3-078-201 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A Fashionable Wedding (marriage of Count Alexander Munster and Lady Muriel Hay) at St. Andrew's Church, Wells-Street, 1890. '...the marriage of Count Alexander Munster, son of Count Munster, German Ambassador in Paris, with Lady Muriel Henrietta Constance Hay, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Kinnoull...[Guests included] the German, Russian, and Austrian Ambassadors, and many of the English and foreign nobility...palms were ranged about the chancel. The bridegroom wore the white-and-gold uniform of the German Emperor's Bodyguard...The six bridesmaids were Lady Mildred Denison, Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray, Hon. Marie Hay...Hon. Marjory Murray, Miss Rosalind Lovell, and Miss Gladys Hadow...They wore dresses of pale-blue satin, veiled with white chiffon...fastened in front with a bunch of forget-me-nots...The bride's dress was of ivory satin, with a very long train; the front was fringed round the hem with orange-blossoms, and veiled with old Brussels lace...and a tulle veil falling almost to the end of the train, and held by diamond stars. Her train was held by her two little nephews, Masters Roland and Patrick Hadow, wearing the Highland dress with the Hay tartan, with lace ruffles. The service was performed by the Rev. Provost Rorison'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.