Here’s the lowdown – just in case you weren’t invited
With a month to go before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, Hannah Higgins finds out everything you need to know.
The couple will tie the knot at noon on Saturday, May 19 at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. It will be 11pm New Zealand time.
The Dean of Windsor will conduct the service and the Archbishop of Canterbury will take the couple through their wedding vows.
After the service, the couple will take a carriage procession along the route from St George’s Chapel through Windsor Town then returning to Windsor Castle.
A reception at St George’s Hall, hosted by the Queen, will be held after the service, with about 600 guests.
Later in the evening, Harry’s father, the Prince of Wales, will host a reception at Frogmore House for the couple and around 200 of their close friends and family.
Regiments and units of the United Kingdom’s Armed Forces, which hold a special relationship with Prince Harry, will provide the ceremonial support at the wedding and carriage procession.
Included are the 3 Regiment Army Air Corps and The Royal Gurkha Rifles, who Harry served with in Afghanistan.
Floral designer Philippa Craddock will create the flower displays for their wedding.
White garden roses, peonies, foxgloves and branches of beech, birch and hornbeam, which will all be in season, are expected to be used.
After the wedding, the couple have arranged for the flowers to be distributed to charities.
Pastry chef Claire Ptak, the owner of London’s Violet bakery, will make the royal wedding cake — a lemon elderflower cake covered in buttercream and decorated with fresh flowers.
Ms Ptak’s business is focused on using seasonal and organic ingredients. She was previously interviewed by Ms Markle for her former lifestyle website TheTig.com.
Invitations to the wedding followed royal tradition and were made by Barnard & Westwood.
The invitations were issued in the name of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and feature the threefeathered badge of the prince printed in gold ink.
Official heads of states have not been included on the guest list. — AAP