
West London, UK-based Entec Sound & Light was approached by Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) to supply lighting design and equipment for a very special one off collection of royal wedding dresses dating back to 1816, including that of Queen Victoria, Princess Margaret and Princess Charlotte, which was put on display in the drawing rooms of the late Princess Margaret's apartments in Kensington Palace.
Too fragile for public exhibition, the display of dresses was open to the world's leading media in order to allow a wider audience to experience them. Ahead of the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey, the dresses received global coverage, filmed by BBC, ITN, Channel 4, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN as well as Australian, Canadian, French, German and Japanese broadcasters.
The extremely delicate and intricate task of lighting the six wedding gowns fell to Richard Lambert, who chose fixtures from ETC's Selador white light Lustr range, which he described as "perfect" for the project.