The cult of the competitive honeymoon

The average honeymoon is getting more and more lavish and ever more expensive.

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The next best thing to a royal wedding
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With the economy slowing down and house prices beginning to slide, the only thing that can rescue us is a royal wedding. But "until Prince Harry answers the call of an impatient nation", last month's nuptials of Pippa Middleton and James Matthews "will have to do", says Esther Addley in The Guardian. Despite having to settle for a 41-year-old hedge-fund manager, Middleton hosted a party "fit for almost-royalty". Highlights included "a huge glass conservatory-style marquee in the garden of the Middletons' home, priced by observers at £100,000". Ironically, the reception was held in Englefield House, previously used "for the filming of a US TV series in which 12 women competed to win the hand of a lookalike they believed was the prince".

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