I didn't watch the entire royal wedding, so this blog post is a bit incomplete. But I happened to get on the elliptical at the gym at just the moment when Meghan Markle (now the Duchess of Sussex) arrived at the chapel. Here are my takeaways from the ~40 minutes I watched.
1. The dress: Her wedding gown was a bit of a letdown for me. At William and Kate's wedding, Kate's lace grown literally took my breath away. Those lace sleeves! The V-neckline! Meghan's boat-neck dress was much more understated, with no lace or beading. BUT that's not to say she didn't look beautiful! Her veil was SO long (16 feet!), and her diamond tiara was dazzling.
(Read this article for a complete comparison which is much more thorough than what I have here.)
2. The guests: As I watched, the cameras every once and a while would show a famous star in the crowd. I saw George and Amal Clooney, Serena Williams, Sir Elton John, and David and Victoria Beckham. I know some of Meghan's TV show co-stars were there, but since I don't watch much TV, I couldn't have picked them out even if you asked me to. Who else did you see?
3. The song: A gospel choir sang a ballad version of Stand by Me, and it was magical; I get chills all over again each time I hear it (in a good way!). Listen:
4. The preacher: Michael Curry officiated the wedding, and he was great! He has so much passion, and it's just unfortunate that the royal setting and crowd was not as responsive as I'm sure his regular congregation is. Even I wanted to spontaneously shout, "Hallelujah!" or "Praise the Lord!", but no one in the crowd was reacting like that. He was also funny, joking about how he was going to take a seat soon so that the couple could actually get married (slight laughter did spread throughout the crowd, although Kate was pretty stone-faced the entire time). You can hear his full sermon here. His speech also made me think of a few songs:
Imagine (when he was talking about imagining a better world like Martin Luther King, Jr. preached about)
Fire (when he went on a tangent about how fire brought us cooked food, the industrial revolution, automobiles, and the social media that allows us to be "socially dysfunctional" with one another)
5. The fashion: Since I just wrote a blog post about the Met Gala, I'm still on a roll writing about fashion. I saw a lot of light pinks and mauves at the royal wedding, and while those make great nail polishes, I don't love those colors for clothes (it's too "It's a baby girl!" for me). And of course the headgear stole the show; other than the Kentucky Derby, a royal wedding is the only time when hats really get their due.
Oprah's outfit could only be complete with a huge feather puff on her hat. And this isn't even the original dress she was supposed to wear: her first dress was too white, so she made a last-minute change, because Oprah is a classy lady like that. Image found here
The fascinator is amazing, but doesn't Kitty Spencer know that the bigger the print is, the bigger it makes your body look?
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Camilla was also on the pink train. Image found here
I'm not sure I would ever wear a lime green coat dress, but when you're 92 years old (not to mention the Queen of England), you can do whatever the hell you want. Image found here
Cressida Bonas, Harry's ex-girlfriend (awkward...) clearly doesn't hold a candle to Meghan. Those garish horizontal stripes! What was she thinking?! Image found here
Again with the large floral prints: having a big rose around your nether-regions is just a little too Georgia O'Keeffe for me. Image found here
Carole Middleton looks chic in this simply coat dress and delicate floral fascinator. Image found here.
I'm not sure many people could pull off a head-to-toe violet ensemble, but Karen Spencer rocked this purple OOTD.
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