I had to start with this one, Princess Diana's wedding dress was the first wedding dress I knew of besides my mothers. For the longest time I idolized this dress.
When I was little I planned to have a dress just like this one. Now I don't exactly want a dress like this one but definitely the same wow effect, because that's what Princess Diana was aiming for a wow effect. The train on her dress beat a world record it was a whopping 25 feet long. That's wow.
It is probably one of the most famous wedding dresses in the world, and definitely the best kept secret.
It was David & Elizabeth Emanuel who designed & created it. The subject of the royal gown was so popular in the media they even created a second design in case the original was found out.
To keep everyone off the scent they burned any scraps that were left from the making of the dress due to the fact that the media was literally going through their garbage just to find a fabric sample or even a piece of thread to do with Diana's dress.
Though the dress production was later moved from the Emanuel's studio and moved to Buckingham palace, where not only Diana could more easily get fittings but because the 25 foot train became too big for the shop. A wing of the palace was literally cordoned off so not even palace staff could access it because a press leak could absolutely not be risked at that point.
The dress was accessorized with the Spencer family tiara & low heeled shoes.
Diana's dress was made of woven silk taffeta, with a large ballgown dress embroidered with pearls (10,000 pearls to be exact) & sequins, with it's bodice frilled with lace. The lace used to trim Diana's dress was antique handmade Carrickmacross lace.
The train was so long the Emanuel's hadn't thought in practice how they would fit it, Princess Diana and her father all into the glass carriage and unfortunately her dress was badly wrinkled when she arrived at the cathedral. Here you can see how wrinkled the front of her dress was:
Sadly not everyone thought this dress was amazing one bridal guide commented "Too much dress, Not enough Princess"
I also remember my father commenting that it was such a waste of fabric that it was sickening how long her train was. There weren't many replica's made of her dress but in my opinion that's fine because it's unique and not many people could make it look as wonderful as Princess Diana did.
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