Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Non Royal , Royal Wedding


The best Royal Wedding photo, ever.
Mike Tindall and Iain Balshaw
Groom and Best Man, who, what, was in a bar fight last night?

Zara Phillips, daughter of  HRH The Princess Anne, Princess Royal
and Mark Phillips, and Mike Tindall, an English rugby player who plays Outside centre for Gloucester Rugby and has captained the England team.

I love this couple!

Princess Anne and Mark Phillips made the decision when their children were born to take them out of " the business " and not give their children titles, and they seemed to have turned out wonderfully. Ms Phillips , like her mother is a very accomplished equestrian. She is the former Eventing World Champion, who won the World Championship in Aachen and was voted 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year by the British viewing public (an award her mother won in 1971).
Her dress was an off-the-peg ivory silk faille and silk duchesse satin gown by Stewart Parvin, a couturier to both the Queen and the Princess Royal.The dress featured a chevron-pleated bodice, a dropped waist, and a "cathedral-length" train, and was designed to create a "bell-shaped" silhouette.It was chosen from the White Room boutique in Minchinhampton, Glos, near her mother's Gatcombe estate - a low-key choice in contrast to the Duchess of Cambridge's Alexander McQueen design.The bride also wore a Greek Key diamond tiara given to her by her mother, the Princess Royal.


This was a private family wedding, held at the Canongate Kirk  ( church ) on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.The couple had chosen to marry in Edinburgh because of Miss Phillips' strong connections to Scotland – she attended Gordounstoun School in Morayshire and spent many holidays at Balmoral, the Queen's Scottish estate.

I do believe that the date for this wedding was set before the Wales-Middleton wedding, and there was just no way for the second bride to not be compared to the BIG one, but the Phillip Tindall wedding held up on its on. That said : WHAT DID CATHERINE WEAR ?!?!?


She looked lovely.

Mother and Grandmother of the Bride.
( hey, for Anne, this is off the charts good, 
Her Majesty always looks fantastic )

Loads and Loads of other photos 
and 
go, look, if only for Camilla's hat.

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