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Fascinators!

Darlings!!

I have VIEWED the royal footage and was just beside myself with fun, fun, fun! Like you, I oo’d at the bride, gagged at Beatrice’s terrible hat and make-up and groaned at her sister Eugenie’s poofy disco dress. It being the post-Easter exhaustion season and all, I don’t know that I shall have the energy for a long post with all the royal fabulosity (like Posh Spice’s lethal Philip Treacy fascinator) but please know that I have already posted on the Archbishop’s Insane Eyebrows. Do a keyword search in this blog if you don’t believe me.

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It was a triumph of gorgeous attention to detail, deportment, a people’s understanding of their fashion culture, and the Queen Grandmother looking delicious in daffodil yellow. I loved her so much I wanted to squeeze her and take her home.

I’m off to a big church event here and guess what? I’m wearing a little fascinator!
It’s that kind of night. Giddy, artsy, formal but hugely celebratory.
This is how I do Floral Explosion without being too girly about it. Silk top in muted poppy print, Art Nouveau flower themed brooch, poppy lips, flower fascinator, black suit, black strappy sandals, poppy nail polish on the toesies.

More later, sweet peas!
Love to Kate and Wills!

13 Replies to “Fascinators!”

  1. I was so worried you wouldn’t see it – wasn’t the music spectacular? – when I was a small child in Toronto there was a sect called the British Israelites who believed that the English were one of the lost tribes – their program each Sunday started out with “And did those feet?” – Blake’s great poem of the industrial revolution – I just loved hearing it in the Abbey

  2. YOU LOOK AWESOME.

    I felt Pippa was elegant beyond belief. Her sister, of course, was too. But those royal cousins? The Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan of Britain. It wasn’t even the ill-fitting clothes, or the hats (I understand they were custom made by the designer) or the ratty makeup…it was the way they stood, the look-at-me expressions on their faces. Can’t buy couth.

    PS There should be a canon law that if you get to wear the finest brocade, you need to pass some kind of wayward hair inspection/intervention.

  3. Does anybody know what version of the BCP that service came from? Was it the 25? It sounded older than that.

    And I loved the homily — like the breath of now in the midst of forever.

  5. thanks, Reese! It seemed much older. I partciularly loved the use of “betwixt”!

  6. I like it that every Anglican gets the same service – except for the music the royal couple had a very ordinary service – same for funerals – even the great and the near great have a pall on their coffin and the same service – no one gets over the River Styx or onto the verge of Jordan with anything they can take with them –

  7. As any good Episcopalian, I love pomp and circumstance! My husband and I got married in an Episcopal Cathedral, and I couldn’t help but not the similarities between our weddings. The service (ours was the latest version), the gothic architecture, the bells ringing at the end of the service. The carriage ride, ahem, I mean the ride in a borrowed Cadillac. 🙂

  8. I had a great time watching it and a TLC one hour special that lead up to it. . . my 26 year old son told me it looked “stupid” and he wanted to change the channel, he was informed that he didn’t have to watch it with me but he couldn’t change the channel. To my shock he sat down & watched it.

  9. How do I get to your blog (which I used to read, uh, religiously, before you got consumed with your studies)? I don’t have a username or password and can’t figure out how to create one–arghhh! [Never fear, dear, PeaceBang is still being designed. I promise it will be up soon and open to all! – PB]

  10. I don’t know if I dare say this…. I loved Beatrice’s outfit and thought the hat was stunning! Do I need to whisper that? Will I get thrown off for crimes against fashion? (I didn’t like Eugenie’s outfit alas!)

    And +Rowan’s eyebrows are a national institution around here ; )

    We had a lovely royal wedding day – we had a carpet picnic in front of the television. My six year old daughter insisted we all dressed up as if we were there…. I wore my fascinator too! {BEGONE, TRrrrrrAITOR! Did I roll my r’s on traitor long enough? But c’mon, THE EYE MAKE-UP!? That didn’t HURT YOU? – PB]

  12. I believe that that particular 1966 ceremony is based on the (failed to get approved) 1928 version, which in turn is a marginally modernised (no ‘obey’ no ‘fornication’) version of the 1662 BCP.

    I’ve heard it’s the version that you’re usually steered to if you want a ‘traditional’ ceremony. Although as far as I know, you may still be able to use Cranmer’s original.

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