Maybe we don’t want to be invited after all…
If you got an invite to the royal wedding this weekend, good for you.
You’ll get to get dressed up, you’ll have some nice food, you’ll be one of the first to witness just who in the name of God is going to walk Meghan Markle down the aisle.
A lovely day for all involved.
Still though, this isn’t a regular wedding – this is a royal wedding – so it makes sense that there’d be a fair few rules that guests need to adhere to.
Some of them are general enough… and others are fairly intense.
This is them.
No cameras or phones
No matter how much they’ll want to do, guests are not permitted to take photos, selfie or otherwise, while the wedding is happening.
Guests have even apparently been told to leave their phones at all to gain access to the church.
We’re not entirely sure how well this rule will go down but sure look.
Wear a hat in the church
If you want to get into that church, you have to wear a hat. No arguments.
The kind of hat, however, you must wear isn’t specified so you could probably stick a plastic bag on your head and you’d be good to go in fairness.
No wedding presents
They have enough stuff, you guys.
Keep to the dress code
As well as hats, guests have also been told to cover their arms and legs (within reason), and women have been told to wear nude coloured tights which, you know, probably won’t happen.
Floor length dresses are also not permitted.
No big bags
It’s just like an Ed Sheeran concert!
No medals or swords
Clearly back in the day, this used to be an issue with royal weddings.
Barons and Dukes would just show up with their swords and everyone would be like, ‘oh my GOD Jameson, why did you bring that wretched hunk of metal here today of all days,’ and Jameson would be like, ‘I am a man and I must assert my masculinity at all times via this sword.’
Jameson, understandably, was not let into the royal wedding.
Sit where you’re told to sit
There will be a seating plan and you will abide it.
Do not leave the church before the Queen
The Queen is the Queen so she gets to leave first – end of.
She’s also a marker for when you should stop eating. Basically, whenever she does something it means that something is happening and you just have to go alone with it.
Don’t wear white
Self explanatory, really.
