Eugenie to wed it like Beckham
How do you follow a wedding like Harry and Meghan’s? For Princess Eugenie, who will be married at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, next month, the answer is easy: do what David and Victoria Beckham did.
Eugenie has called in Peregrine Armstrong-Jones, the celebrity party planner who created the exuberantly extravagant wedding reception for Posh and Becks at Luttrellstown Castle, near Dublin, in 1999.
While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex needed only a single day and night for the first royal wedding of the year in May, Eugenie, 28, and her husband-tobe, Jack Brooksbank, 32, will stretch their celebrations into a second day after a
Friday morning service on
October 12.
A post-wedding lunch hosted by the Queen will be followed on Friday evening by a black-tie reception at Royal Lodge, Windsor, where Eugenie’s parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, still share a home despite divorcing in 1996.
Anyone still standing after the traditional festivities will be invited to the Royal Lodge on Saturday afternoon for a ‘‘festival and funfair’’ themed party organised by Bentleys Entertainment. The A-list party planning firm was founded by ArmstrongJones, the half-brother of the late Earl of Snowdon.
Bentleys dreamt up the £500,000 (NZ$988,000) Irish castle reception that featured the Beckhams perched on golden thrones in matching purple outfits, among other blingtastic excesses.
‘‘After the more formal celebration [of Eugenie’s wedding] at Windsor Castle on Friday, the Saturday bash will be a relaxed party,’’ a source said. ‘‘There will be dodgems and funfair rides, coconut shies, lots of food stalls, loads of cocktails, bloody Marys for the hangovers and a festival vibe.’’
The couple are understood to have invited about 500 guests. –