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Hold your reception at the Keirby .Hotel


An all Inclusive package price of £9.75 per person


Including: Sherry on arrival Sparkling Wine lor the toast


A three course meal (chosen by yourselves), Coffee and Mints


Our Bridal Suite for the evening All Room Hire and VAT


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Eyes of the world on the Royal newlyweds


THE pomp and ceremony of a British royal wedding has always been not only an excuse for a celebration throughout this country but also extravaganza for the world's medi.V This year’s occasion was no


exception. His Royal Highness Prince


Andrew and Miss Sarah Fergu­ son were married on July 23rd with eyes of the world upon them. Royal wedding couples had


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proud. The bridesmaids wore soft


peach dresses in slub taffeta silk and the pages wore sailor suits modelled on one worn on the Royal Yacht by Prince Albert Edward, later Edward VII. The suits included a replica dagger which kept Prince William oc­ cupied through the ceremony! But it was not just the way


been getting married at West­ minster Abbey since 1911) and with 30,000 blooms decking the old building it did indeed seem to be the ideal place for the ceremony. Prince Andrew looked the


perfect charming and handsome bridegroom but it was Sarah everyone wanted to see. All the speculation over


'THAT dress was over. Sarah, glimpsed first through the win­ dows of the glass coach, and then on the steps of the'Abbey, looked splendid. The gleaming ivory silk


Miss Ferguson showed her own individuality when she dressed herself and her attendants which earned her the respect of a nation. Her gown and train may have incorporated anchors, waves and nautical emblems but also prominently featured were the initials A and S which showed that she meant to tell everyone that theirs was a love match. Add to that the fact that she


chose to “obey” her future hus­ band and the watching millions soon realised that this was a girl who had her own ideas and was going to be a much-loved addi­ tion to the Royal Family. So the Duke and Duchess of


duchesse satin gown had a lT'/cft. long train which spread out from a fan-shaped bow. Her seijuin- ned veil was made of pure silk bubbinet scalloped with embroi­ dered hearts and punctured with guipure bows. Dress de­ signer Lindka Cierach had done herself and Miss Feriruson


York embarked oil their new life together, a life which will be very much in the public eye. But, as she showed in her pre­ wedding interview on television. Sarah is a forthright and confi­ dent girl quite capable of handl­ ing the media. They make a perfectly matched couple!


MISS Sarah Ferguson, shortly after her arrival at Westminster Abbey for her marriage to the newly-created Duke of York, gets plenty of willing hands to arrange her dress and 17‘/i foot train


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BRIDES have not always worn white wedding dres­ ses. It is a tradition that seems to have started around the middle of the ISth century. W h e n L a d y A n n e .


daughter of the Earl of Bedford, was married in 15G5 She wore a gown of purple velvet embroidered with silver, and a bride of 1711 chose blue satin


trimmed with silver. A play, “The Fine I.adv's Airs”, written in 17011 gives us a good idea of what a Lancashire bride could be wearing at that time. Lady Rodomont


says: “Mr Farendcne, this silk has such a glaring mixture of preposterous colours. I shall be taken for a North Country bride." In another play the bride had the “most cruel anxiety" whether to wear lilac or white. What was usually worn


No one knows exactly the origin of this, except the bride usually had to wear some of her old clothes and borrow others, much as she preferred new. The something old was usually the veil, made of expen­ sive lace, and handed down in the family, and blue was considered the colour of fidelity as well as being associated with the Virgin Mary. ■ In 1871. a bride, whose father had died a month previously, was married in a wedding dress with long train made entirely of black satin. The dress appears to be unique and


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THE Duke and Duchess of York traverse the royal blue carpet in Westminster Abbey following their wedding. Behind them are their attendants, including the sailor-suited Prince William, Master Seamus Makim, and Master Peter Phillips (in midship­ man’s uniform), followed by Prince Edward


was a gown following the fashion of the day in the best material the bride could afford in glowing colours. More often than not, the bride could not afford to have everything new and there is a ring of truth behind the tradition of "something old, some­ thing new, something bor­ rowed, something blue".


only been popular over the" last 200 years or so. There are examples of earlier ones in Brussels and Honiton lace, but the fashion really only started in the 10th century. When the Marquis of Kildare married Lady Caroline Leveson — Gower in 18-17 the bride's headdress was composed of a guipure lace veil with a wreath of convolvolus and orange blossom. And when a ...... Dingle married in Norfolk on February 7th, 18ol, there was great ex­ citement because it was


is at Whitby. Wedding veils have


the first time a wedding veil had been worn in the village of Dereham.


medieval times a nuptial veil wms spread over both the heads of the married couple during the Mass, but it is not thought to have been the forerunner of the bridal veil.


In early Christian and


garter today and that custom goes back to the days when elegant silk sashes were tied below the bride’s knee and worn during the ceremony. Af­ terwards they were taken off by the bridegroom's friends and fastened to their hats.


The bride still wears a


is a charming wedding custom that does not exist in this country. Everyone gets a favour, a tiny sprig of lilv-of-the-valley tied with a satin bow of white, blue or pink, worn pinned to their dress or coat. It has its roots in an earlier tradition for wedding favours, which were gifts to relations, friends and others connected with the wedding. Gloves, scarves anil garters were popular as well as ribbon decora­ tions known as knots.


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