6.30 pm - Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel,
greeting the People together from the Palace.
Around 500.000 people were gathered on the streets of Stockholm on this day (19 June 2010).
Crown Princess Victoria speaking to the people.
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I had not really planned to keep watching the whole evening, but I ended up doing so. It was really quite a unique occasion in many ways. Swedish Television was allowed 10 cameras within the palace, rolling most of the evening. We did not get to watch them eat (four courses) but we got to listen to the speeches, and see the bride cut the wedding cake, and the newlywed couple dance the first waltz. I have to say that they succeeded unusually well in making this whole wedding a celebration for “all the people” and just not for the guests invited. (Not so few. Around 1200 something in the church, and 600 something at the dinner.)
8:15 pm – Arriving to the Wedding Dinner Party
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Eva Westling, mother of the bridegroom.
Queen Silvia and Olle Westling, father of the groom.
The happy couple surrounded by servants in historical uniforms.
The Queen and Prince Daniel’s father
Princess Madeleine, sister of the bride
Prince Carl Philip (brother of the bride),
sitting next to Anna Westling (sister of the groom)
The Table of Honour
Wine being served
A glimpse of one of the four courses.
Stockholm at 9.20 pm
Daughter listening to her father
A Toast
10:50 pm - The father of the groom speaking
Son listening to his father
11:23 pm – The Bridegroom speaking
Touched and happy bride listening to her husband
The speeches at this wedding were all very good, and with quite a personal touch. One thing that sticks in my memory, is Daniel himself saying that it took more than one kiss to turn him into a prince. (The couple have known each other eight years.)
11:47 pm
The cutting of the Wedding Cake (a 3 m tall creation)
The couple with two of the young bridesmaids
Mingling with the guests
00:35 am, entering the ball room
ushered in by the Romeo and Juliet Choir
(choir members wearing the red dresses)
The First Waltz
The King and Queen joining
The King now dancing with the mother of the groom,
and the Queen with the father of the groom.
And then, finally, the TV cameras were turned off…
… and phew, this crazy blogger obsessed with taking photos from the TV screen could finally also put her camera down and go to bed …
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