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British Royal Weddings - Part 1

Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, 20 November 1947.

For her wedding dress, Elizabeth still required ration coupons to buy the material for her gown, designed by Norman Hartnell. The dress was "a duchesse satin bridal gown with motifs of star lilies and orange blossoms." Hartnell, who had been Court Designer since 1938, claimed it as "the most beautiful dress I had so far made". Elizabeth's wedding shoes were made out of satin and were trimmed with silver and seed pearl. Elizabeth did her own makeup for the wedding. Her wedding bouquet was prepared by the florist M. H. Longman, and consisted of "white orchids with a sprig of myrtle". The myrtle was taken from "the bush grown from the original myrtle in Queen Victoria's wedding bouquet". The bouquet was returned to the abbey the day after the service to be laid on the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, following a tradition started by Elizabeth's mother at her wedding in 1923.

Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 6 May 1960.

The wedding dress was designed by Norman Hartnell, the favoured couturier of the royals, and was made from silk organza. The skirt comprised some 30 metres of fabric. Hartnell specifically kept the adornments of the dress such as the crystal embellishments and beading to a minimum in order to suit Margaret's petite frame. Margaret’s look was completed with the the Poltimore tiara. Vogue described the dress as "stunningly tailored". Another author called it "a study in simplicity". In 1960, Life magazine named it "the simplest royal wedding gown in history". It has also been described as one of Hartnell's most beautiful and sophisticated pieces.

Princess Anne and Mark Phillips, 14 November 1973.

The wedding dress was designed by Maureen Baker, the chief designer for the ready-to-wear label Susan Small; she had previously designed outfits for the princess. The dress was an embroidered "Tudor-style" wedding dress with a high collar and "mediaeval sleeves". The train was embroidered by Lock's Embroiderers. Anne was said to have designed many aspects of the dress herself. Compared to previous royal wedding dresses, it was described as "simplistic" and was noted as being close to contemporary 1970s wedding fashions.

Lady Diana Spencer and Charles, Prince of Wales, 29 July 1981.

The dress was designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, who described it as a dress that "had to be something that was going to go down in history, but also something that Diana loved", and which would be "suitably dramatic in order to make an impression". Diana personally selected the designers to make her wedding dress because she was fond of a chiffon blouse they designed for her formal photo session with Lord Snowdon.

The woven silk taffeta was made by Stephen Walters of Suffolk. The Emanuel's consulted Maureen Baker, who had made the wedding dress of Princess Anne, during their construction of the gown. One observer wrote "the dress was a crinoline, a symbol of sexuality and grandiosity, a meringue embroidered with pearls and sequins, its bodice frilled with lace". The gown was decorated with hand embroidery, sequins, and 10,000 pearls, centering on a heart motif. An 18-karat gold horseshoe was stitched into the petticoats as a sign of good fortune. The lace used to trim it was antique hand-made Carrickmacross lace which had belonged to Queen Mary.

Fittings of the dress posed difficulties because Diana had developed bulimia and dropped from a size 14 to a size 10 in the months leading up to the wedding. Even the seamstress was concerned about her weight loss and feared the dress might not fit as it should.

The twenty-five-foot train posed problems. According to writer Andrew Morton, in Diana: Her True Story, the gown's designers realized too late that they had forgotten to allow for the train's length in relation to the size of the glass coach Diana and her father rode in to the ceremony. They found it difficult to fit inside the glass coach, and the train was badly crushed despite Diana's efforts. This accounted for the visible wrinkles in the wedding gown when she arrived at the cathedral. Diana also had a spare wedding dress, which would have acted as a stand-in if the dress' design was revealed before her big day.

Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson, 23 July 1986.

Sarah Ferguson wore a dress made from ivory duchesse satin and featuring heavy beading, designed by Lindka Cierach, the beadwork incorporated various symbols including hearts representing romance, anchors and waves representing Prince Andrew's sailing background and bumblebees and thistles, which were taken from Sarah Ferguson's family heraldry. Copies of the dress, including the motifs specific to the royal family, went on sale in stores just hours after the end of the wedding. Influenced by the wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer, a notable feature of Sarah Ferguson's 17 foot long train was the intertwined initials A and S sewn in silver beads. The head-dress and bouquet, fabric rosettes or artificial silk flowers were used to adorn the gown itself. Ferguson was pleased with the dress, describing it in her 1997 memoir, My Story, as "an exquisite creation I'd lost twenty-six pounds to fit into. Lindka was a genius; I knew she could make the most flattering gown ever, and she had. It was amazingly boned, like a corset." Hair stylist Denise McAdam and make-up artist Teresa Fairminer attended to the bride, while florist Jane Packer designed the bouquet. The ivory silk wedding dress became the season's most sought-after style.

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harry-sussex · 4 years

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KATIE’S TOP 10 15 WORST ROYAL WEDDING DRESSES OF ALL TIME

15. Silvia Sommerlath in Dior by Marc Bohan (Sweden, m. King Carl XVI Gustaf, 19 June 1976)

I love a good simple wedding dress, but this thing needed a tailor from the heavens to save it. It looks like she’s wearing a bedsheet, or a nightgown. The veil is fine, but I hate the little short part just dangling from the Cameo tiara in midair. I don’t hate the whole look in theory, but a lot of adjustments needed to be made for it to work, especially since she went from commoner straight to Queen.

14. Marie-Chantal Miller in Valentino (Greece, m. Crown Prince Pavlos, 1 July 1995)

This is a case of way too much going on. It looks like the designer took pretty parts of multiple wedding dresses and sewed them together without seeing that the individual concepts worked well together. This thing has mismatched lace, I mean, come on. Also, the corset does her no favors.

13. Sophie Rhys-Jones in Samantha Shaw (United Kingdom, m. Prince Edward, 19 June 1999)

Beaded jewelry - especially a cross - does not belong anywhere near a royal wedding. The dress is way too plain, even for my ordinarily plain taste. It looks like a nightgown. The bouquet and veil were nice, but that necklace is just terrible. Combined with quite the unfortunate tiara, this bridal look missed the mark in a lot of ways.

12. Charlotte Casiraghi in Chanel Haute Couture and Giambattista Valli (Monaco, m. Dimitri Rassam, 1 June 2019)

I couldn’t decide which of Charlotte’s two gowns (excluding the short Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello from her civil ceremony) was worse, so I chose both for this spot. The Chanel didn’t fit her anywhere, and those shoes need to be burned in a fire. The fabric is wrinkly and heavy and the bodice drowns her. The Giambattista Valli looked like all of the elements of a typical boho beach wedding, but all sewn together in some haphazard, last-minute fashion. There’s just too much going on - lace and mesh and ruffles and appliqué and polka dots and tulle and wide sleeves. I genuinely hate them both, especially since I had such high hopes.

11. Mabel Wisse Smit in Victor & Rolf (The Netherlands, m. Prince Friso, 24 April 2004)

I don’t hate the silhouette, but that super short veil and those bows have to go. The bows literally ascend in size down the train - I just don’t get it. I can’t get it. This could have been a success if it wasn’t so heavy (weighed down by those ridiculous bows) but the small details just kill the entire thing for me.

10. Marilène van den Broek in Pierre Yves (The Netherlands, m. Prince Maurits, 29 May 1988)

Wedding dresses should never have collars, and you should never see the ribbing of the corset through the fabric. It looks like Pierre Yves missed the entire midsection of fabric and just decided to let Marilène walk out with her lingerie showing. The collar would be weird on a shirt, let alone on a wedding dress. I hate it.

9. Sarah Ferguson in Lindka Cierach (United Kingdom, m. Prince Andrew, 23 July 1986)

The 80s were a terrible era for fashion. I hate satin with a passion - it is possibly the ugliest fabric on the face of the earth. Combine that with shoulder pads and puffy sleeves... yikes. The skirt of the dress looked wrinkled (satin is the least forgiving fabric) and her veil swallowed her entire head and her hair - which is almost impressive, considering one can ordinarily see Sarah’s hair from the International Space Station. Also, those bows on the veil... nope. Bows just seem so juvenile for such a massive event. This is just a case of 80s fashion gone wrong - at least the proportions were right, but the rest of it completely missed the mark.

8. Masako Owada in Jun Ashida (Japan, m. Crown Prince Naruhito, 9 June 1993)

Another case of too much happening at once. The lace is pretty but combined with the excessively ruffled collar, buttons, elbow-length gloves in a mismatched fabric/color, matching handbag (??), and over-the-top necklace and tiara (which I love, but not with this), the look in full is... unfortunate. Also, I hate with a passion when royal ladies in gowns cover their sashes. This was the day she became the Crown Princess of Japan - that sash is a lot more important than that ugly little overcoat!! The sash should always go over the outfit. Period.

7. Letizia Ortiz in Manuel Pertegaz (Spain, m. The Prince of Asturias, 22 May 2004)

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again - wedding dresses should not have collars. For someone whose fashion almost always knocks it out of the park, I’m flabbergasted that Letizia chose this look for her wedding day. It looks like she’s wearing a camisole underneath to bring up the neckline... I used to do that when I was 13. It wasn’t a good look for a teenage American, and it’s not a good look for a future Queen on her wedding day. Also, the fabric swallows her petite figure alive. The shape is closer to a nightgown than to a wedding dress.

6. Princess Märtha-Louise in Wenche Lyche (Norway, m. Ari Behn, 24 May 2002)

Wedding!! dresses!! should!! not!!! have!! collars!!! The only thing worse than a collar is a jacket... Märtha-Louise went with both in this case. The color is unforgiving and the jacket doesn’t match the slip dress beneath it. I think I like the tiara individually but it just does not work with the dress/vampire cape thing she has going on.

5. Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz in Édouard Vermeulen (Belgium, m. Prince Philippe, 4 December 1999)

Honestly, I’m getting tired of saying it, but... wedding dresses should not have collars. The color is pretty but that’s about all I can say about this dress. What’s with those polka dots? Who on earth would think that polka dots and ruffles should go in the same veil? With lace? And tulle? It looks like the designer took all of the leftover fabric from his past designs and stitched them into a ridiculously mismatched veil that was paired with an extraordinary simple dress (that would have been fine on its own, had the collar/coat thing been totally eliminated). Seriously, these collars make all of these gorgeous royal ladies look like Dracula.

4. Rania al-Yassin in Bruce Oldfield (Jordan, m. King Abdullah II, 10 June 1993)

This like something you could get at Party City for $75.00 so a child can call herself “The Bride of Franken-Elvis” while trick-or-treating on Halloween. Seriously, what is it with these ladies and their collars? That embroidery... no. It’d be bad enough if it was white or silver, but the fact that it’s gold? Just no. And it’s repeated on her shoes!! Short-sleeved jackets are simply the worst, especially over a wedding dress. The fabric is unforgiving (I hate satin) and the whole thing looks like it was just pulled out of a suitcase before being thrown on the bride. The bouquet is terrible, the earrings are terrible, the hair is terrible... why does it look like the veil is both pulling on Rania’s scalp and strangling her beehive? I don’t get it, I hate it, I can’t imagine why anyone would think any part of this ensemble looked good.

3. Mary Donaldson in Uffe Frank (Denmark, m. Crown Prince Frederik, 14 May 2004)

By far, the worst wedding ensemble of all the modern royal brides. Mary has such an incredible fashion sense, which is why this one hurts so much. What is going on here? A bad case of wedding hair, for one - suffocated of course by an ugly tiara, excessive earrings, and a veil that looks like it just came out of someone’s attic, unpreserved and yellow-tinted. The same goes with the dress - what’s wrong with the color? Why does it look like it’s been sitting in a studio with a bunch of chain smokers for a year? The color just washes her out completely. The shape isn’t horrible but those weird panels on the front look like they were sewn on the morning of the wedding as an afterthought. I hate the fabric, I hate the sleeves, I hate the fabric, I hate the design execution, I hate the veil, I hate the bouquet, I hate the accessories... overall, I hate the whole thing.

2. Soraya Esfandiary-Bahktiary in Christian Dior (Iran, m. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 12 February 1951)

Feathers... just no. Nope, no way. I have nothing good to say. I have nothing to say. Just no.

1. Lady Diana Spencer in David and Elizabeth Emmanuel (United Kingdom, m. The Prince of Wales, 29 July 1981)

The epitome of god-awful 80s fashion. I get that hindsight is 20-20 but I can’t believe that anyone on Diana’s design team would think this thing would age well. It looks like it weighed more than Diana ever did! Puffy sleeves, ruffles, mounds and mounds of ridiculous, wrinkled fabric... it’s a wonder she wasn’t sucking wind by the time she got to the altar! It’s like a workout!! Who needs to go to the gym when you could just put on Diana’s wedding dress and walk a couple hundred feet? For such a young, beautiful bride - this entire thing missed every mark. It wore her, not the other way around. She was barely out of her teens when she wore this and it just aged her... I could do this forever. This is one of the worst royal wedding dresses of all time, then and now, and I can’t fathom anyone ever approving this design much less wearing it down the aisle during the wedding of the century.

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Can you please do a top 10 of your less favorite royal wedding dresses?

I found this really hard just because there are very few wedding dresses I really hate. Some of these are fine but they had to make up the numbers!

1) Princess Martha Louise in Wenche Lyche - The shoulders. No. They’re like alien shoulders or something. Shoulder pads were way out of fashion and they shouldn’t be brought back for a royal wedding.

2) Crown Princess Mette Marit in Ove Harder Finseth- Why is this veil so freakishly long???? It shouldn’t be so much longer than the train!!!! Also it’s just boring. Given how gorgeous her dresses are now, it was just so disappointing

3) Princess Anne in Maureen Baker-. I’m just wondering how she went to the bathroom or ate without getting stuff all over those sleeves. How difficult are they to move around? What is she keeping in her sleeves? And why are the ends of the sleeves so pointy?

4) Princess Diana in the Emmanuells- I don’t care what people say, this dress is hideous. All 80s fashion should be burned immediately. It’s a frothy, matronaly, dated mess and I hate it.

5) Princess Mabel in Viktor & Rolf- I’m not going to say anything bitchy about this because Mabel lost her husband very tragically and I’m sure she has amazing memories of this day. But basically it’s in here because it’s costumey.

6) Queen Mathilde in Natan- This is what I like to refer to as the Elvis collar. It’s used in many gowns from that period- see Alexandra in Denmark and Letizia in Spain- and it’s just so ugly to me. Put the damn collar down or just go all out and bedazzle your dress with references to Mr Presley.

7) Princess Stephanie- This looks like a dress from a Guns n Roses video.

8) Crown Princess Marie Chantal in Valentino- It kind of makes it look like she’s got a skin condition over her chest

9) Queen Rania in Bruce Oldfield- This is just a bad prom dress. And her hair adds about six feet to her height. It also is kind of like an Elvis collar which has been flattened.

10) The Duchess of York in Lindka Cierach- This also has the shoulder pad problem but the thing I really don’t like is the satin material. I have an irrational hatred of satin. It always looks cheap. And I’m not a fan of the colour. It kind of looks yellow?

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anonymoushouseplantfan · 6 years

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What do you think about Meghan choosing a French label for her wedding dress? If any other BRF bride did this they'd be blasted by the press. Look at past wedding dresses : Anne- Maureen Baker (British), Diana - The Emanuels (British), Sarah -Lindka Cierach (British), Sophie - Samantha Shaw (British), Camilla - Robinson Valentine (British), Autumn- Sassi Holford (British), Catherine - Alexander McQueen/Sarah Burton (British), Zara- Stewart Parvin (British) . The press is still giving Meg passes.

The designer herself was British.

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Princess Beatrice's Bridal Look Was Filled With Sweet Details For Her Mom, Sarah Ferguson

Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi got married in a private wedding ceremony at All Saints Chapel in Windsor on Friday, July 12. On Sunday, Buckingham Palace released two beautiful photos of the newlyweds, which highlighted the subtle styling details of Beatrice's bridal look that honored her love for her mother, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York.

Princess Beatrice altered Queen Elizabeth's vintage Hartnell gown by adding similar puff sleeves worn by Sarah, Duchess of York on her own wedding day on July 23, 1986. Ferguson wore an embroidered Lindka Cierach gown for her marriage to Prince Andrew, Duke of York that featured diamanté embroidery and gigot sleeves - which have come full circle back in fashion. Beatrice also chose to wear her hair in a half updo as a subtle secondary nod to her mother's bridal beauty look.

Ahead, a closer look at Princess Beatrice's wedding dress and the royal style moments that inspired her sweet bridal details.

15 Photos of Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi's Royal Romance

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Princess Eugenie and Fergie's Dresses Share More Similarities Than You Might Think

It's been over 32 years since Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson (or Fergie, as she is popularly known) walked down the aisle, but Fergie's dress - made with ivory duchesse satin and featuring heavy beading - is still considered iconic '80s fashion. No one expected Prince Andrew's fiancée to stun on her big day, as fashion experts consistently criticized Fergie's figure and supposed lack of style, but then-unknown London designer Lindka Cierach created a gown that was unanimously considered a triumph, and just two hours after the bride appeared, replicas of the dress could be found in shop windows throughout London.

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While Fergie's flamboyant dress was very indicative of the time, the stunning dress her daughter Eugenie chose to wear for her big day was a bit more understated. Unlike her mother, Eugenie chose to eschew the traditional veil, and her dress featured a daring low back that no other royal bride has ever pulled off before. While working with designer Peter Pilotto, Princess Eugenie specifically requested an open back in order to show off the scars she was left with after going through corrective back surgery as a child.

The two royal gowns do share a number of similarities, however. Both dresses have meaningful symbolism embroidered in their gowns, as Fergie chose to include her family coat of arms, as well as anchors and waves to represent Andrew's sailing background, and Eugenie's dress featured a garland pattern laced with special meaning. Both mother and daughter also had long, gorgeous trains, with Fergie's even including a letter 'A' for her new husband. Check out the gallery to see a side-by-side comparison of the two equally head-turning gowns.

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