A look at Crown Princess Victoria’s wedding dress

Crown Princess Victoria married Daniel Westling on 19 June 2010 in Sweden’s first royal wedding since 1976.

The Crown Princess donned a bespoke Pär Engsheden gown made of pearl-white, double-sided duchess silk satin.

It featured short sleeves and a boat neckline, showing off the future queen’s shoulders. The back of the dress featured a V-dip design that led into a five-metre train.

Her Brussels lace veil was handed down through the generations. Crown Princess Victoria donned Queen Sofia’s lace veil, like royal ladies before her (including her mother), with a sprig of myrtle in her hair. Also like her mother, Victoria wore the Cameo Tiara.

For more information about the Cameo Tiara, read our Editor-in-Chief’s feature here.

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According to the Royal Palace, her bouquet “consisted of lily of the valley, rose, phalaenopsis orchid, peony, clematis, cosmos, wax flower, sweet pea, dicentra formosa, Mårbacka pelargonium, Amazon lily, gardenia, azalea, bleeding heart and the traditional sprig of myrtle.”

The Crown Princess also had an evening dress that was one-shouldered in powder pink lace. It had hand-stitched sequins and pearls with silk chiffon on the skirt and train. It was designed by Lebanese designer Elie Saab.

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The Saab creation was worn on the eve of her wedding to the future Prince Daniel at a banquet at the Royal Swedish Opera and the Stockholm Concert Hall.