So, Who's Going To The Donald's Wedding On Saturday?

[GaryMrMets]

Nanner, Cyn, Robin, Will any of you be in attendance :confused: How about you James, you live in FLA wil you be there :confused:

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Donald Trump has good news for Wife No. 3 - 33-year-old Slovenian fashion model Melania Knauss.

After they tie the knot Saturday at a solemn, celeb-studded ceremony in Palm Beach, the 58-year-old billionaire has no plans to cheat on her.

"I'm gonna show up, I'm gonna say 'I do,' and I'm gonna be a very good husband for a change," Trump tells Billy Bush on tonight's "Access Hollywood."

When Bush presses Trump for specifics, the "Apprentice" star vows that he's going to "come home more" and quips:

"While I'm married, you mean like no dating, things like that? ... That never goes over big with your wife. I'll be a very good husband."

Marla Maples, Wife No. 2, who in 1990 famously identified herself on an Aspen ski slope to first wife Ivana as Trump's mistress, laughed when told of her ex's good intentions.

"There was never any other woman involved when Donald and I were married," Maples, Trump's wife from 1993 to 1997, told me during an L.A. Confidential party at the Ivar nightclub in Hollywood.

"All I can say is that Donald and I have a great daughter, and I wish him and Melania the very best. I really like her, and my daughter likes her, too, and that really counts with me."

Ivana Trump was also taking the high road - never mind that Trump's affair with Maples led to their divorce in the early 1990s.

"Ivana has never ever commented on Marla Maples," her PR rep Catherine Saxton told me yesterday. "At this point in her life, she just wishes Donald and Melania the very best, and she really likes Melania."

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Donald Trump says he'll be 'a very good husband for a change' to Melania Knauss (l.)
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Picture-perfect Mrs. Trump III

Blushing bride is sparing no expense

BY CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

At $100,000, the wedding dress for the future Mrs. Donald Trump takes the cake.

Slovenian supermodel Melania Knauss has picked a hand-embroidered frock from Christian Dior that carries a price tag that is pure Trump.

With its 13-foot train and even longer veil, Knauss' dress is so heavy, she was advised to eat hearty so she has the strength to make it down the aisle Saturday, Vogue magazine reports in its upcoming edition. Otherwise, warned fashion maven Andre Leon Talley, "You will faint."

But Knauss' dazzling dress is just one of the highlights of what is likely to be the splashiest - and most expensive - society wedding of the year.

Like many nuptials, the Trumps' features something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

In this case, what's old is the rosary Knauss will carry down the aisle instead of a bouquet. What's new is that Trump, a notorious control freak, sat back and let Knauss plan her own wedding. He raised no objections when she passed on a proposal by NBC - home of Trump's "The Apprentice" - to broadcast the ceremony live, Vogue reports.

What's borrowed is a Fred Leighton necklace so expensive it comes with guards. What's blue is the La Perla "underpinnings" that Knauss intends to wow Trump with on their wedding night.

Trump's getup for the Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church ceremony in Palm Beach, Fla., will include a white tie and matching cummerbund (by his suit-maker, Brioni).

Knauss' sister, Ines, will be her maid of honor - with no other bridesmaids.

Celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is picking up the tab for the wedding feast and personally cooking filet mignon with green peppercorn sauce for the 350-500 invited guests. The cake is a 5-foot-high Grand Marnier chiffon layered with buttercream and covered with 3,000 roses made from white icing.

New York wedding wizard Preston Bailey won what Vogue called a "'Survivor'-style competition" to provide the flowers for the ballroom reception at Trump's sprawling Mar-a-Lago estate.

With Chrisena Coleman and Amy DiLuna

How to look like 100,000 bucks!

It took 28 seamstresses to make, with more than 1,000 hours spent working on the intricate stitching.

Almost 300 feet of material was used, hand-beaded with more than 1,500 crystal rhinestones.

One hundred thousand dollars buys a lot of things.

For Melania Knauss, that almost covered the cost of her spectacular white duchesse satin wedding gown designed by John Galliano for Christian Dior - one of two dresses she will wear when she becomes the third Mrs. Donald Trump on Saturday.

The real news about the Dior dress (right), according to Vogue magazine, who accompanied the billionaire's bride as she hunted for the perfect piece in Paris, is that she bought - not borrowed - her wedding gown.

And that's not the only new frock she'll be wowing the Mar-a-Lago crowd in this weekend.

While most women dream of saying "I do" in a Vera Wang original, a Trump bride does things differently: Wang whipped up something just for Knauss, but she will change into it only after the first dance with her new hubby.

That tulle gown is a featherweight compared with Galliano's, which is so voluminous that Knauss has to sit on a bench, not in a chair, during dinner.

Insiders say prices for a custom creation by a Parisian couturier start at $100,000 and shoot upward.

Other high-profile brides also have worn eye-poppingly expensive dresses.

Catherine Zeta Jones' Christian Lacroix original cost $136,600; Victoria (Posh Spice) Adams became Mrs. David Beckham in a $100,000 Vera Wang confection; Trista Rehn gave up her "Bachelorette" status in a $70,000 Badgley Mischka gown, and Carolyn Bessette became the most-envied woman on the planet in a $40,000 dress designed by her friend Narciso Rodriguez.

Amy DiLuna

Originally published on January 18, 2005

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[GaryMrMets]

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Melania Goes For Sexy Aisle Style
By BILL HOFFMANN

January 18, 2005 -- Here comes the bride — it's sexy Melania Knauss in the sumptuous Dior gown she'll wear this weekend as she becomes Mrs. Donald Trump No. 3.

The Slovenian bombshell has broken the longstanding bridal tradition of keeping her wedding outfit secret until she walks up the aisle, by appearing on the cover of Vogue's February issue.

"This is a dress you could only wear for a wedding. It's like, 'Wow!' " Melania tells the mag.

Vogue says Melania wanted her gown to be a "vision of white and gold and jewelry," as well as "close-fitting and glamorous, with a revealing décolleté."

And her flashy getup certainly fits the bill, as this photograph by Mario Testino shows.

The eye-popping gown is from the fabled fashion house of Christian Dior, now headed by designer John Galliano.

Made from 98 yards of white satin, the gown was embroidered by hand — a task that took some 550 hours of labor by seamstresses.

The bride will also wear a specially tightened girdle underneath so that her figure will not be lost in the mountainous layers of skirt.

"It needs to be . . . really tight, so you see my body, you see my behind," Melania says.

To complete the "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" tradition, she'll carry an old rosary, put on a borrowed Fred Leighton necklace, and wear blue underwear from La Perla.

And the bouquet? Not for this bride.

"Why carry a bouquet? Just to follow a tradition?" she says.

Whether her big splash in Vogue is a wise move is debatable.

It's considered bad luck for the bride to show herself off before the ceremony, which, in this case, is Saturday at the Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church in Palm Beach.

"There's a great superstition about it. Many brides will go great distances to make sure they are not seen before the wedding," said Carley Roney, editor-in-chief of TheKnot.com, a bridal-planning Web site. A jinx is something Melania certainly doesn't need — especially following in the Trump-bride footsteps of Ivana and Marla.

A spokeswoman for Melania refused to comment.

There's one other issue — Melania's ability to move in her skintight gown.

"The problem is, how do I walk around in this?" she recently asked her wedding advisor, Vogue editor-at-large Andre Leon Talley, during one important fitting.

"You just do," Talley replied matter-of-factly. "You wanted a dress for a princess."

Just what Melania's gown is worth — and whether The Donald paid anything for it or made one of his famous barter deals — is anybody's guess, because everyone's lips are sealed.

But several wedding experts priced it from $100,000 to $200,000.

Speaking of Donald, he'll be decked out in a black tux, with white tie and cummerbund, all from Brioni.

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DONALD TRUMP

[Panzram]

Your hairpiece is fired.

[Yankee 21]

I was invited but had to decline due to other obligations :lmao:

[rockin500]

hey, at least the donald has pretty good taste in his babes.

[Rockin Robin]

My invitation was inadvertently sent to my old address. Since I haven't lived there in over six years, the post office did not have a forwarding address for me. Oh well.



do I see a nipple in that first picture?? :eek:

[Chisox73]

My flight got cancelled. :( Sorry Donald.

[BPBlueSox]

do I see a nipple in that first picture?? :eek:

I was wondering the same thing. Didn't want to sound like a perv, though. :)

[Panzram]

I was invited but had to pass because I'm going to the Playboy mansion.