. white (trash or otherwise) isn’t exactly a group of disenfranchised peoples.
August 5, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Ah. Well, that makes it better, doesn’t it. Those crazy white people could just never know what it’s like to have it hard. I’m so glad you’re here to help us figure out what’s racist or not.
August 2, 2011 at 10:51 pm
At the risk of triggering a “r-word”/evolution of language debate, from my experience both “white trash” and “trailer trash” have never referred to people of a particular income bracket (regardless of what the original terms may have meant), but rather to modes of behavior and ways of life. Some people even find humor, or even pride, in calling themselves hillbillies, rednecks, trailer trash, and other terms usually reserved as pejoratives.
We had a family on our block when I was growing up who was poor, but who had pride in their home and worked to maintain it. Contrast that with the family at the other end, who didn’t even pretend to give a shit, fought in their front yard, and put zero effort into the appearance of their home and themselves. One is trashy. The other isn’t.
August 3, 2011 at 11:16 am
sure, but there’s a difference between calling yourself something and using it to refer to other people. I can call myself a dyke all I want, but if some dude tries to call me that, I’m gonna kick him in the nuts. (Maybe just verbally, but my point stands.)
Also, “white trash” is a pretty racist term. If someone is trashy, call them that, I don’t care. But don’t act like it’s somehow surprising for a white person to act trashy, like they need to be distinguished from all these trashy people of color?
August 3, 2011 at 4:01 pm
There are already epithets for that.
August 4, 2011 at 10:25 pm
I don’t think it’s the common usage, but I always associate “white trash” with an unearned sense of entitlement based in racism – as though the only thing they have to be proud of is that they’re not black.
August 2, 2011 at 11:23 pm
When I use that term, it’s reserved for the abusive guy who’s always drunk and never looking for a job – the kind of imaginary excuses. His poor wife works three.
The woman who let her kids starve so she could get her acrylic nails redone at the salon.
My soon to be ex neighbor who is loud and drunk or doing drugs constantly, and who pit her five boyfriends against each other so she could feel ‘special’.
It has nothing to do with where someone lives, but how.
August 2, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Hey, kids, I have a swell idea for your wedding! Let’s have an historical reenactor portraying a drunk & mean Herbert Hoover, who mistakes your encampment for the Bonus Army and then sends in a platoon of army reenactors led by McArthur to chuck bayonets at you and burn down your rental tents. While this is going on, we could have a band playing “Remember My Forgotten Man”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37-ocetYDdU
Ain’t the Depression just grand?
August 4, 2011 at 10:28 pm
I was stunned to read that many components of the New Deal were originally suggested by Hoover – he was an administrator and an efficiency expert who thought that a well-run jobs program could be a huge boost to the economy.
(Sources include the White House web site biography of Hoover.)
August 2, 2011 at 10:21 pm
And I don’t want to be the asshole here (too late!) but we all know these two idiots are going to be divorced in a couple of years. People this immature cannot handle life’s everyday problems. Unless they can be solved with $15,000 and hobo themed marriage counseling.
August 2, 2011 at 10:21 pm
That’s settled it, my future ex-husband must be Jewish because I’ll settle for nothing less than an all-out Holocaust wedding!
August 2, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Here’s one of the fantastic Etsy comments:
MapleCreekShop says:
I would never have imagined this theme being so welcoming and pretty! I love the quilt backdrop.
23 hours ago
August 2, 2011 at 10:40 pm
If we get to a 1,000 comments when I wake up, I don’t think I’ll know what to do with myself…
August 3, 2011 at 4:27 am
We went there. What now?
August 3, 2011 at 10:39 am
Valium and Schnapps cocktails, anyone?
August 2, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Reading all their tweets is getting painful. They keep going on and on about how we hate them because they’re poor, we hate them because they dress in vintage, we hate them because they spent money on a wedding, blah blah.
Let’s get this straight… None of us give a flying FUCK how y’all dress or how much you spent on your wedding. But your wedding cards said Let’s Party Like it’s 1929 and had a HOBO CLOWN on them, and you were cooking food out of metal trash barrels! What exactly is it we need to say to make you understand how completely tasteless and insensitive that is??
August 3, 2011 at 12:37 am
They are too upset and defensive because they feel attacked to fathom why it is so offensive to people. I wish your comment could be delivered to them in a flashing neon sign, or a greeting card.
August 3, 2011 at 1:18 am
They’re upset & defensive because that was a day they want to remember for the rest of their lives as wonderful expression of hope and commitment. I can understand that.
However, publicizing it — going so far as to create a blog letting others know how they can do it, too — MAKES IT PUBLIC. You don’t get to publish your diary & then cry that people are judging you for that thing you did when you were 16. If it’s your private happy moment with friends and family, don’t publish. Once you cross that privacy boundary, all you can do is accept that you will be judged by standards you didn’t plan for.
Going on to defend it as costing “only” an amount that could house, feed, and clothe a family for a year is ignorant.
Going further by saying “The average cost of a wedding in the US is $27,000. I think we were pretty god damn frugal” is just an asinine display of privilege. He can’t genuinely believe that “poor” people spend a year’s finances on one day.
August 3, 2011 at 1:31 am
I was feeling bad for them until I saw that “god damn frugal” comment. He clearly has no fucking clue what poverty or frugality actually mean.
Maybe they got caught up in the “homeward bound” phrase, the idea of starting a journey together, not fully equipped yet but feeling optimistic about getting there confident and carefree. That is a sweet and romantic sentiment, and doesn’t offend me in the slightest; it’s all about them and their day and their future.
The ability to associate that naive optimism with homelessness and poverty is like saying that being female under sharia law is probably pretty freeing, because I know when I went to private school we had to wear uniforms and it was kind of a relief not to have to worry about what to wear or whether the other kids would think my clothes were cool, and just think how much stress you could avoid living your whole life like that!
And that’s where any woman who actually has to gets to slap the stupid out of me.
August 3, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Frugal?
Nuh. Nuh-uh. Hell nah.
Yeah… asinine display of privilege. The way some of the attendees dressed made me cringe… What if this had taken place across from a homeless shelter? I just wish they could understand why this is coming across as extremely insensitive. You’re right, they did advertise it to the internet… :/
Bummer all around! (no pun intended)
August 3, 2011 at 10:13 pm
I always heard the term hobo came from people calling them “Hoe Boys,” so of course I googled it when I read her piece. Apparently the origin of the word is a matter of debate, who knew? lol
August 4, 2011 at 7:45 am
Also? We wouldn’t have even KNOWN how they dressed or how much they spent on their wedding…had they not put IT ALL UP ON THE INTERNET FOR SELF-PROMOTION AND BACK-PATTING.
August 2, 2011 at 10:51 pm
That’s it!
I’m going to have my own themed wedding. It’ll be a Donner party theme wedding. (it’s got “party” right in the title!) I’ll make all the guests wear layers of winter clothes, the wedding will be mid-July of course.
August 2, 2011 at 10:55 pm
come hungry or don’t come at all.
August 3, 2011 at 12:05 am
Please serve things like ladyfingers and wieners… please?
August 2, 2011 at 10:52 pm
as if all this isn’t enough, I see discussion with the groom’s uncle of referring to this as HoboGate. I see the density runs in the family.
Myself, I think it should be called something like Obtusamania or maybe Obliglitteratearama
August 2, 2011 at 10:52 pm
I wish I had $15,000 to spend on a wedding.
It’s alright though because I’m not even allowed to get married.
BUT if I were to get married, I sure as hell would not get married to someone wearing overalls (I don’t care if it’s a hobo thang or not…)
August 2, 2011 at 11:02 pm
First post, long-time reader. (I love you all!)
There are still many people around who remember exactly what it was like during the Great Depression. There are many people who have been victims of this “recession” (my family included) who have a right to be pissed off about this. Our wedding cost $750, was catered by family, and I had to return my dress because I couldn’t afford to keep it. We’re still together, through loss of job, home, livelihood, and death of family members who were too poor to get the medical treatment they needed to survive.
As hard as it was to read some of these stories on here, I salute those who have gone through hell and back, and also our relatives who did what they had to do in the past to survive. I only wish the bride and groom can gain some insight on WHY their wedding is so offensive to so many people.
And don’t even get me started on those quilts. Holy shit…
August 2, 2011 at 11:07 pm
I’m sorry, I know it’s not your fault that they’re clueless and offensive, but now I can’t help irrationally hating the people who linked their Twitters, because I CAN’T STOP READING THEM and it’s DRIVING ME MAD. I’m literally wringing my hands here and demanding “how can this be?! HOW CAN THIS BE?!?!?!?” at my computer screen.
If they genuinely stand by their wedding and feel that it was an appropriate celebration of their love, then they should just stop replying to the nay-sayers and move on with their lives. The way they’re reacting makes it seem waaaaay more like they want attention and enjoy playing victims.
August 2, 2011 at 11:12 pm
I’m sad I brought three children into a world where people actually pay 15 grand to make their wedding look like shit. Seems to me if they wanted an Upper middle white trash wedding they could have done it for about $50.
August 2, 2011 at 11:18 pm
My wedding was $5000 nine years ago. Most of the budget went to flying my husband’s father over so that I could meet him for the first time ever and because my husband hadn’t seen his family at all in seven years by that point. We went to France for our honeymoon, which was also part of this budget. It was exactly what we wanted, and no quilts were mutilated in the process.
When we got home, my answering machine was full of messages from my job, asking if I could come in and cover shifts. When I went back to work, I got reamed for not calling and not coming in. Oddly enough, “You called during the wedding ceremony, which was held in another state,” and “That call was placed at the time that we were walking through the Louvre,” was dismissed as not being a good enough reason not to call back. Did call once after Mom told me they called her house looking for me. “I’m in Lyon right now,” was met with “When can you get here?”
August 2, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Suggested poetry reading during the ceremony: The Sandy Hollow Line.
“So we took it all in silence, for this was the period when
We lived in the great depression and nothing was cheaper than men.
And we drove the shovels and swung the picks and cursed the choking dust;
We’d wives and hungry kids to feed so toil in the heat we must.”
Anyway, I call their authenticity into question. Unless they had dysentery for dessert and gave abandoned children as party favours, it’s not a real Hobo wedding.
Long time lurker and admirer, first time poster. Hello everyone, nice to finally come out of the shadows and greet you.
August 3, 2011 at 1:27 am
A lovely post to end your posting virginity! Thanks for referencing that poem; it is a favorite of mine.
August 2, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Now I am inspired to renew my vows with a holocaust theme… just to be extra offensive, all traditional Jewish catering and even tiny little iron crosses as party favors. Maybe I will throw in some head shaving and artillary shell casing earings (made by someone on etsy).
Someone even mentioned that everyone gets a gold star! Yeah, that’s right, everyone’s a fucking winner.
August 2, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Heh. When my grandparents got married in 1942, all the gifts they got from their guests were ashtrays. And neither of them smoked, but that’s all people could afford.
yay!
August 2, 2011 at 11:37 pm
Isn’t Depression kind of… depressing ?
August 2, 2011 at 11:58 pm
Here’s the thing: I’m in school and have spent several years working whatever entry level job gave me enough flexibility to finish my classes. I’m making way way less then 30,000 a year and so when my husband and I got married we did so very very cheaply, the total cost was around 300 dollars. Having said that? I’m not poor. If you have somewhere to live, have enough food to eat and can reasonably cover your bills you are not fucking poor. You spent 15,000 dollars on your bullshit wedding? You are not fucking poor my friend. The fact that the couple are hiding behind the shield of poverty only underscores the perception of both the bride and groom as tasteless ignorant people. Gross on every level.
August 3, 2011 at 12:05 am
My parents married in the Depression (yes, I’m old). No reception. Sugar and flour and eggs and butter were RATIONED, for crap’s sake! No tuxedo, no wedding gown. They wore their best clothes to get married. Their “honeymoon” was a camping trip on the way back from the church in Carson City NV. They only spent $5K on their HOUSE (and that included the furniture), which they couldn’t afford until 1946. The motto was “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or go without.” The idea of buying things just to use them once and destroy them would be anathema to anyone who lived through that.
August 3, 2011 at 2:31 pm
I think you are getting your eras a little confused. The GD in the US is generally accepted to have ended at World War II, which is where rationing and the “use it up” motto come from.
That said, the war years were no picnic, either.
August 3, 2011 at 12:22 am
I can’t believe the Etsy thread hasn’t closed yet. I commented there after slogging through the comments from today.
It’s so scary that they believe $15,000 is a cheap, budget wedding. As many here have said, I don’t make that in a year. If I didn’t have an amazing boyfriend who understands what my art means to me I wouldn’t even have money to buy supplies as he mainly supports us both. Unfortunately he was injured recently and has been off work for about 2 months. So to spend $15k on one day when I’d kill small children to get a new dress form, to replace the one my Nana bought in the 60′s to help clothe her family, is just scary.
August 3, 2011 at 5:06 am
theres no way id spend $15,000 on any kind of wedding, hipster or not, i cant even fathom spending that sort of money on one day
thats whats so dumb about this, in the depression it would be unheard of. Its hipster irony
August 3, 2011 at 12:30 am
Reminds me of a dictionary term from Generation X by Douglas Coupland. I can’t remember the actual word anymore, but the definition was – to enjoy going back in time while enjoying all the modern conveniences like vaccinations, dental care, and hot showers. It’s *fun* to be a hobo when you don’t have to worry about icky things like polio, starvation, or dysentery! It’s like playing The Oregon Trail, only with real people!
Sigh. My grandfather sold apples on the street to help his parents make money during the Depression. This just sickens me. And yes, $15K is a LOT of money to spend on a wedding.
August 3, 2011 at 12:32 am
Funny, when I first read “The Grapes of Wrath”, I thought, “Theme PAAAAARTY!!!” Too bad they didn’t go all in and offer quaint little depression glass pitchers of breast milk for the coffee. (Read the book, and you’ll get the reference.)
August 3, 2011 at 1:17 am
Soooooooo, Is it still happening in this thread? Because shit is Blowing Up on twitter and the members only post; the groom’s uncle is in a twit-fight and flounces are gettin’ c-razy.
August 3, 2011 at 1:18 am
This has actually made me really fucking angry.
I fucking hate hipsters so much it gives me energy.
Etsy should be fucking ashamed of themselves and I hope the crappy couple one day realise how fucking retarded they are.
(my anger at this bullshit makes all the “fucks” ok).
August 3, 2011 at 3:10 am
NO ONE insults the tragically hip!
August 4, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Or Collective Soul. But it’s open season on Uncle Green.
August 3, 2011 at 3:34 am
I go to bed after a long day of work, and I wake up to all of this mess? I can’t leave you guys alone for one minute.
Also, that uncle guy has been twittering all night. I’m surprised he’s been able to steal wifi the whole night from a moving boxcar.
August 3, 2011 at 4:13 am
Pssh, 15K for a faux hobo wedding? Please. Shit’s so mainstream now that it’s all over the internet. It’s not legal for me and my boyfriend to get married in our state yet, but when it is, we’re totes going the homeless chic route. We’re going to play “find the can!” in downtown trash bins (bonus points if you find a dirty hypodermic!) For the reception, we’ll go eat at the homeless shelter- I’m sure they’ll totally understand when we tell them all about our totally cute theme! Bob under the bridge will do the ceremony for a forty of mad dog (and he’ll even throw in a handjob!) Sure, he’ll start yelling at his elbows midway through the ceremony, and he’ll probably shiv half the guests, but that’s just the price you pay if you want to have yourself a creamy yummy theme wedding.
August 3, 2011 at 4:47 am
I have relatives that lived through that period. Personally I believe that one of the reasons Texans are now (often enough) so obese is the psycological scars of having less than f^&^ nothing to eat (and being unable to feed your children) and then finding yourself in the land of plenty. Starve a dog as a puppy then as an adult it is possible to feed it until it’s stomach literally explodes.
Offensive, yes… The children less so, just guileless…
And I used to beieve that the one thing money couldn’t buy was poverty… Seems thats a lie…
August 3, 2011 at 11:40 am
Wow, I hadn’t thought of the obesity thing, Sym. I can totally see that with a lot of Okies, too.
August 3, 2011 at 5:02 am
wow ive never seen this many comments over 1000
August 3, 2011 at 5:58 am
I wish HK had been around when storque did a feature on the “romantic” look of Bonnie and Clyde.
http://www.etsy.com/storque/section/spotlight/article/etsy-finds-vintage-getting-bonnie-parkers-look/2393/
August 3, 2011 at 6:13 am
Lemme guess – The Pixies “Here Comes Your Man” was the first dance.
Thanks for ruining a perfectly good song for me, assholes.
August 3, 2011 at 7:06 am
15k? Really? Really? For how much hipsters pride themselves on being thrifty that is ridiculously expensive. You know how much my parents paid for their wedding? Three hundred dollars. That’s for everything besides the wedding bands. Why do you need to spend so much money on one day? It can be just as special without the tiny little details no one will remember. I’d rather go save money on the wedding to go somewhere on a fabulous honeymoon.
August 3, 2011 at 7:14 am
If they would have done more research they could have come to Iowa for the National Hobo Convention
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hobo-Days/383704369306
My dad grew up here and takes us every year still…and then complains that hobos just aren’t weren’t they used to be
We’ll be going next week to break in my son but unfortunately he’s already had his birthday party so we can’t have it in hobo themes until next year.
August 3, 2011 at 7:36 am
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August 3, 2011 at 7:58 am
If you put your lives out on the internet for all to view, you open yourselves up to comments, good or bad. I could understand them being upset if a friend created the post without their knowledge, but they are BRAGGING about this. “Holy cat balls, Batman — you mean some people might be offended by this “theme” ?!?!??!?”
August 3, 2011 at 8:12 am
Tell me that Brock made (some of) those twitter posts because there’s a marked difference in writing style.
August 3, 2011 at 8:19 am
Ugh, this is totally going to steal all of the thunder from my “Third World Destitution” themed nuptials this weekend. I hope I can get my 10% deposit back from those Somali children soldiers I hired to cater.
August 3, 2011 at 8:32 am
I thought about this overnight to post a metered response at Etsy to this mess & was just about it do & they closed down the discussion! Cowards.
Ok, so please let me vent:
1) what do you expect: if these folks are really from Malvern, PA – wikipedia reveals that the median – as in, MIDDLE – family income there was last reported to be almost $80,000 annual. That kind of rich community doesn’t get a big dose of experience with poverty. And “poverty” means $15,000 isn’t what you spend on a one day event, but rather what a whole family lives on for a year.
2) Their theme, more than anything, shows shitty education. Yea, true tastelessness, but at the foundation, no one taught them what the depression was about. Sadly, I learned from having a mom that grew up then and was damaged for LIFE because of it. I mean, my dad made a good solid middle class wage and she STILL was fucked up. Still is at age 80. My “research” was growing up with a frightened, sad mom.
August 3, 2011 at 11:23 am
It shows a shitty education and probably bad parenting. If they were taught to empathize, this might have been ‘A country wedding’ instead of ‘A happy depression era wedding yay’
August 3, 2011 at 8:40 am
All this reminds me of the movie from 1936 My Man Godfrey. It starts with a bunch of rich people having a “hobo” party. They are eating beans out of cans, etc. They go to the tent city and find a homeless man (Godfrey) and hire him to work for them. The main character, the daughter, actually realizes how thoughtless her friends are, and of course Godfrey turns out not to be a real hobo, but they are changed by knowing him. It’s really a great movie, and the point was the crassness of rich people pretending to be poor is just like this wedding.
August 3, 2011 at 9:29 am
I grew up poor. Like, really, REALLY poor. My family lived in a tent. A fucking TENT pitched on my grandparents property. 4 kids and 2 parents all crammed in there and we slept on our cots and melted snow for water to drink and for baths.
Many years later I worked 4 jobs to go to a good private collage and get a decent degree. Since I went to art school, there were bound to be a lot of these hipster-types who romanticized living in a poor African community and being homeless and all that crap. It was all I could do some days to scream at them, “You have NO IDEA what it’s really like! It is anything BUT pleasant!!!” There is nothing romantic about wondering if there will be enough food, or about praying that no one will get so sick that the unaffordable medicine will be needed.
August 3, 2011 at 9:35 am
However, for those who really have lived with decent incomes and supportive families all their life, I really do feel somewhat sorry them. They really can’t have any idea what they are talking about. They can’t REALLY sympathize with individuals going through hard times because they have no idea how they are struggling emotionally as well physically.
August 3, 2011 at 9:38 am
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August 3, 2011 at 9:41 am
A humpastuff made an appearance in the ceremony! I died.
http://www.chelseadonoho.com/?p=4759
August 3, 2011 at 10:49 am
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August 3, 2011 at 9:52 am
one of the comments on Etsy is “Love this…simple and true:)” WTF? True? True Amnesia? True Ignorance? I need to lie down.
August 3, 2011 at 10:14 am
Wow. And I thought I would never see anything worse than the “Colonial Africa” themed wedding that was on Jezebel last month.
August 3, 2011 at 11:19 am
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August 4, 2011 at 9:47 pm
The groom made a joke on Twitter about spending $100K on a wedding, then said he was joking and that it “only” cost $15K.
In the 70s you could get away with a “poverty party.” You could also still see the Bugs Bunny cartoons with the dopey “red Indian” and it was OK for “Are You Being Served” to put Mr. Grainger in blackface and sing “Mammy.”
August 4, 2011 at 9:52 pm
“Years ago in the 1970s, my mom held a “poverty party”.”
“Sure, most of the guests were at the least privileged middle-class white folks…”
“We’re poor but happy””
Can’t tell if trolling or just very stupid.
August 3, 2011 at 11:20 am
If you want to be really irritated, go to the Etsy blog and check out all of the “good job comments” like this one:
“I am completely anamored by this story! The pictures themselves are better than 10,000 words. You really did it up good! The pictures look like they came straight out of the 30′s! Except the gaunt haggard tired skinny faces are replaced by well fed, laughing loving ones! I love this idea! Thanks for sharing it with all of us”
Oh, I’m so glad that all the “tired skinny faces” of genuinely poor people are replaced by well-fed (freaking fat) laughing ones. I want to find this commenter and starve her for a few days. This whole thing makes me want to throw up.
August 3, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Both this and the Members Only thread have gotten so huge that I forget where I saw this same comment discussed, but the consensus was that it was a stealth insult.
August 3, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Also, the photos look more 1960s than they do 1930s. They’ve been made to replicate the old toy cameras that were produced back then ie the Diana camera.
Photos from the 1930s taken nowadays, look more like this:
http://gizmodo.com/5826347/these-beautiful-photos-of-2010s-dubai-look-like-1930s-science-fiction/gallery/1
August 3, 2011 at 11:34 am
My husband and I would have given our eye teeth and possibly kidney to toss HALF of what they set on fire for their “hobo,” wedding.
As it is, we payed less than $50 for ours. Justice of the peace and signed paperwork–it’s all we could afford.
This is so ridiculous. That money could have done so much.
August 3, 2011 at 11:46 am
This is just ignorance, plain and simple. Ignorance of American History, ignorance of the feelings of others, ignorance about work ethic and pain and suffering, etc..
These people are just ignorant and no amount of twitter flouncing is going to convince me to do anything other than pity them that they have to go through their lives like this.
August 3, 2011 at 11:46 am
Maybe it’s just the Southerner that I am, but how tacky is it to announce the cost of your wedding (in addition to the obviously tacky ‘theme’ choice)? On my own, I never made more than 14K in a year. Can’t imagine blowing that on a single stupid event.
And for the record, I’m officially naming these people the Bobo Hobos. Has anyone come up with that yet? If you don’t know what the hell a ‘bobo’ is, it’s pretty much a yuppie. I’m too lazy to link it for you. Now I feel the need to go air out my antique quilts and promise them I’ll never cut them up into banners, which were more than likely thrown right in the trash after the wedding.
August 3, 2011 at 11:59 am
Also, my grandfather was a policeman during the depression, and while the ‘Hoovervilles’ were generally pretty safe, the hobo camps were incredibly dangerous. There were murders almost every night – usually over food or booze.
Yeah, that’s romantic. Living in squalor and being so hungry that you’ll kill for food.
August 3, 2011 at 12:49 pm
I am confused. Can I just make fun of their hobo love without making fun of hobo’s or poverty? Can I make fun of them making light of the plight of hobo’s and poverty?
See, I told ya, I am confused. Maybe I did a boo boo.
August 3, 2011 at 1:30 pm
In case anyone was wondering, the site of the wedding is an EXTREMELY wealthy main Line community outside of Philadelphia. These two thought they were artfully slumming it, I suppose. But they can’t play it like this was a cheap option. This is a big money area. Plus, it just is goofy. Theme parties are for the under 10 set.
August 4, 2011 at 9:51 pm
The Main Line got its name from the Pennsylvania Railroad, which created a lot of the fortunes in the area (getting the land for the huge estates cheap from the railroad helped too). The people who lived in this area in the 1930s probably would have had a real hobo shot for trespassing.
August 3, 2011 at 1:39 pm
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August 4, 2011 at 9:47 am
That doesn’t make it right.
August 3, 2011 at 2:02 pm
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August 3, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Why does someone posting something like this in the Etsy blog not surprise me? I think it was about a year ago that there was a lot of shit hitting the fan after someone posted something in the blog about how romantic Bonnie and Clyde were. Despite the fact that they were robbers, thugs, and cold blooded killers
August 3, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Totally stoked about my upcoming 9/11 themed wedding (Going to have it on the 10th anniversary! hooray!). I am baking a special twin tower cake that I have fashioned with little army men jumping from the windows. ADORBZZ! Also looking forward to my besties holocaust themed wedding. Gonna be soooo romantic! I’m currently slimming down so that my vintage prisoner’s uniform that has been fashioned into an auschwitastic dress will hang off my bony frame just right. (I need to throw up after typing all that out…)
August 3, 2011 at 3:59 pm
For a wedding present, I’d like to send these two charmers to a Poverty Simulation. There’s an excellent organization near where I work (Silicon Valley) that will let you try to live like a poor person for the space of a workshop. People who are really on social services play the roles of the social services providers so that you, too, can know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of social services and the providers’ condescension.
Not as bad as the Depression, and not as bad as actually being poor in Silicon Valley today, but possibly a small corrective to their astounding insensitivity.
August 3, 2011 at 4:43 pm
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August 3, 2011 at 4:44 pm
I think the worst part about it is the husband’s attitude towards the whole thing. He and his wife looked like they had a marvelous day, but your head has to be pretty far up your ass not to see this wasn’t the most sensitive theme for a wedding. The better response would have been to admit they didn’t mean any offense and graciously admitted they didn’t think farther than the concept of having a simple, intimate wedding.
Like, wow guys! One person must have had a felt happy at least once during the Depression! So it’s cool to spend a few thousands to reenact their adorable poor people way of life. Hey, at least one solider might have felt optimistic during WWII. Why not have us a quaint POW camp themed party when we renew our vows? Nothing says “I love you” like barbed wire and armed guards.
August 3, 2011 at 5:09 pm
The self-congratulatory smugness of the couple is what makes it the most distasteful to me. The bride is so freakin’ proud of their patronizing theme and all the time she spent researching the “cute” and none of the pain of poverty. They even had a blog devoted to their wedding planning (ahobowedding.blogspot.com) and the first post (I wish I was making this up) is titled “Hallelujah! I’m a bum” after an Etsy treasury of the same name she created.
And turning it even weirder – she has a twin sister with a hump-able plush Etsy shop: Humpastuff. It’s exactly what it sounds like. And no I’m not making that shit up either.
August 3, 2011 at 5:36 pm
I’m a front line worker at a homelessness charity. I see my clients daily dealing with lack of benefits money, facing eviction, and dealing with substance use or mental health addictions. Life on the street, no matter the circumstances of how you got there, is hard. I can’t believe the bride and groom failed to think of these things, especially during the current recession.
August 3, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Judging from the well-fed appearance of the groom, the scrawny wife and the couple’s obsession with the early 1930s, they should have just dressed up as Laurel and Hardy. Then, they could have filmed the wedding night as a silent slapstick comedy.
August 3, 2011 at 7:38 pm
So many thumbs up.
August 3, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Was sifting through the archives tonight and… well… I’ll just leave this here:
August 4, 2011 at 12:07 pm
WTF is that shit?
August 3, 2011 at 9:30 pm
what’s next? crack-head themed weddings? and here i thought every little girl dreams of wearing a beautiful white satin gown on her big day! i guess times have changed since i was a kid in the 80s and 90s.
August 3, 2011 at 9:48 pm
i actually thought that the way everyone dressed in the wedding was pretty awful, and interestingly if you look at the expressions of the guests they looked pretty confused by it
the one photo that annoys me the most is the one with the vride and her sister having an oh so eco chic vintage shabby chic hobo etsy aesthetic sensitive hug in front of teh old patchwork quilt, it just makes me CRINGE
i am so sick of this cutesy timid aesthetic. For fucks sake.
August 4, 2011 at 7:47 pm
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August 4, 2011 at 5:05 am
You want to spend 15k on a wedding, that’s fine. Spend a million for all I care, it’s your money. But DON’T delude yourself into thinking you are poor when my mom doesn’t even make 15k a year on a full time job! And my family is NOT poor, I have never starved, we have a house, etc. This twitter crap was more offensive than the wedding could ever be.
August 4, 2011 at 5:57 am
I would never wish suffering on anyone.
BUT.
If these fools do find themselves in pain at some point in their lives, I hope someone mocks them for it.
Vapid twats.
August 4, 2011 at 9:45 am
Okay, wait – I finally went and read the whole blog.
Dress is “Hobo Casual”?? Isn’t that an oxymoron? Like is there a “Hobo Formal”?
My head is exploding at the asinine-ness.
August 4, 2011 at 3:30 pm
It was suggested to me that perhaps a 50′s or 60′s Klan themed wedding might have been a more popular idea because heaven forbid we make fun of a hobo themed wedding.
August 4, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Yeah. Wow. Poor people are HILARIOUS!!!!
August 4, 2011 at 7:33 pm
what a couple of fuckin losers
August 4, 2011 at 7:39 pm
i mean, it doesn’t offend me that they celebrated the frugalititious creativity of the Great Depression. Making light of it while spending $15,000.000? That is so low that they are feeding at the bottom of the hipster ladder of ‘noncoolness” (did I just become even more uncool by using the word “cool” twice in a paragraph?) I can’t take any more of the hipsters. I even avoid the coffee shop my lovely sister baristas at….no can do. I may be a redneck, but I do , surprisingly enough, have an education and DO prefer XM Radio and MP3s over cassette tapes. GO fucking figure.
August 4, 2011 at 7:53 pm
christ, was that 3 times, my apologies.
August 4, 2011 at 9:57 pm
So I’m coming up on a major anniversary with my husband, and we were planning a vintage theme just for fun. This post/thread has inspired me to encourage guests who would otherwise bring gifts for us, to instead bring the cost of the gifts in donations which will be given to the local shelters and addiction programs. All this “jealous butthurt” has inspired us to be better people. Thanks, Regretsy!
August 4, 2011 at 10:09 pm
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August 4, 2011 at 10:43 pm
They were celebrating poverty?
My Man Godfrey came out in 1936. The opening scene is a hobo-themed party. Even then it was considered in poor taste to pretend to be poor as though it were quaint and amusing.
I’m sure they didn’t mean it to be funny, either.
August 5, 2011 at 6:52 am
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August 5, 2011 at 8:57 am
Look. I’m not nearly impoverished. My fiance and I are graduate students, we make enough to get. We’re spending less than $500 on our wedding and my future mother in law is helping us with a small reception. We’re not having a photographer, we’re making a lot of our own food, we have friends who are doing the music for free, we’re not even getting rings right now because we can’t afford them.
Spending $15,000 on a wedding is not a shoestring budget. I’m not sure what kind of “near impoverished” your friends are, but they can’t be doing so badly if they can afford that sort of extravagance (I don’t care if it’s less money than the average wedding, it’s still extravagant).
August 5, 2011 at 9:00 am
Ugh, the third sentence should end with “we make enough to get by.”
August 7, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Wait, 15k is a shoe-string budget? For a WEDDING? A single DAY? All I can keep thinking is that 15k would feed a *truly* poor family of four for a few YEARS.
My husband and I spent $300 on our wedding, if that. We went to the JP. We bought our rings at the flea market. My mother made my dress from some beautiful chiffon that had been clearanced when the fabric store she worked at closed. I made the cake and flower arrangements. We invited our closest friends to join us for dinner at a local Japanese restaurant, dutch treat. I was told later by one of those friends that it was the nicest wedding she’d ever been to. There is absolutely no need for $15,000 worth of extravagance, especially when that extravagance is mocking the very real suffering of the truly poor.
And yes, I’m really actually offended. My grandparents (who raised me) lived through the Depression and were permanently scarred by the experience. Making light of that hits uncomfortably close to home for me.
August 9, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Fifteen grand is what my friend’s mother makes in ONE WHOLE YEAR, and that’s IF she works overtime. Fifteen grand, five daughters, and they BARELY survive. My friend gives up her one daily meal (a single bowl of rice and canned chicken) on a regular basis, just so her younger sisters can eat.
Fifteen grand is more than half of what my boyfriend makes in one whole year. If I’m lucky, it’ll be half of what I’ll earn in one whole year, and we’re talking about a fairly decent career in the medical field here. Our wedding is going to be a thousand dollars or less, because that’s all we’re going to be able to afford unless we want to stay engaged for ten years while we save up more money for a fancy wedding.
Being able to blow fifteen grand on one single day makes you FUCKING FILTHY RICH, you’d have to be earning close to a six-figure salary to blow that kind of cash.
Impoverished? Give me a fucking break.
August 4, 2011 at 10:56 pm
You sound neat.
August 4, 2011 at 10:12 pm
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August 9, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Oh. So you don’t know the couple. You’re just a troll.
August 5, 2011 at 6:59 am
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August 5, 2011 at 8:53 am
So people who care about things that happened a long time ago are pussies, $15,000 isn’t enough for a “normal wedding” and everyone at the wedding was high.
If you really know this couple and care about them, the greatest thing you can do for them is stop posting. You’re not helping.
August 5, 2011 at 9:35 am
Hey, Asshat (yeah, I see that’s not your name)- If they couldn’t “afford a ‘normal’ wedding”, they would have done what the rest of us non-hipster dipfucks do: Spend about $700 and have a wonderful day with the people we love. You are clearly utterly clueless.
August 5, 2011 at 9:36 am
And no, that wasn’t directed at HK.
August 5, 2011 at 1:25 pm
You’re obviously too stupid to “get” why it was wrong. Or more likely too fucking high. So I’m going to put this as simply as possible.
BEING. A. HOBO. WAS. NOT. A. LIFE. STYLE. PEOPLE. CHOSE. THEY. WERE. FORCED. IN. TO. IT.
Hopefully that’s simple enough.
And we’re offended way to easily? The couple, their family and their friends have all responded to this mess like five year olds being deprived of their candy at nap time. Someone is offended way too easily, but it’s not the Regretsians.
August 9, 2011 at 5:01 pm
…You’re trolling, right?
My cousin got married on a budget of three thousand dollars. They rented out the church’s banquet hall, had catering, the whole shebang. ON THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Not fifteen thousand, THREE. And their family is considered borderline uppper-middle-class.
You’re completely delusional if you think fifteen grand isn’t a lot of money. Either that or you’re a rich entitled snob with your head stuck up Paris Hilton’s…you get the picture.
August 5, 2011 at 9:48 am
I live about an hour away from where this wedding occurred. My husband and I had a budget of 10,000 and had a wonderful wedding. With a 15 grand budget and having it in a backyard, how did this seem like the best use of the money?
August 5, 2011 at 4:05 pm
But think of all the really great wedding ideas you could come up with if you just ignore the social implications! Party themes like:
-child labour
-1950s mental hospitals
-polio
August 5, 2011 at 4:46 pm
I had a poor wedding too…me and the groom and the JP, then dinner with his parents. I liked to call it “Laid Off and Evicted from the Trailer Park” chic.
But seriously-these hipsters can go fuck themselves.
August 6, 2011 at 12:05 pm
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August 6, 2011 at 5:26 pm
These people need to read James Agee’s “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”
August 6, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Oh man, this Hobo wedding is one step away from a “Minstrel Show” wedding. Make that more like 1/4 of a step. All they’re missing is the blackface.
August 7, 2011 at 8:27 pm
This whole theme pisses me off on so many levels. I’ve spent pretty much my entire life being impoverished and I don’t have 15,000 to spend on anything. Hell, I had to skip paying the rent this month just to keep the electricity on and the kids fed and I still fell flat on my ass. Impoverished is looking through a nearly empty cupboard and trying to figure out what to feed four people when you have canned corn, bread crumbs and soup and it has to last you the better part of two weeks. Impoverished is going to bed hungry so your kids can eat, it’s not spending 15,000 on a wedding. Like many people, I have an education, I just don’t make nearly enough to pay for all those “extras” like food, shelter and utilities. When you stare homelessness and hunger in the face every day, someone using the term to describe their 15,000 wedding is a huge kick in the ass. I’ll be sympathetic when you can’t afford to bake a cake for your kid’s birthday much less buy them a gift.
August 8, 2011 at 1:30 am
Bronc says- I cleaned up comments making fun of their weight and general appearance. I deemed them unnecessary to the discussion.
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Good for you
Those comments did indeed SUCK. And had NOTHING to do with their ignorance and assface-ness.
August 8, 2011 at 5:18 am
Snickety says “Dare I mention the groom bawling like a baby during the actual ceremony? If that was my boyfriend, I would wonder if he had been lying about the strength of his estrogen prescription. I (hate to) sound like a PMSing bitch, but sugar sweet emotions are so out of place and fake.”
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Are you serious? of ALL the things to call them out about, you mention THAT? I didn’t know it was BAD for a man to show his sensitive side when marrying the love of his life. As shitty as they both are for their fucktastic “wedding” , I can’t just ‘get it up’ because a man cries for being happy at his said fucktastic wedding.
And I truly feed sorry for you being that bitter to hate emotions. I’m guessing you’re single? LOL
August 8, 2011 at 7:08 am
oliver tweets
It’s alright though because I’m not even allowed to get married.
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Why can’t you get married?
And the idiots who are making fun of the couple’s weight/appearances are so immature! Stop trying so hard for thumbs up and props. They [the couple] are assholes, sure. But don’t go bashing what they look like. It makes you as bad as them. Hypocrites.
August 8, 2011 at 11:34 am
Uh, because it’s illegal in my state for two consenting adults of the same gender to marry.
August 9, 2011 at 10:58 am
Well, now that Hobo has been done, the hipsters will be scrambling for the remaining few ideas that haven’t been tried yet. Here are a few:
* Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – lock everybody in and turn up the heat!
* Trail of Tears – because 9 out of 10 white American women are descended from Cherokee princesses!
* Gulag – ideal for a winter wedding. Invitations are printed in secret in an authentic basement – samizdatastic!
* Guantanamo Bay – Falafel bar, salsa dancing, and above all, what happens at the wedding stays at the wedding! An all American shindig!
It’s depressing me how easy it is to come up with horrors to profane. I’m going to stop now.
August 27, 2011 at 7:57 pm
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October 14, 2011 at 11:38 pm
A 1920′s Jazz wedding with vintage clothes that look straight out of “Chicago” and jazz music and cocktails? Fine. Those things were all glamorized DURING the Jazz era.
A 1920′s Jazz wedding with a guy in black face on the invite, a minstrel show as the house band, and “separate but equal” fondue fountains? Not cool.
Which example fits this wedding?
There is a major difference between enjoying the positive and romanticising the negative.
January 4, 2012 at 8:49 pm
My dad would have just LOVED that restaurant (note the sarcasm dripping). He told me not long before he died that his Dustbowl Oklahoma parents never went to a restaurant in their entire lives because they were always so careful after the Depression. And he ran away from home at 14 years old, completely deaf, because so many aunts and cousins moved onto their farm because they were the only people who had FOOD in the family. Around that time my great uncles were working in coal mines for room and board and not one penny of pay–like thousands of other American men–because it meant they weren’t at home eating the little food their wives and children could scrounge up. So. Fucking. Romantic.
October 14, 2011 at 11:26 pm
A) They weren’t “enjoying the positive”…they were romanticising the negative. It’s totally OK to celebrate the life and writing of Anne Frank, but would be really classless to spend 15 grand on a “Jews in Hiding” wedding with vintage Jewish lapel stars distributed to guests who are asked to dress “Auschwitz casual”.
B) The longer ago and further away something is, the less hurtful it is. Nobody still alive has a grandparent that was wounded by the Renaissance class structure. Hell, even civil war reenactments are generally pretty somber fucking events.
C) Renaissance weddings are done all the time and probably wouldn’t cause this much uproar. Why? Because it is just not as close and hurtful to people. That’s what makes it insensitive.
October 29, 2011 at 9:04 pm
I don’t think it’s the distance from the events that makes this particularly offensive.
In Renaissance or Elizabethan or Antebellum theme weddings, they’re depicting what someone of that era would have been proud of. Girls of every era imagined a fantasy wedding in velvets or satins and jewels. Most weddings, as now, are more modest, but there is a sense of joy and an escape from the harshness of real life.
This wedding focused on things that someone of the era would have been ashamed of.
August 27, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Does anyone remember that restaurant ‘Po Folks? It was Hee/Haw/Shoney’s.