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| ROYAL WEDDINGS
Royal Weddings
updates by Shelley Waugh


October 13, 2011, THIMPHU, Bhutan

The King and Queen of Bhutan
The King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and the future Queen of Bhutan, Jetsun Pema were married by Bhutan’s top Buddhist cleric in the country’s most sacred monastery fortress in the old capital of Punakha at 8:30am a time determined by the royal astrologers.

During the hours of ceremonies, the 31-year-old king was adorned with royal scarves. His 21-year-old bride presented him a chalice filled with the ambrosia of eternal life that he drank, and he placed a crown upon the new queen’s head.

Wedding guests include the king's royal family and thousands of nearby villagers. No visiting royals, heads of state or celebrities have been invited. The wedding celebrations are being televised live for the rest of the country’s 700,000 people to watch.

Bhutanese have been waiting for their Oxford-educated bachelor king to find a bride and start a family of his own since his father retired and handed power to him five years ago.

His bride, the daughter of a pilot, has been on an introductory tour of the remote villages of the nation since the king told Parliament in May, “It’s now time for me to marry.”

The people of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan have been preparing for the marriage of its fifth Dragon King. The three day wedding celebrations will include a dance exhibition at the main stadium in the capital city, Thimphu for the king and his bride.

The country has not had a royal wedding since the fourth king held a mass ceremony in 1988 with his four wives — four sisters whom he had informally married years earlier.

The current king is known for encouraging development, bringing in democratic reforms and evening bike rides through the streets. He has a reputation as a laid back, accessible leader and is known to invite his people into his home for tea and a chat.

The current king says he will take only one wife, so the country is unlikely to see another such celebration for a long time. Many Bhutanese will be looking forward to the couple starting a family.
August 27, 2011, POTSDAM, Germany
PRINCESS SOPHIE & PRINCE GEORG
Princess Sophie of Isenburg and Prince Georg Friedrich Ferdinand of Prussia, were married in a religious ceremony in the Church of Peace.

The bride wore a tiered dress by German designer Wolfgang Joop which was created using 180 feet of fabric, and was accessorized with a 100-year-old family veil, reported German newsweekly Bunte. The princess also wore a coat made of transparent organza satin over her dress – complete with a 12 foot-long train. The color of the dress was called whispering white, a color meant to look antique.

The bride wore her hair swept into an up-do, and accessorized with a family heirloom diamond tiara dating back to 1860 in Paris. The piece is reserved for the members of the royal family's wedding day.

The couple travelled in a horse-drawn carriage after the ceremony towards Sanssouci Palace, the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin, where a dinner and ball were scheduled.

The couple were married in a civil ceremony on Thursday, August 25, 2011.
 
The bride, 33, and the groom, 35, both work as consultants in Berlin.  He is the head of the house of Hohenzollern and the great-great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The German royal descendants carry their family names, although it does not mean anything. Legally their last names are acknowledged as a part of their names.
July 30, 2011, EDINBURGH, Scotland
ZARA PHILLIPS & MIKE TINDALL

The wedding of Zara Phillips & Mike Tindall

In London, on March 9, a simple statement was issued by the press secretary to Queen Elizabeth, Zara's grandmother, "Miss Zara Phillips and Mr. Mike Tindall will be married at the Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, on Saturday, 30th July, and on behalf of Phillips's parents, Zara's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, and the Duke of Edinburgh they are delighted with the news."

Zara Phillips, 29, is the daughter of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips. Tindall, 32, a rugby player who plays outside center for Gloucester Rugby and the current captain of the England team. He is the son of Mr. Phillip and Mrs. Linda Tinda.

For Zara and Mike's wedding on July 30, 2011 click here
July 1 & 2, 2011, Monaco
PRINCE ALBERT & CHARLENE WITTSTOCK
 Wedding celebrations for Prince Albert, 52, and Charlene Wittstock, 32, started on Thursday, June 29 with a free concert by the Eagles in the Louis II Stadium; and a concert by Jean Michel Jarre on Friday, July 1, at the Hercules Port.

Click here for Prince Albert and Princess Charlene's Royal Wedding
April 29, 2011, Westminster Abbey, LONDON, England
PRINCE WILLIAM & KATE MIDDLETON
Invitations in the Mail
On February 16th & 17th, the stiff white card invitation with its gold lettering and gilded edge went out to 1,900 people, from kings to charity leaders, to close family and university friends, old schoolmates and prime ministers around the world.

Six-hundred of the 1,900 guests also received an invited by the Queen to a reception that she hosted immediately after the ceremony in the Abbey. Later, around 300 of those 600 guests were invited to a dinner hosted by William's father, Prince Charles, in the evening at Buckingham Palace. click here for William & Kate's Royal Wedding
August 25, 2010, SPETSES, Greece
PRINCE NIKOLAOS OF GREECE & TATIANA BLATNIK
Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Tatiana Blatnik were married in a Greek Orthodox service at the Cathedral of Ayios Nikolaos (St. Nicholas) on the island. Guests included Europe’s royal families from Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.

The groom arrived on the island by luxury boat, the bride made her entrance in a Angel Sanchez gown on a horse-drawn carriage. Following the ceremony the couple left the cathedral in the horse drawn carriage for their reception above Garifalo beach at the back of the old harbour where scaffolding was put into place and heavily armed police and divers monitoring the above areas.

Many guests stayed at the Poseidonion Hotel on the island where a party was held the night before the wedding.

Prince Nikolaos is the second son of King Constantine of Greece and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. Tatiana Blatnik, 29, is an events planner for Diane Von Furstenburg in London. She was born in Venezuela and educated in Switzerland. Her mother is German and her father Slovenian. She is also the granddaughter of Ellinka Countess von Einsiedel. The couple had been dating for six and a half years. They reside in London, England.

Spetses Island Greece is the most remote of the Greek Argo Saronic islands. It is a pine-clad island that has secluded, hidden coves with clear seas or beaches close to waterfront hotels. Cars are banned and those on the island are limited to residents only who can only use them out of town and with a permit. Visitors take a ferry to Spetses.

Files/photos: www.greekboston.com; www.marieclaire.co.uk
June 19, 2010, STOCKHOLM, Sweden
$2-M ROYAL WEDDING
Crown Princess Victoria married her long-time boyfriend and former personal trainer, Daniel Westling, in the Stockholm Cathedral. King Carl XVI Gustaf proudly gave away his oldest daughter, 32, also first in line to succeed him, exactly 34 years to the day after his own wedding to Queen Silvia.

After exchanging vows in an elaborate ceremony, the couple – who met eight years ago at the high-end gym Westling, 36, owns – rode through the capital city in a horse-drawn carriage to the cheers of tens of thousands of people who watched the couple's cortege with royal guards riding on horses.

After the trip both by the cart on land and the royal barge at the sea, the newly-weds went up to the castle together with the King and the Queen, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and his wife and other leaders and waved hands to tens of thousands of the crowds gathering around the palace.

"I like to thank you, the Swedish People, it is you who gave me my prince, (who now has the official title of the Duke of Vastergotland), I and my husband are unbelievably happy and grateful," Princess Victoria said to the public.

The first royal wedding since 1976, the 1,500 guests included family members and international royals, including Prince Albert of Monaco and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
The newlyweds paid for their own wedding like thousands of couples are doing. The Royals were not happy with the 55-pages of wedding photos sold to Hello!
May 17, 2008, LONDON, England
PETER PHILLIPS & AUTUMN KELLY
Canadian Autumn Kelly, 30, daughter of Mr. Brian and Mrs. Kitty Kelly of Montreal, and Peter Phillips, 30, son of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips, were married at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

The bride wore a reported $4,000 cream Sassi Holford wedding gown with buttons and long bows down the back, a tiara "something borrowed" from her new mother-in-law, the Princess Royal, and earrings and a necklace "something new" from the groom. She arrived at the chapel in a maroon State Bentley, was given away by her father, Brian. The bride walked down the aisle to the Prince of Denmark's March by Jeremiah Clarke. The couple vowed to "love, honour, comfort and keep" each other but Miss Kelly did not pledge to obey her husband.

She was attended by six bridesmaids all wearing strapless mint green dresses by Vera Wang: Zara Phillips, her new sister-in-law, Jacqueline Aubie, a friend from Canada, and Susannah Toynbee, a friend from England; and children Stephanie Phillips, Peter's half-sister, Jessica Kelly, Autumn's half-sister, and Rosie Bush, Peter's god-daughter.

As she and the groom emerged hand-in-hand after the ceremony to pose for photographs with senior members of the Royal Family, including the Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

Following their ceremony the couple then hosted a reception and dance for their 300 guests, of which 70 friends and family of the bride travelled from Canada, at Frogmore House, Windsor, which has been lent to them by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh. Mr Phillips is the first of the Queen's eight grandchildren to get married.

Mr. Phillips's mother, the Princess Royal and his father, Mark Phillips attended the wedding along with many senior members of the Royal family including the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke of York with his daughters Princess Beatrice and Eugenie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex and their daughter Lady Louise, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent.

Hello! magazine is reported to have paid $1 million, cover left, to get exclusive access to the couple, according to Royal-watcher Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty Magazine. The Hello! deal signed by the couple continued to receive attention on the Sunday following the wedding. The Mail on Sunday, in its four pages of coverage, reported that the couple signed the deal because Autumn's "Mum couldn't pay" the estimated $100,000 wedding bill, while Peter's mother, Princess Anne, "wouldn't."

From now on, the bride, who converted from Catholicism to marry into the Royal family, will be known as "Mrs. Autumn Phillips." Kelly grew up in Pointe-Claire, Que., in the largely English-speaking West Island region of Montreal. After attending McGill University, she worked as a management consultant. She is now employed as a personal assistant to British broadcaster and television personality Michael Parkinson.

She and Phillips met at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal five years before they were married. The couple had been living in an apartment they owned in west London for two years.

Kelly's twin brother Chris is a bricklayer. An older brother Kevin works as a chef. Her parents Kathleen, a hairdresser, and Brian, a retired electricity marketing executive, divorced when Kelly was eight. Both have since remarried.
November 20, 1947, LONDON, England
PRINCESS ELIZABETH & LT. PHILIP MOUNTBATTEN
On her wedding day the 21-year-old Princess Elizabeth, as she was then known, wore a silk gown designed by Norman Hartnell embroidered with crystals and 10,000 seed pearls including a 13-feet train, when she exchanged vows with 26-year-old Lt. Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey. The royal couple honeymooned in Malta where they were based on the Mediterranean island from 1949-1951, while Philip was stationed there as a Royal Naval officer.

The wedding was seen as a great morale booster for the British people, still recovering from the privations of World War II. In 1952, Elizabeth became queen on the death of her father, King George VI.

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