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Love Geri Halliwell's wedding dress!

156 replies

LeoandBoosmum · 15/05/2015 17:15

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Didn't expect her to look so classy Blush

The lace is gorgeous close-up.

OP posts:
noddyholder · 16/05/2015 10:11

I don't think she does low key and tbh that should have been his call. Maybe the ex is glad to be shot of him and not as upset as we are assuming? No one knows

TendonQueen · 16/05/2015 10:24

Thing is, she wouldn't have started the whole relationship with him if she was worried about being sensitive to the ex's feelings. So she certainly wasn't going to think 'well, it was fine to jump into a relationship with someone who wasn't fully out of the last one and has a very young child, but hang on! Better not have a big traditional wedding, that would be tacky'. If you've done one, there's no barrier in your head to the other. And a lot of the other stuff about not wearing white etc is straight from 1950s presumptions that if you're marrying someone who is 'used goods' Hmm then you should have the decency to play it all down. As said, she clearly doesn't think that and so the idea of keeping it low-key just wouldn't occur. And, as others have said, he has a say in all this too.
I would still be on her announcing a pregnancy as soon as she can get up the duff.

BitOutOfPractice · 16/05/2015 10:41

Have you noddy? Must be reading a different MN to me then!

noddyholder · 16/05/2015 11:17

Yes lots of women post He won't marry me threads and they already have children and are often advised they should have though of that! Not that having children pre marriage is wrong more don't expect him to marry you sort of thing

noddyholder · 16/05/2015 11:18

Maybe you haven't seen them and I have?

fancyanotherfez · 16/05/2015 11:40

No I have seen them, and there are lots of those 'don't believe in marriage' types, who suddenly bugger off and do believe in marriage after all, just with someone else. Who knows, maybe she didn't want to marry him and feels she's well shot?

noddyholder · 16/05/2015 11:42

I know several of those Met someone recently at dp's work do who had met someone abroad and left his partner of 10 plus years and married her within 6 months

SwedishEdith · 16/05/2015 11:43

I couldn't give a shit about Geri Haliwell at all - one of the luckiest people in showbiz, to be so rich on so little talent. I can never see her without hearing that horrible, nasal shouty voice and "Loooooooook at me". But, that link to David Beckham's 40th - his Instagram photo at the end of it. What a mess he's made of his body!

Floisme · 16/05/2015 11:56

I'm afraid I think bridal gowns look a bit ridiculous on all women - I've never understood the appeal. But a 40-something woman is as entitled to look ridiculous on her wedding day as a 20 year-old.

And I can't imagine not turning up at my son's wedding, no matter what he'd done.

JoanHickson · 16/05/2015 12:04

I predict once there is a baby or split relations between the Groom and his parents, will improve.

noddyholder · 16/05/2015 12:05

Well said Flo

Twinklestein · 16/05/2015 12:12

It's all a bit too frou frou for me.

At her age I think the dress would have looked better without the veil, with her hair up and a tiara. It's a bit undignified to try to play the ingenue, and in the circumstances, in questionable taste.

AldiQ7 · 16/05/2015 12:21

I do think the pair of them are total twats - but how do we know that he didnt want to marry his ex and it was her that didn't want to get married?

noddyholder · 16/05/2015 12:24

I don't know anything about his other relationship I don't think anyone does

skylerwhite1 · 16/05/2015 12:36

Think she is telling porkies about her age alright. Yet if you try to google it Wiki etc it says she was born Aug 72, that makes her younger than me! but she can't be as she was always 3 yrs older. Remember working it out when SG were huge. But why lie? if I looked half as good as she does I'd be screaming it from the rooftops. Think dress is gorge - v traditional n classy

noddyholder · 16/05/2015 12:48

I was sure Patsy kensit used to be the same age as me in the 90s Grin

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/05/2015 12:54

I'm suddenly the same age as that woman from Footballers Wives although I'm sure when Footballers Wives was on telly she was at least 6 years older than me.

JoanHickson · 16/05/2015 12:57

Patsy Kensington is about the same age as Kylie and Jason, around 45-47.

JoanHickson · 16/05/2015 12:58

Kensit

UpNorthAgain · 16/05/2015 12:59

I agree with the OP that the dress was classy. The same, regrettably, cannot be said for her behaviour or that of Christian Horner. As many others have said, low key and restrained would have been more appropriate in the circumstances. Respect to Mr and Mrs Horner senior for refusing to attend.

Twinklestein · 16/05/2015 13:08

how do we know that he didn't want to marry his ex and it was her that didn't want to get married?

We don't, but given she'd just had a baby with him I reckon she'd rather he didn't bugger off.

Floisme · 16/05/2015 13:10

She may have behaved badly, I don't know the story (though I assume the groom is the bigger offender, no?). Even if she has, I still don't see what bearing her choice of wedding dress has on anything. Some posters are starting to sound like my great aunts back in the 60s. Have we had 'soiled goods yet'?

Twinklestein · 16/05/2015 13:34

I've no idea whether Horner had already dumped his wife when he decided to get together with Geri, it's none of my business.

But, in the circumstances, with a devastated ex and upset parents, having a grand wedding with fanfare and full media coverage is insensitive and in poor taste.

If it were me I'd go off and do it somewhere quietly.

Mind you I wouldn't shack up with man who would dump a wife + baby.

Floisme · 16/05/2015 13:44

Well then by the sound of it he's the one who's dumped his partner and baby and is now having a flash wedding. So why is no-one having a pop at his outfit?

Twinklestein · 16/05/2015 13:52

Because the thread is about Geri's dress..?