Wedding of Andrea Casiraghi & Tatiana Santo Domingo, August 31,2013 & February 1,2014


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So there was a party after the wedding, or was it postponed till the religious wedding?
 
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There was a party. They celebrated at the Monte-Carlo Sporting Club long into the night with all their guests.
 
ashelen said:
I really don't like the dress, I think it make her to look fat, shapeless! I don't mind the hippie theme, is that I do not think show her the best! the hear and the flowers beautiful! where is the baby any photo of his sister?
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Oh I thought she looked wonderful. She just had a baby, and if that's "fat" then I will take fat any day LOL!
 
Juliette2 said:
I think you made some very excellent points. I absolutely agree with you. It seems that (except maybe intermittently for Princess Caroline) none of the Grimaldi seems to accept their role. As you say, the opposite from what Ranier and Grace tried to do. It's a pity, really. It's not just that they don't want to be seen as royal; they seem to defy and resist their status. We are at a paradox where "bourgeois" women and men (such as Kate Middleton or Mary of Denmark) are more "royal" than the royals.



They did release a "couple of official pictures".

I think that being that they are both fatherless and already have a baby "official" pictures of the kind that are usually released in these occasions would have been out of place.

Also, it was their day, not their son's.

I agree with the choice they made and I don't feel that they "owe" the public (us) anything just because he happens to be the "title-less" nephew of a sovereign prince who waited 50 years to get married and still has no legitimate heirs. Andrea's "unwanted" position as second in line to the throne ( hopefully, only temporary for him and his wife) does not oblige him to act as, say Prince William. It's a much different dynasty/situation. I am more surprised that they didn't acknowledge their son's birth rather than not having been "gifted" with two stuffy pictures. (Incidentally, I think they will acknowledge Sacha's existence after he will be christened in - I'm sure - a very private ceremony, to take place possibly after or at the same time as their parents' religious wedding).

I'm glad for them (and in fact, given that they belong to the Grimaldis I'm glad they married at all...) and that they had a day which seemed to be exactly what they wanted. :flowers:



I agree with all the comments above by Andolini and Moonmaiden: well said!! :)
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Maybe you're all right and i'm speaking just out of some frustation. I wish the newlyweds a long and happy life together surrounded by an equally happy family. And that's all. THE END!!! :articles:
 
I will join the list of posters who are scratching their heads about what was so "revealing" about Charlene's evening gown in that youtube clip. She is usually at her most stunning in formal evening wear and that pale gray is no exception...she looked gorgeous, imo! :whistling:
 
It isn't the style of wedding that would appeal to me personally, but they did seem happy and that's what counts.
 
Andolini said:
Oh I thought she looked wonderful. She just had a baby, and if that's "fat" then I will take fat any day LOL!
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may be you are right how old is the baby? just that in her position you would think she would have the best diet and training for this special day!
 
ashelen said:
may be you are right how old is the baby? just that in her position you would think she would have the best diet and training for this special day!
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You have perhaps looked at too many pics of post baby Hollywood starlets and thought they they represented normal.
 
NGalitzine said:
You have perhaps looked at too many pics of post baby Hollywood starlets and thought they they represented normal.
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Hahaha!!! That's what I was thinking - I am not going to tell you how long it took me to lose weight after my last baby, but let's just say that it took Moses less time to find the Promised Land LOL!!:lol:
 
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NGalitzine said:
You have perhaps looked at too many pics of post baby Hollywood starlets and thought they they represented normal.
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Well stated. Tatiana has never been a rail thin girl, but I think she looked wonderful and not at all fat in her civil wedding photos.

No doubt, by the time of the Swiss wedding ceremony in January she will have lost all of the pregnancy weight.

I wish she'd pinned up her hair for the evening dinner at the Hotel de Paris, it would have looked much more elegant.
 
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I think I express my thoughts wrong, I think the dress make her to look shepless, it does not mean she is fat, the dress does not give her any shape it is a loose dress and this is what I don't like it! may be she still have the post partum baby fat so that's the reason she choose a loose dress!? hope for a stuning gown for the ceremony in winter
 
ashelen said:
I think I express my thoughts wrong, I think the dress make her to look shepless, it does not mean she is fat, the dress does not give her any shape it is a loose dress and this is what I don't like it! may be she still have the post partum baby fat so that's the reason she choose a loose dress!? hope for a stuning gown for the ceremony in winter
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No you're fine - I was not referring to your post. No worries:flowers:
 
We didn't seen Caroline at the wedding. Only at the court of the palace with all the family.
 
NGalitzine said:
You have perhaps looked at too many pics of post baby Hollywood starlets and thought they they represented normal.
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Ye Gods you and I agree for once. about body weight here
Also I would like to point out that Tatiana was wearing Missoni and that they, the Missonis were at the ceremony who own that house of couture.Missoni has eclectic and expensive knitwear so I am certain that in close up that dress was exquisite . Also would like to point out that Tatiana is still breastfeeding.Another point would be that Tatiana comes from wealth so I cannot imagine her doing the very conventional stuff with veils and trains etc.I now realize she is quite a thinker and that is reflected in how she comports herself.I really like her.
 
wartenberg7 said:
I think they, including Albert and Charléne, consider themselves more of a jet set-celebrity-family rather than a royal one, and it seems they don´t want to be seen as such.
I cannot help myself, but I´ve never reckoned Stéphanie for instance as "Princess", more a wealthy jet-set-lady from the Cote d´ Azur. When they attend european royal weddings or jubilees, they seem to be strangely misplaced.
Living in circus-trucks, dozends of children out of wedlock, affairs, divorces etc. is the opposite of what Rainier and Grace once built up.
Don´t get me wrong - I have nothing against Andrea and his new wife, as I do not even know them. But this "royal Game" in terms of the Grimaldis is quite a farce to me.
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I totally agree. I was thinking about this the other day, but you put it in much nicer terms than I would have.
 
wartenberg7 said:
I think they, including Albert and Charléne, consider themselves more of a jet set-celebrity-family rather than a royal one, and it seems they don´t want to be seen as such.
I cannot help myself, but I´ve never reckoned Stéphanie for instance as "Princess", more a wealthy jet-set-lady from the Cote d´ Azur. When they attend european royal weddings or jubilees, they seem to be strangely misplaced.
Living in circus-trucks, dozends of children out of wedlock, affairs, divorces etc. is the opposite of what Rainier and Grace once built up.
Don´t get me wrong - I have nothing against Andrea and his new wife, as I do not even know them. But this "royal Game" in terms of the Grimaldis is quite a farce to me.
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I have no doubt that the Grimaldis do not consider themselves Royal, and for good reason...they aren't. The current Ruling Family are descended from the Ducs de Polignac, which is a Princely/Aristocratic line and not a Royal one.

Anyway, as nontraditional as their behavior is I think it's a bit hypocritical to pretend they are that much different than all the other so called "Royal" families today. We have two divorcees who will be Queen someday, another Queen-to-be who is a confessed former drug abuser and party girl, an heir to the Throne caught talking dirty to his married mistress on tape, and a Royal prince who may be about to marry his reality TV/soft porn model girlfriend. Those are just a few I can think of right off the top.:ohmy:

Are the Grimaldis really so awful in comparison? I don't think so.
 
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Moonmaiden23 said:
I have no doubt that the Grimaldis do not consider themselves Royal, and for good reason...they aren't. The current Ruling Family are descended from the Ducs de Polignac, which is a Princely/Aristocratic line and not a Royal one.

Anyway, as nontraditional as their behavior is I think it's a bit hypocritical to pretend they are that much different than all the other so called "Royal" families today. We have two divorcees who will be Queen someday, another who is a confessed drug abuser and party girl, an heir to the Throne caught talking dirty to his married mistress on tape, and a Royal prince who may be about to marry his reality TV/soft porn model girlfriend. Those are just a few I can think of right off the top.:ohmy:

Are the Grimaldis really so awful in comparison? I don't think so.
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:D Well said.

And may I add: I do not feel entitled to pics of anyone, royal or not. People have private lives and all the rights to have them. Even public figures, paid from public money, are entitled to their privacy. It would have been nice to have had more pictures from the wedding, but I understand and respect their privacy, even though, purely for my own, selfish pleasure I would have liked to see a whole album of the wedding party with all the details. :p
 
Why must a civil ceremony take place first, when the Catholic Church does not recognize civil marriages in the first place?
 
sarahedwards2 said:
Why must a civil ceremony take place first, when the Catholic Church does not recognize civil marriages in the first place?
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Does the government recognize religious ceremonies?
 
In the USA you get your marriage license from the local records of deeds office and then can be married by any authorized judge, lawyer, priest, minister. They sign the license along with 2 witnesses and it is submitted for recording. No need for 2 ceremonies. Your Choice in who marries you.
 
Grandma828 said:
In the USA you get your marriage license from the local records of deeds office and then can be married by any authorized judge, lawyer, priest, minister. They sign the license along with 2 witnesses and it is submitted for recording. No need for 2 ceremonies. Your Choice in who marries you.
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Yes, but in much of Europe what happens is you first marry in a civil ceremony then if you wish you marry in a religious one. It's neither better nor worse than the American way, just a difference in culture. I'm pretty sure that Europeans aren't the only ones who have more than one ceremony either.
 
sarahedwards2 said:
Why must a civil ceremony take place first, when the Catholic Church does not recognize civil marriages in the first place?
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Because it many European countries, a civil ceremony is required by law for the marriage to be valid, not a religious one.

Observant Catholics must therefore meet the legal requirements just like any other citizen, but since a Catholic can only be validly married before a priest and two witnesses they also have a ceremony.

This confuses many Americans since you actually choose whether to have a civil or religious ceremony, not both, once you have acquired a marriage license.
 
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Why is it that Andreas is marrying religiously in Gstaad and not in Monaco? He will likely be their reigning prince one day and the people of Monaco could use the renewed interest in the principality.
 
I think I read somewhere that Tatiana was born in Gstaad. So they reached a compromise where they could have their marriage ceremonies in the places they were both born...Monaco and Switzerland.
 
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