Boris and Carrie have got married!

BlueSky

Loved Carrie’s look, even though I’m not a fan of wedding dresses, especially the garland of white flowers which looked lovely with her long blonde hair.

Me too, BlueSky. I thought the dress was perfect for her.

Chestnut

Lucca

Chestnut

Galaxy

Crikey believe me he is not an alpha male. Unless you mean that all the husbands of the people who have managed to remain faithful are somehow less of a man?

Boris definitely is an alpha male. But an alpha male is not necessarily a womaniser, so there's no disrespect to any alpha males who stay with one woman.

In what way is Boris an alpha male ? Genuine question.

I think this list describes Boris pretty well. Whether you think he's good looking or an 'effective' leader is a matter of personal opinion of course. But he is a leader not a follower.

They're Keenly Aware of Status.
They Tend to be Good Looking
They're Effective Leaders and Exist at the Top of Their Status Hierarchies.
They're Confident.
They're Extroverted.
They're Visionary.
They're Successful with Women.
They Don't Shy Away from Conflict.

Definition taken from a website called The Adult Man.com???

Ah well.

I googled ?

"From 1 July 1837 it has also been possible for a marriage to take place, without banns, in a District Register Office or in a certified building (usually a Roman Catholic or Nonconformist church or chapel), either by Certificate or by License, both issued by the Local Superintendent Registrar."

There must be a way to get a special licence to marry without reading the banns. For example people who are dying might decide to marry quickly with no time to wait.
My parents had their banns read in Rome to marry but were married in London by special licence though I can't remember why.

Maybe none of the people who were in on the ‘secret wedding’ blabbed and those who weren’t invited obviously aren’t churchgoers otherwise they’d have heard the banns being called each week.

Don't you have to read the banns in England? How could they keep it a secret?

Well, my marriage break down ripped me apart and I felt that I’d let my children down. I lost the only family that I’d known since my own parents died. I’m not holding grudges. We’ve always been there for each other and always will be but nothing will take away the pain of the two years when there were three in our marriage until I couldn’t mentally cope with it any more.

he loved a bit of wedding cake ?
?

We went to a wedding where ex-MIL was a guest of honour so there were three mothers there.
The bride said she loved her ex-MIL, pity about the son.

I’m still in touch with wife No 2. There were 2 others after her.
It was wife No 2 that I found hiding in my house. That was a fun evening ? Even better, she was one of our employees and we all had to go to work together the next day.
I was the first person she phoned when my ex had his eye on No 3 ( he loved a bit of wedding cake ?)
Me and my daughter laugh at his antics. My daughter has me in tears of laughter over him.
At my daughters wedding, myself and partner, wife No 2 and partner and ‘our’ ex were all at the same table, fabulous day.
No point in holding grudges. It only harms you.

I love the way they blindsided everyone! They apparently sent out ‘save the date’ cards that, on reflection, were ambiguous as they stated ‘come and celebrate our wedding in June 2022’. What they meant was ‘come to a party and help us celebrate the wedding that we actually had last summer!’.

Very clever. Kept it personal and very private. Lovely really.

BlueSky

Agree with Calli ‘Boho Chic’ I love it, might even wear similar if/when I remarry!

I think slender is the key so boho chic is not for me now!

I do remember making a flower garland like that in about 1967 though - If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair .... (or, in my case Cornwall).

Agree with Calli ‘Boho Chic’ I love it, might even wear similar if/when I remarry!

What a lovely bit of upbeat news.

Let’s hope Boris has at last found the one for him.

Life’s too short and uncertain to wish them anything but the very best.

I wonder if Dilyn was allowed at the ceremony. He appears to be a key member of their family. I hope he didn’t snaffle the bloater paste sarnies ?????

And - you can't choose for them

Love is blind, JaneJudge!

thank God for that Callistemon

Boris however, looked like he'd just finished a shift in a call centre

Deedaa

I thought the dress was ok, although I wouldn't have paid £3,000 for it, but does no one else feel that the whole look was more suited to a teenage hippy not a 33 year old woman? As for the flowers - perhaps if it hadn't been to big. It looked as if it was going to slip down over her ears at any moment. We already know that Boris is old enough to be her father but this look really underlined it.

I think it's just the kind of style my DD would choose and she's even older than Carrie!

I think it's boho chic.

But her taste in men may not be similar.

The Catholic Church had rather horrible rules long ago re.marriage outside the church and children born of those marriages.
My MIL a catholic from birth, married my FIL a non catholic , in 1926.Because he was not willing to convert to Catholicism MIL was told by her parish priest they could only have what the church called a mixed marriage which meant a very quick exchange of vows with no Mass, music or hymns.
She objected to this as she felt her husband -to-be was going to be treat as a heathan so cancelled her church wedding and they married in a registry office. The priest came to see her afterwards and asked where she had got married.When she told him he replied that her marriage was non existent in the eyes of the Catholic Church and unless they came to church for a blessing she would be regarded as living in sin and any children they had would be illegitimate.
This priest scared her so much she was frightened to go back to church for many years, and took both my husband and his sister to be baptised in the Anglican Church.Despite this she remained a catholic throughout her life, started going back to Mass when she got older but still remained terrified of priests and avoided any chance of speaking to them.
I am a practising catholic and am so pleased they are more lenient now but in the past t was not like this.

It's usually necessary to give 28 days notice before the date of the marriage and this is publicly displayed. How is it that nobody noticed? Or did he get special permission?

My own feeling is that he knew DC's disclosures were in the pipeline and thought that he'd turn the media focus away from DC to himself. Judging by 1/2 the comments on here people are very happy for him.

I think it is really funny that the wedding happened without a single whiff of it to the hungry media.
Boris and Carrie have pulled the wool over their eyes for once! I hope they enjoyed their intimate private celebration with their friends and family.

I thought the dress was ok, although I wouldn't have paid £3,000 for it, but does no one else feel that the whole look was more suited to a teenage hippy not a 33 year old woman? As for the flowers - perhaps if it hadn't been to big. It looked as if it was going to slip down over her ears at any moment. We already know that Boris is old enough to be her father but this look really underlined it.

Galaxy

There is also some interesting work being done in America I think about what that kind of thing means for the children of those who are in deprived areas. It is disastrous. Pretending serial adultery involving children is ok tends to impact very badly on those who are most vulnerable. This is not to hold Johnson reasonable for this but rather to say that if as a society we pretend it's ok (none of us would wish it for our children so it is a pretence ) then it might not work out so well. It's useful to discuss the wider implications rather than focus on a particular couple.

yes, it most probably is

There is also some interesting work being done in America I think about what that kind of thing means for the children of those who are in deprived areas. It is disastrous. Pretending serial adultery involving children is ok tends to impact very badly on those who are most vulnerable. This is not to hold Johnson reasonable for this but rather to say that if as a society we pretend it's ok (none of us would wish it for our children so it is a pretence ) then it might not work out so well. It's useful to discuss the wider implications rather than focus on a particular couple.

However it is often the case grannygravy. I say this as someone who would never judge the behaviour but nor am I willing to pretend it is a good thing for the children concerned. I say this as someone who made mistakes with regard to her own children.

Loved Carrie’s look, even though I’m not a fan of wedding dresses, especially the garland of white flowers which looked lovely with her long blonde hair.