You may not have heard of 29-year-old British actress Rosamund Pike, best known for playing villainess Bond Girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day, but the way her engagement to Atonement director Joe Wright ended is an interesting one. Supposedly Pike sent out hundreds of cheesy wedding invitations to friends and family that featured a photo of her and Wright in a hot tub. She had never asked Wright, 36, for his approval for the invitations and he was livid and called off the wedding and their relationship. She was left to cancel the florists, caterers, and venue and to explain to guests that the wedding wasn’t happening. This version of the story has their wedding being canceled just a few days before it was to be held, but an update from the same author says it was planned for September:
The 29-year-old star was due to marry last month [sic: update from same source says their wedding was to be in September] but the wedding was called off at the last minute after Miss Pike told friends she couldn’t go through with it.
According to friends, the actress is devastated about the split and cancellation.
Wright, 35, proposed on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy earlier this year and the wedding was to have taken place in England last weekend. [Again, update says wedding is in September]
My source says: ‘It’s not common knowledge and only a few people know. Rosamund obviously wants to keep it as private as possible but she is devastated. She’s a lovely girl and we all feel very sorry for her.
‘She was meant to be out at a party on Thursday night but she cancelled at the last minute. She just couldn’t face going out.’
Rosamund’s mother, who had been planning the wedding, has been consoling her daughter and cancelling florists and cake orders.
Meanwhile, Wright has been hitting the London party scene. ‘Joe was out four weeks ago at a party. He was surrounded by girls and ended up taking a group of them to a strip club. He’s a regular there and all the dancers know him,’ says my scantily clad spy.
[From The Daily Mail]
That was the first version which had the bride calling it off, but an update from The Daily Mail is much more juicy:
I have further revelations following my report last week that the wedding between actress Rosamund Pike and her film director fiance Joe Wright had been suddenly called off.
It appears that Wright put an end to the September nuptials after 29-year-old former Bond girl Ros sent out hundreds of wedding invitations without his approval.
‘The invitations featured a picture of them together in a hot tub,’ says a pal.
‘Joe dumped her for sending them without consulting him and she had to tell all the guests the wedding was off.’
To add insult to injury, Wright was then spotted cavorting with a handful of girls at his local lap-dancing club in Shoreditch just days later. Charming.
[From The Daily Mail]
It’s unclear from these two reports whether their wedding was to take place in September or if it was canceled just a few days before, as the first report suggests. It sounds like the September wedding story is more accurate. This was probably just the straw that made their already tenuous relationship collapse, and Wright was likely just looking for an excuse. It does seem tasteless to send out wedding invitations with a hot tub photo on them, but it’s something you could laugh over if you were committed enough to the relationship and didn’t take yourself too seriously. I bet she invited a bunch of extra people and was planning a super lavish wedding that the groom wasn’t on board with either. Remember when Affleck and J.Lo canceled their wedding at the last minute, citing media pressure? Better to waste the money on a canceled reception than pay for an expensive divorce.
Here are Joe Wright and Rosamund Pike. They met when he was directing her as Jane Bennett in Pride and Prejudice in 2005. They are shown on 12/22/07 shopping, at the Atonement Premiere on 12/6/07, and at a BAFTA after party on 2/10/08. Thanks to WENN.
Freaking Hilarious, and I thought kissing pictures in your invitations was tacky…
I could definitely see that as a cheeky kinda joke, but c’mon, you should at least run it by him first.
Also, it’s too bad an “insider” didn’t pass along that photo with the invite, I’d love to see it.
Boy talk about a litmus test… “Hey before I marry him, let’s see if he has ANY sense of humor at all, or will go apeshit and call the whole thing off, saving me the trouble of discovering this side of him later, or worse, after kids.”
Mission accomplished. She’s well rid of him. I don’t care how tacky it was.
It’s an odd thing to do without telling him but, even allowing for a sense of humour failure, it can’t have been much of a relationship to begin with if he freaked out over it to the extent of calling the whole thing off.
It does sound far more like someone was looking for a way out.
Doesn’t make much sense that a guy with a favorite local lap-dancing place would get all uppity about a goofy wedding invitation hot tub picture. He hardly sounds like the picture of decorum. I don’t know these two from Adam & Eve, but it seems like something else must have been going on.
I feel awfully sorry for her. She must have really been looking forward to that wedding and she probably didn’t think he’d go crazy like that (though she really should have run it by him). After all, I suppose that if you are about to marry someone, you feel like you know them well enough to tell whether they’ll agree with your taste.
Both of them kept the relationship pretty low-profile as far as I know (this is only the 2nd mention ever I see of it) and people usually do that when it’s especially precious to them. I understand about her being devastated, I’d be too. But to be honest, he probably wanted to leave her much earlier and this was just the perfect excuse to make her the idiot and villain and dump her right there. I am sure that this alone could not have provoked such an over-reaction. Poor Rosamund. I hope her broken heart will mend soon and that she’ll end up with someone who deserves her a whole lot more than this jerk. Hang in there girlfriend, things can only go up from here!
Oh yeah, and if I were her, I’d have the entire food that was planned for the wedding be delivered to his house in the middle of the night, with him having to foot the bill.
Sounds moew like cold feet to me.
What a coward.
Cheesy? Depends on what they were doing in the hot tub.
If this fug bastard isn’t groveling and kissing the ground she walks on, then she’s better off w/o him.
P.S. I love Rosemund Pike. She’s was the best part of that Pride & Prejudice remake (that she met Joe Wright on).
ooooh! i loved p & p, and atonement too. sounds to me like he was waiting for a reason to bail.
He sounds like a pompus ass and she is well rid of the uptight bastard. He certainly must think a lot of himself.
As much as I adore watching Pride&Prejudice and Atonement, just in order to please my girly soul, I must say that this kind of situation doesn’t seem very honorable.
Firstly, I would never send out wedding invitations without my fiancé’s approval. After all, you’re not just sending a card out, you’re sending the message that reads “please come see us get eternally blessed together and spend a lot of money on it” (well, probably spend a lot of money on it). It’s one of those things that announce your couple’s life so why do it in a sneaky way?
Secondly, dumping your beloved one over something like that seems like quite a big overreacted decision. Not very rational… You could try to be understable although it’s no fun situation.
I think that Joe Wright might have a bit of a diva personnality (not that I care much: I want to see his movies, not his personal life). He seems to like filming dramatic love stories anyway… 😀
So, ladies, if you ever intend to marry some diva (and most artistically involved people are): do net send out tacky wedding invitations without the man’s approval.
Wow, it sounds like he really, really loved her, that they trusted each other, had great generosity of heart, and were ready to be lifelong partners.
Well said, Mamalicious!
Those things should have been planned together like you plan to spend the rest of your lives together.
Good that they didn’t get married. Would have ended up we-know-how. Pics of him sitting in the hot tub with the gardener or something….. 😀
I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, scratch my head or say “me arse” 😕
He dumped her over the wedding invites on “me arse” 😆
Is it just me or is everybody else dying to see this wedding invite.. 😉
She is well rid of him.
I think he foresaw a life of nabbing the hottest chick on every romantic drama he directed forestalled too early by a marriage, and decided to opt out. He sounds like a standard mother-whore complex English skeeze (see: Hugh Grant).
Agree with Alli – he didn’t really want to get married. The invites thing must have just been an excuse, because if they were getting married in September and he didn’t like them there would have been plenty of time to get new ones done. They don’t usually get mailed out to guests til about 6 weeks before the ceremony after all.
So….let’s get this straight? Ms Pike is in the ‘wrong’ for sending out a hot tub invitation without her fiance’s permission but its perfectly ‘fine’ for him to have a favourite lap-dancing/strip-joint that he then goes to party at 4 days after dumping his fiance for her “tackiness”.
WTF??
What an up his own arse sleaze…she may be sad now but she’ll be grateful later.
Maybe she’s a bridezilla and this was the last straw?
Gorgeous girl, btw. Loved her in The Libertine with Johnny Depp.
You are gorgeous Ms. Pike ! There is no need to waste time with Mr. Wright, you are better off now !! Let them go to India peacefully, they deserve each other; Your path is beyond this Karma… I wish you all the best always… Amazing Actress… Super Stylish… Incredible Mind… Beautiful Soul… I love you Ms. Pike;)