Kate Middleton & Prince William are turning the palace into a cheesy disco

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As I mentioned earlier, I’m surprised to find that only OK! Magazine and Life & Style have royal wedding covers this week. I hope the tabloids deliver next week, post-wedding. So, for last minute wedding details and news… Kate was photographed driving herself to London – you can see the photo here. And we’re now getting super-detailed descriptions of what is going to go down on Friday and how it’s all going to play out:

Only days before her wedding, Kate Middleton admitted that she was a bundle of nerves thinking about the big day. But as she and Prince William exchange vows at the altar of historic Westminster Abbey on April 29, their hearts and minds will be filled with thoughts of love, not trepidation about the fact that 1900 guests in the church—and an estimated two billion people around the world—will be watching the bride and groom say ‘I do.”

The historical day will be groomed down to every last detail starting with the ceremony itself.

“The vows will be traditional, the service will be traditional and the hymns will be traditional,” author of The Making of a Royal Romance, Katie Nicholl, tells Life & Style. The Dean of Westminster, John Hall, will welcome the bride, wearing a rumored ivory, satin and lace gown, and her beloved father Michael and lead them through the church around 11 am—per tradition, Kate is expected to be a few minutes late. Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England, will marry the couple.

William’s brother and best man, Harry, admitted that their mother would be on the boys’ minds on April 29, as they stand in Westminster Abbey, where her funeral service was held back in 1997. “I hope she would be very, very proud that the big day has come upon him,” the 26-year-old says. “We all thought it was never going to happen.”

Following the traditional ceremony and horse-drawn procession to Buckingham Palace, the lavish reception will begin. The Queen’s reception for 600 guests with champagne, canapés and cake cutting will be followed by a private dinner and dance hosted by the Prince of Wales, which will be just for the bride and groom’s closest family.

Breaking from tradition, William and Kate have arranged for a nightclub to be set up in the palace and organized a professional DJ and decks, a dance floor, lights and a cocktail bar.

“They have always been determined to make this wedding their own and different and I think they have succeeded,” Nicholl tells Life & Style, “It truly is a fairytale romance but with all the reality of real life.”

[From Life & Style]

Other pieces of news: The Sun claims that Kate is having nightmares about the wedding, and that she keeps dreaming about showing up naked. The Mail claims that Pippa Middleton wants to put mirrored disco balls in the throne room for the post-wedding disco party. Let’s see… the Middletons’ company, Party Pieces, is offering party supplies for “street parties” for the wedding. Gauche! Oh, and now it’s assumed that William and Kate are Torys, because they not only invited the current Tory prime minister (David Cameron) and the two living former Tory prime ministers (Thatcher and Major), but both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown (the past two Labor PMs) were snubbed. That is… kind of rough.

By the way, did you know that Kate was offered the cover of Vogue UK to coincide with the wedding, and she refused? Ugh.

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  1. RHONYC says:

    who cares?

    the only the thing i give a damn about is…WHAT IS VICTORIA WEARING TO THE WEDDING?!

    her preggers style has been hot, hot, HOT!

    i’m not tuning in, so kaiser, i’ll be looking to you for pics straight away, k. 😉

  2. WhiteNoise says:

    Harry – “I hope she would be very, very proud that the big day has come upon him,” the 26-year-old says.

    Verily thus spake he.

    Love it. 😆

  3. Cheyenne says:

    This came from Life & Style?

    ’nuff said.

  4. the original bellaluna says:

    I’ll only watch if Joan Rivers is narrating the goings on. In a hushed golf-tournament announcer voice, natch.

  5. lisas says:

    I don’t think “offered” is the best word to describe a fashion magazine’s attempt to get arguably the world’s most-watched woman on their cover. “Begged her to be on it”, maybe. “Threw themselves on the floor and pitched a tantrum, which failed”, perhaps. But offered? Ha.

  6. Roma says:

    I like Kate a little more hearing that she turned down the Vogue cover.

    “We all thought it was never going to happen.”

    Was Harry making a little Waity diss?

  7. JustBored says:

    LMAO @WhiteNoise…Love it as well.

  8. truthSF says:

    Wow, their baby/babies are going to have HUUUUUUGGGE teeth. 🙂

  9. Enny says:

    I’m not sure I care for Waity on her own, but as a couple they’re kind of cute and I think they work. She makes him more glam, he makes her more grounded, they both make each other more real.

  10. EbonyShiksa says:

    “She” refused? Oh no. The Noble House of Windsor REFUSED, and she consented.

  11. jc126 says:

    Can’t wait til this wedding is over.
    I try my best to avoid stories about them, but the headlines are everywhere. I swear that her smile is getting more and more like the cat that ate the canary. She’s a gold-digger. Which is fine, I have no use for the “royal family”.

  12. Lynnie says:

    The “snuggly” engagement photo is adorable. I really want to see these two be married for a long, happy time.

  13. dorothy says:

    I think it’s sweet. I was a young girl when Diana married. I was taken away by the Cinderella atmosphere. Most of us as girls dream of that….Kate gets to live it. How wonderful. After what we read about what with Lohan and her drug problems and how she has wasted her life. And LeAnn Rhimes how she seems to just not get that it’s not ‘ok’ to steal a man from his wife and family. This is a nice change.

  14. Obvious says:

    My roommate and i decided to have a Wedding-thon and tune in. Mainly this is a good excuse to veg out with cheesecake coffee and ice cream with cinnamon rolls =)

  15. CC says:

    Why is it such a bad thing that Kate turned down the cover of Vogue UK? Is it so bad that she doesn’t want to pimp out her wedding?(*cough*ReeseWitherspoon*cough*)

  16. sapphire says:

    Sorry, cynics, I am going to break out the Bailey’s and coffee and whatever decadent breakfast stuff I can find and WATCH THE ROYAL WEDDING. I never bought off on the Charles-Diana fairy tale-obviously untrue from both points of view, even while it was happening. But these two seem like fairly nice if boring young people.

  17. searching4grace says:

    I can’t wait until this wedding is over, either. Ugh. NO LONGER ENGLISH COLONISTS. I don’t care about the royal wedding. Went to the store yesterday? They had a big table with Mini wedding cakes and magazines with Will & Kate spread around them. Love how commercialism crosses every pond.

  18. gg says:

    Call me a sap, but hellz yeah I’m watching anything that shows the inside of the Abbey. Love this stuff. And I will be crying too. 😛

  19. Devon says:

    I’m so watching. Coverage starts, I think, at midnight on the west coast so it’s going to be lots of coffee & treats to keep me going! I don’t have anyone to watch it with but it’s still going to be an amazing thing to see.

  20. Mingy says:

    CC, I’m glad she turned down Vogue too.

  21. dovesgate says:

    I love weddings. The gown, the cake, and with a royal wedding – the tiaras, the cathedral, castle and sheer wow factor. If I didn’t have to work, I’d be glued to my tv. As it is, I’ll have to set my dvr tomorrow morning. I hope they film the “disco” too haa. That would be awesome.

  22. Anonymous says:

    Damn sick of these two

  23. stephanie says:

    i think it’s probably appropriate to not do the cover of Vogue. She’s trying to impress the Queen, and the Queen would probably frown on it.

    It’s driving me crazy that everyone’s calling it a fairytale romance. It’s so NOT. I mean, he made her wait for nine years, and she mainly did because he’s a Prince, and then finally, beaten into submission by the media circus and the impropriety of ending it, they marry. And the fairytale is…?

  24. Hmmm says:

    Good old Vogue. So ‘gracious’ of them to offer Waity the cover. Cha-ching!!!!! Bloodsuckers.

    She refuses now. But one day she will not refuse. Mark my words.

  25. eternalcanadian says:

    Most curious Harry would say “We all thought it was never going to happen.”

    Gives the impression that everyone thought William would just string Catherine along, eh? Charles’ remark about William and Catherine “practicing long enough” is also telling.

    I really do think 8 years is a bit of a cop-out to “see if she can handle being a Royal.” I think William was hoping someone better would come along. After all he did pursue a few of those women he invited to the wedding and they turned him down.

    But to hear this from Harry himself really puts a new slant on this whole “so why 8 years?”

  26. Mag says:

    @eternalcanadian – I agree. I found it bizarre that his father and brother said that. I also found it odd that he waited for 3 weeks or something to ask her when they were on holiday (!).

    @Stephanie – Yep. The timing was everything. It had to be now or never. Next year is the Olympic Games and the Queen’s golden or diamond jubilee. For a country in a double dip recession there is really no money and like most government need something to distract the populace from noticing. I think he was pressured from several different angles to do it.

    She’ll pull a Mary of Denmark and be on the cover as soon as the wedding is over.

  27. Adrien says:

    “Kate Middleton & Prince William are turning the palace into a cheesy disco”
    – …and this should be a good thing.

  28. JulieM says:

    Mag, eternalcanadian, stephanie: Yes, exactly, I could not agree more. Let all the fairy tale believers revel in this (it will, indeed, be quite a pageant) day and enjoy it. Even I want to see “the dress”. But mark this as the beginning of the end of the House of Windsor. The Middletons will make the Spencers and the Fergusons look classy by comparison.

    Disco at the palace: Whatever. Very dated.

  29. Micki says:

    There’s nothing like middle class bride to destroy a “traditional” Royal wedding. The Queen must be pissing gasoline

  30. Kim says:

    The Queen is THRILLED William is marrying and the fact that he is marrying a middle class commoner is even better because the common people are now much happier with the Queen since they feel Katie is one of them. The Queen is estatic he is marrying and marrying a commoner at that. That speaks voulmes for the Royal family where in years past this NEVER would have been allowed. The Queen loves her grandkids esp. William and wants him to be happy at any cost. The Queen is beyond excited for the wedding!

  31. danjuma says:

    We’ve been watching cnn & bbc reports on the forthcoming royal wedding from Nigeria. I wish them the best!

    Im glad to see that the royal family (and seemingly the British populace) still honour the marriage institution. Glad that the Prince Williams chose to marry Kate and not a Prince ‘John’.

    Also heart warming is the fact that the royal family could have chosen to hold the wedding ceremony in the palace but chose to wed in the Church. This act honours God, the Author of the marriage institution!

    Considering that an estimated 2 billion people will be watching the wedding worldwide, these two acts are very significant indeed!