This paper discusses the luxury of dress and luxurious spaces from the perspective of aristocratic court society. Our modern bourgeois society often defines and morally condemns luxury as conspicuous and wasteful consumption beyond essential. But aristocratic and court society, during the feudal period regarded luxury as a crucial sign and fundamental tool of social status and political ambitions. The wedding celebrations of 1719 held at the Dresden court on the occasion of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733) marrying his son and heir, also called Frederick Augustus (1696-1763), to the archduchess Maria Josepha (1699-1757) are a fitting example of this understanding of luxury.