Can I admit that I’m getting kind of excited for Reese Witherspoon’s wedding? I really hope we see photos and I would love to see a video clip of her special day. A full photo spread is not Reese’s style, but she might release a nice wedding portrait to the press. Radar Online has some more details of Reese’s upcoming wedding, which will have about 100 guests (“intimate” by Hollywood standards) and take place at her estate in Ojai, California on Saturday. Preparations are going on now, with a tent and workmen spotted on the property. Here’s more, from Radar, who also say that Reese’s ex, Ryan Phillippe, is not going to be there. It’s not stated whether he was invited or not.

Reese Witherspoon’s big day and RadarOnline.com has photos of all the latest happenings.

As RadarOnline.com was first to report, the Legally Blonde star is set to tie the knot with her fiance, CAA agent, Jim Toth, this weekend, at her luxury Ojai, Ca home.

And now new photos showing a white marquee being erected on the grounds confirm she is walking down the aisle in just a matter of days.

Workmen have gathered at the impressive Libby Ranch, which boasts stables and outbuildings, readying the hideaway for the ceremony.

Surrounded by cactus and greenery, the happy couple will wed in an intimate ceremony in front of 100 of their closest friends and family.

“Candles and flowers will be everywhere, in white and pastels, for an intimate feeling,” a source confirmed.

[From Radar Online]

I pictured Ryan being wasted and miserable at the wedding. Reese probably invited him, he said he was busy in order to save face, and she was relieved that he wouldn’t be there. There’s too much drama swirling around him like a douchey cloud. He got that chick pregnant, his last movie bombed, he’s been stringing Amanda Seyfried along and using her for photo ops. Having Ryan there would only detract from the news about Reese’s romantic nuptials and give the tabloids more to gossip about.

Reese was seen out to dinner in Brentwood, CA on Tuesday night. Her son Deacon, 7, was dressed up in an adorable suit and tie. It was Reese’s 35th birthday dinner (thanks Andrea!) although we didn’t see Reese’s soon-to-be husband, Jim Toth, leaving that night. We’ll see how much they’re able to catch of the wedding, but I’m sure Reese will keep it all on lock down and make sure she controls exactly what goes out to the press.

Reese is shown with her kids on 3/22/11 and out with Jim after church (they wore that to church?!) on 3/20/11. Ryan is shown on 2/12/11. Credit: WENN.com

This one story has made me respect Jessica Simpson. It’s probably not true, as it comes from In Touch Weekly, but I really, really hope there’s a grain of truth in here. According to ITW, Jessica Simpson’s dong-haze has worn off and now she’s looking at Eric Johnson and thinking, “Gee, I wonder if I could do better than this K-Fed mofo.” Apparently, Jess hasn’t set a wedding date, and she changes the subject whenever the wedding is brought up, all because Eric has been annoying the fart out of her.

Jessica Simpson didn’t hesitate before saying “yes” to her boyfriend of barely six months, Eric Johnson, when he proposed in November. But four months later, she still can’t commit to a date.

“I don’t think she’s in any hurry,” her father, Joe, confirms to In Touch. And that could spell big trouble for the couple.

“Whenever her wedding comes up, she changes the subject,” says a friend.

What has caused her to hit the brakes?

“She feels stressed and overworked,” an insider close to Jessica tells In Touch. “She travels almost every week and has a lot of people who depend on her. She is not feeling as excited as she should be about getting married.”

But the more Jessica stalls the wedding, the more needy Eric seems to get. Every time they’re out in public lately, he holds her as close as possible. And while Jessica was once more than happy to lean on Eric, his clinginess is now killing their once-hot romance.

“She used to be so into Eric,” notes the insider. “But they are together all of the time, and it’s starting to annoy her.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

I would love it if Jessica turned to Eric and asked, “Dude, why don’t you have a job?” But she won’t. She’s already put him on her payroll and he travels with her constantly. I’ve begun to think of Eric like I think of Matthew Rutler, Christina Aguilera’s “handler/boyfriend”. Both Eric and Matthew are basically just their ladies’ assistants, go-to sexual partners and designated drivers. I think their main job description is “don’t let the girl get too wasted, and when she does get blitzed, take her home.” Ah, romance.

I like to think that Jessica’s thought process, below, is “Bitch, did I say you could speak?”

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

I like this news so much that I’m not even going to drop a “Waity” reference in here. Kate Middleton and Prince William have decided that they won’t be doing a wedding registry at IKEA and Pottery Barn! Instead, their people updated the official royal wedding site with information about their favorite charities, and have asked people to make charitable donations in lieu of wedding gifts. But I made Kate a special hat! Oh, well. I guess the hat will be her engagement present, not her wedding present.

Royal officials say Prince William and Kate Middleton are asking for charitable donations in lieu of wedding gifts to celebrate their April 29 marriage.

The palace says that, “touched by the goodwill shown them,” the couple has selected 26 charities with particular resonance for them to benefit from a special charity gift fund.

The charities – including some based in Canada, Australia and New Zealand – represent a broad swath of issues, from support for army widows to local community foundations and the arts.

Anyone wishing to donate can go to a website and pick a beneficiary. The funds will be held in a dedicated account and grants will be distributed in partnership with the charities for maximum impact, the palace added.

[From Huffington Post]

I like this idea so, so much. I think it’s what more couples should do for their wedding registry, especially if the couple already has money, or already has a home and all of their silverware and everything. Of course, I bet many people have already sent their gifts, right? I mean, the engagement is already four months old – they must have already gotten some nice gifts.

If you’d like to see which charities have been spotlighted, go here – the site is very fancy!

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Can you believe Reese Witherspoon is getting married again? I thought that she’d be one of those women who stays engaged for a long time and then breaks it off when she realizes she’s better off not making it official. Reese is a traditional type, though, and she’s been very happy with her talent agent boyfriend, Jim Toth, for over a year. It’s time for them and Reese is going to have a romantic white wedding at home. Radar Online reports that she’s planning a small-ish affair at her estate in Ojai, California for March 26 with around 100 guests.

Reese Witherspoon is wasting no time making her union to Jim Toth official. RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal that the Oscar winning actress will be walking down the aisle and trading wedding vows with the 40-year-old mega-agent on Saturday, March 26th at her sprawling Ojai Valley estate.

The Walk The Line star scooped up the compound, which is often called The Libbey Ranch, back in 2008, when it was listed for $6.95 million.

The 7-acre, 4 bedroom/3 bathroom estate, which is fully equipped with horse stables, a swimmer’s pool and two guest houses, was built in 1923 and has housed everyone from actor/director Harold Ramis to interior designer Kathryn M. Ireland.

Reese and Jim were first spotted hanging out together at the picturesque country home back in March 2010, shortly after they began dating, celebrating her 34th birthday together.

Although Reese has been spotted visiting nearly every designer’s showroom from Los Angeles to Paris since her December engagement, the actress spawned serious speculation that she had settled on red carpet favorite Monique L’huillier, when she was photographed shopping at the designer’s Beverly Hills showroom back in February.

It’s been reported that the couple will be keeping the wedding small — at least by Hollywood standards — inviting around 100 guests, and that “candles and flowers will be everywhere, in white and pastels, for an intimate feeling.”

It has also been reported that Reese has been working closely with celebrity event planner Yifat Oren, who has planned the nuptials for everyone from Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller to Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann

[From Radar Online]

Of all the celebrity wedding photos I could imagine, Reese’s are the ones I’m most looking forward to. (Excepting Brad and Angelina, but you know that’s not going to happen.) She’ll have everything just so, and you know she’ll look beautiful and her kids will be adorable in their wedding outfits. I bet even Ryan will be there, sitting on the sidelines and gritting his teeth, realizing how much he f*cked up. He’ll bring some hot cocktail waitress with him as a buffer and she’ll have to listen to him whine and complain the whole time.

Header photo is of Reese and Jim on 3/13/11. They’re supposedly coming out of church but I hope he didn’t wear those jeans and that ugly shirt with the eagles on it to church! credit: Fame Pictures They’re also shown on 2/13/11, and on 12/1/10 credit: WENN.com

The royal wedding is about six weeks away. Six. Long. WAITY. Weeks. As such, the royal gossip, both official and unofficial, is in overdrive. In the April issue of Vanity Fair, there is yet another Middleton-related story. I think VF is trying to give People Magazine a run for their royal-arse-kissing money, but I also have to hand it to VF: they’ve got some of the best, bitchiest “unnamed sources” out there. Anyway, in the April VF (the one with Sparkles and the gator, LMAO), there’s a story all about Waity Katy’s parents, and what they think of Kate’s grand WAIT and what Prince William thinks of his soon-to-be in-laws. It’s a great read, and for the full piece, you’ll just have to pick up the magazine. Here’s the press release though:

“It is something they absolutely wanted to do, and William graciously accepted,” a senior aide tells Vanity Fair writer Katie Nicholl, confirming the rumor that the Middletons would be making a six-figure contribution to the royal wedding. Traditionally the royal family alone pays the entire cost.

“At first Carole rather enjoyed the attention,” a family friend tells Nicholl of Kate Middleton’s mother. “She seemed to find the whole thing quite dizzying, but the constant nit-picking in the press did get to her.” But, says neighbor and friend Lynda Tillotson, “in the village we are very protective. There’s a lot of camaraderie towards the Middletons. I think they have coped amazingly well, given the attention…. Carole was in here the other day buying candles and she was in great spirits. She’s a great-looking woman, who is always very relaxed, lively, and outgoing…. Michael is a lovely man, very calm and kind.”

A family friend tells Nicholl that Michael, Kate’s father, has been a stabilizing influence.

“Kate’s feet are still on the ground, largely because of Michael. He doesn’t get too swept up in the grandeur of her new life, and Kate loves him for that. She gets a lot of her characteristics from him.”

It’s these qualities which friends suspect have helped Kate navigate her tumultuous relationship and make her family so appealing to William.

“William loves his holidays with the Middletons because they are so relaxed,” explains a friend. “He’s always saying how much fun Carole is. She’s very young in spirit and a great entertainer. One of her and Michael’s favorite after-dinner party jokes is announcing the flights coming into Mustique in their best air-steward voices as they dine alfresco. It always has William in hysterics.”

According to Nicholl, the Middleton children—Kate, Pippa, and James—are incredibly close, and are often seen out together, thus having earned the nickname “the En Masse Middletons.”

“They queue up like everyone else and pay at the end of the night,” says Michael Evans, who manages a bar in London’s Mayfair. “They let their hair down, but they are always reserved.”

“Pippa has always had high standards,” friends say of Kate’s younger sister. “Ideally her date has to be wealthy and clever, and preferably he’ll have a double-barrel surname. It will help that she is now the most sought-after singleton in London. Pippa’s a great networker, like her mother. At Edinburgh she made sure she hung out with the right crowd.”

And Kate’s brother, James, “is very good-looking and likes to flirt,” says a chum. “He dropped out of Edinburgh, where he was studying English, after a year. He was a big drinker and loved to party, but he was more interested in drinking and going shooting than girls.”

All three siblings have at some time or another worked for Party Pieces, the financially successful company founded by their parents. Lynda Tillotson says, “Carole was the brains behind the business. She knows what she is doing and she knows where she is going.”

The head for business runs in the family. As James has said, “I really want to promote my company, but I have to be careful. I work really hard—we all do, and I love what I do—but I can never talk about my sister.”

[From Vanity Fair]

First of all: It amazes me that the Middletons’ are contributing to the wedding costs, it really does. I’m sure it will buy them some respect from the British taxpayers, as well as the famously penny-pinching Queen, but this is the first time I can recall that the commoner’s family contributed to the cost of a royal wedding. It’s just not done! Poppycock.

Next: Carole sounds like a first-rate social climber. And the really great social climbers will tell you: it’s not about playing favorites or always knowing who the most important person in the room is – it’s about kissing everyone’s ass. And Pippa – more than Kate – sounds like a chip off the ol’ block. From what I’ve been reading about Pippa, she’s the one who would probably enjoy being in Kate’s position much, much more. She just sounds so much more out-going and kiss-assy than her big sister.

And it really sounds like William was attracted to not just Kate, but to her entire family, right? His family was and is so famously dysfunctional, it must be nice for him to marry into such a close-knit, normal family.

Ten bucks says William bones Pippa within three years.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are some never-before-released photos of Kate Middleton as a child and as a student at St. Andrews. The Middleton family just released them – Kate was a cute kid, and the photos remind me a lot of the photos of Princess Diana’s childhood too. Both seemed like super-normal young girls who grew up to be princesses. You can see more photos of Kate here, at the Mail.

Anyway, the big news this morning is that Our Little Waity might have gone all “high fashion” and chosen an avant-garde designer for her wedding gown. For the past two months, the only designer name that has gotten any kind of traction is Bruce Oldfield, who many believe is designing gowns for Waity’s bridal party, including her mother and her sister Pippa. I believed that Kate would have chosen someone like Oldfield for her gown too – he’s established, he’s boring, and he won’t rock any boats. BUT – over the weekend, The Telegraph (not a tabloid) reported that Waity might have chosen Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen for her gown. Burton has been head designer for McQueen ever since McQueen committed suicide last year, and Burton has followed in McQueen’s established, avant-garde footsteps with the collection. If Kate chose Burton for McQueen, that would be amazing… but I have my doubts. A spokesperson for the House of McQueen tells Us Weekly that “it’s not true” but The Telegraph claims it’s still on:

It is the most coveted fashion commission of the century: the chance to design the wedding dress worn by Kate Middleton. But the British fashion house Alexander McQueen was desperately denying having won the prized assignment last night as fevered speculation mounted that the dress would be designed by its new creative director, Sarah Burton.

Fashion sources said yesterday that the design of the dress would be a combination of Miss Middleton’s own ideas and Mrs Burton’s quirky interpretation of high fashion.

Work on the royal wedding dress is said to be under way inside Buckingham Palace, but Miss Middleton is determined that details of the design must be kept in the strictest confidence, and her chosen couturier has been sworn to secrecy.

Mrs Burton, who took over as creative director of the fashion label following the suicide of Alexander McQueen last year, strenuously denied having won the commission. But sources said the 36-year-old had been chosen for the discretion afforded by her relatively low profile, as well as for her alternative take on elegance. If confirmed, the selection of one of Britain’s edgiest labels will be seen as a fresh attempt by Miss Middleton to develop her own unique style after drawing criticism in some quarters for her “conservative” dress sense.

The Daily Telegraph reported in December that Miss Middleton’s wedding dress was already being created inside Buckingham Palace by a little known British designer who would be catapulted into the limelight when her identity was revealed. Mrs Burton became McQueen’s right hand woman after joining his label as an intern in 1996.

She presented her first womenswear collection without him at Paris Fashion Week shortly after his suicide in October last year – drawing praise for infusing her mentor’s unique style with a new element of femininity.

Her work is said to have caught Miss Middleton’s eye when she designed an off-the-shoulder wedding dress for Sara Buys, a fashion journalist who married Tom Parker Bowles, the son of the Duchess of Cornwall, in 2005.

Despite being widely hailed as a new British style icon, Miss Middleton was criticised for her conservative dress sense by Dame Vivienne Westwood at London Fashion Week last month. The leading British designer, known for her outrageous creations, said: “I would have loved to have dressed Kate Middleton but I have to wait until she kind of catches up a bit somewhere with style.”

Mrs Burton, who is from Manchester, designed a billowing red and black dress worn by Michelle Obama to a state dinner last year and has also worked on one-off creations for celebrities such as Cate Blanchett, Lady Gaga and Gwyneth Paltrow.

She is now putting the finishing touches to her latest collection, which she will present at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. She today denied designing the royal wedding dress.

A spokeswoman for Alexander McQueen said: “Sarah is busy working on her new collection for the Tuesday show and she was as surprised as the rest of us to hear about this. She is not designing the dress.”

Jonathan Akeroyd, chief executive of Alexander McQueen, reportedly let slip to a colleague that Mrs Burton was Miss Middleton’s chosen designer. But he last night denied that the fashion house had any involvement in the royal wedding.

“Not at all,” he said. “I am the CEO. I would know if we were doing it.”

Clarence House refused to confirm or deny reports that Mrs Burton would design the dress. A spokesman said: “We always knew that there would be a lot of speculation about the appointment of the designer. Because Catherine Middleton is keen to keep this private, we are not responding to this in any way at all. This is about the 10th one we’ve been asked about in the last three months and it’s getting a bit ridiculous.”

Bruce Oldfield, the British couture designer who created Samantha Cameron’s wedding dress and was a favourite of Diana, Princess of Wales, was until yesterday considered the favourite to win the coveted commission. Daniella Issa Helayel, the Brazilian couturier who designed Miss Middleton’s engagement dress, has also been tipped as a hot favourite.

But Hilary Alexander, the Telegraph’s Fashion Director, predicted that Mrs Burton could be called upon to design the royal wedding dress in November.

She said: “If this is true it’s the best news the fashion industry has had in a long time. It is desperately in need of an injection of fabulousness in the wake of the whole John Galliano scandal.”

The royal wedding falls four days before a major McQueen retrospective opens in New York on May 4.

[From The Telegraph]

I wish Waity was this exciting and fashion-forward, but I really, really doubt she is. Her default setting is on “never offend anyone, ever.” And that’s what a McQueen dress would do – it would offend people. Also: I love that Vivienne Westwood doesn’t care. I love that she criticized Waity about fashion. Personally, I like some of Waity’s clothes, and I have to give her credit for always being dressed occasion-appropriate. BUT – the chick doesn’t have a lot of style. At least not what I’ve seen. Her “dress up” party clothes are usually just silk jersey and cheap-looking, and her “work” clothes are just simple suits. She’s boring. And boring doesn’t offend people, I guess.

Photos courtesy of The Mail & WENN.

Kate Middleton is famously “middle class” in England. That doesn’t mean her family is struggling financially at all – it means that her parents were born middle class, and are now very, very wealthy (nouveau riche) because they started a successful business called Party Pieces. It’s a catalog company which sells, for the most part, “kits” to help facilitate parties. Like, kids’ parties and party favors and disposable dishwear and paper hats and tea sets, that sort of thing. Our Little Waity allegedly “worked” for her parents’ company for years, although I tend to think it was the kind of “work” where she got to take off 11 times a year to go on holiday with her prince boyfriend, plus all the time off she wanted to follow him around for various events, shopping excursions, nights out, etc. Quite honestly, I think Carole Middleton, Kate’s mother, agreed and cosigned with her daughter’s “career goal” of getting the ring, and the Middletons helped facilitate the ring-getting however possible.

Now that Kate has gotten the ring and is slowly being introduced to her “royal duties,” it’s time for the Middletons to cash in. Fortunately, no one is writing a tell-all book, and no one is giving some kind of major interview to a tabloid. Unfortunately, their sell-out does involve tacky corgi-themed wedding party crap.

This probably won’t sit too well with the royal in-laws! Princess-to-be Kate Middleton’s parents, Michael and Carole, are hocking items on their online store, Party Pieces, perfect for throwing at-home wedding celebrations for their daughter and Prince William. Although the Middletons deny they’re cashing in on their daughter’s big day, their British Street Party Collection – which includes windmills, Union Jack teapot vases and corgi cake toppers – will coincidentally be available on their site just six weeks before Kate’s April 29 wedding.

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Yeah… this is totally not as bad as it could be, but it’s still pretty tacky. You’d think that the Middletons – who have played everything so beautifully up until now – would have stopped and asked themselves, “Hey, our daughter is going to be queen one day… maybe we shouldn’t try to profit from her wedding with cheap corgi wedding-cake-toppers?”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This odd, moody photo is called “The Smile of a Golddigger On Her Wedding Day, Part IV”. If you look hard, you can see Kayte Walsh flashing her “Frasier Money, Sluts!” smile to the world, because Kayte just hitched herself to the Kelsey Grammer train. Kelsey and Kayte were married today in New York, in an private ceremony which was so very intimate that the press release was pre-written:

A mere two weeks after Kelsey Grammer was granted a divorce from Camille Grammer, the actor tied the knot with Kayte Walsh on Friday in New York City.

Grammer, 55, and Walsh, 29, exchanged vows during an afternoon ceremony at the Longacre Theater in New York City, where the five-time Emmy Award-winner recently starred in the Tony-winning revival of the musical La Cage aux Folles.

“Kelsey Grammer and Kayte Walsh were married today at a private ceremony for family and friends,” his rep said in a statement.

“I’ve never been happier in my life,” Grammer told PEOPLE last month. Added Walsh, a British flight attendant: “I’m extremely happy.”

Following the ceremony, the newlyweds and their guests headed to the reception at the Plaza Hotel, where celebrity event designer Ed Libby transformed the Grand Ballroom into a mix of Hollywood glamour and uptown sophistication, with hundreds of candles, lavish floral arrangements of blush pink and white roses and tulips and a long, regal table where the newlyweds were seated.

The four-course dinner menu accommodated the vegetarian bride and also included king oyster mushroom carpaccio, wild mushroom risotto, grilled filet mignon with blue potato gratin and bittersweet chocolate tart.

The celebration is scheduled to go late into the night at the Plaza, where Libby planned to transform the ballroom into a stylish club with gold lounge furniture, cocktail tables, a dance floor – and a buffet to include braised beef short ribs, poached shrimp and a wedding cake by Sylvia Weinstock.

[From People]

I think I had blocked it out of my mind that Kayte is British. Somehow, that’s a relief. She’s not a standard-issue American golddigger, thank God. Britannia owns this one. Well… congratulations to the happy couple. Good luck, Kayte. Just close your eyes and think of… um… money?

Also – that menu sounds really good. I would love some filet mignon and some mushroom risotto. Kelsey has good taste… in food.

UPDATE: A nice shot of her dress and the ring – I’m glad that she kept it simple, honestly. It suits her.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

America’s favorite Octogenarian titty mogul and his 60 years younger fiance have set a date for their upcoming wedding. Hugh Hefner’s rep tells US Weekly that it will be an “intimate” affair attended by less than 300 guests and will take place at the Playboy mansion on June 18. That will hopefully be enough time to de-louse the mansion after that big Legionnaire’s outbreak earlier this month.

US also reports that Hef’s bride, Crystal Harris, will wear a dress by designer Romona Keveza. I’m not familiar with that designer, so I googled the dresses and they’re very traditional, classic and romantic. For all you can say about Harris, she will probably look gorgeous on her wedding day to a guy old enough to be her great grandfather.

Harris was recently profiled in a piece in The New Yorker about her upcoming wedding. She revealed that she’s going for a “romantic” theme, with a color palette at the reception that her wedding planner describes as “silver and white, and maybe a blush underlay.”

As for what attracts him to Crystal and other very young women, Hef recently said that “you do give up something in the process,” but “There is something wonderful in the student-teacher relationship — the rediscovery, the chance to have a relationship with a younger woman. It permits you to see the things you love with a fresh eye, makes them exciting again.” I think we know Crystal’s motivation. She’ll put in about 10-15 years tops and then she’ll become a wealthy woman before she’s 40. Hef surely has a prenup but he’ll provide well for her. Ms. Harris has her career and life plan all mapped out for her, she just has to keep being a pleasant and willing companion.

After I wrote all that I found this video (below and here) of Crystal and Hef on Piers Morgan discussing their wedding plans. She seems really stoked about it. Hugh said his best man will be his brother and that his two youngest sons will serve as groomsmen. (His sons Marston, 20, and Cooper, 19, are much closer in age to Crystal of course.) Crystal joked that Hugh got married in the front yard already so she asked “if we could do it in the back yard.” They’re going to have the ceremony “in front of the waterfall, very romantic” according to Hef.

When asked what she sees in Hef, Crystal said “I love Hef, we have so much fun together. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in my whole life.” Probably the most generous too.

People Magazine dearly wants to be Royal Wedding Headquarters. The problem is that Kate Middleton and Prince William aren’t releasing a lot of interesting information about the wedding. We still don’t have a confirmation about Kate’s dress, and I swear to God, last night my mother and I just had a heated conversation about how we were worried about Waity Kate’s taste level for bridalwear. Chances are pretty good that Kate is going with British designer Bruce Oldfield, whose wedding dresses are overwhelmingly boring. We also found out this week that Kate has chosen a hat designer for her bridal party. The hat designer is Philip Treacy, and he might be making some kind of gaudy headpiece for Kate too:

Famed hat maker Philip Treacy, whose fans include Sarah Jessica Parker, Lady Gaga and Middleton’s future in-law Camilla Parker Bowles, confirms to PEOPLE that he is making wedding hats for “some members of the royal family and attendees.”

And a new report connects Treacy – and his fantastic creations – to the bride herself.

“Kate recently met Treacy after the Duchess of Cornwall (Parker Bowles) recommended his designs for the senior members of the wedding party, including mother-of-the-bride Carole,” writes royal watcher Katie Nicholl in the U.K.’s Mail on Sunday.

The royal connection is legit: Treacy designed Parker Bowles’s dramatic feathered fascinator when she married Prince Charles in April 2005.

According to the Mail on Sunday report, Middleton will don a veil for the wedding ceremony, but is “keen on wearing something fabulous” for the evening reception.

The bride is indeed expected to change out of her wedding gown and into a different dress for the dinner dance being hosted by Prince Charles where she’ll have Prince William on her arm. Now the world will be watching to see what’s on her head.

[From People]

Jesus, I hope Kate doesn’t wear some tacky hat to her wedding. Diana wore the Spencer tiara for the wedding, and somebody designed the veil around that. Now, I think Kate would be criticized if she borrowed royal jewels for her bridal headpiece, but I have a big fear that she’s going to decide to do something horrible.

Anyway, People Magazine has some additional details about the wedding too:

The guest list has been finalized and the invitations are out. Now, as new details emerge about the April 29 nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton, this much is certain: The bride and groom are determined to do things their way. Case in point: Kate plans to arrive at Westminster Abbey via car, not carriage.

“Catherine opted for a slightly lower-key arrival,” a palace source tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “She felt she would be arriving as Miss Middleton and leaving as HRH whatever, so that was the thinking behind it.”

But fairy-tale fans, take heart: The public will still get their princess-in-a-carriage moment when William, 28, and Kate, 29, leave the abbey.

As for the parties, Queen Elizabeth will kick things off with a post-ceremony wedding breakfast of champagne and canapés for 600. At 7 p.m. Prince Charles will host a dinner dance for which Kate – and some 300 guests – will change into evening gowns.

As the date draws closer, the betrothed couple are working to ensure that not everything is revealed ahead of time.

Says a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman: “Prince William and Catherine are keen that some things be a surprise for that day, for their friends and family and those watching around the world.”

[From People]

“Leaving as HRH whatever…” Ha! Snotty palace sources. It’s up in the air as to what Kate’s title will be exactly – sources claim that William is pushing for the Queen to make Kate a full princess in her own right, meaning their titles would be HRH Prince William of Wales and HRH Princess Catherine. If she’s not made a princess on her own, she would simply be HRH Princess William of Wales. There’s also the possibility that William would get his own title, like he would become a duke or viscount of something, and Kate would get to be the appropriate consort title, like HRH Catherine, The Duchess of Biscuits or whatever. Sigh… why is there not already a Duke and Duchess of Biscuits? Lord and Lady Crumpets?

One last thing, regarding the wedding cake: fruitcake. Seriously. Ugh.

People cover courtesy of CoverAwards, additional pics by WENN.