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To think that you're not invited to the Royal Wedding if....

128 replies

Yambabe · 10/04/2018 18:50

... you will be spending the day outside watching the ceremony on a big screen, need to take your own food and drink and are actually just spending the day standing in a special enclosure for worthy people that's marginally closer to the castle than the general public will be able to go Hmm

There's some very excited people just been on our local news waving their "invitations".

While I'm glad that they get a day out in Windsor and the chance to put on a posh frock gender-neutral clothing of choice, AIBU to think they are a bit deluded thinking they have been invited to the wedding?

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Peanutbuttercups21 · 10/04/2018 18:51

Don't rain on their parade!

It makes them happy

Uttertosh6253 · 10/04/2018 18:55

Utterly deluded

VladmirsPoutine · 10/04/2018 18:56

If they're happy then I can't see nowt wrong with it. Tbh, it'd be a lot more concerning if they were under the illusion that they had been invited in the proper context of a wedding invitation.

As a side note; the concept of evening invites is only something I have come across on MN. I really wouldn't bother with the faff of attending a wedding if I'd only be invited to the evening part of it.

Birdsgottafly · 10/04/2018 18:59

I thought that you was going to say " a blood relative of MM".

RedHelenB · 10/04/2018 19:20

CFor could have provided food and drink! Hope they didn't send a present list with the invitations!

Amanduh · 10/04/2018 19:25

Why do you care if they’re happy?

SilverySurfer · 10/04/2018 19:28

If they will derive pleasure from being there in that capacity, I don't understand why you feel the need to be so sneeery about it.

It appears my own invitation to the ceremony has been lost in the post Hmm

SaucyJack · 10/04/2018 19:31

They've got more of an invite than Theresa May TBF.

DialMforMordor · 10/04/2018 19:32

No need to be sneery, Donald. You and Melania can move your own enormous television into the garden and have a staff member angle a water sprinkler on your heads to simulate light drizzle - it'll be just as good as being there, and no danger of being vox popped by Geri Horner or someone from the One Show.

lifechangesforever · 10/04/2018 19:34

I stood in Green Park and watched William and Kate get married, it was open to public but was one of the most memorable days ever.

Also, I have had an official invite to Buckingham Palace for the Queens Jubilee - I definitely waved it around for all to see!

Let people be.

PandaPieForTea · 10/04/2018 19:36

I wonder what proportion of people sent those invitations will accept. Or was there some sort of application/pre-invitation process to avoid people declining?

I can’t think of any of my friends who would be interested in that and most of my family wouldn’t either as the generation that would have liked it are all dead in my family.

ShatnersBassoon · 10/04/2018 19:41

Are these people who've done some good work in the community/for charity who are being rewarded with a royal wedding experience type thing? Or was it a lottery for anyone to get a chance at a place? If it's the former, they have every right to be chuffed about being sent an invitation.

ferntwist · 10/04/2018 19:42

Can’t believe the Royal couple aren’t providing them with picnic hampers and drinks. It’s really cheeky. Meghan could afford it on her own.

ForalltheSaints · 10/04/2018 19:52

I'm pleased that politicians have not been invited. And I will cope with my invite having been lost in the post.

Though unlike almost all of the people who have been referred to by the OP, I have actually been in St George's Chapel for a service.

MrsPresley · 10/04/2018 19:52

As a side note; the concept of evening invites is only something I have come across on MN. I really wouldn't bother with the faff of attending a wedding if I'd only be invited to the evening part of it

Evening only invites are very common, at least in Scotland. Every wedding I've been to, including my own 30 odd years ago, have been split.

Family and close friends during the day, and other more distant family members, other friends, work colleagues, friends from clubs etc come along at night.

DairyisClosed · 10/04/2018 19:55

Well there is certainly a bit off about their faculties. I'm not sure u would go even if I was actually invited to the wedding (no offence to the happy couple but I hate weddings). But being invited to not go the wedding and just spectate at a distance is surely just insulting?

ThePinkOcelot · 10/04/2018 19:59

So they’ve been invited to stand outside and watch it on a big screen. Woopeee!! Gutted I’m not invited! Not!!

Singlikemiranda · 10/04/2018 19:59

I agree op

expatinscotland · 10/04/2018 20:01

Who gives a shit? The sooner all this monarchy bollocks is gone, the better.

Akire · 10/04/2018 20:03

Is that deal? Saw on BBc about 600 public guests. Thought meant actual bum in church, you don’t get to go in? Mmmmmmm

x2boys · 10/04/2018 20:05

Well quite expat but I agree op they are not really invited to the wedding Grin

lostherenow · 10/04/2018 20:05

I dont think everyone is delighted to be invited to watch the wedding for the sake of it. I think they are pleased to be recognised for their contribution to their particular area. So its nice to be chosen rather than the reward being fantastic.

Ive been to a reception at Buckingham Palace for volunteer work and I still have the lovely invitation. I didn't wave the invitation around on local news but it was pretty impressive just as a thing.

OliviaStabler · 10/04/2018 20:06

Let them be happy. Just because it doesn't float your boat, doesn't mean others can't be excited by it.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 10/04/2018 20:09

Ah, but have children been invited? 😄

Aragog · 10/04/2018 20:15

Yes - well, at least one child. A 12y girl who was injured in the Manchester bombing. She's decided to ask the grandmother of a child who died that might to go with her.