Love Geri Halliwell's wedding dress!

[LeoandBoosmum]

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Didn't expect her to look so classy

The lace is gorgeous close-up.

[polyhymnia]

Lovely classy dress and restrained makeup. I saw that black and white outfit that Dawn French wore in Marina Rinaldi and thought it was one to give a miss to. Looks like I was right!

[FatAli]

In the same way I would think at 44 I am too old for some clothes, like dungarees or hot pants, I think that a woman that's over about 35 just looks slightly wrong in the whole big white wedding dress with virginal veil scenario.

The dress itself is gorgeous, but at her age, I think she would have suited something a bit edgy that let her personality shine through.

[HermioneWeasley]

You are quite right. 42 is not nearly 50. But she's not 42. When the spice girls started she was about 10 years older than me (and I reckon she'd knocked a few years off even then) I turn 40 soon.

[MamaMary]

I don't like the dress- far too much material and veils everywhere - it drowns her.

She is pretty with a lovely figure and I think a simpler, less fussy dress would have been more flattering.

But then I didn't like Kate's wedding dress much either

[Mintyy]

I actually dislike big white weddings anyway. There is this whole dreadfully old fashioned symbolism of purity and virginity being given away, which just doesn't apply in 99.9% of weddings these days. Sorry to any who are offended by that.

But Geri's veil (modesty anyone) and everything when she is easily old enough to be a grandmother? No, the whole lot is naff.

[Mintyy]

I thought she was 26/27 when The Spice Girls started and the rest of them were all about 20/21? She was a host on a game show in Portugal. Don't know where I dredged that up from. I know they were at the height of their fame in 1996.

I always knew she was younger than me but I'm not sure I believe it is 11 years younger!

[GoneGirlGone]

Totally agree with Goblin's assessment. She looks lovely but the whole affair was sordid. What kind of man can he be? And white is deeply inappropriate.

[HermioneWeasley]

mintyy (completely agree with your first comment above BTW). I have just googled some photos of her in her early ginger spice days over invested and if she was 26 at the time, she had a bloody hard paper round in her youth. Must have been early 30s nearly 20 years ago

[PrimalLass]

I noticed Geri wasn't at David Beckham's 40th and Vicki wasn't at the wedding - are they not mates any more then?

Geri was at the 40th.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11580349/Spice-Girls-join-David-Beckham-for-his-40th-birthday.html

[Mintyy]

It's not about "deserving" anything afaic. I am all for people not being virgins when they get married - anything else is madness!

I'm very cynical about the whole wedding business tbh. And marriage is often a tough old grind, something to be celebrated but not romanticised.

[LeoandBoosmum]

Oh, didn't know the bloke was a loser! And Geri's behaviour sounds less than savoury.
Still love the dress and don't think she looks too old for it...looks really flattering on her and is totally age appropriate. She has a great figure.
Don't think Geri looks 42 anyhow, looks a lot younger (not that 42 is old!), at least in these pics. I too love the ethereal veil...and the lack of an ugly headpiece/ tiara!

[whitershadeofpale]

I'm sure her autobiography said she was born in 1967. Plus she talked a lot about being quite a bit older than all the others, now she's only a year older than Victoria.

[noddyholder]

Blimey I wear what I like and I'm 49! I only hear this stuff on MN.

[Mintyy]

I reckon she's 45.

[PrimalLass]

Wikipedia says 1972.

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

Veils have nothing to do with virginity - do your research!

A lot of you need a saucer of milk and put your claws away. She looks lovely and no matter what the circumstances she can wear what she likes.

[SisterNancySinatra]

Windmeup. How ironic that you use a bitchy comment directed toward mumsnet users. Now that's not very feminist is it .

[noddyholder]

Agree wind

[BitOutOfPractice]

The dress is really gorgeous and her veil and make up are lovely too

But the shoes!!

[WindMeUpAndLetMeGo]

SisterNancy what are you on about?

[Mintyy]

Of course she can wear what she likes! Doesn't mean other people have to like it.

[noddyholder]

I didn't see the shoes