I’m super late posting regarding the royal wedding but I was on vacation in Florida getting engaged myself! I was also preparing to see the space shuttle launch the same day they were married so I missed out on the festivities until later in the evening.

I’m sharing a few thoughts now because friends have asked several times what I thought of The Dress. Of course Kate looked lovely. The dress fit her divinely. It’s perfectly hemmed. The plunging neckline is beautiful on her and quite appropriate for brides with smaller busts. (No cleavage in weddings ladies. It’s a wedding not a stage show. Save it for the after party.) My favorite part of her dress was the veil. Veils filter light in such a glorious way imparting a mysterious, ethereal beauty to brides. Remember how beautiful she looked in the car ride to the Abbey?

Many people do not know that Church of England weddings require brides to wear sleeves. I’ve always been a fan of sleeves on wedding gowns. I’m a firm believer in modest wedding attire (obviously). Strapless is so ubiquitous to the point of being quite boring. It’s nearly impossible to find a dress in the States that has sleeves. I do hope that this royal wedding spurs designers to break out of the strapless design prison they’ve found themselves in for the last 20 years.

Kate has wonderful style so I had no doubt she and the dress would be lovely. Unfortunately I can’t say the same for Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice. They looked like the Ugly Stepsisters from Cinderella:

Ladies take note: Larger busted women should never adorn their bodices with bows. Or wear hideous print fabric in an awful shade of blue. But the “what was she thinking” award has to go to Beatrice for that hat. Aside from the fact that she is an unnatural skin shade for women with auburn-ish hair, AND said skin shade is quite unflattered by her choice in dress colors, that uterus and fallopian tube contraption on top of her noggin is a head scratcher. And that eye makeup? If photographs render you with the appearance of two black holes where your eyes should be, you should probably back away from the charcoal shadow.

It is indeed true that money can not buy taste but it can afford you a superb stylist. Princesses, I suggest you run off an invest in one straight away.