Queen Victoria's Journal entry recorded that…'The Chapel looked very nice, decorated with beautiful flowers, & some sacred pictures on the walls, which Louise & Beatrice had arranged. The music was good. The Arch Bishop of Canterbury performed the service, & when it was over, the young Couple left the Chapel first, followed by us all. Louise's Bridesmaids were, her 2 sisters [Princesses Victoria and Maude], 2 first cousins, Lenchen's girls, her 2^nd cousin May Teck, and the 3 Gleichen girls, all dressed entirely in pink. Louise was very pale & seemed very nervous.' The painting depicts the couple kneeling at the altar; behind them, from right to left: The Prince of Wales; 6^th Duke of Hesse; Queen Victoria; Alexandra, Princess of Wales; then her brothers, George I, King of the Hellenes and the Crown Prince of Denmark, later Frederick VIII.

Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, married Alexander Duff, 1^st Earl of Fife, on 27 July 1889. He was eighteen years her senior but her third cousin in descent from George III.

The painting is recorded as hanging in the Queen and the Duke's Corridor, Buckingham Palace in 1909, together with a smaller oil sketch of the same subject.

Exhibited at The Victorian Exhibition 1837-87, The New Gallery, 1891-2 (154).