Walt & Lilly's Wedding?

[Bride-to-be]

Does anyone know anything about Walt and Lilly's wedding? I just finished reading a book about him. Now I am curious about what their wedding was like - but can't find any info.

Thanks!

 

[DisneyDmbNut]

Since they were married during the depression, I imagine it wasn't grand. My grandparents were married about the same time..Neither had a wedding dress..just a nice Sunday dress.

Here is a quote from Lillian's Obit:
By this time Disney had both a studio to maintain and a wife to support. Disney was basically a somewhat shy chap; his proposal and subsequent wedding had not exactly been as romantic as movie love affairs should be. He was paying Lillian Bounds $15 a week and to help her out drove her home each night in his car. As he was only paying himself $35 this seems a reasonable arrangement, but the story goes that he fell behind in her salary payments and married her to save the mounting expense of the backlog. Even then Disney had several critics on his underpaid staff and this yarn may be taken with the proverbial pinch.

What is a matter of record is that they married in the house of Lillian's brother, the Fire Chief of Lewington, Idaho, in July 1925. Walt's proposal had been unorthodox: "I've got $75; shall I buy a new car or a wedding ring?" The honeymoon was equally off-centre. Their wedding night was spent aboard a train to Seattle, where Walt developed a violent toothache and spent the night helping the black porter polish the passengers' shoes.

 

[Bride-to-be]

thats very humbling.

 

[PixyDusted]

Yes, very small family wedding. Weddings back then were not the to-do they are today.

 

[LittleMissMagic]

I'm reading a biography on Walt Disney - An American Original: Walt Disney by Bob Thomas, and came across the paragraph on Walt and Lilly's marriage. I remembered seeing this thread, and thought I'd come back to share.

Walt had often proclaimed that he would never marry until he reached twenty-five and had saved $10,000. He fell short on both counts. After Roy had married Edna, Walt suggested to Lilly that they should marry, too. Roy took Walt to a cut-rate jeweler, who displayed a three-quarter-carat diamond surrounded by tiny blue saphires, priced at $75, and others at $35. Walt selected the $75 ring. On July 13, 1925, he placed it on Lillian's finger in the living room of her brother, the fire chief of Lewiston, Idaho. The newlyweds honeymooned at Mount Rainier and Seattle, then returned to a $40-a-month kitchenette apartment in Los Angeles.

 

[Bride-to-be]

Cool - thank you!