See Harriet Sperling’s elegant lace wedding dress
Second weddings are typically quieter affairs, but for a bride marrying Queen Elizabeth’s oldest grandchild and Princess Anne’s only son, it was inevitable there would be major attention. Harriet Sperling stepped up to the challenge, and for her nuptials to Peter Phillips in the Cotswolds today, she chose an elegant, long-sleeved column wedding dress with lace sleeves. The gown was designed by Emilia Wickstead.
As she walked into the church, her daughter Georgina Sperling, 13, and Phillips’s daughters, Savannah, 15 and Isla, 14, carried her dramatic veil.
Harriet Sperling followed by her bridesmaids Georgina Sperling, Savannah Phillips and Isla Phillips.
They all wore white dresses and flower crowns made of lily of the valley. “Lily of the valley was definitely requested for its regal connotation. Myrtle is a symbol of beauty, grace and love and was requested on the same basis. It’s always included in every royal wedding bouquet,” florist Millie Richardson told the Telegraph. “The girls’ head pieces also have been exclusively created with the lily of the valley flower.”
Sperling’s bouquet featured a tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth. Lily of the valley flowers were “used in Elizabeth’s Coronation bouquet in 1953, as well as in her wedding to to Prince Philip in 1947. The inclusion of lily of the valley, which grows on the 39 acres of Buckingham Palace’s grounds, at her eldest grandson’s wedding in All Saints Church, Kemble, symbolises the strong bond between Elizabeth and Mr Phillips.”
She paired her gown with custom ivory satin heels by Jimmy Choo, along with a new tiara and earrings by Pragnell, the jeweler that designed her engagement ring.
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No photos are publicly available from her first wedding, so it’s hard to know how the two outfits compare. However, as she has entered the public eye, Harriet’s style has been elegant and classic.
