Something blue
Some fabulous blue wedding dresses and accessories
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If I had been a bride in 1800
I would wear this dress: I’m not sure about the hairstyle, but the dress? I’m so there! The over robe, the wrapped sleeve trimmings, the pleated ruffle, and the metallic gold trimmed petticoat. *swoon* I guess I would prefer if it were a little more white, and a little less oyster I think I’d wear it with these shoes: Or a pink and white version of the bridesmaids shoes (below) With the necessities taken care of, every well dressed bride needs a fan: Do you think a suitably romantic pastoral scene, something with nymphs and roses, would be too much to ask for? For my groom, I’m trying to decide between this coat: And this one (only in black, which may be the colour it was to begin with anyway): (in a totally imaginary wedding it’s OK that he doesn’t get a say, right? right?) For bridesmaids, this robe, in grass green. Divine! If I were the evil bride, I’d make them wear these dresses. Hehe. Since I’m not though, I’m even going to let …
A thoroughly calculated wedding: Napoleon III and Eugenie
One of the things that studying royal weddings teaches you (very quickly!) is that romance often had very little to do with marriage, even among those monarchs who could choose their own spouse, and who claimed to marry for romance. The best example of this is the “romance” and marriage of Napoleon III and Eugenie de Montijo. Napoleon III was a notorious womaniser, and Eugenie was a notorious virgin – notorious for such because she refused to enter into affairs for reasons that were more strategically based than morally based. Eugenie and Napoleon first met in the early 1850s when he was president of France. The Spanish Eugenie was in Paris on a husband-hunting tour of Europe, and was the toast of the town for her beauty and grace. Naturally, Napoleon was intrigued, and began to pursue Eugenie, to no avail. One didn’t catch a husband by becoming the mistress of the President of France. Even once Napoleon staged a coup and became Emperor, Eugenie was not swayed. By all accounts the young Eugenie …