Anyone up? Harry & Meghan Royal Wedding Watch thread

[SirDuff]

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/...her-charges-perfectly-behaved-for-the-wedding


Maybe the one looking the wrong direction is the youngest one? Seems she was having a rough day.

I was secretly hoping the kids would misbehavior more than they did.

She does seem to a thing for looking the way that no one else is

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2...00000578-5753811-image-a-50_1526915180396.jpg

 

[Imzadi]

I only wish everyone's wedding could be televised to the world so every nuance can be picked apart by strangers.

Princess Diana had once said becoming a princess was like being the bride at one's own wedding every day of her life, the way she was always scrutinized, criticized and watched over everything she said & did.

 

[jrmasm]

She does seem to a thing for looking the way that no one else is

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2...00000578-5753811-image-a-50_1526915180396.jpg

Maybe she sees dead people?

 

[Imzadi]

So after reading many things online I just have some questions about this whole wedding. What is the connection with Oprah in the Clooney’s?

I wondered about the Clooneys too. I didn't even know Harry had ever met George, except at maybe a premiere, when they walk by the Queen and briefly talk to her. I'd think the same would be for harry, except at maybe a less formal premiere party.

As for Amal, maybe he met her since she is a very prestigious and active human rights attorney in Britain. Her firm represents some extremely high profile cases.

 

[Imzadi]

Also what bothers me is that her mother is the only person from her background and past that was there. I understand she’s having family issues right now but there’s no godparent, Old family friends, old neighbors, mentors from her past life? It says a lot about a person if they have no childhood friends that speak to them anymore
It seems the only people that were invited besides her mother were her Hollywood friends from her show ( nobody in her life before Suits phase). Or A-list celebrities tennis stars Oprah

When it was first announced that she'd have no maid of honor as she couldn't choose between all her female friends, I thought that would just mean she'd have 8 adult female bridesmaids. But, when it was announced that little George & Charlotte would be part of her bridal party along with some other children, I then thought it odd that she would not have even a couple adult female friends in attendance.

And when someone posted the seating chart, none of her close gfs got any of the good seats, only very famous celebs like the Clooneys, Serena Williams &one co-star from Suits. So all her closest BFFs sat in the cheap seats?

I have to wonder if having grown up with such wacky half-siblings made her wary & distant from making really close friendships.

I read an interesting article online at how she basically reinvented herself and burned her bridges and is trying to erase her past. Once she moved to Toronto she re-branded herself. At this point I am a bit skeptical. it’s like she won the lottery. She won the role of a lifetime.

She moved to Toronto to star in the cable TV show, Suits, which she had been on for 3-1/2 years before even meeting & knowing Harry.

 

[Imzadi]

Regarding royal wedding gowns, I thought princess Diana's dress was one of the ugliest wedding dresses I've ever seen. It was gaudy, with those huge selves. It looked like it was wearing her and not the other way around. The fabric was awful and all wrinkled.

The fabric was wrinkled because her wedding dress designer, Emanuelle(sp?) had never had to design something that had to be stuffed into a small carriage for the ride to the church. That's when all the wrinkling happened. They were appalled when she got out of the carriage and found it all wrinkled.

I've read when celebs show up for the Red Carpet at the award shows, there is a small booth off to the side, where they can adjust their clothes, hair & makeup, after getting out of the limo and before walking the carpet. I read there is a clothes steamer there if they need it.

Unfortunately, Diana had no such booth. It was straight out of the carriage and the great walk into to the church.

 

[mom2rtk]

When it was first announced that she'd have no maid of honor as she couldn't choose between all her female friends, I thought that would just mean she'd have 8 adult female bridesmaids. But, when it was announced that little George & Charlotte would be part of her bridal party along with some other children, I then thought it odd that she would not have even a couple adult female friends in attendance.

And when someone posted the seating chart, none of her close gfs got any of the good seats, only very famous celebs like the Clooneys, Serena Williams &one co-star from Suits. So all her closest BFFs sat in the cheap seats?

I have to wonder if having grown up with such wacky half-siblings made her wary & distant from making really close friendships.




She moved to Toronto to star in the cable TV show, Suits, which she had been on for 3-1/2 years before even meeting & knowing Harry.

I thought I heard it was traditional for attendants to be under the age of 11 (except for MOH and Best Man).

 

[nkereina]

So in the official portraits, the one of just Harry and Megan on the stairs, Megan has removed the veil and only has the tiara on. The strands of hair that frame her face are out from behind her ears and it looks very nice hanging loosely with her tiara. I really think that for the ceremony, she tucked those specific strands of hair behind her ears - maybe it looked better to her and it was a last minute decision, maybe it happened in the car, maybe it didn't look right leaving them out with the veil on. But I think something went awry with those strands of hair and the veil, and ultimately it ended up looking sloppy tucked behind her ears during the ceremony. They probably didn't want to pin or spray them if she was going to wear them out for photos and the evening as the strands are loosely hanging for the reception photos too.

 

[mom2rtk]

So in the official portraits, the one of just Harry and Megan on the stairs, Megan has removed the veil and only has the tiara on. The strands of hair that frame her face are out from behind her ears and it looks very nice hanging loosely with her tiara. I really think that for the ceremony, she tucked those specific strands of hair behind her ears - maybe it looked better to her and it was a last minute decision, maybe it happened in the car, maybe it didn't look right leaving them out with the veil on. But I think something went awry with those strands of hair and the veil, and ultimately it ended up looking sloppy tucked behind her ears during the ceremony. They probably didn't want to pin or spray them if she was going to wear them out for photos and the evening as the strands are loosely hanging for the reception photos too.

I agree. It looks like her hair was styled for this shot in mind. Then maybe they were tucked back for the veil and didn't stay put.

 

[Imzadi]

They were talking about it on the radio this morning and said she was 15 minutes late for the ceremony. Anyone hear why this was? Apparently this is a huge no no and I even remember hearing different media entities say you could set your watch by the timeliness of the Royal Family, so there must have been something major happening for her to be late. Have to wonder if its related to the hair!

When I was watching at Saturday morning, they commented that she was 4 seconds late.

She was supposed to leave the hotel where she was staying at a certain time. She was 15 minutes late. I thought at the time it had to do with her hairdresser not knowing how to put a tiara & veil on with her hairdo. Maybe that's why that one piece kept falling down. The hairdresser was too rushed to secure it properly once the tiara went on. I heard those things are HEAVY. a couple pounds. They aren't like the plastic ones we wear.

Then her motorcade seemed to be racing to get to town to make that famous turn where all the crowds waited. The drive before the turn might have been originally scheduled to be a slow leisurely pace. So that's probably when they made up the time and she ended up only 4 seconds late.

 

[Imzadi]

I'm sure "The Palace" would have also vetted the dress, if not actually had a hand in directing the style. It was not what many of us were expecting but I guess mandatory "WOW factor" isn't something that's on their list of rules.

She had to actually show the dress to the Queen for approval. That could be when the Queen let her pick which tiara & jewelry to wear with it.

 

[moon]

I’m pretty sure she loves Harry, who wouldn’t love any man that would give her this lifestyle.

Meghan Markle is a wealthy woman on her own, and she already had a great, sophisticated lifestyle. She gave up something precious by marrying him, which was her freedom.

I may be in the minority, but I've always thought I'd love to be rich, but not famous. Add to the fame the many restrictions imposed on a royal, and it's not all fun and games.

How many stuffy royal functions can you attend before it gets old. Sure, there's glitz and glamor, dressing up jewelry, but she had that before. I bet she attended many fun Hollywood parties, and she did when she wanted.

Again, I think I'm in the minority that a royal lifestyle is not one that I'd consider an enviable lifestyle, especially for someone who was born and raised outside of it.

I thought it was so sweet how much in love they looked during the ceremony. I wish them all the best. But it won't be easy.

 

[Imzadi]

Here's the Official Family Portrait - it's lovely! I wonder how many tries it too to get all the kids looking the same direction!

Hmm, she had to bring the back & bottom of the dress and veil around to the front, to give the dress the appearance of having more style. Great photographer or stylist for doing that.

 

[Imzadi]

Love, love, love this. For the exception of the size of Camilla's hat... sigh.

Yes! It looked like it was a pink birthday cake that got squashed and all the pink icing squished out to the sides!

 

[NotUrsula]

Diana's dress was really "something else" - a spectacle rather than a nice outfit. Nobody anywhere could have or probably wanted to duplicate it (unlike Kate Middleton, who single-handedly killed the strapless, sweetheart gown!). Diana's dress did influence trends though. For a while there in the 80's wedding dresses were getting pretty out of control with the sleeves, bows and general frippery.

Um, no. Copies of Diana's dress FLEW off the racks in 1981. I was doing wedding gown alterations for a living at the time, and I assure you, they were in every single mid-range bridal line. The more exclusive lines didn't slavishly copy it, but there were still plenty of ruffle-necked, puff-sleeved, crinoline-skirted gowns in those lines as well. It was a forgiving dress if you had figure flaws to hide, and a lot of brides liked that. (Very few of the copies were taffeta, however. Most of them were lightweight matte satin.)

Part of the expense of this week's dress was the fabric, though it paled in comparison to the labor cost of the hand embroidery on the veil. That wasn't just any silk. It was custom-woven of silk that was sourced within Europe; that's a tradition that goes back to Queen Victoria's dress. It's important to the PR machine that the expense of the dress support UK and EU commerce. The problem is, there are VERY few silk farms in Europe, so it is insanely difficult to find quality silk for an order like this.

Starkly designed dresses are popular with royal brides because they commonly wear tiaras. Beading can look rather tawdry next to a fortune in diamonds. (The Queen's own dress was an exception; it was hugely important that it function as a symbol in that immediate postwar period, and it did. Also, FWIW, the "flowers of the Commonwealth" theme has been done before, on the Queen's coronation dress.)

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[moon]

The fabric was wrinkled because her wedding dress designer, Emanuelle(sp?) had never had to design something that had to be stuffed into a small carriage for the ride to the church. That's when all the wrinkling happened. They were appalled when she got out of the carriage and found it all wrinkled.

I've read when celebs show up for the Red Carpet at the award shows, there is a small booth off to the side, where they can adjust their clothes, hair & makeup, after getting out of the limo and before walking the carpet. I read there is a clothes steamer there if they need it.

Unfortunately, Diana had no such booth. It was straight out of the carriage and the great walk into to the church.

Well, how unprofessional of the designers not to have taken that into account, especially since like ronandanette said, it was silk taffeta and that fabric is pretty much expected to wrinkle. No wonder those designers seem to have disappear after then wedding. They were virtual unknowns who were given the chance of a lifetime, designing the wedding gown for what it was truly the wedding of the century over well established designers. unfortunately, they couldn't pull it off.

 

[luvsJack]

So in the official portraits, the one of just Harry and Megan on the stairs, Megan has removed the veil and only has the tiara on. The strands of hair that frame her face are out from behind her ears and it looks very nice hanging loosely with her tiara. I really think that for the ceremony, she tucked those specific strands of hair behind her ears - maybe it looked better to her and it was a last minute decision, maybe it happened in the car, maybe it didn't look right leaving them out with the veil on. But I think something went awry with those strands of hair and the veil, and ultimately it ended up looking sloppy tucked behind her ears during the ceremony. They probably didn't want to pin or spray them if she was going to wear them out for photos and the evening as the strands are loosely hanging for the reception photos too.

I absolutely love how she looks in that shot. With that dress and just the tiara, she just looks so “princessey” to me. Very pretty.

 

[mom2rtk]

I heard those things are HEAVY. a couple pounds. They aren't like the plastic ones we wear.

Speak for yourself. I only wear the real deal.

 

[luvsJack]

Hmm, she had to bring the back & bottom of the dress and veil around to the front, to give the dress the appearance of having more style. Great photographer or stylist for doing that.

I thought that perhaps the idea was to make that beautiful veil the focus point. But then I thought the dress was perfect.

 

[Imzadi]

Speak for yourself. I only wear the real deal.

I'm just a poor commoner.