On this day 16 years ago, on June 19, 2010, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden married Daniel Westling in the cathedral in Stockholm - on the same date her parents had wed exactly 34 years earlier. The wedding was anything but ordinary: the groom was a commoner and a personal trainer, without a drop of royal lineage, and precisely for that reason the marriage at first met resistance from King Carl XVI Gustaf in accepting it.

The numbers speak to the scale: around two million euros in cost and 1,200 guests. The wedding gown was the work of Swedish designer Pär Engsheden - pearl white, of silk, with a clean minimalist cut, a boat-style neckline and a train nearly five meters long. Victoria also wore a lace veil over a hundred years old, the same one worn by her mother and grandmother - a detail that says that in royal families a wedding isn't a one-day event, but a bond between generations.

The most tender detail was almost invisible: a sprig of myrtle was woven into her hairdo. It is a Swedish royal tradition dating to 1905 - since then, every bride from the Swedish court carries a sprig of this shrub in her bouquet. The bouquet itself was cascading, with lilies of the valley, roses, orchids and peonies.

The crown of it all was the cameo tiara - with onyx and agate, made by Marie-Étienne Nitot, the founder of Chaumet, and believed to have been ordered by Napoleon as a gift for his first wife Joséphine. The central cameo depicts the mythical love of Cupid and Psyche - an impossible love that in the end succeeded. It is hard to imagine a more fitting symbol for a bride who married against all protocol. Sixteen years later, Victoria and Daniel are still together, with two children. Sometimes the rebellion against the rules is exactly what lasts longest.