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.

And also Peter is from a blended family himself. His half sister could potentially have less than him but I think that his parents are on great terms and Princess Anne was at his sister Stephanie's wedding.
Blended families are pretty normal in the royal family these days with Camilla and Beatrice also being part of them.

Something pressed and not ill fitting to start with. With coordinated colours.

as I said I liked Isabelle de la Bruyere and I liked Zara and PoW dresses (although they didn’t look that good on them, but the style I liked). Florals also don’t have to be frumpy

Looked like a satin dressing gown to me

Philip and Zara ? Do you mean Peter and Zara ?

Same

I assume you're speaking for yourself?

Because you are't speaking for me or my friends.

I'm almost 70 and took a huge amount of care to look very smart for one of my children's weddings recently at a high profile venue. My 'outer layer' was a lovely midi length wool fitted coat worn with high heeled shoes.

I care very much how I look and although I don't dress to please other people, I do care about looking appropriately dressed at important family occasions.

It's nothing to do with 'ageing' .

Why are women being called frumpy for just wearing a dress when average looking men wear average suits and look as dull as fuck but thats ok?
Why ?

Because the dress code for men is a suit and many of the men there wore tails. You don't know if they were average- some could be Savile Row.

Another RA sufferer and my thing that’s had to go is my love of shoes. Mine are now definitely frumpy. I now splash where if I can on bags instead. Or beg steal or borrow for a special ‘do’.

Im glad im not the only one who saw Snowden’s other half and thought ‘posh dressing gown’!

Anne's Scottish wedding in 1992 was 10 years before the Church of England changed their rules whereas the church of Scotland had allowed divorced people to marry in church since 1959

Charles' marriage to Camilla in 2005 was at a time when CofE remarriage was controversial and pretty new - the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to marry them at St Georges' chapel

Over the past 20 years remarriage in church has become a lot more normalised and common

Peter Phillips half sister was a bridesmaid at his first wedding.

She is friends with the Phillips girls, they play in a local sports team together, that is how they met.

Thr de Zoetes (yes, same banking family) I knew had the most beautiful house in the village and she had Bryan Ferry as the entertainment for her 60th birthday. How the other half live...

Anne recycled the dress as well as the hat.

https://x.com/thelaurences_/status/2063340931605033092?s=61

Anne's Scottish wedding in 1992 was 10 years before the Church of England changed their rules whereas the church of Scotland had allowed divorced people to marry in church since 1959

I think it also meant that the late Queen could attend?

I was married in church in England for the 2nd time in 1995 so it has been around a while but perhaps also "case specific"?

They all looked perfectly happy together at the Easter service they all attended. I'm not seeing any of the angst between them that other
posters are claiming to but I suspect there was probably a bit of nerves amongst them at being bridesmaids with everyone looking at them and all the press cameras in attendance too.

I know - I've been on this thread since page 1

Just got a bit fed up with an influx of judgemental posting yesterday afternoon saying that she should conform to 1950s expectations.... eg ... posts about

"mutton dressed as lamb"
"she's in her 40s so shouldn't wear a wedding dress and should have worn a suit"
"she shouldn't wear white"
"shocked she's wearing white/a veil - they are signs of "purity" so not appropriate for a divorced woman"

My aunt married a divorcee in church in 1985 in Derbyshire. Full white wedding, but she was only 25 at the time. She became a divorcée herself when she chucked him out for cheating which ironically his first wife had already done.

It's not the nicest of dresses is it 😬

She didn't recycle it. She just wore something she already had in her wardrobe. Recycling is taking it to a charity shop! I know it's not pedant corner here but the press really annoy me with this.

Today I'm recycling the brand new dress I bought last weekend and wore on Monday.

I remember the Daily Mail needed smelling salts because the bridesmaids at PPs first wedding wore strapless gowns and some of them had tan lines showing where their bikini top had been. Scandalous, apparently!

Her father died in 2023

Her daughter was a bridesmaid

I think I saw a picture of her mother

IIRC her brother escorted her up the aisle

One thing I noticed and kind of winced.... was when the MOB got out of the car with the bridesmaids and she looked kind of lost and abandoned. I felt for her, it just looked awkward, she didn't know where to go or who to speak to, and no one approached her and welcomed her. Well one person did in the end I don't know who it was. I would have thought she would have been welcomed and put at ease a bit more on such an occasion.

I really liked her outfit, the fabric looked gorgeous and the colour was beautiful, sort of bluey grey I think. Sorry to say it but she looked very well turned out and was in sharp contrast to mixy matchy Anne!

Harriet doesn’t quite look herself in the wedding outfit for me. It’s too buttoned up and straight. High neck and tight hair. No ease or flow to it. She has such lovely hair that I was expecting a half up do or hair down. I am sure it looked beautiful if you were there but she looks like she’s dressing to enter the royal family with an expectation of formality.

I looked up her ex Antonio and he’s very pumped up as a fitness instructor/owner. I can see why that didn’t work. They split up when the daughter was young.

I think this influenced her look. She didn’t get the happy ever after the first time.

I wish them both well

It's a relief to hear that.
I'm 60 soon and have been wondering when the button that stops me wanting to look my best gets switched on.
It hasn't so far but there are so many posts on MN that seem certain that it will be.