Posted on 11/29/2005 8:14:42 AM PST by katieanna
An exact copy of Princess Diana's 1981 wedding dress has been attracting interest from around the world - a week before it is due to be auctioned. The replica of the ivory silk dress was made by designers David and Elizabeth Emanuel, apparently at the request of the princess in case of a mishap.
Monica fans awaiting dress auction. That will be a big story.
It is? I gotta check that out! Say what you like about Diana - she may have been flawed, but she did know how to dress.
Are you in Houston also, btw? (My mother works for the Museum of Natural Science.)
The dress was beautiful, but the head piece was awful. It squished her hair down.
It should be in a museum.
Friend, your Mother works at the Museum? Awesome. She could get you tickets! Yes, the show is there and will be through Feb. I forget the name of it. It is traveling the U.S. all year. Yes, I'm in Houston and plan to attend over Christmas break. Diana did know how to dress...such a pretty lady. Died far too soon. Peace.
She got me tickets to the midnight opening of the Lord of the Rings exhibit. All I could say was WOW.
It was an ugly ass dress back then and it's no better today. Dead eight years and people still can't let go of the idol worship.
Why? This is the backup dress, with replica lace, not the one actually worn for the "wedding of the century" which included historical lace.
The dress is stunning...and so was Diana in it. The headpiece, if I recall, was a crown (historic) from the House of Windsor. Her 'feathered' hair style did get weighted down, but she still looked like a princess in a fairy tale. I remember setting the alarm and getting up rediculously early to watch the service live.
Here we go again..St. Diana....hated the dress...thought she looked horrible. Why do people have the need to put this woman up on a pedestal who did nothing but marry someone else? That family never learned. They never let the children marry the people they really wanted to and look what happened...it's a great lesson whether you're a Queen, or a housewife.
Elton John will get married in it.
Amen to that, my friend...see my post #11. Somehow, I think we will be in the minority on this thread!
"Here we go again..St. Diana....hated the dress...thought she looked horrible. Why do people have the need to put this woman up on a pedestal who did nothing but marry someone else? That family never learned. They never let the children marry the people they really wanted to and look what happened...it's a great lesson whether you're a Queen, or a housewife."
It's a replica of a piece of history. You may not like the dress, but, for it's time, it was quite a piece of work. I don't know if that amount of silk satin had been used on a single dress before. I was a very young girl at the time of the wedding and it was the stuff of which dreams are made as far as I was concerned.
Mother Teresa was complaining bitterly to St. Peter:
"Ever since that, that `princess' got here, why--she's got a different halo from mine, it looks better, and I know it's bigger!"
"Did she ever minister to lepers? Take a vow of poverty? No! She wore exensive gowns and partied, that is when she wasn't doing areobics, jet-setting and--"
"Calm thyself, Terry." interrupted Pete.
"You didn't put your head through the steering wheel of a Mercedes-Benz `S' class . . ."
I don't know, in my mind, your wedding dress shouldn't weigh more than you do. It's not so much the dress, it's the whole Diana thing. I HATE IT...she was not an angel, and she sought to tear down the family when she didn't get the kind of LOVE she wanted. My Gosh, who does? Really. She had everything else. She was just an unhappy woman who couldn't make do with what she did have, whih was EVERYTHING. And let's not forget that she thew herselves down a stairway in order to kill her unborn child. Seems everyone conveniently forgets that.
Why not auction her knickers also.
It WAS a "billowy" wedding dress, but to have been married TO and WHERE she was, the dress still managed to get the attention. Every bride wants their dress to be remembered as the most beautiful, etc., and Diana probably felt hers would, too. Worship at the altar of Diana? No, not I. But wow, what a wedding that was. Historical. Couldn't be matched (not even with Camilla's wedding hats. Yikes.)
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