Posted by Bine on 11/6/2008, 10:46:27, in reply to "Re: Tiara traditition in Scandinavia"
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I was more than surprised surprised seeing the pics (they went around lately) from the marriage of Swedish Princess Christina as a tiara event 1974. Two years later, when the king (!!!) married, it was a non-tiara event. My first impression was, it should have been vice versa because of the greater importance of the Kings wedding.
BTW Henry, the Swedish wedding 1976 was a before-noon-event, where the guest did wear long (evening) gowns and hats, a kind of 50%50 solution, i.e. a black Tie Event without Tiaras.
BYe Bine
--Previous Message--
: The answer is very simple.
: The weddings of the King of Sweden, the
: Prince of Wales, the Duke of Brabant, the
: Prince of Orange, the Prince of Asturias
: took place around noon. That means that the
: first guests arrive on the wedding venues
: (sometimes there are two in case of a civil
: and religious ceremony) in the morning
: around 11.00 o'clock.
:
: That is simply no time for long gala
: dresses, white tie and jewels (the bride as
: an eventual exception).
:
: Until the eighties in general these weddings
: around noon followed the same dresscode as
: is still observed at Prinsjesdag in the
: Netherlands, where the Queen addresses the
: two Chambers of the States-General:
: gentlemen in uniform or jacquet and ladies
: in long, with or without orders. (Gentlemen
: in jacquet only wear bātons of the order,
: ladies can wear the cordons and breast star
: like the gentlemen in uniform).
:
: It is not that difficult to get diademe
: weddings on the Continent. Simply start the
: wedding around 17.00 o'clock...
:
: But weddings this late on the day are very
: uncommon in most European countries.
:
