It’s official: Romania is home to the world’s longest bridal train — a creation that is astonishing to behold.
Well, actually, to clarify: It’s almost impossible to see the wedding-dress train in its entirety because of its colossal size. To show it off during a Guinness World Record attempt in Bucharest on Tuesday, 17-year-old model Emma Dumitrescu took flight in a hot-air balloon and allowed the 1.85-mile ivory train to flow down in dramatic fashion. The train trailed down a boulevard that leads up to a palace constructed by the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
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The stats of this wedding-day wonder are impressive: It took 15,420 feet of taffeta, 18.04 feet of Chantilly lace, 147.64 feet of lining, 1,857 sewing needles and 150 spool threads to create the dress and train. Ten workers toiled for 100 days to complete the project.
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The record-breaking train beat out the previous bridal-train record of 1.55 miles, which was held by the Dutch.
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