Here Comes The June Bride ~ VFG Fashion Parade for the week ofJune 27th
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Princess Brides!
April 18, 1956
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainer were married in a civil ceremony before a small group of 80 guests.
Grace wore a rose pink, taffeta dress covered in Alencon lace, designed by MGM's Helen Rose,
white gloves, and a Juliet cap. Rainer wore a handsome morning coat with grey tie and striped trousers.
(All photos by Howell Grant, published in "Remembering Grace" Life/Bob Adelman Books)
For the formal ceremony, the next day, Grace wore a gown which was the crowning achievement of Helen Rose's career,
and the most expensive garment she ever designed. The dress, valued at more than $7,200 at the time, had been worked on
feverishly in top secret for 6 weeks by a platoon of three dozen seamstresses.
Suitably feminine and elegant, it was an ivory high-necked, long-sleeved gown with a fitted bodice and an overlay of
125-year-old rose point lace. The cut of the gown accentuated Grace's tiny waist; its voluminous bell skirt of silk taffeta,
peau de soie, tulle and lace billowed with hundreds of yards of fabric. The circular veil added ninety more yards of tulle,
highlighted with seed pearls and affixed to a small fitted headpiece.
After the ceremony, Grace donated her gown to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In the summer of 2007, it was loaned to Monaco
for a retrospective at the Grimaldi Forum on the 25th anniversary of her death.
April 18, 1956
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainer were married in a civil ceremony before a small group of 80 guests.
Grace wore a rose pink, taffeta dress covered in Alencon lace, designed by MGM's Helen Rose,
white gloves, and a Juliet cap. Rainer wore a handsome morning coat with grey tie and striped trousers.
(All photos by Howell Grant, published in "Remembering Grace" Life/Bob Adelman Books)
For the formal ceremony, the next day, Grace wore a gown which was the crowning achievement of Helen Rose's career,
and the most expensive garment she ever designed. The dress, valued at more than $7,200 at the time, had been worked on
feverishly in top secret for 6 weeks by a platoon of three dozen seamstresses.
Suitably feminine and elegant, it was an ivory high-necked, long-sleeved gown with a fitted bodice and an overlay of
125-year-old rose point lace. The cut of the gown accentuated Grace's tiny waist; its voluminous bell skirt of silk taffeta,
peau de soie, tulle and lace billowed with hundreds of yards of fabric. The circular veil added ninety more yards of tulle,
highlighted with seed pearls and affixed to a small fitted headpiece.
After the ceremony, Grace donated her gown to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In the summer of 2007, it was loaned to Monaco
for a retrospective at the Grimaldi Forum on the 25th anniversary of her death.
jazzbug
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More Princess Brides:
1949 - Rita Hayworth & Prince Aly Kahn at their wedding reception
July 29th, 1981 - Lady Diana Spencer to Prince Charles
Most awe-inspiring was Lady Di's David and Elizabeth Emanuuel's gown along with its famous train. The silk-and-taffeta creation took the breath away of aspiring brides the world over. Hand-embroidered with mother-of-pearl sequins and an estimated 10,000 pearls, the gown took the designers months to prepare. And they did so in complete secrecy code-naming their famous client "Deborah" and hiring security to keep Princess Di's design under wraps. Most famously, the 25-foot long train, adorned with lace that once belonged to Queen Mary, defined a decade of brides in the 1980s, who all longed for that show-stopping dramatic entrance.
She also wore the Spencer family tiara and a 40 foot-long veil embroidered with sequins, and carried a cascading bouquet of gardenias, stephanotis, freesias, orchids, lily of the valley, Earl Mountbatten roses (a tribute to Charles' late uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten), ivy, veronica, and myrtle (a royal wedding tradition).
Royal cobbler Clive Shilton created the matching silk and lace wedding slippers decorated with 150 pearls and over 500 sequins, made by royal cobbler Clive Shilton. The soles were made of suede to prevent slipping, and the heels were kept low so that she wouldn't be taller than Prince Charles (Diana was 5'10"). The arches were hand-painted with a floral pattern and the letters "C" and "D" around a tiny heart.
Robin Wright from the 1987 movie The Princess Bride
Robin Wright from the 1987 movie The Princess Bride.
Costume designer, Phyllis Dalton also costumed Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
Mrs. Dalton was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to the Film Industry as a Costume Designer
1949 - Rita Hayworth & Prince Aly Kahn at their wedding reception
July 29th, 1981 - Lady Diana Spencer to Prince Charles
Most awe-inspiring was Lady Di's David and Elizabeth Emanuuel's gown along with its famous train. The silk-and-taffeta creation took the breath away of aspiring brides the world over. Hand-embroidered with mother-of-pearl sequins and an estimated 10,000 pearls, the gown took the designers months to prepare. And they did so in complete secrecy code-naming their famous client "Deborah" and hiring security to keep Princess Di's design under wraps. Most famously, the 25-foot long train, adorned with lace that once belonged to Queen Mary, defined a decade of brides in the 1980s, who all longed for that show-stopping dramatic entrance.
She also wore the Spencer family tiara and a 40 foot-long veil embroidered with sequins, and carried a cascading bouquet of gardenias, stephanotis, freesias, orchids, lily of the valley, Earl Mountbatten roses (a tribute to Charles' late uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten), ivy, veronica, and myrtle (a royal wedding tradition).
Royal cobbler Clive Shilton created the matching silk and lace wedding slippers decorated with 150 pearls and over 500 sequins, made by royal cobbler Clive Shilton. The soles were made of suede to prevent slipping, and the heels were kept low so that she wouldn't be taller than Prince Charles (Diana was 5'10"). The arches were hand-painted with a floral pattern and the letters "C" and "D" around a tiny heart.
Robin Wright from the 1987 movie The Princess Bride
Robin Wright from the 1987 movie The Princess Bride.
Costume designer, Phyllis Dalton also costumed Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
Mrs. Dalton was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to the Film Industry as a Costume Designer
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jazzbug
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Movie Star Brides and their gowns (& Grooms)!
Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood in Howard Shoup, 1957
Shirley Temple & Groom - 1945
Brigette Bardot to Jacques Charrier, June 18, 1959
May 1947 - Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall
March 1939 - Carole Lombard wore a dove grey suit to marry Clark Gable.
1937 - Ingrid Bergman & Petter Lindstrom
Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller on June 29th, 1956
1949-Presenting the new Mrs. Jimmy Stuart (Gloria McLean)
Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood in Howard Shoup, 1957
Shirley Temple & Groom - 1945
Brigette Bardot to Jacques Charrier, June 18, 1959
May 1947 - Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall
March 1939 - Carole Lombard wore a dove grey suit to marry Clark Gable.
1937 - Ingrid Bergman & Petter Lindstrom
Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller on June 29th, 1956
1949-Presenting the new Mrs. Jimmy Stuart (Gloria McLean)