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I once mentioned to a woman at a dinner party that I thought Princess Di's wedding gown (from back in the day) was kinda poofy and not that nice:
Holy cow - it was like I had personally insulted this woman's own mother! She went on and on about how beautiful Di's wedding was, and how great she was in general, and how dare I question Di's dress!!
So first off, I want to apologize to Princess Di! I always thought you were a great ambassador for so many causes (especially children), and admired you for your many great works.
But second of all, I am wondering if anyone out there agrees with me. Is her dress kinda poofy and not so great? Or is it awesommmmmmmmmmme and I should never mention my doubts about Di's dress ever again?
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I think her dress was quite ugly too, but the processional was kinda cool. For being a REAL princess and all.LOL
Hahaha. I think it's so weird that she needed so many kids to carry her train. It's a little creepy. Oh, and SUPER 80s.
Hugely poofy. It kind of screams 1980 to me. Loved Princess Di though :)
Where were you guys when I needed you... I'm taking notes on your responses, so I can use them the next time this comes up over drinks!
It seriously looked uncomfortable in her carriage with that dress. Seriously.
I never liked it. I'm sure it was the type of thing she had to wear and not the type of thing she would have picked because she loved it... she had much better style than that. ;)
I think it looks so dated, but at the time, people were wowed. But in my opinion it was too much poof and she looked like she was drowning in it.
I think the dress is a great metaphor for the role she married into :(
For that time period oh yeah definitely... However we are in the era of great weddings and even greater technology that broadcasts it! So yeah for us she was the one that started the grand wedding.
I never liked it and prefered Grace Kelly's wedding look. Gorgeous!
http://www.gracekellyonline.com/wedding/
Oh my gosh, can you imagine if WeddingBee was around in the 80's and we could go back to see the Bee's posts from the 80's. LOLOLOL, that would be so awesome.
LOL, we would comment on dresses like this and say:
"no! it doesn't look flat, its poofiness is perfection"
Maybe it was awesome back then when that was the style but now it is very dated!
That dress is mighty symbolic; there was an expiration date on the wedding gown and the marriage. :P
I don't think it was all that great but for the time, it was like the epitome of the perfect princess wedding gown - literally princess!
I think it was beautiful for the time period. The 80's aren't really known for their stylish fashions... so it could have been a lot worse!"
If you chopped off the poofy sleeves & the million foot train, I'd totally wear it! I couldn't imagine dragging that train around! It must have weighed a ton...
The dress may be ugly but it probably was befitting of the time and the grandeur of her position...And that train is something else. Besides the dress though, I think she was the ultimate fairy tale princess. The icon of my teenage years and the only celeb whose death I cried at. Wouldn't call it the greatest wedding because she married a jerk who didn't love her (apologies to any British bees who may be touchy about their royalty).
I remember watching the wedding and being amazed. My amazement wasn't for the dress though (I was a straight up tomboy - dresses equaled yuck at that point in my life) it was the pomp & circumstance of the whole thing that was impressive. I liked her personal style later in her life a lot better!
That dress was all over the place - TV, magazines, clocks, coffee mugs, commemorative plates, pillows... ( Actually a lot like the Edward Cullen Twilight fungus right now )
I guess its only natural that people have strong associations with it, especially considering the way it was publicised ( at the time)
This is from an interview with her dressmakers -
"They designed a train 25-feet long with the scale of St. Paul's cathedral in mind.
Creating that drama, though, Elizabeth Emanuel recalls a Diana who seemed left on her own.
"Nobody really came to fittings with her. In the beginning her mom came, and then she would come alone. And I thought, you know, in a way that's quite sad really 'cause most brides come in they bring their mums, their sisters or best friends. She was quite lonely," Elizabeth says."
From here - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/30/sunday/main1847505.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
Check out that long long train!
Theres this rather weird photograph as well, looking as if she's threatening the flower girls
I loved that tiara though... so much pretty bling!
I think it's pretty horrible - hate the poof, looks like she's drowning in it.
On the other hand, desexifying her was kind of part of the point - she was GORGEOUS, and for the wedding she had to do kind of a regal non-sexy thing, so I guess it did the trick as far as that goes.
I vote for hating the poofiness. However living in the UK I think it was more the spectacle of a royal wedding that was the big thing - the fact that it was the heir to the throne and one of the most beautiful women of the time was just an added bonus. But really, I wish I had a penny for each time I've seen a picture of Diana in her wedding dress - photos, memorabilia, you name it!
She is gorgeous, but I don't think her dress is. I agree with Spaniel. I do like the impact of the train, but I think it had to be uncomfortable to carry around all that fabric all day!
How dare you, Mr. BEE!!! lol j/k
Too much proof, too much white. The lady is swimming in that dress! It just swamps her. There's SO MUCH. And it does nothing for her figure. Then again, maybe there are a bunch of stipualtions as to what a "royal dress" should include. I know my mom wore a hideous poof thing in the 80's and to this day raves about how beautiful it was and stuff. She normally had such great style, so maybe there's a reason she chose this particular dress.
Also that cascade bouquet is hideous. Of the time, definitely, but it makes me wanna die!
I think it is generational. Princess Di passed away when I was in 7th grade.... she was married (I think?) before I was born. So I don't really have any emotional attachment to her/her wedding. My mom, however, was not too much older than Di so she really looked up to her and followed the whole romance. She might get a little huffy if you dissed the dress :)
I still have a Princess Di wedding doll somewhere in the deep and dark corners of my closet at my parent's house! Way back when we she got married, that dress was awesome. Yes it was big and poufy, but so was everything else people were wearing. Yikes! Would I wear it today? Nope, not a chance, especially with how much it wrinkled. But I'd bet money that in 20 years most of the dresses we're oohing and ahhing over today will be in the same sadly outdated category her dress is.
I remember my mom having her friends over for a party to watch the whole spectacle on TV. (With really good snacks if I recall!) I can imagine for people who were that invested, saying anything about the dress would be sacriligious!
I wonder what she would have picked if she had her own say in it. Now that would be a dress I'd love to see!
i remember the family staying up late (or early due to the timezone) and she got out of the carriage and i looked and it said "oh its all wrinkley" and the volmne of fabric overwhelmed her small body
of course, now i know more about raw silk but at the time i thought someone could have pressed the dress
i vote not the best dress of all time - i have a soft spot for Grace Kelly for that because 50yrs later its still being copied in various forms
Personally, I find Lady Di's outfit a complete fiasco especially because she was so beautiful and classy that she deserved something better. The classiest royal wedding was Grace Kelly's IMHO.
Personally I thought Princess Mary and Prince Frederik's (of Denmark) wedding was the best royal wedding out of the two! Princess Mary looked gorgeous and he cried when he saw her! So cute! That wedding was big news here cos Mary's Australian. And as for Di the dress is trag - but not as much as the whole marriage!!
I agree with you on how horrid that dress is, and so does Randy from SYTTD, so it must be true (haha): http://www.stylelist.com/2009/10/30/say-yes-to-the-dress-star-randy-fenoli-on-the-best-and-worst-b/
Her dress totally fit the era, so it's hard to say whether or not it was too poufy or not that nice.
We may say we wouldn't wear it, but had we been getting married in the eighties we would have probably swooned over it!
just the over the top style of the 80s
my 70s dress is UGLY... but at that time I thought it was the BEST!
I'm sure at the time that wedding was very in style. But today it looks ridiculous. Isn't that what happens with all weddings though?
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