7:29 CST, watching the feed on NBC
The Royal Family is standing on a balcony at Buckingham Palace. To William’s left are three kids: a little girl in white, a and two little boys in red coats with yellow shields and black crosses on them.
Who are those kids? Kate’s niece and nephews?
one of them was Camilla’s grand-son.
Pageboys and flower girls?
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sorry - grand-daughter.
WHY were all the attendants (except the Maid of Honor and Best Man) little kids, anyway?
Makes William look taller.
Because it’s a wedding. I don’t know how it works in the US, and I have seen adult bridesmaids in the UK in recent years, but traditionally bridesmaids and page boys are little kids.
In the US, bridesmaids are almost without exception relatives or friends of the bride, usually around her age. Girls younger than 10 or so are flower girls. There used to be a category called junior bridesmaid, for a girl 10-14, but that kind of went out when brides started becoming determined to match up their wedding party members as if they were chorus lines. No 25-year-old groomsman wants to escort a tween girl down the aisle. Sad, really.
ETA: We don’t have page boys; if you have a young boy you want to put in your wedding, you make him the ring bearer and send him down the aisle with the ring(s) pinned to a little pillow. Best if they’re replica rings in case he runs out the side door of the church.
Who was the little girl holding her hands over her ears?
You’re so wrong it’s hard to know where to start. The only sad thing in the statement is your view of 25 year old men.
Grace van Cutsem; see jjim’s reply above as to who she is.
I’ve seen photos from royal weddings in the early- to mid-twentieth century, and the bridesmaids generally appeared to be roughly the same age as the bride. For example, here’s a photo of the wedding of Princess Mary to Viscount Lascelles, in 1922. The bridesmaids all look adult to me.
And they are all so Happy, too!
(I know it mainly because of the photography technology at the time)
I don’t know how Tiggy Legge-Bourke pronounces her name, but pronouncing it the way I choose to pronounce it makes it my new favorite name ever.
Teegy Leegy?
I retract my statement and apologize. This is GQ and I shouldn’t have said anything. I’ve just been around too many brides who felt they had to fill a “Y chromosome” quota. Sorry.
Oh, I’m sure some weddings have adult boyfriends, but I 100% guarantee that the convention in England is to have children as bridesmaids and pageboys. I’d been a bridesmaid 7 times by the age of 9.
I prefer Tiggy Leggy Boorky. Sounds like the Swedish Chef describing a lamb dish.
You’ve been to too many “modern” US weddings. Or seen too many episodes of Bridezillas. In which case it would be all too easy to think that current practice involves matched pairs of bridesmaids & groomsmen. With the bridesmaids in hideous dresses & the groomsmen’s cummerbunds in hideous colors to match.
The groomsmen don’t care who they escort down the aisle. Their job is to pick up the rented suits & help people to their seats. At Westminster Abbey, officials helped heads of state to their places & most other guests fended for themselves.
Here, the groom’s job is to pick up his suit. William was apparently quite involved in the arrangements & he already had the uniform.
Speaking of the uniform he wore to the wedding, was that the same dress uniform that would worn by any officer of his rank, or was it a special one for a royal?
