Planning a Wedding 1940's style and the History of Hess' Department Store
Planning a wedding now is very different from past decades. Now we have everything online, Save the Date Cards, Destination Weddings, Wedding Websites, Online Registries, Honeymoon Registries. Email invitations and thank you's. In the 1980's you walked through a store with a representative and they wrote down the items that you and your betrothed liked. Your family and friends would have then asked where you were registered, gone to that store and would receive a list from the Registry Department. In the 1940's, the store you went to gave you very personalized service to plan your wedding. Here we are sharing a gift given to newly engaged women from Hess Brothers Department Store in Allentown PA. Hess Brothers was THE destination to make all plans and purchases for your new life as a wife. Max and Charles Hess were brother's who grew up in Germany. They found that the area of Allentown PA in the year 1896 was a town that was starting to build up. They rented
