Princess Di's wedding gown

[marybet]

Am I the only one who thought it was ugly?

I remember being so disappointed when she got out of that carriage and walked into the church. I thought it didn't fit well, it was to big on her and she looked lost in it. I did like the 25 ft train.

Not to mention the really bad haircut.

Hoping Kate makes a better choice.

 

[suzanna1066@comcast.]

I thought Diana's hair was beautiful on her wedding day---in fact, I think that her wedding day was her prettiest moment.

The dress was beautiful for its time but is dated now. I can tell you, I saw it last year when it came through Atlanta and it was much more striking in person.

 

[rodeo65]

Am I the only one who thought it was ugly?

I remember being so disappointed when she got out of that carriage and walked into the church. I thought it didn't fit well, it was to big on her and she looked lost in it. I did like the 25 ft train.

Not to mention the really bad haircut.

Hoping Kate makes a better choice.

Nope - didn't like it at all then either. Of course, we have to remember it WAS the 80's

 

[minkydog]

Thank you! I thought the same thing. DH & I got married about 3 months before Charles and Diana, so we were very interested in their wedding. I thought Diana's dress looked like a giant frumpy pumpkin with the big poufy sleeves, crumpled train and all the ridiculous little bows.What a horror! And her hair! the 80s were known for big hair. Did Diana not own a mirror? And a curling iron?

 

[M&N]

Diana probably had no choice in the matter. It did not become her at all.

 

[Mermaid02]

The dress looked like she slept in it...

While dated, I think her hair looked good for the era.

 

[JessicaR]

She was so lost in that gown. I did love it from the back. The puffy sleeves were huge! I know it was a product of the times but even then I thought it was just too much gown.

 

[RitaE]

Personally I don't think the woman had an ugly day in her entire life. Maybe during the rampant eating disorder years.
As for her wedding dress at the time I loved it. I look at pictures now and ---- not so much. It was the 80's indeed.

I agree that with everything that has come out, somebody at the palace probably put out an order for the most virginal young and innocent poufy thing that could be dreamt up.

 

[RitaE]

Oddly enough the dress I really love is Queen Elizabeth's. Made during the "Restrain yourself because we are recovering from the war" era

 

[Imzadi]

Diana, herself, said that she thought the dress was too big and that she was swimming in it. The one thing she had insisted on though, was that it had to have the longest train in existence.

I liked her hair. She started a whole trend with her hair.

 

[marybet]

They said on the Today show that Diana called the designers herself. I think she totally picked that gown.

Her hair doesn't look bad in that picture but if you look when they show her walking down the aisle it just looks like it is sticking out all over the place.

 

[luvmy3]

I thought she looked beautiful, just like a Princess Of course I was 8 at the time, what did I know about wedding gowns

 

[Mermaid02]

Oddly enough the dress I really love is Queen Elizabeth's. Made during the "Restrain yourself because we are recovering from the war" era

THAT is gorgeous!

 

[DisneyScraps]

For the time it was the perfect gown. I remember being a tween getting up early to watch her and just loving her dress.

 

[beaucoup]

It was the 80's. I was married in the 80's and my dress had similar elements. I too hate my dress today.

What was I thinking?

 

[Andtototoo]

The Emmanuels did not do well by Princess Diana. The gown was poorly fitted. And they stupidly choose silk taffeta which WRINKLES when you look at it. They said later that they did not know silk taffeta wrinkles. That boggles my mind. It is an inexcusable level of incompetence. I always felt so bad for Princess Diana about the wrinkles.

 

[bdcp]

DH and I got married 4 days before Charles and Di so we were on our honeymoon at the beach when their wedding took place. Honestly, I liked my dress a lot more and even though it was 1981, my dress was nothing like hers. I had cap sleeves and a sweetheart neck, very little lace(only on the hem and around the waist) and a little beading on the bodice and a short train, of course almost all trains are shorter than Di's was. Nothing like a lot of my friends and sister's dresses. My sister got married two years later and wore a high neck, long sleeve dress, so different than mine.

I don't think anyone planned for the fact that the dress had to be bunched up and forced into the carriage which is why it was so wrinkled.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

Diana called the designer personally, she met with the designer many times over the course of the design in secret. Like Kate's wedding dress, it was a big secret and even the designed was in on the secret and attempted to lead the press astray through falsely placing scraps of fabric in the trash.

As for the dress itself, it is definately an 80's dress and speaks to the era of visual excess (which is different from the economic excess we just experienced). Diana was an amazingly well dressed Princess, she always looked amazing in my opinion and her poise was impeccable.

 

[Nancy]

I did not like the dress, but for Diana that was her style back then. Before she got married her taste was very different than it was after she had her children. I like her hair in the picture posted here, but I recall seeing her that day and it didn't look as "done".

I am very curious to see Kate's (Katherine's) dress and hair tomorrow. Someone at work told me that she read it would be worn down and some people were upset because a princess should not wear her hair down on her wedding day. I guess we shall see, if she wears her hair down then a princess does indeed wear her hair down. LOL

 

[K and K's Mommy]

As a 10 year old, I thought it was beautiful. Now, not so much...