Woman's Day winning bride: I wore Kate Middleton's dress!

Kate’s beautiful gown, two stunning “Pippa” bridesmaids…Bec Wade-Ferrell’s wedding was a right royal affair, thanks to Woman’s Day.

The setting wasn’t exactly Westminster Abbey, and the groomsmen looked more like the Blues Brothers than dashing princes, but Bec Wade-Ferrell’s marriage to the love of her life, Dan Jackson, was a day no-one will ever forget. For a start, the couple were wed on Remembrance Day, with the magical date of 11/11/11.

“I was determined Dan would never forget our anniversary,” Bec told Woman’s Day on the morning of her very special day.And Bec and her attendants looked lovely in replicas of Kate and Pippa’s gorgeous gowns. Bec, 32, and Dan, 34, were the lucky winners of Woman’s Day’s Win Your Own Royal Wedding competition. Bec’s little boy, Henry, inspired her winning entry. When Woman’s Day asked, “How did you celebrate the royal wedding?” Bec replied: “With my son, four-year-old Henry. He said, ‘She’s beautiful, Mummy, but you will be more beautiful at your wedding and you have me to walk you.’”

The weepy judges were unanimous: Bec’s entry was the winner! And she would be a fairytale princess bride. Bec marvelled at her satin and French Chantilly lace wedding gown, a replica of Kate’s. Valued at $10,000, it took leading dressmaker Karen Willis Holmes and her team 130 hours to create. “It’s so heavy, it needs three coathangers,” Bec says. “It weighs more than 20 kilos. It’s a good thing I’m reasonably fit!”

Bec’s bridesmaids, Elissa Wright and Jenni Howells, wore exact replicas of Pippa Middleton’s much-talked-about maid of honour dress. Their rear views were pure Pippa! Melbourne’s Jason Grech designed the stunning gowns. “Sexy, elegant, hot,” is how Harry Georgiou, one half of the design team, summed up the head-turning outfits.