Yay! I was hoping we would get to actually post a photo of Sophie Hunter’s wedding gown! And here we go. Maison Valentino posted this Instagram – taken from Sophie’s wedding gown fitting – several hours ago. This is the same photo that Vogue uses, just FYI. The bride wore silver-grey instead of white, and I really don’t have a problem with that. I also like that she had sleeves, although I could do without the high neck.
There are also some additional details about the gown which I found interesting. I mean, nothing is going to beat the quotes we already had, in which Sophie sounded really pretentious. But I thought you would enjoy this:
The dress, which featured an elegant high neckline, long sleeves and a sweeping train, is described as a “high-waisted medieval gown”.
According to Vogue, Sophie brought her paper mood boards to a meeting with the Valentino designers and during their three-hour brainstorm session, she showed them Anna Karenina-inspired dresses and Gustav Klimt landscapes. The result was the exquisite, pale silver dress, embroidered with motifs of vines and pomegranates.
Although Sophie was in the second trimester of her pregnancy, her growing bump was barely visible. The dress acknowledged her bump, but didn’t emphasise it.
“It seemed to encapsulate everything I’d been speaking about,” the English Rose said. “It feels very much of nature, and it’s so detailed and extraordinary that I’m still trying to get my head around how beautiful it is.”
Sophie was also presented with a matching silk velvet cape, in case of rain on her big day.
While Valentino usually takes at least six months to create a gown, Sophie’s couture dress was completed in just three. Celebrity photographer Annie Leibowitz was then flown out to Rome to shoot the fitting.
I can’t believe Annie Leibowitz had to fly to Rome just to photograph Sophie’s fitting. Of course, Annie also had to fly to Amal Alamuddin’s dress fitting with Oscar de la Renta last year too. Why does Annie keep getting these assignments? Poor Annie. As for Sophie and her gown… now I want to see the silk velvet cape. And I never want any dress I wear to be described as “medieval.”
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Instagram.
Love it. I want to see the cape too.
I agree- its stunning- its one of the loveliest if not the loveliest wedding gown I have ever seen on anyone – pregnant or not.
STUNNING. I love her gown. Exquisite, so elegant, I LOVE it.
She looks wonderful in it.
Yes – oddly, though, when photographed in the Rolls on the way to the church, the dress had clearly been significantly altered to one with a scooped neckline and cap sleeves. Hmmmm.
It’s such a tease!!! Don’t tell us there’s a matching silk velvet wedding cape and then not show us!!!
Gorgeous and so singular. Cool that she wanted them to use Klimt’s golden ladies as inspiration. It’s one of the more beautiful celebrity wedding gowns I’ve ever seen, totally to my taste.
I think it’s stunning! I’d love to have a silver-white wedding dress.
I think it’s stunning and original. Really suits her and her baby bump.
It is really beautiful.
I much prefer of-white wedding dresses, rather than those neon white ones.
I don’t like the pattern. Lovely colors thou, and I like the details on the sleeves. More silver to the people!
Regarding Annie, she’s broke! Most likely takes every job she can get
Agreed, I love it. Are we moving away from the strapless wedding dress trend? I hope so.
+++!
I think it’s beautiful as well – would have been better without the high neck (IMO) but still very beautiful.
Me too! Sorry but I don’t get all the shade for SH, she is lovely for CB.
i don’t like it, it’s very old ladyish, and not in a good way.
It’s like something a jilted bride ghost would wear in a shitty horror movie. I don’t like it at all.
bwahahahahhahahahahahahhahahaha I just fuck!ng lost it at work!! OMFG Jilted bride Ghost
Ha ha..that’s the perfect description.
I can imagine her sleepwalking around Draculas castle in it. Very Hammer horror.
I was thinking tablecloth or curtain, my grandmother would like, but that fits as well.
That description makes it even more appealing. Although I don’t like the high neck.
Lmao! Jilted bride ghost!
I kind of like it, but that is hilarious.
Angelique from Dark Shadows
ell,
In a Miss Havisham way?
Have no idea. I’m here just to give you a peck on the cheek.
Eve,
Peck received. Thank you! Now here’s one back….
it is okay-lovely material but a bit nondescript and mumsey in a an elderly royal way.Still considering her other choices it could have been worse.
It suits her, nicely done.
That’s how I read it too.
I think it’s gorgeous, just love it!
Yes. Beautifully done.
She wears it well. Very lovely.
I fully agree
I think the fabric is lovely and silver is a beautiful color on her.
Beautiful! Original. But not for long. I see a lot of long sleeve high-necked wedding dresses in the future.
This is gorgeous and very appropriate to her circumstances, but why is she in Vogue?
Vogue is running out of ideas, and has been for years.
Vogue is a glorified People, just more expensive. Both are useless.
This. Vogue used to have an actual cultural voice. Now, it’s just all ad dollars.
@Freebunny – it was the barest fig leaf of an acting career, but if you say it counts then shouldn’t the same hold true for Sophie’s list of work too? We both know no one would be interested in those two if it wasn’t for their SOs.
I must be the only one who thinks that dress is ugly. I mean I like that it isn’t cookie cutter, but the only thing I see that I like is the sleeves.
I don’t love it, for me. But the style seems to match her sensibilities.
I see rolled up jeans.
What are her fashion sensibilities though?
With the exception of that red Oscars dress, she usually looks like a dowdy school teacher, so where do medieval pomegranates fit in?
I could see it working in her video.
Such delusional!
I think it works on her, I don’t hate it. It’s very theatrical. I don’t mind swimming against the stream. The end.
Kitten
That dress she wore not too long ago to the BP charity dinner was gorgeous.
And some of her casual style looks both comfy and far from dowdy. That bright yellow skirt coming (?) from their honeymoon was great.
To me, tea-length skirts and flowery patters are dowdy, so are billowy tops paired with mom jeans.
And I’m no h8ter, I just h8te her fashion sensibilities.
AGREE WITH ME OR ELSE!
@FLORC-the navy gown? YES! I admit that one was lovely.
She gets it right every now and then, but she’s mostly fashion misses IMO.
Kitten
Tea length is a look I don’t get.
And being athletic you might like this. Carrie Underwoods athletic line Calia is covered in faded, overlapping flower patterns. As well as billowy tops. I’ve never seen such dowdy sportswear.
I agree the majority of her outfits aren’t stellar, but she does have some fashion sense. And as much as her style isn’t something i’d like on myself it is a style she wears pretty well. As in she wears the clothes and not vice versa.
Fair enough, FLORC.
Also, I just googled Calia and WTF?
I HATE loose tops or any kind of loose clothing when I’m working out.
With the exception of a couple pairs of plain leggings she had in her collection, everything was awful.
BTW I just ordered a second pair of Saucony Kinvara 5s. I’ve never worn minimalist sneakers before but I fell in love with the feel of these. Anyway, they are the OPPOSITE of dowdy..lol. In fact, all my gym clothes these days will hurt your eyes with all the colors 😉
Kitten: in medieval times, Pomegranates were a symbol of fertility or hopeful fecundity of bride. I’m not surprised SH has used fertility/fecundity symbols embroidered onto her wedding dress since she is with child during the wedding process.
Based upon her few quotes in the article, you can see how she’d be that literal whilst equating it to a theatrical, deeply intellectual rendering of her state. As an artist.
Kitten
Doubtful! I am all about the high vis colors this spring. No more treadmills for me!
Calia appears to be a line of clothes for people who want to look nice at the gym. I can’t stand that style.
As far as running shoes I only go higher than $50 for long races. Training shoes wear so fast. I just need something that doesn’t hurt.
I was a saucony girl. Now i’m new balance 610v4 for race. And light NB for training.
It’s light with enough flex, but also keeps out enough of the water or mud.
So happy the snow is gone! I heard a thunderstorm near me last night! It’s saying something people are giddy over these things.
I hate it. Fugly. The style matches her personality but it’s just all around ugly. The high neck can’t be done with that material and the half sheer sleeves are throwing me off.
What about her is ugly?
Did she kick a kitten? Or is this just gossip stuff?
its her husband, florc. or simply put: jealousy.
Lying is ugly, IMHO. To me, lying is among the very few things I can’t compromise with and all people around me know that and have experienced it personally. I find it cowardly and disgusting. And yes, not correcting published lies counts as a lie to me.
I was talking about the dress. I don’t care for her with or without BC. You might be confusing me with one of the other 5 Dani’s.
*By style matching her personality I mean the cut, the material, it’s very posh, traditional. I have nothing to be jealous of, Kara.
Dani
You can atleast see how your phrasing didn’t include style and cut of the dress.
It did read like you called her and the dress “fugly”.
Mary-Alice
Then nearly everyone covered on this website is ugly. As well as many people you know in a day to day setting. We don’t always correct things for many reasons. We forget, we can’t find the time. If she’s doing something like claiming she was a navy seal and profiting on that, being found to have lied and continuing to profit from that lie then that is ugly. Anthing short of that is petty to me.
I think many dislike her from how BC introduced her and handled the engagement. She seems harmless and lives privately. I will say this. I can’t stand that artsy snooty personality.
I think it’s hideous. The only thing I like about it is the color.
My mental dress critic monologue when I saw the picture was ‘lose the sleeves, tone down that lace pattern, bring that toned down lace all the way up to the high collar instead of reverting back to sheer’ – so basically, ditch everything but the overall silhouette and the color. Between this and her airport footwear, I think we can safely say girl is all about the silver.
I don’t like it either. Love the fabric, not the design. What bothers me even more is that in this infamous article it’s stated Galliano designed the black Margiela dress FOR HER. NO! The dress was featured on the runway in red and was part of the collection and was available in more colours TO EVERYONE! Ugh, they are trying to make her happen, aren’t they? Designed for her, my *ss.
That dress if designed for her would have run either Cumberbatch or Mama Hunter around $250,000 minimum. He’s notoriously frugal and he’s not getting paid for gigs the way Downey and Pitt and Affleck are. So either Valentino and Hunter traded a bit of mutual exposure for the dress (which she didn’t even wear in this form on the Day Of) or she’s going through Cumberbatch’s money as fast as she can.
The fabric looks amazingly like my new curtains from IKEA (which I love). I’m not trying to be catty — same fabric.
Are you f****ing kidding me?! I’m tapping out.
March wedding? Valentine’s day is in February I thought? Nice going, not so helpful caption.
And Annie L. is still awful. Any teeny bopper with an iPhone could have taken that picture in one shot. But noooo AL has to Photoshop it for some reason. She’s just riding on her past reputation at this point.
Is Annie L still crazy in debt? I thought that was why she was taking all these sh*t jobs.
Probably. You don’t get out of that kind of debt easily. Especially not when the world finances was tumbling down at the same time.
That was my first thought, she needs the cash.
Well, you kind of also do whatever Anna Wintour says if you ever want to work in fashion again. So, there’s that too. When is this chick going to find something else to do? It’s been almost 30 years. Even Vreeland retired.
Oh it’s gorgeous! Love the colour.
It is beautiful and actually reminds me of my mother’s dress.
But if they were really keeping things private, why is the dress in Vogue?
Doesn’t Annie have serious financial problems? I’m guessing that’s why she does these gigs – she needs the money.
She does indeed. I actually came here to say the same thing. Annie Liebowitz is millions and millions of dollars in debt and spends like she’s dying tomorrow. She is going to be taking an awful lot of these jobs for a long time.
Didn’t she lose a lot of money in the financial meltdown? Or are her money troubles separate from that?
Her money troubles were separate from the financial meltdown and entirely self inflicted. She had a ridiculous lifestyle, and just made really really poor money decisions – in addition to maintaining her real estate, she was also a really expensive photographer who would intentionally go over budget on shoots and then enough up having to cover the cost herself. She even put up her photos as collateral for a giant loan without realizing it, and I think accidentally sold the rights to her work. At one point she was something like $20 million in debt.
She spent like money was water for years, and at some point it all came home to roost.
Maybe I’m thinking of Kevin Bacon. Someone famous lost money in a Ponzi scheme, right?
Bacon and his wife did lose a few million from Madoff.
I dind’t know Annie ruined herself like that. She had some amazing photos. Now she’s more of a name.
@Algernon, you’re not wrong. There was a ‘mini-Madoff’ named Ken Starr that ripped off (or tried to) a bunch of big name folk, Annie included. She’s had other money issues as well, but that can’t have helped the situation.
Annie didn’t lose money with Starr, rather he grants her a really predatory, massive loan forwhich she put up the ri ghts to her photos as collateral. I think she ended up losing those when she couldn’t pay, but hadn’t realized what kind of a deal she was getting Into with Starr.
A lot of celebrities lost money with Madoff, but were pretty embarrassed to admit it. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedwick are just the most honest about it.
She is in trouble and I believe sold the rights to her photos a while back. She bought this amazing townhouse and spent ages doing it up but all the work she did damaged the structure I think of her neighbors house and she had to pay a huge sum to them. She might have sold the townhouse for $20m or something.
This dress looks too much like a tablecloth to me. I would have liked to see it without the embroidery on it. I would have also have liked to see the full effect of the cape with it. The colour looks good.
Curtain comet sophie does it again!!
I kinda liked it. If one of my friends get married, I’d love to see her wearing this, it’s much more authentic and remarkable than what I always see when I go to a wedding.
Me too. I will not hate on this dress. Plus, it IS really hard to dress formally when really pregnant. This dress would be pretty if she wasn’t pregnant and she will be able to look back and like this dress I think.
Got that out of my system! All that drivel that came out of her mouth??? I can’t, I can’t.
‘The English Rose’ – PUKE!
She so got knocked up deliberately for the doors it would open – she’s a desperate famewh*re.
Waiting for a post on her husband and his personal involvement in the reburial of his new famous ancestor, Richard III.
obviously you were with them while they were conceiving that child, so you know exactly that she got knocked up deliberately. aaah this old argument excusing men for not taking any responsibility and using contraception. it’s even worse when it’s women perpetuating this idea.
I am so sick to death of the shotgun marriage argument. It is so sexist and degrading. We live in the 21st century, they are adults, this is not the effing Guiding Light. People choose their paths. Deal.
ITA, ell. I just SMH at this kind of nonsense…like he’s not a grown-azz man who can’t handle his business in the bedroom.
Oh yeah because he would be ostracized by his peers and disowned by his family if he didn’t marry her.He was trapped.He had no choice .He was young and confused.
#SARCASM
When is their baby due?
exactly, we live in the 21 century. No need to marry just because you knocked someone up. Rush into it in the middle of a oscar campaign no less? No need to wonder what’s up at.all.
Maria, maybe just maybe they actually wanted to get married and have a family together. 21st century ya know.
Are they also silly attention whores who are full of themselves? Apparently. Such a rare thing in Hollywood! So much to wonder about! Get out your binoculars! A superficial attention whore just walked by!
But they are also grown ass people who are making their own choices. Nobody is putting a gun to anybody’s head.
Now let’s giddyap and mock those choices. We can start with the dress. Mock! Mock! Mock!
Make up your mind Jupeterio. Are they Hollywood famewhores or grown ups who wanted to get married? You seem more invested in this than most people here. Come on now! Defend the complete strangers who gets mocked on the gossip site! Start with the shot gun wedding. DEFEND! DEFEND! DEFEND!
Wow. Proud sexist up there, I see.
Oh Maria! They could be BOTH. Can you imagine that?
People you or anybody else do not find “likable” get married all the time– they get what they want, have children, launch projects, take vacations, and they have happy and successful lives. Because guess what? None of us are perfect! Somewhere out there is somebody who doesn’t find YOU to be particularly likable, and I hope your life doesn’t revolve around that. We all have flaws, even you. And I doubt that Sophie really cares whether or not you like her.
I know this doesn’t work if you must believe that the universe is an orderly place where only those you deem deserving and worthy go on and do well, but there you have it.
I was also being sarcastic about the mocking part. I can’t believe anybody makes time for this nonsense.
Well Betti I will go against the tide of responses here to your post and agree with you. I think this has been fishy from the get-go, I think despite all Cumberbatch’s public protestations about “privacy” his wife is busily using her new marriage to gain herself exposure, and this may be the 21st century, but on the off-chance he IS gay, this may be the 21st century on the calendar, but an out gay male actor stands no chance of becoming the Big Leading Man Cumberbatch is desperate to become before he inches over 40. And no 38 year old man likes, on the eve of what was projected to be a major awards season career jump for him, being made to look like a fool by a clever climber. The dress IS lovely – I’m sure the wedding was, too, and I’m sure whichever one of the rings she’s alleged to be wearing as an engagement ring (the “large cushion-cut diamond” she’s been displaying since her first red carpet with him or the sudden appearance of the “fragile sapphire” that no one has seen yet). The pap shots in CA smelled to high Heaven, especially the CA gas station ones, and yes, even in the 21st century, public personalities can get maneuvered into a corner – witness, viz. to wit: Jeremy Renner.
No one has any idea what Cumberbatch might want to keep hidden, and to assume that his wife’s appearance in VOGUE isn’t somehow a result of who she knows (friend of Weinstein, AW is one of Uncle Harvey’s besties . . .) come on. Betti is right: this woman couldn’t wait ten minutes to start using her marriage for higher visibility. Yessiree bob, the name Cumberbatch (did I forget to mention the huge crush AW used to have on Cumberbatch?) is getting Ms. Sohpie lots further than the name Hunter was.
And if this is the effing 21st century, why was Cumberbatch so desperate to try to hide when she got pregnant and make it look like they were already planning the wedding when she got pregnant, forgetting that he later admitted they weren’t engaged last October . . .
And why does he look so effing miserable?
X1000
X 1 million…
Thanks seesittellsit. I may have been a little harsh with my choice of words but this sort of thing happens more often than we all care to admit – it happened to my brother. Don’t really understand why I am being called sexist for calling a spade a spade.
I don’t think he’s gay but he’s all about his image and it wouldn’t do for him to have an illegitimate child running around. If you put it about as much as he was alleged to have been doing, you will eventually get caught out. I think its simply a case of he was making the most of being single and it bit him on the ass. This is all been about saving his image and she is making the most of an opportunity – i don’t recall other celebrity significant others getting a Vogue editorial.
I love the silver and the dress works for her, but not a fan of the pattern. As long as she loves it, that’s what’s important. 🙂
There is NOTHING ‘medieval’ about that dress. Brocade does not equal medieval. With the high neck, tulle sleeves and empire waist that dress screams 70s wedding gown to me.
I do like the silver color, tho.
Yes! My mom’s early 1970s wedding dress had the same empire waist, long sleeves and mock turtleneck…
Silly person. High neck, tulle sleeves and empire waists were all medieval styles.
Annie is taking this work because she is in need of the money. She had to sell a sizable portion of her back catalog along with residences because she has been living beyond her means for a VERY long time. So, I am sure that she is taking anything and everything offered because it would be considered a business expense, a write off, and she is getting paid.
She’s already heavily pregnant, why wrap her in embroideries of fertile vines and pomegranates? On the other hand the dress is lovely aside from the chest area. Interesting how much pull a B list actor has in the fashion world.
Anna Wintour has ALL the pull in the fashion world. She loves Benedict, and she’s also very tight with Harvey Weinstein
Her dress is elegant and suitable for her age. It’s nice to see a bride who isn’t half-naked in her wedding gown.
“The result was the exquisite, pale silver dress, embroidered with motifs of vines and pomegranates.”
I love the dress in the photo, but the description sounds like a Pre-Raphaelite nightmare. Pomegranate motifs– for a wedding? Does it come with a Hermetic divorce attorney?
Lol!
I think it’s pretty, and I, too, would like to see the cape.
I know a lot of people don’t like Sophie Hunter, but I’d rather see her in the pages of Vogue than Kim K.
ANYONE is better than KKW in Vogue
am I the only woman insulted by the fact that both of these women are in Vouge solely because of their SO? Like they are worth more after they were chosen by men?
My thoughts exactly.
@Maria – no, you’re not. I feel the same way. Wintour’s philosophy regarding Vogue, especially her need to elevate celebrities and/or their SO’s claiming it’s art is the reason I cancelled my subscription.
punkymomma. I didn’t mean just Vouge, seems like the women somehow get elevated to a higher level of respect in a lot of areas based on the men they were chosen by, not their own achievements (which are non existent in some cases).
Nope, maria, you’re not the only one. I would find being lauded for being Mrs. Soandso or Girlfriend Soandso a source of shame.
Maria – I understand your point and I agree with you.
What a pompous a$$hole. She seriously needs to get over herself.
Now now, that’s not very nice is it?
Don’t hold your breath.
It suits her – totally her style. I like it, it’s different and hey, sleeves.
I like it but I think the fabric is too busy and too heavy looking for a pregnant woman. It would look stunning with a tighter fit on top and a flowy skirt.
It suits her and her vision from what i read on the Vogue article.
I do lol at the angle and the holding out of the dress at the back to minimise bumpage but thats me being bitchy.
(Someone might want to tell Valentino, she got hitched Valentines Day, not March)
I know it’s just a superstition but I’m 99% sure vines on a wedding dress are bad luck
Vines on a dress is bad luck? I’ve never heard that before.
“What to make the dress of is every bit as important as how to construct it or what color to choose. Silk is the preferred material. Satin brings bad luck, and velvet threatens the wearer with poverty. Unpatterned fabric is deemed best, but if a patterned style must be risked, on no account should the pattern include the forms of birds or vines.” It’s snopes and ehow but like I said, just a superstition.
Good heavens, I just looked up wedding superstitions, and you are right! That’s hilarious!
wow did not know about these superstitions
Cribbed from a book on symbolism in art:
“The Celtic meaning of the vine in druid lore is ripe with symbolism. The vine is a theme repeated over and over in Celtic art. Interconnections and winding vines are commonly seen on tapestries, writings, knot work and carvings. This indicates the symbolism of connection, eternity, and diversity (branching and expanding in new directions). Other meanings include regeneration, continuation, fertility, bounty.”
Here’s the part you guys will love:
“In the Druid perspective, the vine earned its symbolism from its growth patterns. They recognized the vine grows opportunistically, and would dig in wherever feasible in order to gain a strong foothold to assure its own growth.”
Vines can be parasitic, you see. 🙂
Pomegranates have a symbolism that goes on for miles– abundance, fertility, and good luck. Here’s a fun bit:
“Ancient Egyptians regarded the pomegranate as a symbol of prosperity and ambition.”
No shortage of ambition here!
And we know who’ll provide the prosperity, don’t we?
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The face in your avatar has never been more appropriate or fitting
LOL…
@ Lindy:
Considering the surrealness that is Hollywood — or anything Hollywood related, for that matter — that face is ALWAYS appropriate. Why do you think I chose it?
@Eve, Are you naffing around, again?
https://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/6869825922_7553b75d7c_z.jpg?w=560&h=747
@ Kiddo:
If only I was that glamorous.
That’s a nice story they are telling but why are their paparazzi shots of her walking into (maybe out of) the venue wearing what looks like a white, lace-y dress?
Yeah. I don’t like the design, but the color and lace in this dress looks beautiful. It just doesn’t look a mite like the dress the paps photographed her in on the day – at the church. Shrugs.
Ironic that so many people are upset that she’s been trying to be made into some sort of fashion icon. Yet, people are discussing her fashion. So, it’s working. And I agree. It looks to me like this woman has been waiting for her life as a verified, certified Vogue-approved socialite to begin since forever.
I agree. I imagine she buddied up to all those men in the pr industry waiting for her coattails to arrive. I hope she enjoys it: socialites are nothing but snipey arrogant women and they’ll go to town on her making her name on being a knocked up bride 🙂 and when all the google searches turn up nothing but chatter about her bad behaviour you bet they’re laughing behind shotgun hunter’s back already 😀 😀
Time will tell. Tongues will be wagging about somebody else by this time next year. I think those PR people are just her friends. For some weird reason, lots of rich kids get into fashion and entertainment PR. Maybe because it’s “glamourous” and they can afford to take the crap pay.
I’m perplexed. This is a completely different dress from the pap shot I saw of Sophie going into or out of the church. There was just one pic, and it wasn’t of this dress. The dress I saw was sleeveless—has anyone noticed she is usually sleeveless? I suspect she wants her tentacles to be free. But maybe my eyes were blurry that day. Maybe the pic I saw was a Decoy Bride. Has anyone else seen this pic? Was Cumby as confused by the two dresses as I am? Is he wondering if he went to the wrong wedding, and now has to check with Hiddles to see if he’s actually married?
The dress I saw had wide shoulder straps, and there wasn’t a high collar. Why would you wear one dress, and pose in a different one for a magazine?
This woman is a very odd duck (octopus). This should be an uproariously fun marriage, what with both spouses being so whimsically bizarre. Their unsuspecting little baby is in for a barrel of laughs.
I remember that dress as being sleeveless on the day, this one in Vogue looks like a completely different dress, the colour, neckline and sleeves are all different. I either need to drink more or less, not sure which cause this is confusing me.
Is the dress blue or white? 😉
Hello, Zapp Brannigan. I like your name. I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers seeing a different dress. I wouldn’t assume this has anything to do with your drinking. I was cold sober when I saw the other dress, and thought it was odd for a winter wedding. Also, they mention a cape in case of rain, but it was raining and there was no cape in that picture. I read that the rain started just as Sophie walked toward the Church and thought what a charming touch that was. Ha!
Maybe she grew out of the Valentino? Women’s bodies can change very quickly from week to week towards the third trimester (which there’s no way she wasn’t approaching rapidly on her wedding day). If that’s the case, what a waste of money and people’s time. If a specific wedding vision is really that important to somebody, they should wait until it’s not ridiculously inconvenient. Or they could just get over it, be happy that life fell into place so quickly and have a wedding that didn’t fit all of their girly-girl fantasies, but was wonderful none the less.
You have a very good eye, Nunny!
Thank you, Miss Jupitero! ~curtsy~ I wonder now if there will ever be a wedding picture published. I think no. This is very disappointing, as more than anything, I wanted to see what the groom wore. I was half hoping that he got married in his beloved chambray shirt, maroon jeans, and of course his white flat cap.
Perhaps the Reverend warned him that he could not wear his favorite ensemble to Church?
Perhaps Harvey changed his mind and asked Wintour to take back the silver dress, which explains her furious and moody appearance at the Baftas… a week before the wedding. Or maybe BC told her I ain’t paying for that dress you’ll only wear once, after receiving his bills…hence the death glare during the bafta?!?!
viki,
That is so short-sighted of Cumby, because Sophie could easily wear that dress to her next several weddngs.
Maybe she had multiple weddings – so that it was a bonafide artisanal performance!
I don’t like the dress – reminds me of those terrible lace curtains that are so popular with the old Irish (not to diss the Irish – just their curtains).
BTW, I am the poster formerly known as Green Eyes who sometimes frequents the Cumberlooney threads. I saw another poster with the same name and with a pic of a Bischon, no less, and I of the Proud Pug Persuasion, made haste to create another CB Persona! Or should I say, proud Pug Persuasion Persona (say THAT 3 times fast!).
Oh and just so you know, if anyone steals this name I will cut a b!tch!
Pug avatar, please! I once read something about factoring cost per wearing, so if Sophie has five weddings then that’ll make that OTT dress more cost effective.
man, this one REALLY loves attention. another Amal.
I sometimes think the same. Though I’m not so sure. I hope that car ad was a one off thing but we’ll see.
Amal annoys the hell out of me for some reason though I generally like her style ( amazing coats and dresses), and that’s the only reason I look at her. Also I like what Amal does, that she has a job other that to cater to GC and club. I hope that’s how it’s going to be.
I like the dress but I thought she was Scottish? English Rose?
@idsmith – she’s English, born and raised in England. After her parents divorced, her mother moved to Scotland. She may have other family there, too. I’m not sure.
But wishes she was French. Jamais.
I like it. It looks different. I like that it isn’t white. But they could have done a better neckline while keeping it modest. I want to see the end result though, the whole ensemble to be able to judge it better.
And yea, that last interview was terrible. She not just sounded pretentious but also terribly boring.
Annie Leibowitz needs all the money she can get. Don’t feel bad for her. It’s her job and she’s being paid.
You’d think having a salary well over $5m a year you would be ok but def. over spend thinking she was a Rolling Stone not photographing one.
is this going to have to be a thing now?
an obligatory image of a woman in a dress on a table being fitted by smug-looking designers?
ugh.
who gives a sh*t
Exactly.
I find these types of stories bizarre. Why is our society in a stepford wife phase?
@HoustonGrl: yesss! I often wonder what happens to us at the moment. We´re heading straight back to the fifties, and I hate it.
The U.K. and NY theater scene didn’t value her. The man whom she belittled until several years ago made a big success in theater and films. When they met again, she was an escort.
Now she obtained his property by shotgun wedding, she wants more lofty CV….
I think it is beautiful, however, I couldn’t handle the high neckline. I’d feel like I was being choked.
Does anyone know the price of a couture Valentino wedding gown, especially one that had to be rushed and had (from the sound of things) specially-woven fabric/lace? I haven’t flown to Paris to update my wardrobe lately so my internal calculator might be off. I want to say around $200-500 thousand usd, but I could be wildly over or under since I also haven’t factored in the currency exchange rate or any sales tax.
If you are a ‘friend of the house’ (read that as ‘Anna Wintour tells you to’) there is probably a nice discount, not like your average Russian oligarch or Brazilian cattle baron who would have to pay full price. It is a beautiful dress, thumbs up to the color and if she lost the sleeves and the high neck along the way more the better.
Wasn’t the wedding itself a quiet, country affair though? That’s a lot of dress for a small English chapel. A creation like that needs a full on cathedral to balance it out. And I hope she changed into something else for the reception. It would be a crying shame for such a work of art have a wine spill or sweat stains from all the artistic dancing that must have gone down at the party afterward.
possibly $150k-200k a regular couture gown $40k, she obviously didn’t pay. He seems too tight to fork out that kind of cash and she probably doesn’t have it. It’s too fuddy duddy for my taste but seems to be her if you know what I mean.
You’re looking easily at 3 figures for a couture dress from one of the big houses, even with the discount she would have gotten via Anna Wintour. Unless its a freebie in exchange for an exclusive to Vogue or Vogue paid for it as part of the editorial deal.
Like the colour, dress is interesting but too lacy for my tastes. Like the sleeves but high collar is a no but she does pull it off.
I’ll say $200K USD. And if he didn’t pay, it had to be a Wintour mandate, which means Anna loves her some Cumberbatch more than anyone can imagine. Like really loves him, with, like, a real human heart and stuff. Because Valentino doesn’t need to do this for publicity. People with money to buy Valentino aren’t impressed by Benedict Cumberbatch’s wife. They aren’t disgusted or insulted by her either. But they DGAF enough for a free haute couture wedding dress for the wife of an A- list actor. Don’t even try to say it’s about Sophie and her career either. Mama is no Julie Taymor.
Ridiculous waste of money, whoever footed the bill.
Alice, it is a shocking extravagance for a dress you’ll wear exactly once. I’m torn about haute couture honestly. It is wearable art, and the amount of work-hours that goes into a single dress to be hand-sewn is staggering. That kind of skill is very rare and many, many hands contribute to the final product. When you think of it that way, it’s a reasonable sum, if not exactly a bargain.
Word.
My local museum once had an exhibit of couture – the actual clothes themselves, not photos. Dior, Chanel, Balenciaga, Givenchy, etc. and I agree that they were works of art. I just don’t agree with wasting that much money on a dress you’ll wear once, for a wedding that may well end in divorce(a high percentage do, and especially celebrities). I’m sure my perceptions are somewhat colored by the fact that I’ve spent over half my life working as a teacher in a school where 88% of the students come from families at the poverty level.
@Alice, I agree there, it’s an awful waste for a one time wear. If I I were lucky enough to be able to afford a couture experience (or be gifted one), I’d select something that I could wear to death, and then be buried in it. I loved that Keira Knightley wore a Chanel dress she already had in her closet for her wedding, then wore it several more times before it succumbed to a red wine catastrophe at a party. That’s how I would like to roll.
@Darya Keira is my type of gal. I bet she didn’t say her wedding was art, theatre, opera, blah blah blah. 🙂
I also don’t like the idea of spending that kind of money on clothes, but I bet here no actual money was spent…
@hermi – I did an eye-roll when I read that part. Please, a wedding is just a wedding. It’s the actual marriage that deserves that kind of thought and effort. At the end of your nuptial day, if you are legally hitched and your guests had a good time then it’s all good.
How many people witnessed the majesty of this super-theatrical spectacular-spectacular? A few dozen maybe? I can see going to all that trouble and expense if hundreds are witnessing the special event, but for just close friends and family…pfft, forget it. That’s why part of me thinks the photos will appear at some point, it cries out for a 4-page spread in some glossy celebrity or society publication.
Is she standing on a table/box for the fitting because it looks like theres a good foot of extra material at the front there, even with heels. It was made for her so theyd have had her measurements from day one.
Unless she was wearing stilts or those bouncy pogo legs things for her wedding which, im not gonna lie, would have been hilarious and amazing but not entirely unbelievable given her interview.
They probably needed to allow for how large her baby bump might become.
Bouncy pogo legs are a MUST for a wedding! lol
I must ask though, why is she shoved in our faces THIS much? What is the exact deal here?
Yeah, where’s Eddie Redmayne’s wife’s Vogue spread?
That is the question..
Did anyone forced you to click on the article and then comment? You have a choice to avoid the article.
I do have a choice, but she is suddenly everywhere when we never heard of her before this.
It’s been a tough day and my eyes are tired and I saw this:
Beautiful Sophie Hunter with Creative Directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli pimping her couture dress…
It’s pretty, but it’s not the dress she got married in…on February 14th, not in March.
Gorgeous dress.
I don’t like it at all. I hate the high collar and the empire waist. The sleeves are lovely, though. I would not wear this dress anywhere; it’s just not my style. Not knocking her style.
Yes, poor Annie Leibowitz, getting paid royally to travel the world and do her job. Seriously?
I like it! I don’t think it would work on me necessarily but I really like it. It def suits her; which is the most important thing in a wedding dress imo.
Edit: I can kinda see the medieval influence too. It’s that kind of dress construction that medieval dresses had and the embroidery on her sleeves look like gauntlets. At first was going to say empire but the waist is too long for empire. Empire itself was inspired by or supposed to be a return to antiquity.
Ok I’m taking off my fashion geek hat now.
It’s elegant and suits her and her vision. I don’t think the photo does it justice, though.
I just can’t get past the fact that they look like siblings.
I was just thinking that myself! How are they going to know who the baby takes after? Not that it matters.
Consider some dont read these threads on a regular basis.
May be we should have a disclaimer at the beginning of every article about Ben and Sophie – “Yes, we know people think they look like siblings, but they aren’t siblings”.
Because we get a post like this on every thread, and I am starting to wonder if this is some kind of a secret handshake.
I think the “omg they look like siblings!” Has replaced the “omg he looks like an alien!” From the previous posts.
My most abject apologies for being tiresome. You’re right. I don’t read these threads often as I find the two of them uninteresting for the most part. I will make sure to not comment about them again, at least without first checking with the inner sanctum as to whether my comment is acceptable. Have a lovely day 🙂
cynicalsmirk, comment on whatever you would like.
I agree with anon321, cynicalsmirk. Go ahead and comment. There’s no shame in not being one of the people who comments 35 times on every BC thread!
I love it. The silver grey suits her coloring very well. Love the sleeves, think the high neck is very flattering even if I hate wearing them myself, love the lace, love the high waist. She looks gorgeous.
While we may be criticizing all the coverage of her, we are also reading all the coverage of her and many are commenting on the coverage. She clearly has an audience. I like Bendy but am not a huge fan; I still find her mildly interesting.
I think it’s gorgeous, quite unusual compared to your standard wedding gown. And thank god for sleeves! I hate strapless wedding dresses.
Yes! I can’t stand the strapless evening gowns. They are so uncomfortable.
But for some reason 80% of them or more are strapless. Not that many people actually look good in a strapless gown. When will designers get it?
When women stop buying them
I actually like strapless gowns LOL
I love strapless gowns but I have too much boob sadly.. An embarrassment of riches as BC would say..
I had a strapless wedding dress so it does annoy me when people go “urgh” to them as if they show a lack of class or something but they arent for everyone and have to be well fitted.
No boobage on show for me and i didnt spend the day pulling it up ir having it cut into me.
They can be classy…just saying.
Id post a pic as proof but well…. t’internet and all that. 🙂
Wasn’t there already an article on this 2 days ago? With like 400 comments on it?
You people did it. Sophie is now more famous than Ben C and Tom H combined.
Now you are going to be getting daily articles about Sophie, but most people on CB seem not to like her? Blasted by your own petard, I find it funny, for some reason. I am being bad today
Truth! And I’m contributing to the problem with my comment. If everyone stops commenting, the posts will disappear.
We’re collectively ensuring that The Comet will receive as much coverage as The Otter. *le sigh*
What is ”mood boards”?
Manual pinteresting.
*dies laughing*
#Truth
I mean, designers and other creative types do it, but with reference to this chick I just think of Pinterest, Etsy and poster boards covered in words like, “rad” or “totally awesome” written in glitter and puffy paint.
Whats hilarious is they got engaged in November, married in February. That’s exactly 3 months. If the article in Vogue is accurate and it took Valentino 3 months to make her gown, when exactly did she compile those boards and the Klimt’s and the Anna Karenina’s? A bit creepy when you think of it 🙂 “Soph, mother of my alien offspring, will you marry me?” “YES DARLING AND HERES THE MOODBOARD FOR THE WEDDING AND THE DRESS MY LOVE-WALLET!!!”
Seriously though, Bea. I feel like she’s had this planned for years. Who cares who the guy is? Maybe I’m cynical, but I side eye any woman over the age of 17 who has really specific wedding planning ideas unless they are engaged or in a really serious, long term relationship.
LMAO @ “love-wallet”.
Ok, im going to say it. This is a month after the wedding but…how is this in any way “private”?
I thought they wanted the whole thing (which should include her dress and who made the rings and all that jazz) as private as possible? Which is why they had security etc.
Now it just looks like they didnt want pics of her dress getting out before the big reveal. Its classier than OK! Or People but no less opportunistic in my humblest of opinions
Trust actors/celebrities to redefine the meaning of the word “private” (according to their own agendas).
Agree – the security was prob for the dress which in all likelihood was part of the deal with Vogue. They pay/pull strings/contribute/arrange to borrow in exchange for exclusives on the wedding. Seems to match what was done for the cars – the paid Jaguar ad pap shots anyone!
I know he’s tight but seriously.
I for one will be overjoyed if he didn’t have to pay for this monstrosity. I didn’t pay Hamlet tickets to dress a woman who acts like she has lead pipes up herself.
In fairness lindy, she probably had to agree to a Vogue article in order to get this dress at a discount, or maybe even free, who knows.
And if Anna Wintour offers you a deal, you don’t say “no” if you know what is good for you. Ha!
Ah come on, like they were forced! Benny boy has made it his business to chummy up to Wintour long before Sophie came on the scene. I totally get you have to play nice as she holds a lot of cards but come on, i doubt either of them hate this or did it begrudgingly. You only have to listen to her quotes, shes loving it. Who wouldnt? Having a couture Valentino dress made for you but lets not pretend they are poor innocent pawns whoss wedding was overtaken by Anna Wintour.
Couldnt she also have
..i dunno gotten a non designer dress herself?
Sophie reminds me of Fiona from Four Weddings and Funeral, maybe a little less pleasant. Poor Annie blew a wad of cash on bad money management and investments and things so she needs the money.
I didn’t like the empire waist initially, but then I realized – oh right, she’s pregnant! One of the few times a woman ever looks good in that cut. It’s a lovely dress. It’s not my dress, but it’s classic and flattering with all the frippery you expect from Valentino. It’ll make good memories.
In other Hunter-Batch news, Benedict read a poem at Richard III’s reburial.
https://youtu.be/38nodTfpro4
I think it’s a very pretty dress. I am afraid to say anything else, because the last thing I said anything positive about this couple I got accused of being on their payroll!
Don’t be afraid. I don’t particularly like her and I think she’s pretentious (something she and BC likely have in common) but I give credit where it’s due. I think she looks pretty and the dress has a simultaneous sensibility and ornateness to it that is lovely (I like the color as well).
Medieval- interesting choice for a wedding dress. I don’t know too many women that would pick that particular look for the “happiest day of their life”. Medieval has more of a dark mood to it.
However, perfect for SH, being different in any way possible seems to be her theme all along. Oh so artsy.
It’s also very telling that her uncle, the master of ceremony for the wedding, described her as “glorious” at the day of the wedding.
Blissfully happy, glowing, lovely etc, would be the attributes for a bride in my book, but glorious sounds like something fit for a warrior coming back from a battle he won. And that somehow makes it fitting again for our blushing bride.
Victorious, glorious, proud, haughty…she has won the battle; she sits on the highest horse (in this case, stands on a table).
She went from completely unknown to a spread in Vogue. Her husband did NOT win the Oscar, yet she is the one they chose. Of course it is the AW, HW connection, but the average reader doesn’t know that- or care about that.
Unknown, secret gf, pregnant, engaged and then married to a pretty fine actor in less than 10 months.
Kudos to her, if this is what she wanted for a life, to have a baby before having an actual real relationship with the father and be the other half to a super busy guy that seems to be unable to ever just rest and looks eternally sad ever since she appeared, then she certainly got exactly that in record time.
^^^^ Good analysis, Hex
Hahahahahahah! I think Brits just call everything “glorious” and “brilliant.” They think it makes them sound more intelligent than Americans who call stuff “nice” or cool.”
The equivalent of your “Awesome” 🙂
But yeah, the first choice in describing a bride should be happy and in love. Glorious does not evoke emotion.
@Claire… that was my first thought too, but looks like the opposite is true.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-10/valentino-in-paris-spotlight-as-stiller-s-zoolander-hits-runway
Maybe all of the pop culture PR is actually paying off.
“Medieval” – big period that! I love the late 14th early 15th century, when men and women wore houppelandes, with large sleeves and long full skirts. Nothing dark about it either – think of the ladies you see in manuscript paintings by the Limbourg brothers (Google “Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry” ) or a painting by Jan van Eyck.
And the added punch is that the preferred look for women was sort of pregnant!:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/rh/img/april.jpg
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/northern-renaissance1/burgundy-netherlands/v/van-eyck-portrait-of-giovanni-arnolfini-and-his-wife-1434
I’d love the chance to wear something “Medieval”!
Wow, thanks for those links.
Pretty clear where the inspiration came from huh?
Also, I need to get to the Museum of Fine Arts soon.
I think the dress is stunning and she looked beautiful in it.
The photograph is also gorgeous – Annie L is an artist, whether you realize it or not. That framing and the light – you have to have the eye to do it. It’s not that straight forward.
Exactly, Annie L is a legend, anything by her is a masterpiece.
Valentino dress, photos by Annie L, you can’t go wrong.
Amazing! My dream wedding dress. 🙂
I like the pattern but the high waist and huge bump ruin it for me, sorry.
“Sophie brought her paper mood boards to a meeting with the Valentino designers and during their three-hour brainstorm session, she showed them Anna Karenina-inspired dresses and Gustav Klimt landscapes.”
OMG, is she for real? Who does that?? And keeps a straight face?!
Sorry again. If I was getting a custom Valentino dress I would definantley bring some inspirational photos. This is not strange to me, actually would be weirder to show up with nothing.
Really?? Fair enough, I know nothing about the fashion industry. But showing up at a meeting with professional designers with a paint mashup of “artistic inspirations” seems like upyourass bollocks to me. I dunno. Could be my lack of artsy fashion sensitivity. But I’d just show up, tell them to do their jobs as best they could, have them take my measurements, tell them my favorite color, and leave.
I definitely would not be bringing printed images of Klimt, I mean who thinks of that.
If you are a paying client, sure, bring your mood board. But LBR, Sophie, her family or Benedict did NOT pay for that rushed couture bridal gown. This was Anna Wintour calling in favors & playing Fairy Godmother to her Otter Crush’s bride. But instead of accepting the lavish freebie like a classy Cinderella, Sophie comes off looking like an entitled step-sister, “directing” those who are giving her a free gown. It’s not a good look.
I can’t imagine that anything in this article is true. It’s such drivel. Mood boards, her ideas, her inspirations? The reality most likely is that a rich person dumped her wedding dress and it was given to Sophie for the article. It didn’t fit at the wedding anymore, therefore the different dress. Reality is mostly not glamorous, not even for a comet.
I think it’s the same dress, but you might be right about it being dumped by someone else before she wore it. I could be wrong, but I have feeling the Rome visit story is an utter fabrication. My bet is she picked it out at Paris fashion week and they altered it to fit her. As for her BAFTA dress, it was not designed for her. The original was on the runway in red and it looked much better in red than black. I suspect all of her dresses were somebody else’ s castoffs and she got them free or pretty cheap. Who would have ever thought Benedict Cumberbatch would marry a woman in a quarter of a million dollars couture dress?
I wouldn’t, maybe he’d have a bride in a nice Temperley London wedding dress, which already seemed extravagant in my mind, as he just always seemed very frugal and down to earth. But I imagined nothing like this, so there you go! 😉
I bet he had zero input in the planning. He was just told to get to the church on time. 🙂
Dresses aside. What’s up with motherhood and parenting? What’s type of mother will SH be? Calm and caring..?
If her behaviour on the red carpet is much to go by: domineering, cold, and manipulative.
I think Annie Leibowitz is in a position to choose or create her own ‘assignments’. I don’t think she HAD to fly to Rome to photograph Amal or Sophie, I think she wanted to. And Rome, really, who wouldn’t?
The picture was taken at Paris fashion week. I’m sure Annie was there to do other photo shoots. Hamish and Vogue are just blowing smoke and mirrors.
You do know she’s about 20 million in debt and has been taking crap jobs like this forever to pay it off right?
Nope, didn’t! That’s interesting…and a shame.
Omg. Gorgeous.
I think the dress is flattering on her, but it wouldn’t be for me style-wise. If it truly cost all that, it would definitely not be for me. I would never pay that even if I had it to spend on such an occasion. Too many starving children in the world, my guilt would get the best of me.
I do think it’s one of the best pictures I’ve seen of her. She seems to have a softness that doesn’t come across usually in photos, but when it does, she looks lovely.
Because this photo is taken by someone who knows exactly what to do to make her look this way. Lighting, position, make-up, hair, the right camera, lens and angle= perfect pic.
AW went through a ton of pics to find the right one, I am sure of that.
I’m using photoshop in my new job for the first time in my life and I can testify you can make any dog look like Ava Gardner. Just saying.
When we saw her live, with no make up or other enhancements, she looked plain to say the least. Very tall, I grant you that. 🙂
@hermi, is she really? Tall, I mean. She looks slightly shorter than BC when she’s wearing heels. I always assumed she was around 5’6 and that her CV embellished her height. She’s plain, but she cleans up well.
She is tall. Like they say in Bridget Jones, her legs go up to there 🙂
I turned towards her and all I could see were endless scrawny legs encased in horrid palazzo pants with flowers. 🙂
Love it. Bennie did a reading at the reburial if Richard III today. It was wonderful.
My question is, where is this dress now???
In that big room full of clothes and shoes at Vogue? Maybe AW wears it at night when everybody else is gone and imagines she is the bride of BC.
Back at the House of Valentino?
In Mama Hunters house, where I think SH spends most of her time.
Is she allowed to keep it if she did not pay for it? Right, like SH paid for it…
Does BC have it? No way, I can’t believe he would shell out that kind of money for a dress.
Where do the Hunterbatches reside? If they live together at all. In his flat, that Olivia and BC previously nested in?
Loving all your comments on this thread… Brilliant!
My guess: Bendy buried it along with his great uncle Richard.
HAHAHAHA, I just spit out my water and scared my cat! I bet he did…
I bet they don’t actually live together. And the dress? I don’t think BC would pay for a dress like that. And we know SH don’t pay because you have to have a real job then. It’s a PR dress so it stays at the studio.
Well, I don’t know where it is now, but I just went to a blog that republished the couple of snaps taken of Hunter on her way to the wedding, and it is quite clear that she is wearing a dress with cap sleeves and a scooped neckline. If the spread was done and went to print in late January, and it’s basically the same dress she wore barely three weeks later in February, it would appear that the Divine Mrs Cumberbatch either requested huge alterations at the 11th hour, or changed her mind and asked someone besides Valentino to rush through alterations – rather leaving VOGUE and Valentino with egg on their faces as they then had to publish a spread on a dress not worn as it appears in the spread in the actual photos. Perhaps Hunter thought no one would get a snap of her on the way to the church, or no one would care. Perhaps the shade AW allowed VOGUE to throw at Cumberbatch in that later article “What We Learned from the Oscars” on the magazine’s website in March was a bit of payback. Hunter clearly isn’t good at keeping friends. No one at VOGUE would have crossed AW by throwing shade at Cumberbatch unless they knew she’d approve.
After the new pic that was released today, I no longer think it’s the same dress. Strange…strange, indeed.
Maybe BC married AW instead. She’s the one with the fragile sapphire, instead of the in-your-face diamond. And with the real dress, instead of the fake one.
Will this saga ever end???
I think they are on point regarding the fragile sapphire. Bendy is a cheap cheap man and let me tell you, a ring that size would cost A LOT if it wasn’t sapphire. Sapphires are considerably cheaper then diamonds.
I don’t think FrugalBatch paid a dime for this lavish wedding.
He will pay for the rest of his life though 🙂
we ll see hermi. Ur cmnts are a pleasure to read though!!
If the Batches are suddenly “popular”/in-demand enough for a cheesy honeymoon photo spread and a Royal Wedding Dress article in Vogue — where are all the photos of them together outside their house, or going out for dinner in London? Does this mean they’re *only* in-demand enough for staged opportunities, and nobody cares to catch them in a casual setting? Or does it mean — and I’m starting to think it does — that they really *don’t* live together or spend any time together as a couple?
I admit to being naive about paparazzi tactics, but I find it really strange that we never see BC and SH in their natural habitat. 🙂
I think it’s quite obvious that the Cs have been crafting a huge PR campaign to sell themselves and particularly to sell Hunter. If all was as rosy as the PR campaign paints them, they wouldn’t need the campaign, would they?
Excellent observation seesittellsit. Totally agree.
I think the Hunterbatch PR is gravely underestimating the people that are actually capable of using their brain.
If they want to sell this “performance” to some of us, they have to do much, much better.
Stop insulting us.
Why do you think they took off the picture from instagram?
Wait, did Valentino remove the pic? It seems to be gone from everywhere. Did the PR people finally pick up on the fact that that’s clearly not the dress she’s wearing in the pap shots of the wedding?
Edit: According to an update on HuffPo they did. Wow. just…Freakin’ wow guys.
She reminds me of Hyacinth Buckets.
Obviously she participated in Letters Live again.
She must have been hired based on her CV… 😉
Thank God she is knocked up , otherwise she might play Ophelia too.