How much did Irma Dorantes’ wedding dress cost for her wedding with Pedro Infante

Pedro Infantand and Irma Dorantes they married despite all the adversities that were surrounding them. They arrived at the altar on March 10, 1953, and although it was not an ostentatious wedding, the Idol of Mexico He did not limit himself in expenses so that they could enjoy their union.

Irma Dorantes has gradually revealed some intimate details of her relationship with Pedro Infante, which began when she was only 16 years old. Among her memories, despite the years that have passed, the preparations for her wedding with the Sinaloan still remain and that great day on which they finally sealed their love legally.

When the actress was 19 years old, Infante he proposed marriage With a beautiful ring that he still keeps to this day and he went to his mother’s house to ask for her hand, accompanied by his parents Don Delfino and Doña Cuquita.

Everything was fast because they wanted to do something very simple. While she was buying what was necessary to fix her wedding day, he was preparing the necessary papers to deliver them to the Civil Registry.

According to Irma, Pedro gave him a thousand pesos so that only the dress would be bought. That amount currently would be around 11 thousand pesos.

However, the same actress confessed that she decided don’t spend all the money only in what she would wear on her wedding day and she also took the opportunity to buy other things. The dress would actually have cost 400 pesos, which currently would be just over 4 thousand pesos.

In addition to this garment, the young actress decided to buy a hand fan, because they would marry in a tropical environment and he would need it; this one cost 40 pesos, which currently would be about 500 pesos, and their shoes, what did it cost 60 pesos, which would be around 700 pesos today.

Her dress was a French cut, which normally falls below the knees and has a marked waist to give way to a loose skirt. The neck was closed, but with transparencies. Both she and Pedro wore white. Until today, the actress keeps all these details of her wedding.

Since Irma had more than half of the money that her future husband gave her, she decided to buy herself magazines, sweets and chocolates, as he recalled in his memoir.

The ceremony was so simple that they were only 15 guestsThere were her mother and neither of the parents of the Sinaloan, some relatives were able to arrive, but not all. Nor did they seek to make their wedding media, so they did not disclose it to the four winds.

Since all the planning, and the wedding itself was very quick, the couple had to marry without rings of marriage, because the jewelers could not deliver them on time. The solution that Pedro found was to buy some last minute rings, before they had to meet at Dorantes’s aunt’s house, where the union took place.

Right after they were married, when they had already had a small party, they left for the destination where they would be their Honeymoon. Cozumel it was the destination where they, in their privacy, celebrated that they had finally joined in marriage.

There they spent four nights, after that, they headed to Veracruz, where they only enjoyed two nights before having to return to Mexico City, since they had made a scandal for your wedding.

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