I may be an exception, but I never cared for that dress.
Atrocious.
Worst wedding dress ever
I LOVED this dress! The big sleeves, the sequins, the veil, the poufiness! This was a princess dress!!
Would I wear it as an adult? Nope. But for the time, it was breathtaking. Diana made this dress!
I love the dress, a lot of detail in this dress.
That was A LOT of dress. Seeing it with 2025 eyes lets me see just how voluminous it was. šš
She definitely set a standard and captured the attention of the world.
I never saw the shoes close-up!! They are stunning āØāØ
this dress was hideous and the shoes are awful too, IMO. A+ jewelry though.
That dress is so hideous, Iāve never understood how people have said otherwise
Itās certainly the antithesis of any dresses made today. But it was probably perfect for the venue and the time. Personally I think itās a monstrosity but I respect its place in history
Maybe Iām weird but I still love the dress. The shoes look so uncomfortable though.
It was a wrinkled mess when she arrived.
I got to see it in person when it was still in her brotherās care before both sons were 30. The poof had fallen out and helped me see and appreciate the details more. I kinda wish it had been that limp on the wedding day. The length created more than enough drama. I wonder how it felt to drag all that.
The benefit it being in the Spencer family at the time was that the tiara was displayed with it. It was such a let down though because it was all tarnished. I canāt believe they ever let it get that way. It was all sparkly again for her nieces wedding in 2018 thankfully.
That dress was a hot mess.
Too much [material. You](http://material.You) could have fitted 2 1/2 Dianas in that dress.
God help me, but I actually think the shoes are cool! I like the details on the soles. Anyone know who made them?
Iām curious how it broke protocol and traditionā itās white, itās not revealing, itās expensive. Yes, itās a lot, but this was the 80s.
This dress was SO of it’s time and if you don’t get that I’m sorry you missed out on this period of fashion
This dress, and this wedding, single-handedly rejuvenated a rather lackluster wedding industry. If all you knew were Elizabeth Taylorās 1950ās FATHER OF THE BRIDE and then this wedding, you might be forgiven to finding rustic, casual, even barefoot weddings having such a place of pride throughout the late 1960ās and all the 1970ās.
I love that this dress is a reinterpretation of Marie Antoinetteās shepherdess dress, a noteworthy gown because never would an actual shepherdess have ever worn such a (gorgeous) dress.
One of my earliest memories was their wedding. Even in my underdeveloped brain I knew this was way too much. The shoulder puffs are so suffocating.
Thank you for sharing these, Iāve never seen close ups of her dress.
I see her age in this dress. Thereās something so juvenile about it. The eyelet lace, small bows, sequins and lace detail on the bodice.
Donāt want to be a downer, but , God, I hated this dress! It was way too overwhelming for her. A gown like Grace Kelly or Catherine Middleton wore when she married William would have looked so much better on her.
I saw this dress in person. I would have been about 12 at the time. I knew I was looking at something very important, and not my taste at allš. Iāll always have a soft spot for it though.
Iām the same age as Diana would have been and the eighties was āmyā fashion era and even I wasnāt keen on that dress. I could recognise how of its time it was, and the work that had gone into it, but she looked like a crushed butterfly when she got out of the carriage (not a bad metaphor for what happened next) and to me, it looked as if it overwhelmed her. But then, we all like different styles. Fashion would be boring if we all wore the same things!
I remember this wedding like it was yesterday. I had just turned 7. My Mom was super excited to watch the wedding on tv, woke me up super early in the morning to see all the festivities, and couldnāt wait to see what Dianaās dress would look like. She kept saying, āOh, sheās such a lovely young lady, I hope she looks as beautiful in her gown as Grace Kelly did in hers!ā
Cut to when Diana arrived at St. Paulās Cathedral, got out of the car wearing this dress- which was absolutely wrinkled & scrunched, in addition to looking a bit like a meringue- and my mother absolutely screeched: āOh NOOOO!!! Itās just AWFUL! The design, the presentationā¦ Iām genuinely shocked, bless her heart. Mark my words: This is going to end badly. She has no idea what kind of family sheās married into, I fear. This will come back to haunt her one day.ā
An interesting observation, particularly given how Dianaās life did end up playing out. (Not just because of the dress, obviously- overall.)
And for the record, even at age 7, I knew this was bad. Yikes all the way round. š
Princess Astrid of Belgium also wore a wedding dress with puffy sleeves:Ā https://www.reddit.com/r/RoyalsGossip/comments/1nnteba/happy_41st_anniversary_to_princess_astrid_and/
She married three years after Diana, I wonder if her dress was inspired by Dianaās at all.
Gotta love the fact that her and the designers aim to have the longest wedding train in royal history bit them on the ass so bad by making the dress so terribly wrinkled on the day of. They didnāt account for that huge train + her not exactly compact father, both being in the carriage with her.
Does anyone know how Diana felt about her dress many years later. I donāt if my memory is failing me but I thought I read some where that Diana regretted it or certain aspects of it
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I may be an exception, but I never cared for that dress.
Atrocious.
Worst wedding dress ever
I LOVED this dress! The big sleeves, the sequins, the veil, the poufiness! This was a princess dress!!
Would I wear it as an adult? Nope. But for the time, it was breathtaking. Diana made this dress!
I love the dress, a lot of detail in this dress.
That was A LOT of dress. Seeing it with 2025 eyes lets me see just how voluminous it was. šš
She definitely set a standard and captured the attention of the world.
I never saw the shoes close-up!! They are stunning āØāØ
this dress was hideous and the shoes are awful too, IMO. A+ jewelry though.
That dress is so hideous, Iāve never understood how people have said otherwise
Itās certainly the antithesis of any dresses made today. But it was probably perfect for the venue and the time. Personally I think itās a monstrosity but I respect its place in history
Maybe Iām weird but I still love the dress. The shoes look so uncomfortable though.
It was a wrinkled mess when she arrived.
I got to see it in person when it was still in her brotherās care before both sons were 30. The poof had fallen out and helped me see and appreciate the details more. I kinda wish it had been that limp on the wedding day. The length created more than enough drama. I wonder how it felt to drag all that.
The benefit it being in the Spencer family at the time was that the tiara was displayed with it. It was such a let down though because it was all tarnished. I canāt believe they ever let it get that way. It was all sparkly again for her nieces wedding in 2018 thankfully.
That dress was a hot mess.
Too much [material. You](http://material.You) could have fitted 2 1/2 Dianas in that dress.
God help me, but I actually think the shoes are cool! I like the details on the soles. Anyone know who made them?
Iām curious how it broke protocol and traditionā itās white, itās not revealing, itās expensive. Yes, itās a lot, but this was the 80s.
This dress was SO of it’s time and if you don’t get that I’m sorry you missed out on this period of fashion
This dress, and this wedding, single-handedly rejuvenated a rather lackluster wedding industry. If all you knew were Elizabeth Taylorās 1950ās FATHER OF THE BRIDE and then this wedding, you might be forgiven to finding rustic, casual, even barefoot weddings having such a place of pride throughout the late 1960ās and all the 1970ās.
I love that this dress is a reinterpretation of Marie Antoinetteās shepherdess dress, a noteworthy gown because never would an actual shepherdess have ever worn such a (gorgeous) dress.
One of my earliest memories was their wedding. Even in my underdeveloped brain I knew this was way too much. The shoulder puffs are so suffocating.
Thank you for sharing these, Iāve never seen close ups of her dress.
I see her age in this dress. Thereās something so juvenile about it. The eyelet lace, small bows, sequins and lace detail on the bodice.
Donāt want to be a downer, but , God, I hated this dress! It was way too overwhelming for her. A gown like Grace Kelly or Catherine Middleton wore when she married William would have looked so much better on her.
I saw this dress in person. I would have been about 12 at the time. I knew I was looking at something very important, and not my taste at allš. Iāll always have a soft spot for it though.
Iām the same age as Diana would have been and the eighties was āmyā fashion era and even I wasnāt keen on that dress. I could recognise how of its time it was, and the work that had gone into it, but she looked like a crushed butterfly when she got out of the carriage (not a bad metaphor for what happened next) and to me, it looked as if it overwhelmed her. But then, we all like different styles. Fashion would be boring if we all wore the same things!
I remember this wedding like it was yesterday. I had just turned 7. My Mom was super excited to watch the wedding on tv, woke me up super early in the morning to see all the festivities, and couldnāt wait to see what Dianaās dress would look like. She kept saying, āOh, sheās such a lovely young lady, I hope she looks as beautiful in her gown as Grace Kelly did in hers!ā
Cut to when Diana arrived at St. Paulās Cathedral, got out of the car wearing this dress- which was absolutely wrinkled & scrunched, in addition to looking a bit like a meringue- and my mother absolutely screeched: āOh NOOOO!!! Itās just AWFUL! The design, the presentationā¦ Iām genuinely shocked, bless her heart. Mark my words: This is going to end badly. She has no idea what kind of family sheās married into, I fear. This will come back to haunt her one day.ā
An interesting observation, particularly given how Dianaās life did end up playing out. (Not just because of the dress, obviously- overall.)
And for the record, even at age 7, I knew this was bad. Yikes all the way round. š
Princess Astrid of Belgium also wore a wedding dress with puffy sleeves:Ā https://www.reddit.com/r/RoyalsGossip/comments/1nnteba/happy_41st_anniversary_to_princess_astrid_and/
She married three years after Diana, I wonder if her dress was inspired by Dianaās at all.
Gotta love the fact that her and the designers aim to have the longest wedding train in royal history bit them on the ass so bad by making the dress so terribly wrinkled on the day of. They didnāt account for that huge train + her not exactly compact father, both being in the carriage with her.
Does anyone know how Diana felt about her dress many years later. I donāt if my memory is failing me but I thought I read some where that Diana regretted it or certain aspects of it
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