Bhride dazzles on the day
NZPA-PA London The bride looked like a million dollars and needed a guard, for the gems lent to her for the day by the royal jeweller, Cartier, were valued at £250,000 ($763,000). Adele Needham, who walked up the aisle at the week-end wearing a “Romantica” set of earrings, necklace and bracelet, said afterwards, “Every girl dreams of wearing priceless diamonds at least once in her life. To have them for my wedding-day was unbelievable."
Adele, aged 25, who married Gary Curl at a church in Devon, got her fairy-tale wedding by chance.
Cartiers, which makes jewellery for most of the crowned heads of the world, was holding a golf tournament and convention at a Dartmoor hotel.
By chance Adele and Gary had booked the hotel for their reception the same day. “We had about £2% million worth of diamonds on display,” said the sales director, Roy Clarke.
“Someone at the hotel suggested it would be nice to let the bride wear some of them when she arrived. We went one better and told Adele she could wear them for the wedding and the reception and drove them to her home under guard.
“The hardest part was not being able to tell all my friends about it beforehand, for security reasons,” Adele said.
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