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Chtheroe Advertiser and Times, September 25th, 1986 vii NATION’S WEDDING OF THE YEAR!


es of the world on the Royal newlyweds


uml ceremony oi a yal wedding has


t nut only an excuse itiuli thr.iuu'liont this also extravaganza ; mudih. invasion was no


li Highness I’ritnv i Miss Sarah Fergu- airioii oil .Inly idl’d i f tho world upon


•dding couples had : married at West- -y since lill!) and


(dooms decking tile it did indeed seem ;d'-al place lor the


. * *ii to see. neciila! ion over was over. Sarah, through tile win- yla.-s coach, and ' nc u:' the Abbey.


Irew looked the ay and handsome at it was Sarah


mac ivory silk yuan had a 17; jft.


ch -oread out from now. Her sequiii- ni.ado of pure silk ipi■


( i wit it omhroi- aml punctured bows. Dress de-


a t ’ierach had done i Miss Ferguson


.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


peach dresses ill slab taffeta silk and the pages wore sailor suits modelled oil one worn on the Koval Yacht by Prince Albert Hdward. later Fdward VII. The suits included a replica dagger which kept Prince William oc­ cupied through the ceremony! Hut it was not just the way


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chose to "obey" her future hus­ band toid 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 Koval Family. So the Duke and Duchess of


York embarked on their new life together, a life which will be very much in the public eye. Hut. tis 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!


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.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 17Mi foot train


Tradition that goes back to 18th century


HKIDKS have not always worn white wedding dres­ ses. It is a tradition that seems to have started around the middle of the lsth century. When Lady Anne,


daughter of the Karl of Hcdford, was married in 1 .Vie She wore a gown of purple velvet embroidered with silver, and a bride of 171-1 chose blue satin irimmed with silver. A play. "The Fine Lady's •Airs", written in 170!) gives us a good idea of what a Lancashire bride could lie wearing at that time. Lady Kodomont says: “Mr Karendene, this silk has such a glaring mixture of preposterous colours. 1 shall he taken for a North Country bride." In another [day 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 187-1, it bride, whose father had died a month previously, was married in it wedding dress with long train made entirely of black satin. The dress appears to be unique and is at Whitby. Wedding veils have


in Westminster Abbey following their wedding. liehind them are their attendants, including the sailor-suited Prince William, Master Seamus Makirn, and Master Peter Phillips (in midship­ man's uniform), followed In Prince Edward


IIIF Duke and Duchess of 7 ork traverse (he rova! blue carpet


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 nf "something old, some­ thing new, something bor­ rowed. something blue".


only been popular over the" hist 200 years or so. There are examples of earlier ones in Brussels and Honiton lace, but the fashion really only started in the 19th century. When the Marquis of Kildare married Lady Caroline Leveson — Gower in 18-17 the bride’s headdress was composed of a guipure


hire veil with a wreath of convolvolus and orange blossom. And when a Miss Dingle married in Norfolk on February 7th, 1851, there was great ex­ citement because it was


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


medieval times a nuptial veil was 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 lily-of-thc-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 and garters were popular as well as ribbon decora­ tions known as knots.


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