Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten dress, Elizabeth still required ration coupons to buy the material for her gown, designed by Norman Hartnell. The dress was a "a duchesse satin bridal gown with motifs of star lilies and orange blossoms." Elizabeth's wedding shoes were made out of satin and were trimmed with silver and seed pearl. Elizabeth did her own makeup for the wedding. Her wedding bouquet was prepared by the florist M. H. Longman, and consisted of "white orchids with a sprig of myrtle". The myrtle was taken from "the bush grown from the original myrtle in Queen Victoria's wedding bouquet". The bouquet was returned
Queen Elizabeth II Court, Regina Queen Elizabeth II Court, Regina Queen Elizabeth II Court is the city block containing Regina City Hall, a 16-storey office tower in downtown Regina, Saskatchewan. The city hall is built in the International Style. Opened in 1976, "[t]he construction manager was Poole Construction Limited and the architect, Joseph Pettick. It cost $10.1 million." It replaced two previous city halls—built in 1885-86 and 1908—and a temporary one in the old post office on 11th Avenue at Cornwall Street. By the time the cornerstone was laid in 1906 for the second, the "gingerbread city hall," "[t]he wooden building which had served as