Once the two had exchanged their wedding vows, Melania stepped out of her amazing Christian Dior gown and stepped into a Vera Wang dress. Of course, her Dior gown screamed everything extravagant, but the Vera Wang dress showed off her very model-like figure.
It hugged her body ever so perfectly and went straight down to the floor, with a slit that came up to her knee.
Melania Trump’s Luxurious Wedding Gown
Melania Knauss married Donald Trump in 2005, prior to him becoming president. Her dress of choice was made by the designer Dior and had 300 feet of tulle. The dress came with a hefty price tag too. It was somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000 to create. Not only was the price large, so was the dress.
The dress was so heavy that she was told to have a full meal before walking down the aisle so she could handle carrying the weight of the fabric and its accouterments. It had more than 1,500 pearls and rhinestones. The dress was so big that she couldn’t even sit in a chair, she had to sit on a bench instead.
550 Hours Went into Melania’s Wedding Gown
To elaborate further on Melania’s dress, it obviously took quite a while to create. According to Vogue, it took the Christian Dior brand 550 hours to make her dress. Meeting the strict deadline and with it being a high society event, it was not easy to do.
Her train alone was 13-feet long and a 16-foot veil. The dress weighed a total of 60 pounds - insane! We aren’t surprised that she didn’t wear the dress after the reception.
Edith Wilson Was One of Her Husband's Advisers
President Woodrow Wilson met Edith Bolling Galt a year after his wife passed away. She was also married but her husband had also passed away in 1908. The two married on December 18, 1915, in Washington, D.C. It was thought by many that Wilson would not be elected for a second term due to his quick courtship to Edith.
However, he was inaugurated for the second time in March of 1917. Edith proved to be an invaluable advisor to her husband during his second term, which included the beginning of WWI.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Proposed on the First Date
Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ for short met Claudia Alta, “Lady Bird” Taylor through a mutual friend. Sometime after Lady Bird made a confession that she felt drawn to LBJ “like a moth drawn to a flame.” Wildly enough, he proposed to her on the first date and she accepted about two weeks later.
The two married in San Antonio, Texas on November 17, 1934. A honeymoon to Mexico came after the wedding. LBJ became the 36th president of the United States in 1963 after John F. Kennedy was assassinated.