It is longer to recover from a sudden death like this... you are quite unprepared... two months are nothing.
This is a shock. It goes to show that you never know, posters were predicting the father of the bride's demise and now this.
I don't know how she can go on with her wedding less than 2 months away.
The religious wedding--well, she will have a white dress and that's will elicit comments.
I don't know what etiquette rules there is in Belgium and Luxembourg when it comes to wearing mourning dress/colours at a wedding, but in Sweden proper etiquette says that "wedding breaks mourning" and thus it would be wrong to wear mourning colours at a wedding. As for mourning colours, white was the colour of deepest mourning for European queens for a long time and queen Fabiola of Belgium did wear a white dress at her husband's funeral, and queen Elizabeth, the queen mother, had a white wardrobe at a state visit to France after her mother's death in 1938. Mourning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis may change the type of clothing worn at the wedding meetings other than the religious ceremony. The colors at least. And it will make it not appropriate to have the narrator for television who we have heard would be doing this, a couturier. Stephanie and her family probably have plenty of clothes in the right colors for a mourning period, so it should not be a problem unless people are too concerned with style. I hope to hear no comments about her style at the pre-wedding gala or at the civil ceremony. The religious wedding--well, she will have a white dress and that's will elicit comments. And of course the other participants will need to be in subdued colors, such as Maria Teresa and all the countesses and princesses.
Yes, the gala dinner will most likely be only dinner and no ball afterwards. An other alternative could be that only the families of the bride and groom attend the civil ceremony on Friday and the royal guests attend the religious ceremony with a reception afterwards on Saturday, so that the wedding will only be a one-day event for most of the royal guests, as I think the Belgian royal family will attend both ceremonies as being close relatives.But Meraude, I am certain there will be some type of reception otherwise it would be pointless to invite all the foreign Royalties and heads-of-State that I am sure will be invited.
They can't just invite them to witness the two ceremonies and then send them to the airport with a wave good-bye.
What will probably happen is that the Gala that was to follow the civil ceremony has been downgraded from a ball to a dinner-with no tiaras.
Then after the Nuptial Mass the following afternoon there will be a luncheon/reception.
Many of the European Royals who will be attending this wedding are not only family but close friends, and they are all undoubtedly deeply saddened for Guillaume and his bride.
too bad..
would the wedding continue despite of the sad event?
I think plans will go ahead unchanged at the moment.
I think plans will go ahead unchanged at the moment.
If, God forbid, Stephanie's father would also die before the wedding, plans will change probably.
Maybe a postponement untill next spring would be likely.
It's all speculations, and I don't think there will be any official word if there will be any changes made to the wedding plans until after the funeral of comtesse Alix, there will be time to discuss eventual changes when the de Lannoy family have made their final farewells to a beloved wife and mother.Has anyone received official word that the two-day wedding has been scaled back to one day or is it just speculation on this board?