Archduchess Marie Christine of Austria and Count Rodolphe of Limburg-Stirum, 6 Dec 08

[ANNIE_S]

Article from Hola:
LA ARCHIDUQUESA MARÍA CRISTINA DE AUSTRIA Y EL CONDE RODOLFO DE LIMBURG-STIRUM SE CASAN ESTE SÁBADO

Some pics of the couple and the weeding guests:
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Very, very beautiful couple!!
They look so happies and in love...

[Al_bina]

So far the list looks impressive: Queen Fabiola, Crown Prince Phillipe, Princess Astrid and Archduke Lorenz, Grand Duke Henri and his family. Once again it is refreshing to see that some families do uphold traditions. The couple is just picture perfect.

[Marengo]

What traditions are being uphold? In the times of the Austrian empire this would have been considered as a mesalliance and most probably never happen.

[Al_bina]

Well ... You are quite right. Archduchess could not have married a mere Count during the Austrian empire times. At the same, it would be fair to admit that there is a shortage of appropriate Princes. Nowadays Princes seem to prefer to marry some commoner for love. Under such circumstances, members of nobility (marquises, counts, barons) tend to become appropriate matches for Archduchesses and Princesses. Are there any Princes available for Archduchess Marie-Christine? Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, Prince William, and Prince Henri come to mind. Apart from possible complications related to renouncing the faith, these Princes are busy dating usual girls. Of course, public at large devours every development of these Cindirella stories in progress. Even if Archduchess Marie Christine's parents managed to arrange the marriage between her and one of the aforementioned Princes, there would have been acerbic skepticism about this union and expectaions of failure. At the very least, this marriage is between two members of more or less the same social strata ... fellow aristocrats ... as stated in one of the articles.

[drimal]

Archiduchess Marie Christrine has become a very beautiful young lady.

That cathedrale Saint Rombouts looks impressive.

[Stefan]

Lots of details about the Wedding here: http://www.mechelen.be/cms/documente...k_Mechelen.pdf

according to it among the guests

Queen Fabiola of the Belgians
Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant
Princess Astrid of Belgium
Prince Laurent of Belgium

The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg
Prince Jean of Luxembourg
Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg
Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg

The Duke and Duchess of Bragança

Prince Radu and Princess Margarita of Romania

Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Yugoslavia

Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon

the witnesses are

Princess Annunziata of Liechtenstein

Baroness Elisabeth Gillès de Pélichy

Princess Xenia Galitzine

Count Philippe de Limburg Stirum
Count François-Guillaume de Limburg Stirum
Countess Marie de Limburg Stirum

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Princess Ladislaya (Laya) of Auersperg-Trautson
Princess Eleonora (Nora) of Auersperg-Trautson

Prince Léopold of Nassau
Princess Charlotte of Nassau

Archduchess Antonia of Austria
Archduchess Isabelle of Austria

Count Jean de Limburg Stirum

Count Costantino Secco di Aragona

Edouard Misonne

[carlota]

this couple is lovely. they really are what the ideal royal would represent. i really can't wait for the wedding and look forward to seeing marie christine in her wedding gown! i'm sure we will have some lovely pictures of the luxembourg-austria-belgium-liechtenstein family.

[Erivam]

Marriage
verloofden to have the choice of its marriage in Belgium due to many the familiar bows that have in our country and particularly in Mechelen, a likeable passed rich city with a historical one, where Daisy of Austria, direct on-line ancestral one of the princess, as governor of Holland.
Many members of the European real houses related and noble families go to frequent the ceremony. There they are waited between the representatives of Belgium, Austria, Luxemburg, Portugal, Brazil, Romênia, Liechtenstein, France, Germany and Yugoslavia.

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[Regina]

Oh the witnesses are all Nobles! This will be a great royal wedding , I am sure!

[Tilla]

Do you think that this wedding will be transmitted on television ?

[sgl]

The cathedral is absolutely beautiful! It will be an absolutely gorgeous place for a wedding.

[rominet09]

I don't think it will be transmitted on tv, but as our Royal Family will be there I suppose it will be shown on the news and of course in Place Royale next week !

[kyansaunt20]

I hope that they release some pictures of the beautiful couple on their wedding day! I can't wait to see Marie-Christine's dress!

[Marengo]

Apparently the bride will wear a dress made by Yves Dooms, a Belgian designer. Her train will be between 4 and 5 meters and her veil is a family heirloom, made from lace that was used for the cradle of the king of Rome (son of Napoleon and Marie-Louise). The bride is expected to wear a tiara from the Lux. collection.

http://www.yvesdooms.com/nl/couture.html

[sgl]

Some of the gowns featured on this couturier's website are very interesting. I can't wait to see her gown!

[Marengo]

A happy smile from the groom and his mother, on the stairs of the St. Rombauds Cathedral:
ANP Beeldbank

The bride, father & dressed up people:
http://picture.belga.be/belgapicture...v/11505685.jpg

http://picture.belga.be/belgapicture...v/11505680.jpg

[Empress]

From a first glance, her dress looks lovely. However the person in green handling her train is dressed in quite an old fashioned manner with that awful cuff around the neckline.

[christinacg]

Wow, very pretty bride!

[Ilary]

she has a wonderful dress
Ho is the girl in green?

[Drottning]

Originally Posted by Ilary

she has a wonderful dress
Ho is the girl in green?

I think she is the groom's sister.