Preppy Weddings
 

So, I wanted to start a thread dedicated to the Preppy's. Post pics, or ideas, etc.
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I'm confuzzled. What makes a wedding preppy?

Popped collars?

I love it. :cool:

The same thing that makes anything else preppy, right?

Did that stuff come from these sites http://thepreppywedding.blogspot.com/

What about a nautical preppy theme? I dunno.
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My dream wedding is so New England Preppy, and I'm not a preppy person at all.

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I needed to refresh my memory.

Apparently plaid.

Apparently plaid.

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little sail boat escort cards.
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that's preppy right?

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I love groomsmen in Nantucket Reds and blazers.

LOL.

No, what makes a preppy wedding is tradition. True preppy would never have the groomsmen wear blazers -- well, maybe if the wedding was on the beach, but they'd be Brooks Bros. blazers -- much less faux-preppy popped collars. Plaid cummerbunds would, however, be acceptable.

I hate popped collars, loathe them :mad:

But what makes it a preppy traditional wedding vs. a traditional wedding?

As it's being used here, preppy is just the name of a certain style aesthetic. We're not talking about actual boarding-school WASPs. Anyone can have a wedding that takes its style inspiration from New England coastal summer style.
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You have traditional Italian weddings. You have traditional Indian weddings. And then you have traditional preppy weddings, which might be called traditional middle-to-upper class WASP weddings.

I guess what I'm saying is that if one is thinking of preppy as a style, a true preppy's style would be very traditional -- or perhaps in some circumstances, a traditional casual. A preppy "look" along the lines of what's in some of these pictures doesn't necessarily equal real preppy, at least not Southern preppy as I've seen it.

ETA: Low C Sharp beat me to it, but what she said.

See, I didn't know preppy was New England coastal summer?

Meh, I give up. Preppy around here referred to students, not generally adults and never weddings. And traditional weddings here traditional "American" AFAIK whether Catholic or Protestant

It's not something I can explain that well because I just grew up in a preppy world but here goes...

There are different kinds of preppy, like MC said he's going off of southern preppy. My mind was more New England coastal summer preppy, which is like a laid back look but still really preppy in it's essence.

When I think of preppy I think of WASP old New England families, whose children go to prep schools. They tend to summer in the popular/traditional New England WASP locations etc...

^^^ This. Think Brooks Brothers, LL Bean, (old) Abercrombie & Fitch. A lot of Ralph Lauren draws on a preppy style.

Drolefille, you need to find yourself a used copy of The Official Preppy Handbook. It explains much, and is way funny.

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Speaking of which, 30 years later Lisa Birnbach is coming out with a new book this fall -- True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World.

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*shrug* And yet again the Midwest is passed over and presumed to be nothing more than farmers and Chicago. :p

There's more?

:) Either New England or (Deep?) South. Everyone else is copying.

To further respond to Animate's question, as indirectly illustrated by MysticCat and Nanners, traditional preppy doesn't refer to "our kind of people." But, "our kind of people" (a la Lawrence Otis Graham's book) traditionally has a version of preppy that mirrors much of what is considered traditional preppy. Preppy has also become the trend for groups that don't have preppy or high social class roots. Therefore, when you hear some people talk about preppy, or say they are being preppy, it isn't what others would consider (traditional) preppy.

There's Peoria that's stuck in late 90's grunge vs. Country, but that's about it.

The more I think about it, Preppy is an awful lot like the Old Guard Rec System, only a bit less genteel.

What's the Old Guard Rec System?

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After reading all of these posts, this thread has reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU2He2BIc0

:D

LOL, I remember that!

Aren't these really just nautical-themed weddings? I think most weddings are pretty preppy, but I don't think of them that way.

See that's where I'm getting hung up, leaving out the stereotype of the "redneck wedding," destination weddings, and quiet courthouse affairs, most weddings are pretty similar. Dress, veil, suits or tuxes, bridesmaid dresses, flowers that match the theme.

But I think this thread has established that I have no eye for this sort of thing.

I don't think of nautical and preppy as the same thing at all. Preppy, especially New England preppy may incorporate nautical elements, but there is a difference.

No, I think part of the problem is that, as has been noted, preppy can mean what I'll call "true preppy" -- as in prep school and those for whom prep school is the norm -- and it can also mean what designers label a "preppy style", like what you see in lots of the pictures posted in this thread. That preppy style has taken on a life of its own, and like I've said, often that style doesn't reflect what I've called true preppy.

True preppy is marked by a conservatism, a we've-always-done-it-this-way-because-this-is-how-it's-done attitude. I'll give you an example:

Google turned up these on preppy wedding invitations:

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The use of the colors and the style of script reflect a preppy style, but no true, old-school preppy would ever dream of sending either of those invitations. There's no reason for the invitation to look any different from mama's or grandmama's, and there's certainly no reason for color.

Okay, I exaggerate a little -- a concession to modernity might appear in the form of a grosgrain ribbon tying everything together, but the ribbon would not be apple green or pink. ;)

No, I do get that marketed "preppy" and prep-school/old money are different. But as "traditional" weddings are particularly, well, traditional, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a true preppy wedding and a regular wedding. I'm sure there are all sorts of rules I don't know anything about and that they're all unwritten and mostly unspoken and if you have to ask you'll never know :p

Going to a Catholic school, we got called preppy just because we were the closest thing to a prep school around and we cost money, even though not everyone there was well off.

Like I said, I suspect I just don't 'get' it.

True preppy started in New England. Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, and Nantucket would be the traditional preppy coastal getaways that people think of, but Greenwich and Darian, CT, parts of Long Island, Maine...etc. are all where preppy started. The concept began with college preparatory schools, hence the name "prep." From those prep schools, kids would go on to the Ivy Leagues and then after graduating they would have preppy weddings.

Later on, preppy moved down south and now there's southern preppy as it's own thing. There's also Palm Beach preppy which is separate as well. Some people mistakenly think that all that makes something preppy is pink and green plaid--Which ends up just looking like it's trying to be preppy when it isn't.