Peter Phillips Wedding

[StrawberryWasp]

Hello I thought I'd start a thread where we can build up the excitement for tomorrow 😂

I'm enjoying the English Country/ family vibe I'm getting from the setting and wedding prep.

Fox Gloves in the flowers 💕

I'm looking forward to seeing Harriet's dress, she's a very attractive women, but the flowers are always of special interst to me.

Who do we think will be bridesmaids? Peters P's and Harriet's daughters presumably? Zara's kids?

I read that Philip and Zara have a half sister who will be attending, I didn't kow about her!

I also read that Peters first wedding to Autumn was sold to Hello and criticised for this. Very tacky. It looks like he's learned and is not cashing in this time, so hopefully we'll get a good look at evryone.

Calm down.
No one is hurling abuse. Why the hyperbole?

We can discuss fashion choices especially from public figures who represent us on many state occasions (and ok this wasn't one of those.)

Can only imagine how hard it will be to blend the families - 3 teenage daughters with very different financial backgrounds will be quite challenging I would have thought.

Is it possible Peter is paying the school fees for his new step daughter? Not even sure it is definite she boards - I thought I read the girls met playing for their local hockey team?

More likely their dad- her ex.

Who is he by the way?

Why all the horror about the full trad bridal look at a second wedding? Is a second wedding something to be ashamed of? I thought she looked really lovely. Such a shame about the utterly shite weather

Kate looked immaculate as always but pretty dull. Loved Beatrice's green florals and Zara's purple dress. Camilla also looked fabulous as usual

I agree! Those gloves and that handbag! Wtf! However she's a bloody hard worker and a great support to the King. Shes forgiven 😊

Never mind the bride, did you see what Prince Harry had to wear to that wedding as a page boy!

Kate looked dull but not Camilla? Why?

I don't think he has anything to do with them and isn't wealthy so quite unlikely I would have guessed.

Exactly this. I'm a bit surprised that I keep seeing the word "frumpy" (because I'm not sure exactly what that means). It's a traditional church wedding, which means respectful, comfortable, not outdoing the bride, not dressed to go clubbing! Also, perfectly normal not to buy a whole new outfit, especially as working Royals have so many hats and frocks for the day job!

It's a subtle difference.

Traditionally, as has been explained on this thread, there has to be special permission for divorcees to marry in a C of E church. It's not an automatic right.

Princess Anne went to Scotland her her 2nd wedding as she couldn't get married in England in church.

So it would normally be in good taste to not try to replicate a first marriage in terms of a trad bridal outfit and just keep it toned down a little, perhaps more so when your close relative the King is head of the C of E.

I got married in a country church and wore a short veil - I didn’t want a veil really but realised a fairly trad wedding dress looks ‘unfinished’ without one.

I’ll be the outlier on the thread who liked Victoria Lockwood’s wedding dress. Compared to much of what went on in 80s bridal fashions it wasn’t very OTT and I think she leaned into ‘marrying into the aristocracy’ very effectively.

Zara looked very nice yesterday.

I think the York sisters often look good. Beatrice has found her style and clearly spends £££ on her wardrobe, Eugenie, when she dresses for her shape, can look really good. She used to dress against her shape and I always wondered if it was the influence of her mother’s weight problems - wanting to dress ‘like a slimmer woman’. She looks great in Vivienne Westwood, for example. I also like the ‘Tudor headband’ as headgear though I hope nobody brings back the ‘gable’ type, Jane Seymour style.

I don’t think it’s unusual not to have to buy something new for a wedding, or perhaps one thing to update a look. I don’t move in remotely rarified circles but could certainly pull together a couple of wedding outfits from my existing (small) wardrobe.

Really, saying her son and his wife would be ambrassed of her, that she didn’t give a stuff, that it was a shocker, you feel that’s absolutely fine and just discussing fashion choices.

i assume you do, as you don’t pick up on the poster who wrote it, just the poster who took issue with it. I don’t. I don’t like women attacking other women for their choices. I keep saying it, You can say something negative about someone’s dress without stating something like her son would he embarrassed by her.

Nobody I’ve seen in the pictures looks objectively awful or unsuitably dressed for the occasion. I don’t go to white tie bashes either but I wouldn’t need to buy a new dress for black tie or a wedding and neither would my sister or friends, or their husbands.

No it is not. Cheerful colours, comfortable, warm. Anne is the last person to be upholstered into a new, constricting and shiny mother of the groom outfit if she doesn't want to be. I say good for her.

I really liked Victoria Lockwoods dress at the time and still do actually. Loved the medieval princess look.

He is descended from the de Zoete stock broking family so I doubt he's short of a few bob.

Why does an outfit have to be new, or constricting or shiny? I have seen her in nicer clothes, like a turquoise silk fitted dress and jacket.

I will not defend Anne just because she is 'Anne' and does 'good works'.

Anne has no interest in fashion or beauty and never has after her teenage/ early 20s years.

My opinion is she looked eccentric at the wedding.
A droopy dress, a long line yellow jacket, a shawl- was it really that cold?- black accessories, an olive umbrella.

She can dress how she likes but given she's a high profile public figure, she will come in for praise or criticism.

Also it’s her son’s wedding! Really, she should have made an effort.

Charles Spencer’s recent wedding

Was Annes husband at the wedding, because she arrived by herself?

Charles Spencer. I’ll try and post a picture.

Yes he was, looking very smiley. I think she picked a good man there, very supportive and quite unobtrusive.

I want to know who it was arriving in this battered Range Rover. What were we saying about aristos and their old cars?

https://x.com/fibutton/status/2063261850964279632?s=46

The photos of Anne at other weddings show she can look pulled together and elegant.

I am all for a woman marching to the beat of her own drum and she doesn’t have to be into fashion to be a princess.

Yesterday she wore gloves and a bag that looked navy to me, with black shoes, a mangy yellow pashmina over a jacket with an olive umbrella. It was not a coherent, pulled together outfit.

I would not pick this up on a normal woman, but Anne has all the resources and help in the world. She could have looked pulled together

Me neither.