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

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... 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

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?

You can't possibly know that all the invitees are delighted to be going. They are not going to interview the ones who a bit meh.

Or they could actually be pleased. It does happen. I know you all find it staggeringly hard to believe, but it does.

Fourfriedchicken why wouldn't they be on TV? It would make great viewing!

Nah be working that day..weddings aren’t my thing, it started off when I was 4 being sick on my dinner at my aunts wedding and gradually got worse at every wedding been tooso even if I was invited it’s best I don’t go I’d make a show of myself and evenin watchin it on tv still makes me remember being 4 and being sick in my dinner..I can still remember the smell

So Injured veterans and charity workers get invited to the Royal Wedding, have to buy an outfit, pay hotel and transport costs and they get to stand outside and watch it on the Telly with a cuppa and a bite sized sausage roll?
Fuck that!

Oh, no. They definitely should be given picnic boxes with drinks and some souvenirs of the day. Very disappointed for them if they don’t.

Or they could actually be pleased. It does happen. I know you all find it staggeringly hard to believe, but it does.

Imagine how 'thrilled' they would be then if they were truly honoured and given a seat in the church?

I remember Kate and William. Kate invited the owners of her local newsagents to the wedding. I could be wrong but I believe they sat in the church.

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

Being sniffy about receiving an evening only invitation is something I’ve only ever encountered on Mumsnet. As is outrage at the idea of giving cash for a gift.

Evening only simply reflects the fact that a registery office is strictly limited in space (for immediate family and friends) whilst a social venue would ordinarily be much bigger for everyone else. This is pretty standard and common.

If this is new to some people they need ot get out more.

I'm disappointed that they haven't invited any world leaders. I'm sure Trump, Putin and Assad could have sorted out their differences over the canapes.

They'd have to search the Russians for nerve agents first, mind.

I could definitely see Trump and Putin in a cheesy wedding disco dance off to YMCA.

Lakie
Me to thegreat

too grr

I do think Teresa May should be there though.

They say the PM went when it was Andrew's, so why not Harry's?

I'd like to see Corbyn there, satin shorts, ruffled shirt, scattering rose petals...
Or maybe in charge of the car park.

I'd have been well chuffed with an invite, even if it is just an enclosure - it would be a day to remember! Love a good picnic

I think the idea is a nice one in principle, but really how it’s being carried out is mean. And why do these people just get a fucking sausage roll? Let me organise it - there’d be comfortable deck chairs with footstools, a canopy in case of rain, little tables next to the deckchairs, cheerful waiters circulating with glasses of fizz and delicate, posh little sandwiches and delectable nibbles and plenty of toilet facilities equipped with nice soap and hand cream. At the end of the event all would be given a little momento of the occasion and a ride on a bus to the railway station.

Perhaps that Markle could sell her massively inappropriate posh engagement picture frock to pay for it, because she won’t be wearing that at Balmoral, I can tell you.

The church Westminster Abbey’s a teeny bit bigger though.

Redpony we could have cheered like loons together mindful that on MN frothing had reached overdrive at our dire plight.

Another question, If you got an actual invitation to the Royal wedding and your other half said, ah no I cant go I'm on a stag weekend that day, wouldn't you be like erm... I think you'll be coming to the wedding?

Nope. I’d be there on my own like a SHOT!

I wonder if they haven't invited ANY of the World Leaders purely due to Trump and not wanting him there.

I’m not being goady but could someone explain to me why there so much hatred for the royal family?

I’m not a Union Jack waver but these sort of things bring people together with street parties etc, isn’t that a good thing during these difficult times, isn’t it good to celebrate something happy as a nation when life seems to be doom and gloom?

Megan seems to get a hard time too and I can’t understand why?

I wish them both the best of luck, they may be privileged but the term gilded cage comes to mind, I wouldn’t like the royal life, they can’t seem to do right for doing wrong.

Not sure about hatred as such, but (as I was told on another thread) they do perpetuate, and - by proxy - uphold a rigid class structure with its attendent inequalities and resulting issues. You say its brings everyone together, possibly (and only for some) for a day, but as concept it is also divisive because its very existence is illustrative of a form of inequality that continues to bring hardship to people's lives. This rich in the church and the poor out on the grass oh and heres a sausage roll is pretty much an example of that.

I don't hate them or love them. I have a mental schism over them though. The RF is part of being British, which I love, so I'd say I love to hate them sometimes, but I have a very soft spot for kate and wills.

Excuse my grammar