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Original poster

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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Fairyliz · 10/04/2018 20:20

Ok so no food provided, but will there be toilets?
I couldn't stand there for hours without a toilet break

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 10/04/2018 20:21

(Ah we meet again Aragog, fellow fish cake lover) Sorry, that was an attempt at facetiousness, digging at the endless children at weddings threads.I hope she has a lovely day.

Aragog · 10/04/2018 20:43

Yes, I did figure it was a tease re the MN wedding v kids threads :D

Whiterabbitears · 10/04/2018 21:27

I assumed the people who had been invited would actually go in the church like guests, as you normally would? If they are watching outside on a screen how is that different to the rest of joe public? I'm not being a misery, I'm just wondering?

IAmMatty · 10/04/2018 21:35

I'm dreading the next few months.

A new baby. A wedding. Maybe the queen or Phil will kick the bucket.

We'll never hear the bloody end of any of it.

Whiterabbitears · 10/04/2018 21:36

Agree we will be sick of the totals in a few months.

Original poster
Yambabe · 10/04/2018 21:43

It seems to be for people who have done something to deserve it rather than a lottery I think.

Sorry if I seemed sneery, didn't mean offence to the people who have received these "invites" but it just doesn't seem like much of a "reward" to me to stand in a fenced-off enclosure outside the chapel for who-knows-how-long.

As a PP said they could at least have given them a buffet or a bar or something but apparently not. No idea about toilets, gosh that could be grim! I assume there will be some, probably those plastic cubicles?

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squoosh · 10/04/2018 21:45

They won't even get a sauasge roll and a glass of cordial? Shock

Poor show Hazza and Meggers.

DullAndOld · 10/04/2018 21:50

Hazzer and Meggzz have really fucked up if they are think they are just going to herd some commoners into an enclosure and not even give them snacks.
It is things like this that will make more and more of us into republicans tbh,

IAmMatty · 10/04/2018 22:02

But people will eat it up, like those people who sit in the street for days before royal events dressed in Union Jack clothes 😆

cardibach · 10/04/2018 22:08

Vladimir I simply don’t believe you had never heard of evening receptions before coming on mumsnet. They are very common - in my experience (friends and family all over the UK) the only reasons you wouldn’t have one are if the wedding is really late in the day anyway or the bride and groom are leaving for honeymoon early on the wedding day.

SaltireSaltire · 10/04/2018 22:16

I hope one day the country will wake up and realise the expensive anachronism that is the royal family (extending daily) needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history. No place for the cow-towing to a privileged family in what is meant to be a democratic society, where wealth and privilege are earned through hard work, not accident of birth.

DullAndOld · 10/04/2018 22:19

oh i dont know Saltaire, at least the Queen could dissolve a parliament if she had to, like if someone had presidential or dictatorial ambition.
Mentioning no names.

DannyLaRuesBestFrock · 10/04/2018 22:19

Totally agree expat

I find it totally pathetic. It's quite condescending for them to invite 'plebs' to their special day and leave them hanging round outside. £24 million it's costing too.

If they are going to invite people they deem 'worthy' fucking invite them properly. Sickening.

Curtainshopping · 10/04/2018 22:27

600 people invited into the chapel, which will be their friends and family.

Then a group invited into the grounds of the castle. These are charity workers, people nominated by community leaders, injured veterans, victims of crime and so on. They will see a bit more than the rest of the public.

Then general public outside.

Seems a nice idea to me but hey, let’s find fault with everything they do because we enjoy having a go.

DullAndOld · 10/04/2018 22:30

'injured veterans' eh? yes i am sure if i had had my legs blown off for American oil i would be delighted to be herded into an enclosure with no snacks...

ShatnersBassoon · 10/04/2018 22:33

How is it certain that there's a lack of refreshments and toilet facilities? I'm not doubting that's true, just wondering where the details are.

I'm ambivalent about all things royal, but I do like to know what's happening with catering at any given event.

DannyLaRuesBestFrock · 10/04/2018 22:35

A kinder gesture would be to donate the £24m to charities that represent the people attending and have a low key wedding. 600 family and friends!!! Yes, sure they are all very close 😂😂

DannyLaRuesBestFrock · 10/04/2018 22:38

I did hear they were putting sausage rolls on for injured veterans and victims of crime though. Not sure that's what the very close, 600 friends and family will be eating though.

DannyLaRuesBestFrock · 10/04/2018 22:41

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/revealed-secret-cost-of-the-little-things-at-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-s-wedding-a3800271.html

All speculative of course,but gives you a ballpark figure.

LaurieMarlow · 10/04/2018 22:43

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

Totally agree. Not to rain on the invitees parade, but ridiculous of the palace to call this an invite.

If they threw in a slice of cake and a glass of fizz it would be slightly better. But as it is, the royals are coming across as major cheapskates.

Bejazzled · 10/04/2018 22:43

Attendance isn't mandatory you know 🙄

If people are delighted to accept then good on them.
If people don't want to accept, that's fine too. I bet no one will decline

At least the Donald ain't invited 🇬🇧

LaurieMarlow · 10/04/2018 22:45

Just read that article. Fuck me, but that's a lot of tax payer money to spend on trumpets. Shock

TSSDNCOP · 10/04/2018 22:45

When Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married I slept the night in the Mall. My friends and I watched Prince Williams wedding in front of the TV wearing hats.

It made us happy. Why would you piss on another persons happy chips?

LaurieMarlow · 10/04/2018 22:46

I would decline. Though I see they are getting a cup of tea and a sausage roll (hurray).

However, no invite for me, so a moot point.