The bride, whose "grandmama" was a lady-inwaiting to Queen Elizabeth II and a bridesmaid at the then Princess Elizabeth's 1947 wedding to Prince Philip, looked suitably regal as she glided gracefully and unaccompanied - up the aisle in her exquisite white gown, her tiara shimmering in the sunlight, to meet her handsome beau, Bret Kapetanov.
As she passed their beaming guests, who were seated in pews festooned with natural green foliage kindly given by friends and neighbours, she radiated happiness. She carried a bouquet of hydrangeas and white and pink anemones as she followed her bridesmaids, flower girls and pageboys, who included her two-month-old baby boy Michael, as well as her children Daphne, seven, Phebe, five, and three-year-old Moses from her previous marriage.
Then came the moment when two very different worlds joined in unison. A young British aristocrat, a great-granddaughter of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, pledged everlasting love to a Canadian millwright and welder. And it took place in St Mary the Virgin, the very church where former Ralph Lauren model Maddison was christened.
"I felt really nervous and excited," says the 30-year-old newlywed, who is a third cousin of Princes William and Harry.
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