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Bride Wears Wedding Gown With 100m Long Train

The model prior to the parade. (Photo: That’s China/Facebook)
The model prior to the parade. (Photo: That’s China/Facebook)

Australian brides, take note: you’re doing weddings all wrong. Just look at this gown, which made its glorious, frill-filled debut this week on the streets of Shandong Province in China, for proof.

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At first glance, the dress is nothing special: it’s white, made with tulle and lace, and features crystal embellishment — your archetypal Kleinfeld’s number. But from the back, boy is this baby legendary. Made by a luxury design house, the wedding dress has a train that is 100 metres long (that’s approximately 328 feet). The masterpiece took three months to complete using 21 skilled craftspeople, and cost more than 300,000 yuan (approx AU $60,000).

The wedding dress train being carried by little kids. (Photo: That’s China/Facebook)
The wedding dress train being carried by little kids. (Photo: That’s China/Facebook)

To give the dress a grand entrance into the world, a young model paraded through a city center with the train trailing behind her, helped along by scores of little kids. Crowds gathered to take in the grand display. All that was missing was a groom wearing a tuxedo with equally long tails.

While the market for something as showy as a gown that requires an army of individuals just to move might seem negligible, it’s alive and well in China. This dress doesn’t even break the world record for longest train: that goes to Jing Mei — who, for a prenuptials photoshoot, had a dress with a 3,000m long train. She had 40 bridesmaids and security guards helped her lay it out in a field for one epic image (below).

The world record holder. (Photo: CEN)
The world record holder. (Photo: CEN)

Additionally, actress Angelababy, who prefers brand-name designers from France, wore a Dior custom couture gown for her wedding extravaganza that required nearly 115 feet of satin organza; 170 feet of tulle, crafted into seven skirt layers, and a 10-foot-long train. But that’s not all: Vera Wang’s $1.5 million peacock wedding dress was bought by a Chinese bride, and a gown encrusted with 9,999 karats of gems costs approximately AU $45,000 and was on sale in Eastern China.

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The actual cost of this dress has yet to be revealed, but based on the demanding market, someone will surely wear it down the aisle — and hopefully soon.