A Royal Wedding Outfit

Greetings!

Oh, what a sunny day it has been!
At school today, we had a special dress up day today in honour of the Royal Wedding.  It was 'Dress as a Wedding guest for the Royal Wedding'.  In case you are stuck under a rock, this is because Prince Harry and Megan Markle are getting married tomorrow on the 19th May.

It was a joy to come to school and see all the children dressed up in their prettiest dresses and smartest suits and similarly, the staff.  Generally, our staff dress quite casually so it was great to see them in beautiful dresses, fascinators etc.

I looked through my extensive portfolio of dresses and was planning to wear a turquoise silk jacquard long dress from Monsoon that I bought in a charity-shop last year.

However, this morning, I changed my mind and chose something else.

The dress I chose, I AM SURE was worn by Emma Stone for one scene in Lala Land.  I remember going to see it at the cinema and saying, "That's MY dress!" as she sashayed out the house into a waiting car with Ryan Gosling.

Here is the only picture (the one on the right) I can find of it online. What do you think? Is it the same one as mine?

Image borrowed from Pink Villa

Don't you think it looks like mine?

I bought this dress (Laura Ashley) from a charity shop a few years ago and have worn it for a few garden parties.

 I paired it with this pink chiffon hat which was also bought from a charity-shop a very long time ago- when my Mum got married, I went to find a hat to wear and came back with 4 hats- 2 from charity shops and 2 from a hat shop!

 For accessories, I chose a pearl collar necklace from Dorothy Perkins that I always seem to wear with this dress, a pearl and fabric rose bracelet from Primark and some Pearl earrings.
I wore some gold Tescos flip-flop style sandals because I wore some shoes that rubbed several layers of skin off the side of my foot and it has spent the whole week generally being gross and being irritated by whatever shoes I wore so these finally gave it a chance to just air it!

At lunchtime today, we had a lovely time as we planned a Royal tea party and all brought different elements for the lunch/tea.  We had a staff photo in our finery and mingled, eating delicious things.

In the last half an hour of school, we got all the children out into the Playground for an assembly where we awarded prizes to Best Dressed, sang the National Anthem and my Drumming Club entertained the masses as a marching band. It was a joyful day!

Occasionally, it is really nice to do something different like that!

What would you have worn for a royal wedding outfit?

xx

Let them eat hats- the Do it yourself Princess Eugenie and Beatrice edition

HRH, The Duchess of Camping, Ms Kezzie Middleton

I really should finish waffling about camp, particularly as I've now been elsewhere, but I do like to remind myself of what adventures I've had.


On the final Saturday, we had a silly competition entitled, 'The alternative royal wedding anthem' in which we had to get teams together to create a performance, creating our own song/ piece for the royal wedding. It was announced 3 days or so before the event was due to happen.
CBC instantly had lots of ideas that we could use quotes from the media to form our lyrics. We got together with a great composer who agreed to write the music and we recruited team members! I was in charge of costumes and I had the silly idea that we could create a range of hideous fascinators alla Princess Eugenie and Beatrice (I was not a fan!). My only resources were a pair of snaffled scissors from the kitchen, some gaffer tape and the recyling boxes. (oh and some gold wrapping paper later found)

The brief: THE MORE HIDEOUS, THE BETTER!
Below I present you with the finished articles.










Er- CBC presents the 'Emperor's new clothes fascinator' accessorized with feather boa.

F models a wonderful gold triangular number, crafted by herself!

'Cat in the hat' and 'Egg box chic'

Backrow left to right: We have 'pre-raffelite lady with floral headband', 'floral fascinator' (knicked from Sound of Music set and attached to a headband), and 'A right royal crown.'
Front row: 'Walkers crisp box flappers'

'Curly whirly'

Finally we have myself, as the bride- wearing my veil and headband from the Sound of Music with my impromptu Prince William.

The performance was fabulous and we won!!!

The fascinators actually only went together around 10 minutes before the performance as I'd been chief orderly officer and had no time.

They will be available on Ebay for very reasonable rates :-)