Talking of the shtreimel, the weird thing is now with so many takana chassuna halls, the shtreimel cost is almost as much as the entire chassuna night.
There's a story told of one of the Gerrer Rebbes:
Once the spodik machers raised the prices for spodiks to a price that was too high for many of the chasidim.
The Rebbe called a meeting with the spodik machers to convince them to make their prices more normal. The had all kinds of excuses and "reasons" why they needed to raise the price.
Finally the Rebbe said, "if you don't lower the price, tomorrow I'm putting on a black hat!"
Needless to say, the next day the prices went down!
If only someone would do this nowadays with shtreimels.