Fashionista100
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Can we start a thread about weddings that are from long ago? Something like Queen Victoria or Empress Alix of Russia and going back. Let's post photos and sketches.
You are welcome, MarengoMarengo said:Thanks pdas! Maria Alexandrovna is one of my favourite royals, such a funny woman and one of the few who wasnt to be bullied by anyone, not even Queen Victoria.
The pictures of the dresses are really beautiful.
i would like to know more about the wedding dresses worn by the royal families of the middle east. if anyone has some pictures to show i would greatly appreciate it. in particular the most extravagent gowns ever made.i would like to see dresses up to the 1960's.recent wedding gowns,i've seen alot of.
as we all know that the middle eastern princesse are known to have the best gowns made by the best couturiers in Paris.I've seen a documentary about the shah of iran's wedding to princess soraya and seen her great confection of a gown by Dior.it was so heavy that she was struggling to even walk in it.I read that in the 1930's when the shah married priness Fawzia of Egypt, that her Paris wedding gown cost US $ 20 000.00 at the time.Id like to see pictures and know what happened to these extravagant gowns???
She was a very pretty young woman...Princess Alice of Battenberg (m. to Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark). The wedding took place in 1903, at the Russian Chapel on the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg.jpg
Mandy posted wonderful sketches from the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the June Newsletter.
Here is the link
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=226332&postcount=57
Sketches from the wedding of Prince George and Princess Mary, Duke and Duchess of York.
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=222160&postcount=54
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom as a bride. The wedding to Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine took place on July 1st, 1862, on the Isle of Wight:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Princess_Alice_in_wedding_dress_cropped.jpg
Wedding of Grandduchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia to Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, in 1908.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/WilhelmandMariaPavlovna1908.jpg
(Photo from the book Vår kungafamilj )