Wedding dress of Sarah Ferguson Wedding dress of Sarah Ferguson Sarah Ferguson wore a dress made from ivory duchesse satin and featuring heavy beading for her wedding to Prince Andrew, Duke of York on 23 July 1986 at Westminster Abbey. Designed by Lindka Cierach, the beadwork incorporated various symbols including hearts representing romance, anchors and waves representing Prince Andrew's sailing background and bumblebees and thistles, which were taken from Sarah Ferguson's family heraldry. Copies of the dress, including the motifs specific to the royal family, went on sale in stores just hours after the end of the wedding. Influenced by the wedding dress of Lady
Cathy Ferguson set a world record over 200m the previous month, she thus became the record holder at both backstroke distances. She also set two world records in the medley relay the second of these coming at the Tokyo Olympics where she was a member of the winning U.S. team. Ferguson was a student at Burbank High School in Burbank, California, when she became an Olympic champion. Ferguson was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1978. Cathy Ferguson Cathy Jane Ferguson (born July 22, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former