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Lauren Bush Lauren and David Lauren posed for this formal wedding portrait for Vogue a month after their Labor Day nuptials, after returning from an Italian honeymoon.
Here are some wedding photos that were worth the wait.
Lauren Bush, granddaughter of President George H.W. Bush, married David Lauren, the son of fashion designer Ralph Lauren back in September on his family's sprawling Colorado ranch.
When it came to her wedding gown, her choice of designer was certainly no secret. But no photos emerged of the Ralph Lauren-designed dress — until now. The wedding, and the gown, is featured in in Vogue's December issue.
In the article, Lauren Bush Lauren ('No hyphen,' she told People.com) detailed the process of creating the gown with her future father-in-law. After several casual conversations at family gatherings, the former model went to the Ralph Lauren studio for a more formal meeting in June.
“I walked in, and there were these beautiful illustrations of the looks we’d discussed with my face on them,” she told Vogue's William Norwich. “It was like a dream come true. We sat together and arrived at this silhouette. It isn’t Victorian exactly. I wanted something modern as well, so there is the high-necked collar and puffed shoulders with the large open back.”
The result was somewhat reminiscent of Kate Middleton’s modest wedding dress, with long, sheer tulle sleeves, covered in embroidery, layered on a strapless gown. It took about 100 people more than 3,000 hours to embroider the tulle with ivory silk and metallic thread, Swarovski Elements crystals, and off-white pearl beads.
An old-style Western theme ran through the couple’s wedding, right down to the cowboy boots that Bush wore under her gown. Looking like he stepped off the movie screen, the groom wore a Ralph Lauren coat and vest with pocket chains.
Despite their families’ iconic status, these two city-slickers who live in New York, kept the guest list to a modest 200, riding off after the ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage, and then celebrating their nuptials in a 200-year-old barn.
Mark Seliger / VOGUE
The Labor Day wedding took place on the 17,000-acre Double RL ranch in Ridgway, Colorado.
VOGUE
The wedding is featured in several pages of the December issue of Vogue.
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The girl is a ravishing beauty. They look so handsome and classy. Wish them the best.
I don't wish them anything. They don't even know or care that I exist.
hopefully they will be married for more than 72 days
The dress is exquisite but she looks like she has a toothache coming on. I don't know either one from Adam, but he's definitely worth a second look. Didn't know Ralph Lauren had a son.
Looks & Money Darn that 1%:)
lol
Yep ain'ty it a shame. Most liberal women are poor and ugly. That is why they complain so much. hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoops! You looked in the mirror again, remember what the Dr said, take your angry pills and STAY AWAY from the mirror.
Wow! A story about a wedding dress and the second comment is about OWS! Give it a rest, this isn't a political forum.
Hoodie they made is political due to her being a Bush. Also, all that money when to pay for caterers, wait staff, etc. So the 1% does create jobs, just not government wasteful spending jobs!
This gown is much more gorgeous than Middleton's! Love it, love it, love it! Kate's was just okay by comparison.
Beautiful dress! Kate Middleton's was pretty too, but looked too much like Grace Kelly's wedding gown.
This gown just took my breath away! So classical and elegant!
Nice to see real class,not the lowlife occupy people.
Dick...you are a DICK.
Dick, you ignorant slut.
I am with you Dick. Those occupy Wall Street people are all lowlife losers that nobody would want to hire. Explaining their presence at the protests day after day after day. It gives them something to do besides sit on their lazy butts all day. Besides the REAL 99% are out working and trying to make a living.
But I must say that this dress is very lovely and classy.....
Really, we only have 1% unemployed??? Wow problem solved. You did your job Pres Obama! You heard it right here!!!! 99% employed!! !Yeah
You dont, and never will, get it because you dont care about anyone or anything but yourself...you are too dim to see past the end of your own nose...but the dress is nice for sure.
Call me old fashioned, but it's nice to see sleeves on a wedding dress again. Sleeveless wedding dresses everywhere you look is getting old. Beautiful dress and handsome couple.
Absolutely the most beautiful Wedding Picture I have ever seen. It seems to take me back through the centuries. I wish them the best.
It has an 1800's style to it. Love it
Beautiful picture. I'm a little weirded out by the prospect of Mrs. Lauren Lauren though. I think I'd make it with a hyphen. Just sayin.
I bet she gets some really odd names on her junk mail.
Beautiful both of them.... What a wonderful family on both sides to be married to. Have a long and happy marriage!!!!!! They are stunning in thier wedding attire. Father in Law did a fantastic job!
Handsome couple and an absolutely exquisite gown. Such a lovely, classy picture especially when compared with that other summer wedding, who was it again?
Without a doubt, this photo surpasses Kate and Willliam. The beauty is stunning. And the low key wedding in our economy is just right. Shows what class they have.
Wish them the best
wow, got anymore sons to get married...I got two beautiful daughters, lol
Really dramatic, beautiful looking. I, too, am glad the dress isn't strapless - that style is so ubiquitous and boring.
um, Lauren Lauren. Yikes, that must be weird. LOL
Absolutely beautiful.......even if I am a democrat....she is beautiful and he is handsome and they make a fantastically lovely couple!!!!!!!!
Don't feel guilty in lauding the new Mrs. Lauren. She is NOT a typical Bush and is in fact a social reformer who co-founded the "feedbag" handbag line which has made millions to help poor women in Africa feed their children and put them to work. She exemplifies the liberal persona at its best.
No disrespect, but I thought their photo was from the 1800's.
Kimmiecat, I think that is exactly what they were going for.. his clothes are throwbacks as is her dress.. it was at a historic ranch so yeah, I would take that as a compliment of the highest fashion....
I don't usually get impressed with this stuff.. too much fluff but this one is nice.. this is not an over the top, pretentious, spendy, and wasteful wedding bash. Good for them and blessing of a lifetime..
I don't like the high turtle neck part of the dress, I would have liked a sweetheart neckline, but otherwise, it's a pretty dress.
Beautiful! Best wishes for a long and happy marriage :)
Absolutely beautiful!
Married in Ridgeway, Colorado; very perfect! It is so beautiful there!
I love this look. How romantic. The dress was lovely, the veil was exquisite, the bride was beautiful and the groom was so handsome......doesn't get any better than that, even for the 1%..LOL
is the really news ???? people are starving, the world is on a down slide, but we now have pictures of the Bush-Lauren wedding........
Coffedrinker - the world has been filled with tragedy since the beginning of time, and there will no doubt always be sadness. But that doesn't mean people don't want to see happiness too...and beautiful, lovely things. Focusing on gloom and doom all the time isn't helpful.
There are many sides of life, and it's ok to experience them all.
JenAllen,
GREAT point!! :)
I just love it!!! Design is so simple yet so very elegant.Truly less is more. They certainly show plenty of class. People of this group to only have 200 guests is really amazing. If they were to satisfy everyone on both sides that felt they should be included this wedding could have run 750 guests and up. Just shows what level headed, down to earth youngsters they are. I'm sure their parents are very proud of them. Grandparents too. I wish them many years of happiness, a wonderful family, and many years to "grow old together".
like hello polo calling, the worlds top designer and the powerful political s of texas wish them the best hope the love is there to stay, and they know children come first. best of happiness