On 23 September, the Saxon royal family celebrated the wedding of the daughter of Prince Alexander of Saxony and Princess Gisela Dukes of Saxony, Princess Maria Teresita, to Count Beryl Alexandre de Saporta in the Hofkirche in Dresden.

The young bride and her father were chauffeured across the Augustus Bridge to the Catholic Cathedral in a beautiful 1951 Rolls Royce Silver Wrap by Mr Stephan Seeger, owner of the classic car. There, a large and enthusiastic crowd awaited the RR with the bride’s family. Maria Teresita Caroline Lucardis was escorted up the stairs by her father Prince Alexander and led into the nave. At the entrance, former Bishop Reinelt was waiting with Father Paulo Habsburg LC (Legionary of Christ), uncle of the bride, and a large crowd of altar servers and crowned children to walk together in front of the main altar of the church.

The Holy Mass was performed by the Kapellknabenchor choir accompanied by members of the Staatskapelle Dresden under the direction of director Christian Bonath. The small organ mass by Joseph Haydn was performed. Soprano Laura Kirchgässner sang the Ave Maria by Bach/Gounod as a soloist. Cathedral organist Sebastian Freitag played the organ.

The Holy Mass was celebrated in German, French, English and Latin. The wedding ceremony was conducted in French by the bride’s uncle, Father Paulo Habsburg LC.

After the church ceremony, the wedding party went to the “Italian village” opposite, where a reception for the guests was organised by the Wettin family.

In the evening, the gala dinner took place in the Kurländer Palais at Kastenmeier.