Scooping the Dress

So we're less than 24 hours away from the wedding. And the big scoop, the big get right now is confirming the designer of Kate Middleton's dress, and of course scoring the first exclusive shot of it. Not when she arrives at Westminster Abbey, because by then two billion people will be seeing it at the same time. It's to be the most famous, most talked about dress for a long, long time. And one of the most well known in history. So, you know, I get it that the world media is champing at the bit to be able to blast this out before anyone else.

Kate is staying at the Goring Hotel tonight. She'll kiss Prince William per tradition at dusk, and then they won't see one another again until she walks down the aisle. She will depart from the Goring and head straight to the Abbey. They've now erected a tent outside the Goring front steps to prevent any shots when she exits. It'll be a tough get. But everyone is trying. The BBC is out there, all kinds of pap agencies, I mean, they are DETERMINED.

Here's the thing: I'm a total "exclusive" whore too. Obviously. But when it comes to this dress - which I CANNOT wait to see and we've been just spontaneously erupting into random discussions at random times to speculate on it - I want for her to present it to us the way she's always intended to present to us. I want to meet it for the first time at the Abbey, when they can shoot it properly, arrange it just so, with it falling gracefully from her slim figure...

I mean, who wants to see it as she's scrunching herself into a car with her back hunched over in some unseemly position? This from the perspective of a spectactor, I need it in its full glory. So I truly, truly hope it won't get spoiled.

But we can totally take bets and debate about the details. I don't think it'll be princess pouf. I think it'll be sleek to the body. Laura thinks it'll then go like gradual A-line from the waist-ish. Hard to describe. Obviously we've all been standing around, making hand motions about the shape of it for days. We've also been wondering about how Diana's presence will be felt tomorrow. Will there be a secret piece of fabric stitched into Will's jacket, something of his mother's? I just felt a lump in my throat. Or is it simply the selection of Ellie Goulding who is performing at the reception. Goulding sings a beautiful version of Your Song. Your Song was Diana's favourite from the Elton John library. Some of the hymns they're playing during the service tomorrow are the same as the ones that were played during both Diana's wedding and funeral. Maybe that's the nod to his mother. I mean, we could go on and on.

By the way, GOOP is getting in on the royal action too. Today's newsletter is a GOOPy recommendation of how to royal up your day in London if you want to avoid the Mall. Click here to read. And this is also a good read - an article about Kate Middleton the Commoner, Will's social set, Diana's shadow, and ...a hilarious namecheck at the very end. Click here.

Kate and Hot Harry went to the Abbey this morning for a final final rehearsal. Um...should I be worried about his hair? Laura saw him up close super close today, said he was really hot. Maybe not the back of his head. F-ck. This is stressing me out.


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