- "You should use it as your veil. A few years ago, the style was to incorporate the fabric into the train or the sash, but I think a veil will be more of a statement piece for you."
- ―Yané advises Padmé Amidala on what she should do with her wedding fabric
The veil of Padmé Amidala's wedding dress was made of her inherited wedding fabric.
Wedding fabrics were pieces of cloth passed down through Naboo families for use in wedding clothes. Former Naboo Royal Handmaidens Saché and Yané wore outfits incorporating both of their fabrics at their wedding. Their former employer, Senator Padmé Amidala, used her wedding fabric for the veil of her wedding dress on advice from Yané.
Description[]
Wedding fabrics were handed down in Naboo families for use in wedding clothes. Members of such families could use their pieces in their outfits however they wanted. The fabric was usually used in only a portion of the outfit.[1]
History[]
Amidala wears the veil made of her inherited wedding fabric.
Around 24 BBY,[2] when Saché and Yané, former handmaidens to queen-turned-senator Padmé Amidala, prepared for their wedding, it was in style for wedding fabric to be used in sashes and trains. Following that fashion, Yané incorporated the fabrics the couple had inherited into the sashes and trains of both outfits. While Yané's outfit had a skirt, Saché's had wide-legged trousers; the outfits were otherwise nearly identical.[1]
The fabric of Amidala's family, the Naberries, had belonged to them for generations[1] by 22 BBY.[2] Sola Naberrie, Amidala's sister, chose not to marry and used her share as clothing for her daughters, showing Sola welcomed new additions to the family. When Amidala prepared to wed Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker, she asked Yané for advice on how to use her piece, who advised her to make it into the veil of her wedding dress. Amidala sewed pleating into the veil,[1] which was embroidered with flowers and had wax drop stamens.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
The concept of wedding fabric was created for the[1] 2022[4] novel Queen's Hope by E. K. Johnston,[1] the final installment of a trilogy about Padmé Amidala.[5] The veil of Amidala's wedding dress, which the novel established to be made of wedding fabric,[1] first appeared in the 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones[6] as part of an outfit created by Trisha Biggar.[7] It was made Edwardian-style[8] out of Maltese lace sprinkled with small pearls and a headdress made of Edwardian wax flowers.[7]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy – A Graphic Novel
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (First appearance)
- Attack of the Clones Read-Along Storybook and CD
- Queen's Hope (First identified as wedding fabric, simultaneous with audiobook)
- Queen's Hope audiobook
- Darth Vader (2017) 25 (Vision to Darth Vader)
- Leia Organa: Ordeal of the Princess (In flashback(s))
- "Stories in the Sand" — From a Certain Point of View (Appears in hologram)
- "Stories in the Sand" — From a Certain Point of View audiobook (Appears in hologram)
- Darth Vader (2020) 2 (In flashback(s))
- Darth Vader (2020) 28 (In flashback(s))
- Force Collector (Vision to Karr Nuq Sin)
- Force Collector audiobook (Vision to Karr Nuq Sin)
Sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Queen's Hope
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Queen's Hope is set ten years after the Invasion of Naboo, which is dated to 32 BBY by Star Wars: Galactic Atlas. Therefore, the novel must be set in 22 BBY. Saché and Yané are stated to have gotten married almost two years earlier, setting their wedding around 24 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
- ↑
Queen's Hope on Disney.com (backup link)
- ↑
In the New Book Queen's Hope, Padmé Grapples with the Clone Wars – Exclusive Reveal on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars
- ↑ Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones