The bride, Countess Floria von Faber-Castell arrived at church just before noon with her father Count Hubertus von Faber-Castell and the brideschildren, among them Tatiana and Polissena Galdo (daughters of Princess Mafalda von Hessen), Cosmo Brachetti-Peretti (eldest son of Princess Mafalda von Hessen) and Madeleine Caiazzo (daughter of Princess Elena von Hessen) and Freiherr Alexander von der Leyen. The bride wore a simple dress from champagne-coloured silk, created by designer Sibilla Pavenstedt from Hamburg. Eye-catching was the splendid 200-year-old 3-metres-long brocade train from the Hessen family, while also the beautiful diademe the bride wore came out of the family possession of the Hessen family. The bridal bouquet existed of peonies and forget-me-nots, the bride's favourite flowers.
It seems little Cosmo didn't really enjoy being a page, as he started crying at arrival at church and during the wedding his nanny took him outside. Also other guests went outside with their little children during the service. Verena and I had a short drink with a photographer and a journalist from Bunte (a German magazine) and on our way we met a guests with an adoring little girl we had already seen entering church before, while the little girl - Romy Victoria - showed us that she already could walk very well, although it was still too difficult for her to walk up the stairs so her father carried her inside.