The Dress!

Sarah Burton it is!!  Catherine Middleton, about to become Duchess of Cambridge.  Lucky girl!!  I mean the dress of course!

From the official Royal Wedding website:
Miss Catherine Middleton's Wedding Dress has been designed by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen.

Miss Middleton chose British brand Alexander McQueen for the beauty of its craftsmanship and its respect for traditional workmanship and the technical construction of clothing. Miss Middleton wished for her dress to combine tradition and modernity with the artistic vision that characterises Alexander McQueen's work. Miss Middleton worked closely with Sarah Burton in formulating the design of her dress.


From the Telegraph.co.uk by Hilary Alexander:
Ms Middleton stepped out of the vintage Rolls Royce Phantom VI and into the pages of royal and fashion history.

Fabulous, fashionable and fairytale, it featured a high-necked, sculpted long-sleeved bodice in lace which contoured the waist and hips. The long, medieval-style sleeves and ultra-long train enhanced Ms Middleton's regal bearing as she made her way, on the arm of her father, to the Abbey's Great West Door.The design of the long-awaited wedding-dress combined majesty and modernity, royal heritage and romantic history, passion and pageantry.

Underneath the long lace-trimmed veil, Ms. Middleton wore a small pearl and diamond tiara.

And from WWD:

The dress featured a lace appliquéd bodice and skirt, along with long lace sleeves and a high lace collar. The lace was hand-made at London’s Royal School of Needlework based at Hampton Court Palace.

The design was appliquéd with individual flowers that were hand cut from lace, and then hand engineered onto ivory silk tulle. The bodice and skirt were made from hand-cut English lace and French Chantilly lace, while ivory and white satin gazar was also used in the body of the dress and its skirts. The ivory satin bodice, narrowed at the waist and padded at the hips, drew on the tradition of Victorian corsetry. The train measured eight feet long.

Middleton also wore a full veil, made from layers of soft ivory silk tulle with a trim of hand-embroidered flowers. The veil was held in place with a Cartier halo tiara, lent to Middleton by Queen Elizabeth. The tiara was made by Cartier in 1936, and was presented to the Queen on her 18th birthday, when she was still Princess Elizabeth.

It was presented to her by her mother, who originally owned the tiara. Middleton wore earrings in the design of diamond-set oak leaves, designed by Robinson Pelham, a gift to Middleton from her parents.

Her shoes were hand-made by the team at Alexander McQueen, in ivory duchesse satin with hand embroidered lace. Middleton’s bouquet, meanwhile, was made up of myrtle, lily of the valley, sweet William and hyacinth.