Contents

The marriage of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling - June 19, 2010

The wedding banquet

The wedding banquet was held in the Hall of State at the Royal Palace of Stockholm, Sweden's finest ceremonial hall. 558 guests had been invited to the royal gala celebration. 
 
The Hall of State had been renovated for the wedding. The paintings on the old ceiling above the banquet table had been restored: pale blue clouds in a summer sky. The silver throne and all the benches had been removed to make room for a long table, the main table, for 98 guests that will run the length of the hall, ending with a table of honor in a T-shape for the bride and groom and their closest relatives, numbering sixteen.

Other guests were seated at 38 round tables on either side of the main table and in three of the adjoining Halls of the Orders of Chivalry. A fourth Hall of the Orders of Chivalry was functioned as a mobile kitchen to complement the kitchen that has been specially constructed for the evening in the Inner Courtyard of the Royal Palace.
  
The bride and groom were seated under the Hall of State's canopy of blue velvet, featuring the greater national coat of arms and the lesser national coat of arms on the canopy roof. The canopy was designed by Jean Eric Rehn. The coat of arms and other details were made in Paris in 1751, where they were ordered for the coronation of Adolf Fredrik in 1751.

A show of pink flowers in varying shades formed the floral paintings in the eight blind windows and added warmth to the austere atmosphere of the huge hall. The floor was covered with a light blue carpet. 
 
The tables were laid with the finest tablecloths, porcelain services, glasses and cutlery that Sweden can create. The Royal Table was magnificent, both light and airy as a Swedish Midsummer evening.
  
The tables were decorated with long mirror plateaus, on which silver candelabra were interchanged with silver bowls strewn with flowers in shades of pale pink and white. Each bowl was filled with different flowers - sweet peas, lilac, roses, peonies, lilies of the valley and green lady's mantle. The candlesticks on the long tables for single candles had been specially adapted to hold five candles, on which green trails were bound with dazzling bouquets of lilies of the valley, the flower of Gästrikland, in the centre.

Following the choral tribute at Lejonbacken and wedding photographs, The Crown Princess Couple made their entrance through the Halls of the Orders of Chivalry down the steps to the Hall of State for the banquet, which began at 8.00 p.m.

Wedding banquet at the Royal Palace of Stockholm, 19 June 2010

MENU

Norway lobster from the west coast, served with summer truffles and truffle caviar, citrus marinated farmed cod on a bed of flowers with cucumber jelly and chilled green pea soup with Kalix whitefish roe

Landö char with herb coating, poached quail egg, green asparagus and beetroot from Gotland, served with a nettle and ramsons sauce

Sirloin of veal from Stenhammar with roasted shallot crisps, potato gratin with Allerum cheese, tomato terrine, carrots cooked with thyme in a white cabbage and tarragon gravy
 
Strawberry mousse with rhubarb centre and vanilla ice cream in white chocolate

WINE

Champagne Pommery 2000 Grand Cru

Sancerre Les Pierris 2008 Domaine Roger Champault

Pommard 1:er Cru Epenots 2002 Louis Jadot

Château Simon 2007 Sauternes

The wedding cake

The Crown Princess Couple´s wedding cake is a gift from the Swedish Association of Bakers and Confectioners.

The white four-leaf clover-shaped wedding cake is 330 cm high, and is made up of 11 tiers. A 125 cm daquise base (a soft almond meringue made from almond flour) is topped with chocolate crisp, followed by a fragilité base (a soft almond meringue made from almond paste). On top of this is a champagne mousse with a wild strawberry curd centre. This is followed by a layer of wild strawberry compote. Champagne mousse and daquise base are then layered, finishing off with champagne mousse.

The cake is decorated with 100 handmade roses and 40 lilies, made from pulled sugar caramel.

The top of the cake is decorated with a wavy gelatin sugar layer. On top of this are edible triangular spirals in transparent gold and blue, made from isomalt sugar. At the top, the diameter of the cake is 25 cm. Here, the Crown Princess Couple´s monogram is reproduced in cast caramel.
 
The sides of the cake are decorated with four-leaf clovers, symbolizing the Crown Princess Couple and their wedding.

More than 95 percent of the ingredients used to make the cake are organic. The few exceptions include the wild strawberries.
 
The cake weighs 250 kg. The stand weighs just as much again.

Artists performing during the evening

The following Swedish artists were invited to perform at the royal wedding reception:

The Romeo and Julia Chorus
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra,
Conducted by Gustaf Sjökvist
Roxette
Cotton Club
Carola

The bridal couple delighted their guests by executing a perfect waltz for their first dance as husband and wife. They were later joined on the dancefloor by the bride's parents, the King and Queen of Sweden, and the groom's parents, Olle and Ewa Westling.

SOURCE: www.royalcourt.se/royalcourt/wedding

Related articles:

• Kuwaiti wedding cakes
• Indian weddings
• Bridal bouquets and wedding flowers
• Weddings with a difference
• Royal and celebrity wedding dolls

We recommend