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Wedding Inspirations Diana’s dress Atlanta exhibit provides look at royal wedding fashion By ANGELA McRAE For the Times-Herald On Wednesday, July 29, 1981, some 800 million people worldwide watched Lady Diana Spencer glide down the aisle of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London to marry Prince Charles and become the Princess of Wales. Perhaps no bride’s gown had ever been more eagerly awaited than that one, designed by the young husband and wife team of David and Elizabeth Emanuel. Trimmed in antique lace and featuring a 25-foot train, the ivory silk taffeta gown was a hit with the public — and more importantly, Diana herself. Public displays of the gown have attracted legions of viewers ever since. The gown is currently on display at the Atlanta Civic Center as part of the “Diana: A Celebration” exhibition which runs through June 13. Today’s brides may find it hard to believe the gown for Diana’s July 1981 wedding was not commissioned until March of that year, just months before the royal wedding. Editors at British Vogue had borrowed an Emanuelsdesigned pale pink blouse as one of the possibilities for Diana to wear during a photo shoot. The newly-engaged Lady Diana loved the romantic blouse so much she wore it for her official engagement photograph. Then, she made an appointment to see the Emanuels in their studio and ordered a black evening gown to wear for her first public engagement with Prince Charles after the announcement they would wed. Soon she called up and asked Elizabeth, “Liz, would you and David do me the honour of making my wedding dress?” The story of the gown’s creation is beautifully told and illustrated in the Emanuels’ 2006 book “A Dress for Diana,” released on the 25th anniversary of the royal wedding and the gown’s creation. While at the Atlanta Civic Center, the gown is displayed in an enormous glass case which encloses the gown and its fully extended 25foot train. According to the Emanuels, their research into royal wedding gowns indicated the longest royal wedding gown train at that time had been 23 feet long, so they suggested Diana’s be even longer and she happily agreed. The Emanuels tried to use as many British materials as possible in the gown’s creation, yet they were surprised to learn there was actually a silk farm in England, Lullingstone Silk Farm in Dorset. Unfortunately there simply weren’t enough British silkworms to create all the fabric required, but the silk farm did produce silk that was used in Diana’s veil.
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See DIANA, page 2B
The Royal Wedding gown is on display in Atlanta with the bridal earrings, a parasol, and the bridesmaid’s dress of young Clementine Hambro. Diana wore her family’s tiara for the ceremony.
Newnan residents have wedding with classic, Southern flair By NICHOLE GOLDEN nichole@newnan.com For all those guys trying to plan the perfect proposal, take note of Christopher Herdener’s 2008 proposal to Ragan Ellen. Herdener popped the question to his girlfriend during a candlelight picnic in a Montgomery, Ala. park. Candles, good food, a nice September evening. How could you go wrong? “It was very romantic,” said Ragan, now Mrs. Herdener. The Newnan couple tied the knot July 11, 2009. Chris works for Grant Financial Group, LLC and New York Life. Ragan is employed at The Heritage School. Chris, a University of Georgia graduate, was introduced to Ragan by his sister, Jessica. Ragan was attending Auburn University when they met. “We had ten months and a few days to plan for the wedding which was, in my opinion, just the right amount of time,” said Ragan. “Planning takes a while, so ten months gave us plenty of time to get everything done. The Herdeners’ wedding ceremony was at First Baptist Church on the Square in LaGrange. Because Ragan attended that church while growing up, it was a “special” place for the couple to be married. The wedding included nuptial music with a vocalist, and instrumentalists playing violin, cello, organ, piano and the viola. “We wanted something very classic with a touch of Southern flair. We also wanted to do traditional but with our own originality,” said Ragan about their wedding’s style. The wedding reception was held Hills This wedding day photo uses color and black and white for a unique look. Ragan’s bridal bouquet fea- and Dales Estate, also in LaGrange. tured garden roses and hydrangea, perfect for any summer wedding. Ragan’s wedding dress was a white strapless taffeta and organza gown that featured Photos courtesy of Steve Mason Photography, LaGrange
asymmetrical ruching on the bodice and a crystal beaded taffeta overlay along the dropped waist. “I loved it because it was both traditional and modern. The lace and the buttons running down the back were very traditional, but I loved the strapless look and the asymmetrical ruching,” said Ragan. She wore a single chapel-length veil with crystal beading. Ragan was able to purchase her gown as well as order all of the bridesmaids’ dresses at An Affair to Remember in LaGrange. The bridesmaids’ dresses were a sage green and they were strapless. They also had ruching at the waist with a lighter green sash. The attendants carried pink garden roses and green hydrangea for the summer wedding. What was the hardest part of planning? “For us, the hardest part of planning was the guest list. We were so excited about our reception site, but it could only hold a certain amount of people, so we really had to narrow our list down and decided how many each family could invite,” said Ragan. While Chris left a lot of the planning details to Ragan, they picked out the reception site together as well as all of the music for both ceremony, and reception. “He was really good about handling everything with his groomsmen,” added Ragan. The bride and groom were able to incorporate several special touches that were meaningful to them. Ragan had two broaches that belonged to her grandmothers pinned on her bouquet. One pin was her “something old” and one was her “something new.” The bridal bouquet consisted of pink and white garden roses and green hydrangeas tied with ivory satin ribbon and accented with pearls.
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Atlanta exhibit provides look at royal wedding fashion DIANA Continued from page 1
While at the Atlanta Civic Center, the Diana gown is displayed in an enormous glass case which encloses the dress and its fully extended 25-foot train.
Photos by Angela McRae
Lady Diana Spencer wore these Clive Shilton slippers on her wedding day. The soles of the shoes were made of suede so Diana wouldn’t slip on her royal wedding day.
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Guests at the 1981 wedding of the Prince and Princes of Wales were presented with these monogrammed boxes for their souvenir slices of cake. Diana’s father of the streets and storefronts of London as they looked when decorated for the royal wedding. Also in the wedding gallery is one of the cake boxes presented to wedding guests for their souvenir slices of cake. In addition to the wedding gallery, visitors will see galleries devoted to the Spencer family, Diana’s childhood and her charity work. One of the most popular galleries is the dress gallery with 28 of Diana’s gowns on display. A video of Diana’s memorial service plays in the tribute gallery, which
and covered in fabric and lace to match the dress. With it is a matching pochette, or envelope. The bridesmaid dress on display is that of Clementine Hambro, who at five was the youngest of Diana’s five bridesmaids and was a former kindergarten student of Diana. Completing the ensemble are the diamond earrings Diana borrowed from her mother and the Spencer family tiara she wore with her veil. Other wedding-related artifacts on display include an album of photos taken by
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also features such objects as Elton John’s score for “Candle in the Wind” and the Earl Spencer’s tribute at Westminster Abbey. “Diana: A Celebration” runs through June 13, and tickets must be purchased in advance for specific days. Ticket prices are $18.50 for adults; $15.50 for seniors, students with ID, and groups of 10 or more; $12 for children 6-12; and free for children 5 and under. For more information, visit atlantaciviccenter.com or call 404-658-7159.
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Secrecy was paramount once Diana’s dress got under way, and the designers went so far as to install a vault — complete with security guards — which was used to house all the sketches and materials for the gown and bridesmaids’ gowns. Stephen Walters & Sons of England was commissioned to weave the fabric for the gown. The firm had long ties to the royal family, having woven the silk lining for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation gown as well as the silk for Princess Anne’s wedding dress. In “A Dress for Diana,” the Emanuels explain how the mill twisted and dyed the silk to their specifications. “Two forty-one-metre lengths were woven; the additional one, woven in case of accidents, was subsequently used for the Madame Tussauds (wax museum) dress. The loom was stripped down and rebuilt especially for the weaving, and at a rate of about one metre per hour, the weaving of each bolt took nearly a full week.” Again with secrecy in mind, the employees were not told of the real purpose of this special project. Also, samples of the fabric were ordered in both white and ivory so that no one would ever know which they were going to use. Elizabeth Emanuel, a fan of romantic frills and flounces, had long been a collector and gatherer of antique laces which were used in the firm’s designs. During the creation of Diana’s gown, however, the Emanuels were offered some Carrick-maCross lace which had been given to the Royal School of Needlework by Queen Mary. This lace was sewn onto the bodice of Diana’s gown, and the Emanuels said that “when we explained the significance of this lace to Diana she was genuinely touched.” The gown’s long train is one of its most memorable features, and it is elegantly displayed in the Atlanta exhibit. During fittings, the Emanuels were unable to spread out the train in their tiny Brook Street studio, so fittings had to be made at Buckingham Palace where there was more room. The Clive Shilton slippers worn with the gown are also on view in the Diana exhibition, and they, too, were designed with much thought and detail. The shoes could not be made of the exact same fabric as the dress because the dress fabric was simply too lightweight. The Stephen Walters firm which wove the fabric for the dress also wove the fabric for the shoes, a silk duchess satin which was dyed to precisely match the gown. The fluted heel of each slipper is made of leather and wood. The sole of the shoes was made of suede so Diana wouldn’t slip on her wedding day. In addition to an elegantly gilded design on the sole, just under the heel can be glimpsed a gold heart with the initials “C” and “D” on either side. The top of each shoe features an elegant lace heart embellishment — a design chosen by Diana — and the pair includes some 542 motherof-pearl sequins. Also in the display, but never used, is a vintage parasol the Emanuels bought at auction
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Classic, Southern flair HERDENER Continued from page 1B A fun touch involved the food served at the reception. “We both love seafood and as we mentioned we wanted to add some Southern flair, so we served shrimp and grits at our reception,” said Ragan. “We wanted something fun to give to guests as a thank you for coming to the wedding, so we had sugar cookies shaped like an “H” for Herdener, and they were iced in pink and sage green (our wedding colors) and were given to guests on their way out.” The couple’s “getaway” vehicle was a 1950’s Pink Cadillac. Family and friends were given sparklers, perfect for any July wedding, to wave as the newlyweds exited the reception. The Herdeners would advise any engaged couple to start planning early. “Summer is a very popular season for weddings and if you choose to have your wedding in a smaller town like we did, ceremony and receptions sites get booked fast, so the earlier you book it the better,” said Ragan. In fact, the first thing that Ragan and Chris did following their engagement was to secure the church and reception location.
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