Already earlier in the winter, Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling approved the photo and design of the stamp that will be issued in time for their wedding in June this year. On Thursday (18 February) they visited the Swedish Post’s offices in Kista outside Stockholm to see the outcome of engraver Lars Sjööblom’s work and the printing process which is now under way. The result? We normal people have to wait to see it until 13 May when the stamp is officially presented.
Denomination will be 6 SEK, meaning domestic, but with two stamps one can send mail with the future Crown Princess Couple wherever in the world one may want too. No photographers were allowed to cover the couple’s inspection visit so there are not many photos apart from the Post’s own one, but click here and you can see a few taken outside the building in connection with their visit.
From left: Henrik Lundin, Posten stamp printing, Lars G Nordström, CEO Posten Norden, Crown Princess Victoria, Mr Daniel Westling and Britt-Inger Hahne, head of stamps at Posten. Photo: Jörgen Hildebrandt/Posten.
PHOTO: Jan-Olav Wedin/Stockholm Concert Hall
There will be no golden glittering gala performance at the Royal Opera on the evening before Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling’s wedding in June. Instead, the Parliament has ordered a festive concert to be held in the Concert Hall at the Hötorget square in the centre of Stockholm on the evening of 18 June.
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It’s one of Stockholm’s most popular tourist attractions, the scene of many grand royal ceremonies through history, and in June it will be the centre of media attention when Crown Princess Victoria walks down the aisle with her man of the people Daniel Westling to give their wedding vows in front of the whole world.
But the Stockholm Cathedral has for many years been anything but the clean and shining masterpiece that people might expect when walking in through the doors to it in the Old Town just a stone’s throw from the Royal Palace. Instead it’s quite time-stained and dirty, with the last big clean up having taken place as far back as in the 1950’s, and the small parish not having the resources to do anything – until now that is. When it stood clear that the Crown Princess had booked it as her wedding church the parish leaders understood that something had to be done in order for it to be able to host a royal wedding and all the expected photographers, and with the royal booking it suddenly became easier to receive money grants to pay for it as well. (more…)
The great interest surrounding a royal wedding usually leads to a large production of various souvenirs for people to buy and remember the event with. It tends to be plates, mugs, egg cups, key chains, postcards, sweets, cans and any other odds and ends. When King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia were married there were lots of different kinds of souvenirs. The most famous was perhaps the white porcelain series with their classic black silhouettes on which could also be purchased via mail-order from fill-in forms in journal magazines, and which probably today leads a sleepy and dusty existence in many storages and attics around the country… (more…)
News and speculations about the upcoming royal wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling, scheduled to be held on 19 June in the Stockholm Cathedral, is constantly flowing in the media, blogs and among coffee break chit chats these days. The Royal Court has also released their fair share of official news around the wedding; one of those press statements came only recently and included the information that there will be four so-called lysnings-receptions for the bridal couple.
- Sunday 30 May at 11 AM – lysning in the Royal Chapel followed by a reception
- Tuesday 1 June 10 AM to noon – reception at the Royal Palace
- Tuesday 1 June 2 PM to 4 PM – reception at the Royal Palace
- Thursday 3 June 10 AM to noon – reception at the Royal Palace
Lysning is an old Swedish tradition that used to be mandatory by law in the old days before state authorities carried the public records and responsibilities of today (issuing marriage certificates for example) and the church was the institution that held the responsibility for everything from the wedding ceremonies to keeping records with information about important family facts like marriages, deaths, christenings and so on. (more…)
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Today was a second day of wedding news in Sweden. Yesterday the Royal Court announced that it has given state funded public service broadcasting corporation Sveriges Television (SVT) the full broadcasting rights to the wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling in June 2010. Today they released a second portion of news around the wedding, the new joint monogram of the future Crown Princess Couple (as they are referred too) was presented in a very brief press release.
The couple’s new monogram, created by The National Archives’ heraldic artist Vladimir A. Sagerlund, consists of a mirror monogram with their initials – a V interlaced with two slightly leaning D’s (one of them laterally reversed) – placed under the open crown prince(ss)’s crown (which also includes the vase that comes from the House of Vasa’s coat of arms). If one reads the backside of the two D’s a W takes form, the initial of Daniel’s last name Westling. (more…)
Archbishop Anders Wejryd
Born 8 August 1948. Educated at Uppsala University. Ordained in 1972. Bishop of The Diocese of Växjö 1995-2006. Archbishop since 29 August 2006. Married to Kajsa, has three grown up children. The Archbishop is the traditional conductor of royal wedding ceremonies and he will probably be the one who officiates the actual marriage wows if they follow tradition. (more…)
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