A fairytale wedding for a thoroughly modern Kate
Wasn’t the Royal Wedding wonderful? Although I am a Republican, it would be a hard-hearted woman who did not enjoy such a rich scene and relish in the pomp and ceremony when Catherine Middleton married Prince William in Westminster Abbey.
The new Duchess of Cambridge is bound to inject her own unique, lovely style into the eccentric Royal Family. And wasn’t it a beautiful dress fit for a real princess? It was the dress more than anything that enticed husband, Olivier to sit through the whole two hour BBC coverage because he and his late wife, Colette, founded Caleche Bridal Centre. So he has seen many bridal fashion fads through the 37 years of his career as a national bridal manufacturer. He was delighted that Kate chose a gown with sleeves rather than the sleeveless gowns which grace our own social pages week by week. He, of course, declared the bodice was “surely French chantilly lace’’.
Prince William – the future King of England – looked charming in his red military jacket and his mother, Diana would have been so proud of him.
It was such a joyful day with that fitting theme of charity and love.
I thought the Archbishop of Canterbury captured all our hopes for the bride and groom when he said. “They are making a new life together so love can flow through them into the future.’’
