Grand Ducal Wedding in Luxemburg - preparations.

As many other Royal Watchers i travelled last week to the Grach Duchy of Luxemburg to witness the Wedding hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Comtesse Stéphanie de Lannoy. After some hours of travekl with the train i arrived there on Thursday afternoon. I first went into the City to have a look on the Church and the Town Hall where the civil Wedding was to take place the next day.

Decoration at the Place d'Armes

some Shopwindows where decorated with  a picture
of the bridal Couple and the lucemburgian flag

preparations at the Cathedral

peparations at the back entrance of the Grand Ducal Palace

In the evening i meet with Netty from the Netherlands who had arrived that evening and we went to have dinner together. In the next morning i went to the national Museum of History and Art and visited there the  exhibtion about the Silver Treasur of the Grand Ducal Family. Afterwars i came across the Palace and i came just in time to see the bridal Couple leaving for the Reception in the Grand Theater which was to take place this morning.

the Cathedral on Friday morning

The bridal Couple leaving to the Reception at the Grand Theater.

Georg Friedrich and Sophie - pre Wedding Concert

On the occasion of the Wedding of Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia and Princess Sophie of Isenbrug i made some vacation in Potsdam and later also Berlin. I arrived there on Wednesday a few ddays before the Wedding. After the arrival i meet with some Anuschka and Sofia who had also arrived on this morning.  We visited as first the Friedenskirche the location for the upcoming Wedding as this was the first days it was open to the  public. As we had seen allof it we walked back and at the Luisenplatz we spotted the bridal Coupletalking to some other people. We waited until they where ready then we asked if we could take a pic of them. 

We later continued with sightseeing on this dayand visited first Cecilienhof Castle where Crown prince Wilhelm and Crown Princess Cecilie with their family lived until 1945. Afterwards we went to the Marblepalace.

One the next day we and 2 other friends wo had arrived later on Wedneday contnued with sightseeing. In the morning we walked pas the Church again where preparations for the Wedding where in full forche with flowers delivered and technical equpment beeing installed for the Live-Broadcast. After we where joined by 2 more friends we visited among others the Neue Kammern where the reception after the Wedding Service ws to take plac and the Orangerie the site for the Gala-Dinner in the eveing. After we had vistied Sanssoucci Castle we walked across the street behind it. suddenly a car stopped for ashortmoment and 2 eople waved out and Said "Hello how are you" and then drove away. We only then realized that it had been the bridal Couple.

On thext day Friday we all together drove in the morning to Berlin where we visited Charlottenburg Castle and it's Gardens. After having somerest we made our Way to the Gendarmenmarkt to secure the best places there. Ast there wasno official Press-Accredition for this Event we could stand in the first row just a few metres opposde the stairs leading to the Concerthouse. There annual Benefit Concert for the "Princess Kira of Prussia foundation" tookplace. This Event takes usually place every Septemberg at Hohenzollern Castle. But in this year it was decided that on the occasion of the WEdding this should tkae place as a pre-Wedding Event in Berlin.The first guests arrived at around 18h00 local time. On of the first to arrive was the bridal Couple who posed on the staris for the gathered Press  Short later Sophie's parents Fürst Franz Alexander and Fürstin Christine arrived together with their younger son Prince Victor. Most of the around 1000 guests arrived with busses and had to walk to the Concert Hall. 

More pics of the guests here:

Ducal Wedding at Coburg - german-american Evening

The Evening before the WEdding a gherman-american Evening took place in a tent beloow of Callenberg Castle. We travelled to Callenberg in the early afternoonand visited the Castle as it was open on this day. At the moment there is a big exhibition "New York New York" with of Photos of Richard Berenholtz which was opened by the bridal Couple a week before the Wedding. After we had visited the Castle we stayed below the Castle grounds which wehre closed off and could see the Guests arriving. Most of them came in busses and also in Cars. Most of the Buses stoped and the Guests walked on feet up the hill.

The tent

Prince Friedrich Konrad of Saxe-Meiningen

Albert and Edda Darboven, née
Princess of Anhalt

Duchess Tatiana of Oldenburg

Countess Agathe zu Ortenburg

Hereditary Princess Elizabeth zu
Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

Fürstin Anita of Hohenberg and
Count Andreas of Bardeau

Michaela von Miller zu Aichholz, Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau,
Alexander von Miller zu Aichholz, Alexadrine von Miller zu Aichholz,.
Countess zu Castell-Castell (greaqt-grandaughter of King
Frederik VIII. of Denmark), Philipp and Heinrich von Miller zu Aichholz

Alexander von Miller zu Aichholz with his wife
Michaela, née Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau
(cousin of Fürstin Gloria of Thurn and Taxis)

Fürst Wolfgang Ernst, Prince Maximilian
and Princess Sophie zu Ysenburg and
Büdingen in Wächtersbach

Hereditary Princess Johanna and
Hereditary Prince Heinrich XIV. Reuß

Fürstin Chrstine of Isenburg

Fürst Franz Alexander of Isenburg