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Princess Diana's Wedding Dress Heads To Kansas City In March

The Princess Diana exhibition is moving through the Midwest. The exhibit is currently at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan and heads next to Kansas City, Missouri where it opens March 4 in the city's Union Station. The exhibition runs through June 12 meaning that it will be in place during the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in April. MLive.com reports that more than 50,000 tickets have been sold in Grand Rapids to see the exhibition of 150 items related to the life of Princess Diana that includes the famous wedding dress.

Kansas City's Union Station is a historic railroad station that was renovated into a non-profit center. Built in 1914, it was a working train station for years but was closed in the 1980s. It was neglected for years until its renovation in the late 1990s. Now it is a community center filled with shops and restaurants as well as its own Amtrak stop.It houses the permanent collections and archives for Union Station Kansas City, Inc./Kansas City Museum. Tickets for the Diana exhibit are $23.50 and special events for the celebration will include mother/daughter teas and ladies night Fridays.

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David Tutera Unveils $500,000 Wedding Gown

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The grand finale at the "David Tutera by Faviana" wedding dress collection runway show on September 22, 2009 at Gotham Hall in New York City was a real showstopper. The dress, shown above, is a one-of-a-kind platinum wedding gown. The gown includes a platinum-colored tulle veil and bouquet to match. It is drenched in jewelry drama with 10 feet of platinum chain, 33 carats of diamonds, 145.84 carats of aquamarine, white keshi pearls and topped with a stunning white south sea pearl pendant suspended from platinum. The dress was a collaboration between Tutera, a wedding planner and host of WEtv's "My Fair Wedding" and red-carpet jewelry designer, Erica Courtney. It is valued at $501,640 and is available for purchase at Michael C. Fina at 545 Fifth Ave New York, NY.

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The Expensive Wedding Dress We'll Never See

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Fashion designer Vera Wang is famous for her extravagant wedding dresses but the most expensive dress she ever made is one we never got to see. In an interview on CNBC's "Conversations with Michael Eisner" that will air Monday, Vera Wang said the that the dress she created for Jennifer Lopez's canceled wedding to Ben Affleck was the most expensive she ever made. The dress was made of couture fabric and had 18 tiers. Wang says that it was the most expensive and the most time consuming to sew. I wonder what ever happened to the dress, was it destroyed or is it somewhere in Vera Wang's archives?

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A Wedding Dress with 4 Pounds of Jewels

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Wedding dresses come in all shapes and sizes from sleek and stylish to large and marshmallow-like, and from hand-embroidered to mass-produced. And although jewels aren't that uncommon in small doses, what about 4 pounds of jewels? A designer in Hong Kong has created a wedding dress with 9,999 karats of jewels (that's a very deliberate number!) and it's on sale for over $130,000.

It's beautiful but I personally wouldn't want a wedding dress with so many different colors, and I think for that price it might be more worth it to just get something custom-made -- I think I'd still be able to afford plenty of jewels.

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Who Steals a Wedding Gown?

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Given the size and delicacy of most wedding gowns, even the high price tags aren't usually enough to make them targets for thieves. It seems like it would be hard to smuggle one out of the store. But if you just go for the gown closest to the door, you might get lucky. A rare designer gown was stolen from an Alderley Edge bridal shop in the U.K. when they left the door open on a warm day.

The cream-colored tulle gown was made by Italian design house Toi Creazioni and embellished with gold lace, roses and ribbons and flares into a fishtail skirt. It is valued at £2,665 (about $5,000), but because the dress is so distinctive -- only one other shop in the country stocks it - and so very few like it are sold, the shop hopes to recover it. The shop owner said "it seems a very peculiar way to start married life in a stolen dress."

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Renee Reinvents Wedding Dress

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Most wedding dresses, in all their white, frilly glory, are worn one time, no matter how much they cost to begin with. They are then resold or relegated to the back of a closet. Renee Zellweger didn’t want her dress to meet the same fate and now that her marriage to country star Kenny Chesney is over, she has reinvented it as a party dress. Renee dyed the Carolina Herrera dress sapphire blue and had it shortened to just above the knee. Given that most celebrities are content to wear a dress only once, it must be a testament either to the designer or to Renee's lack of sentimentality.

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Landry wears Lhuillier at Wedding

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While the waists for summer sundresses are coming up to the bust line, the waists of wedding dresses are dropping. Ali Landry, at her wedding to Alejandro Monteverde in Mexico on Saturday, wore a strapless Monique Lhuillier gown with a low, drop-waist. The ivory gown had a full skirt with hand-sewn layers of organza, tulle and chiffon, similar to this one from the Spring 2006 runway collection. Drop-waisted dresses are not for everyone, as their curve-skimming lines are not flattering on every figure. They are perfect for curvy silhouettes and the slim, curvaceous Landry would have looked stunning in one. Wedding gowns by Lhuillier retail for upwards of $3,500, but the runway and custom models can go for much more.

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