Elvis and priscilla's wedding

[presley31]

Maybe so, but I'm betting your Mom didn't grow up in the south, did she? Every year the average age for marriage goes up, but back in 1967 LOTs and LOTS of girls married at 18.

Nope she didn`t grow up in the south but it different ages all over the world. i think col and vernon both said it wasn`t such a good idea for elvis to be with priscilla.

[utmom2008]

Donut, I agree with you to a point. It's clear in Priscilla's eyes anyway but Elvis couldn't have played house with such a young girl if her parents hadn't sanctioned it in the first place....she was THEIR responsibility.

Diane

Great post Diane. Paul and Ann held the card for Pris, and they played it when she was 14. As someone said earlier...WHY were they letting her see him and hang out late on school nights in Germany?? When I was 14 I would have done anything to run off with Elvis..my parents would have stopped me before the front door. When my own daughter was 14 I would often think....they let her go off and be with world's biggest rock star?? To me, that is the definition of sorry parenting.

[presley31]

There you go Lea! For Elvis being raised in the south it was not that unusual. The big BUT here is that Priscilla's parents weren't from there and their values as to age were different so their reasoning as to why they let Priscilla go live with him doesn't hold up.

I also agree that if Elvis had been so wild about Priscilla he would not have waited so long to marry her, nor would he have had the MM around so much, spent so little time with her or had so many other girls on the side....does not compute!!! That does not sound that she was all that precious to him. I frankly think he was bowled over by her looks initially but not in love and I believe it was her who pushed to go live with him at Graceland and he gave in like he did with a lot of things he shouldn't have (the Colonel for instance)....then he was stuck big time.

Jen, it wasn't just in the south that girls married young. Farmers had their girls married young as well so that there would be more hands on the farm. It was mostly town and city girls that married older. In my time, 19 was the norm.

Diane

Not saying that priscilla parents are in the right here, but elvis was playing around even with anita, june, and others and according to them elvis was talking about marriage to with them, so really his life didn`t change even with pris there. Like ann M says elvis woudn`t gone though all that trouble of getting pris here if he didn`t want her.

http://www.elvispresleynews.com/AnnMargret.html

[Diane]

Oh hey Rosanne if I had met Elvis at 14 I would have been kicking and screaming to be allowed to see him too but no way would have my parents allowed it. I doubt very much if going to live with him would have even entered my head.

My parents would have said if he was interested enough he would wait until I was older then see if a relationship was what we both wanted.

Jen, we only have Priscilla's word for it that it was Elvis who went through all the trouble to get her to Graceland. I would be very interested to know how many letters and phone calls came from Germany versus Tennessee.

Diane

[presley31]

Oh hey Rosanne if I had met Elvis at 14 I would have been kicking and screaming to be allowed to see him too but no way would have my parents allowed it. I doubt very much if going to live with him would have even entered my head.

My parents would have said if he was interested enough he would wait until I was older then see if a relationship was what we both wanted.

Jen, we only have Priscilla's word for it that it was Elvis who went through all the trouble to get her to Graceland. I would be very interested to know how many letters and phone calls came from Germany versus Tennessee.

Diane

I don`t think ann got her verson from priscilla, don`t even think those two could even stand eachtogther. priscilla was doing the writing cause elvis had anita around with him and even when she came to stay the first time, one of the mm had to make sure anita was nowhere around. It really doesn`t make sense to bring someone from accoss the world if you don`t want them with you. lets be honest if you don`t love someone than you leave them where they are and don`t bring them for hoildays or to live.

[utmom2008]

Oh hey Rosanne if I had met Elvis at 14 I would have been kicking and screaming to be allowed to see him too but no way would have my parents allowed it. I doubt very much if going to live with him would have even entered my head.

My parents would have said if he was interested enough he would wait until I was older then see if a relationship was what we both wanted.

Jen, we only have Priscilla's word for it that it was Elvis who went through all the trouble to get her to Graceland. I would be very interested to know how many letters and phone calls came from Germany versus Tennessee.

I would love to see that myself....I think lots of folks might be real surprised with those results. And...NO, I wouldn't have even had the thought of going to LIVE with him. I knew I would NOT be allowed to even go to his house!

[utmom2008]

It really doesn`t make sense to bring someone from accoss the world if you don`t want them with you.

It goes back to Elvis being a "nice guy" and a "pushover". I'm betting they told him how MUCH she wanted to finish school and graduate in the United States. He, being the nice-guy, said OK.

[utmom2008]

I don`t think ann got her verson from priscilla, don`t even think those two could even stand eachtogther.

What "version" are you referring to?

[presley31]

What "version" are you referring to?

The one she defended elvis when Dee stanley says elvis was forced into marriage. http://www.elvispresleynews.com/AnnMargret.html

[presley31]

It goes back to Elvis being a "nice guy" and a "pushover". I'm betting they told him how MUCH she wanted to finish school and graduate in the United States. He, being the nice-guy, said OK.

Still don't believe that for one min, doesn't make sense at all.

[utmom2008]

Still don't believe that for one min, doesn't make sense at all.

Do tell. Which part of it makes no sense?? Elvis being a "nice-guy" or Prissy wanting to finish school in the US?

[ElvisPresleyUK]

The one she defended elvis when Dee stanley says elvis was forced into marriage. http://www.elvispresleynews.com/AnnMargret.html

never read this before...thanks for the link

[presley31]

Do tell. Which part of it makes no sense?? Elvis being a "nice-guy" or Prissy wanting to finish school in the US?

Elvis was a good person no doubt about it, but he was gone for 2 years so like many woman in his life he loved and moved on but he didn't do that with priscilla, so that spreaks more volumes and if priscilla did push elvis to come to the states than l would love to see the proof to that.

[presley31]

never read this before...thanks for the link

your welcome

[utmom2008]

I know when l was dating a guy who was alot older them me my parents threated to put him in jail if he didn`t stay away from me and l was 14 going on 15 , so l guess your right age is different everywhere you go.

That's a great example of how all parents see things in a different way. Myself and all of my friends were not allowed to date, AT ALL, until we were 16.

[utmom2008]

Elvis was a good person no doubt about it, but he was gone for 2 years so like many woman in his life he loved and moved on but he didn't do that with priscilla, so that spreaks more volumes and if priscilla did push elvis to come to the states than l would love to see the proof to that.

What speaks volumes is Elvis being interviewed shortly after returning home and being asked about Pris. I know it must have made her feel all warm and fuzzy inside when he says he was seeing a little girl some while he was there, but it wasn't anything special. Maybe that's when Paul and Ann put their plan in motion. And..I would like to "see" the proof that Elvis pushed and begged for her to come be with him. We don't know either for sure. And....we never will.

[presley31]

What speaks volumes is Elvis being interviewed shortly after returning home and being asked about Pris. I know it must have made her feel all warm and fuzzy inside when he says he was seeing a little girl some while he was there, but it wasn't anything special. Maybe that's when Paul and Ann put their plan in motion. And..I would like to "see" the proof that Elvis pushed and begged for her to come be with him. We don't know either for sure. And....we never will.

Where is the proof or sources to what you say are true?? it seems to me there more Speculation than any turth in this thread. There is only one book that has all the informtion that have been saying and thats child bride and l would never take anything serious when david stanley has a hand in it.

[presley31]

That's a great example of how all parents see things in a different way. Myself and all of my friends were not allowed to date, AT ALL, until we were 16.

My parents didn't know l was dating him, my mom found it in my journal. I wasn't allowed to date till after high school was done.

[Brian]

That's a great example of how all parents see things in a different way. Myself and all of my friends were not allowed to date, AT ALL, until we were 16.

Hi Utmom 2008

It's because you or your friends didn't have parents like Priscilla's (goldiggers)
These Priscilla threads take on a life of there own in a similar way to the World tour threads. I checked the thread this morning and it had 21 replies now it has 55 replies. I had heard from the Memphis mafia guys that aren't aligned with Priscilla that Elvis was very much in love with Priscilla at first and viewed her as a conquest and wanted her to come to the U.S. and live with him so he could teach her how to act and dress and behave and they could spend time together. As the years went by Elvis still loved Priscilla and genuinely cared for her but the passion was gone from Elvis point of view he had wanted to move on to other women and had really fallen hard for Ann Margret. He broke it off with Ann because of his commitments to Priscilla from what I have heard neither Elvis or Ann wanted it broken off.
Priscilla's father Joseph had wanted Elvis to marry Priscilla when she turned 21 Elvis resisted for a while and then Mr. Beaulieu threatened Elvis he would go to the media and tell them all about how young priscilla was when they started living together. Elvis fearing a scandal agreed to marry Priscilla he talked to the Colonel about it and the Colonel told him to either marry her or dump her. Elvis married her.
I don't know for sure if any of this is true because I wasn't there but have heard it from Bill Smith, Lamar, Red, Marty, Sonny

[Diane]

I'd never heard or read that Pris and Anne didn't get along Jen. Maybe it was part that Anne never told her until about the time she met Elvis that Paul wasn't her real father and maybe the rest was that she realized they couldn't have had much respect or concern for her in allowing her into that relationship with Elvis for their own greed.

Who knows what Priscilla really feels at this time. She very well could be full of resentment towards her parents at the same time consoling herself with all that money. She never looks like a happy person and never did.

I wasn't supposed to date until I was sixteen either but I sneaked. A couple of times in the front seat of a car and a fight with a not so nice kid of 16 when I was 14 decided me that I wasn't ready. I didn't date again until I was sixteen and that was my first love and lasted 3 years.

Diane