34-year-old Slovenian model Melania Knauss and 58-year-old billionaire Donald Trump got married at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Florida on Saturday night. After a 30-minute wedding ceremony, the couple left for Trump’s newly unveiled Versailles-inspired $42 million ballroom, featuring 24-karat-gold moldings and 11,000 square feet of marble flooring, at his Mar-a-Lago estate and club.
The reception dinner featured Cristal champagne, hors d’oeuvres prepared by the chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, whose restaurant is in the Trump International Hotel in New York, beef tenderloin and individual Grand Marnier chocolate truffle cakes that resembled the seven-tier 5ft high wedding cake, covered with Grand Marnier butter cream and three thousand roses made from white icing.
The boxing promoter Don King characterized the event as “a great American occasion”.
“It’s a royal wedding,” Mr. King told The New York Times. “It’s something out of the monarchy. It’s something like, you know, King Henry or King Edward - they’ve got so many kings it really doesn’t matter - would have.”
All Trump’s four children from previous marriages attended Saturday night’s wedding. His 23-year-old daughter Ivanka, who has risen to the status of international model from the age of 16, dressed in a slim tangerine dress, did a reading.
Stunning Melania looked like a princess in her shoulderless off-white and gold satin gown, created by head Dior designer, Italian fashion king John Galliano, that took more than 1,000 hours to make and weighed nearly 60 pounds. She supplemented the look with Manolo Blahnik shoes featuring diamond anklets, stunning jewels on loan from Fred Leighton and her 15-carat diamond engagement ring from Graff - valued at $1.5 million.
After dinner and her first dance as the new Mrs. Donald Trump, Melania planned to quickly change into something more suitable for carrying on her wedding party by the pool and picked a flowing white silk dress with elegant straps from her friend, Vera Wang.
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