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Last night we were at the other wedding. Not the union between the richest young man in the country, the Duke of Westminster, and Olivia Henson, but my stepdaughter Tibbs’ celebration of her marriage to Piers.
As it happens, they got married last week in a registry office, but they didn’t let the triumphant ceremony and glorious wedding lunch, or an engagement party last summer, get in the way of a great party. So this weekend it was Hastings’ turn to get down on its knees.
Despite already having a delightful seven-month-old daughter, the appeal of not only marriage but a proper party was never in doubt. Weddings are the big occasion for millennials.
They fly around the world to throw bridal bouquets and bachelor parties. The festivities can last for days. Don’t even think about just one wedding dress: every day demands a completely new wardrobe.
Fortunately, the original plan to fly everyone to Kenya for a beach party was shelved due to logistics issues; Even getting us to the south coast took quite a bit of planning.
Sienna Miller attends the Horizon: An American Saga red carpet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May
The original bohemian women, like Rolling Stones muse Anita Pallenberg (pictured), never bothered to blow-dry their hair or get manicures.
Despite the discrepancy in bank balances, there will be many similarities between our party and what happened at Chester Cathedral and Eaton Hall. Given that the Westminsters have mandated ‘summer attire, no ties or jumpsuits’ as a dress code (although morning suits were surely worn to church), I imagine the crowd would have looked similar.
There will be enough incredibly attractive young people gathered together to make some of us feel a) a little old and b) delighted that people like that still exist. But the Duke’s guests will have had to walk through a formal reception and evening party, while we had a week between lunch and party to put on our dancing shoes and indulge in pizza. However, hangovers will undoubtedly be very similar.
Memories are best kept in a leather album
As a result of these wedding gatherings, I have tons of new photos on my phones. Not just the ones I’ve taken, but the endless offers that ping a WhatsApp group to show everyone else’s snaps. At the moment it’s a delight, but it won’t compare to the traditional album we’ll see in the years to come.
I know a woman who has maintained hers religiously for 60 years and it is a pleasure for everyone to see and a wonderful record of all times.
It is one of those tasks that we all say we will do one day; although I started mine as a teenager, I’m now at least a decade behind.
Our fingerprints are valuable, but there’s nothing like a leather-bound book with (and this is important) names and dates to hold the precious treasure of memories.
Sienna’s look is hard to get right
Clever M&S will feature boho princess, Sienna Miller, not only modeling a new collection for M&S but helping to design it. Just like Kate Moss did years ago for Topshop, Sienna handed out her favorite items for the team to copy, with the expectation that we’d all want to take on a bit of her style. And, of course, we do.
The range is selling out as large numbers of us wander around in your white Victorian lace blouse, Indian print tunic, silk pajama suit or somber slip dress and macramé bag, hoping to have managed to provoke at least a soup of his insouciance. .
The range is selling out as large numbers of us wander around in their white lace Victorian blouse, Indian print tunic, silk pajama suit or somber slip dresses.
The appeal of boho is that it is meant to be easy and youthfully careless.
The bohemian women who sum it up are people like Dorelia, the wife of the painter Augustus John, with her flowing dresses, the damned Talitha Getty with her expensive hippie rags, and the Rolling Stones’ muse, Anita Pallenberg. They didn’t bother drying their hair or getting manicures.
Unfortunately, the reality of boho is that it is very difficult to achieve. You only have to look at the photos of Sienna taken in her original outfits juxtaposed with the new collection to see that it’s not the clothes themselves but the person wearing them that gives boho its appeal.
I hate the idea of putting age limits on clothing, but that embroidered robe and jean shorts, or a slip dress with biker boots, definitely have an expiration date.
What might once have seemed delightfully bohemian suddenly seems like a plain disaster. What was once casually sexy can make you look like you haven’t bought anything new since the ’70s. Take it from me. I’ve been there.
Titans reduced to mere mannequins
Louis Vuitton’s latest luggage campaign features two tennis titans, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. The pair pose as hikers carrying colorful ropes on their backpacks monogrammed LV.
Roger Federer (left) and Rafael Nadal (right) say an emotional farewell after the announcement that the doubles match would be the last of Federer’s career.
The opportunity to appear in this lucrative and stylish advertising campaign will be a kind of compensation for Nadal, who crashed out of the French Open in the first round, but for two such incredible athletes, whose bodies are capable of developing extraordinary strength, it must be a little irritating. to find themselves placed in gelatin, two immobile mannequins.
A true crime that came eerily close.
The Mail’s The Trial of Lord Lucan podcast has sparked strange flashbacks. That night I was ten years old and we lived near the house in Belgravia where Sandra Rivett was murdered.
Although at the time I couldn’t know the details of what was happening, I was aware that something sinister was happening down the road and I remember looking out the bedroom window in fear and hearing sirens.
Our nanny’s boyfriend, Ron, who worked at the Gerald Road police station next to Lucan’s rented apartment, provided us with more information.
It made the drama eerily close to home.
The Mail’s The Trial of Lord Lucan podcast follows the disappearance of Lord Lucan and the murder of Sandra Rivett
Why can’t I get the bees to buzz?
I know we should all love our bees. Look at the King’s bond with David Beckham through their shared apiary systems.
But as the weather warms and they start coming in through our open bedroom window from the park’s hives, my gentle, loving, honey-loving self is looking somewhat challenged.
