{"id":39726,"date":"2012-05-22T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=39726"},"modified":"2012-05-22T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:09:13","slug":"a-groom-with-initiative-prince-william-tore-up-original-royal-wedding-guest-list-458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/a-groom-with-initiative-prince-william-tore-up-original-royal-wedding-guest-list-458\/","title":{"rendered":"A Groom With Initiative: Prince William Tore Up Original Royal Wedding Guest List"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William<\/a> were planning their big affair in 2011, Kate’s now-husband did what many soon-to-be-weds would like to do with an unruly guest list — he trashed it! Daily Mail<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n

‘There was very much a subdued moment when I was handed a list with 777 names on — not one person I knew or Catherine knew. I went to her and said, ‘Listen, I’ve got this list, not one person I know — what do I do?’ and [the Queen] went, ‘Get rid of it. Start from your friends and then we’ll add those we need in due course. It’s your day.'”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sound advice from the grandmother there despite that the family was literally planning the wedding of the decade.<\/p>\n

(photo: WENN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stereotypes may persist of grooms not giving a finger sandwich about wedding planning, but clearly an era of actively…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20793,"featured_media":193905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1484,134,3980,1232,175],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":6,"label":"Stuff"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1484,"label":"Kate Middleton"},{"value":134,"label":"marriage"},{"value":3980,"label":"news"},{"value":1232,"label":"royal wedding"},{"value":175,"label":"wedding"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nopic.jpg",500,500,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Koa Beck","author_link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/author\/koa\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":6,"name":"Stuff","slug":"stuff","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":6,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":8931,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":6,"category_count":8931,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Stuff","category_nicename":"stuff","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":1484,"name":"Kate Middleton","slug":"kate-middleton","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1545,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":139,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":134,"name":"marriage","slug":"marriage","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":134,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":335,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3980,"name":"news","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4044,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2026,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1232,"name":"royal wedding","slug":"royal-wedding","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1288,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":175,"name":"wedding","slug":"wedding","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":175,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":49,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}