50 Years on

June 9 1970

June 9 2020

Memories

A photo of the bridesmaids at the wedding of my daughter last May. The groom with his bestman and his hopping nieces on their way to the townhall. I often think back at that wonderful day.

Cutting the cake.

Wedding clothes

I am still a bit in the wedding mood of last Saturday. When my daughter had  the wedding announced, the question arose "What to wear?" A whole new world was opened for me, it is quite a business the bridal thing. Normally I am not used to wear formal clothes but in this case I had to. I searched the internet and found a formal dress designed by couturier "Mart Visser"which happened to have a rather deep neckline in the back  when it arrived. So I ordered a fitting jacket to it to cover the chilly neck. I thought I was ready now but but my daughter mentioned that the groom's mother was wearing a headpiece!

After another search I found this one in a headshop in Amsterdam.We both had discovered the fascinator and wore it well the whole day. A moment after this photo before we had dinner, we both had enough of it, got the giggles and put it off with a sigh...

But is was all worth it to see them so happy together!

A look at the back of the dress with many buttons!

Linking to "Our World Tuesday"

45 Years

45 years ago in 1970, we stepped out of the door of the house I showed you last saturday here to get married.

How young we were 22 and 24.

Here with the parents, at the townhall in Amsterdam.
Linking to "Our World Tuesday"

Amsterdam, June 9, 1970

43 years ago and still going strong.

A dream dress

Last Saturday the heir of Luxembourg Prince Guillaume married Belgium countess Stephanie. There is nothing more magical than a royal wedding and I watched it on tv.

 

The gown of the bride was designed by Lebanese Elie Saab and was stunning. It took a total of 3,900 hours to make, 700 with the seamstress and an extraordinary 3,200 for embroidery. The design was embellished with 50,000 pearls, threaded with ethereal silver and completed with a 13 feet train.

 

 

I was not there, the pictures are from internet, but sometimes it is nice to dream away a little.