Hayley and Arnaud's Wedding 29 December 2013

[Bamafan]

Jan 6, 2014 21:36:46 GMT gillette said:

Just look at the length of the list of Users Online in the Last 24 Hours now! (46 in all) Can't remember ever seeing it that long before. No doubt Hayley and Arnaud's Wedding Album is the big attraction. That is a nice arrangement.

Not to mention the almost 1000 guests!!

-Taylor i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

[Libby]

The Christchurch Press got the year of her proposal wrong, too. Very few have gotten it right, and one of them was Woman's Day. Which means most of the online sources have been wrong.

[frenchie]

You welcome Joe!

I would hope a lot of fans would check in on the wedding...this is a big deal!

[stevemacdonald]

Jan 6, 2014 21:36:46 GMT gillette said:

Just look at the length of the list of Users Online in the Last 24 Hours now! (46 in all) ....

That's a good sign!

[grant]

Lovely pic here from one of Hayley's friends who was a guest at the wedding

NIKKI LOVRICH ‏@nikkilovrich 8h
Here's Hayley & I together on her wedding day.... I have known her since she was 13! @hayleywestenra

http://instagram.com/p/i2LUu2AZmI

Best wishes
Grant

[Jillian]

Great photos! Though, I must say that I found the writing style of Woman's Day to be rather syrupy! Reads a bit like a Mills and Boon romance novel.
This article rather humorously comments on that: nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/celebrity/blogs/b/-/20630126/in-the-gossip-mags/

Short excerpt:

Beloved Kiwi songbird Hayley Westenra went and got wed last week, and Woman's Day shared her special day as she tied the knot with French sound engineer Arnaud Sabard.

Poor fella doesn’t get a mention until halfway through the second column as the mag is busy breathlessly setting the scene in the style of a gushy romance novel. I’ll give you the abridged version: it’s raining.

[Jillian]

Jan 5, 2014 23:18:18 GMT Dave said:

Wow, thank you Ross, what a marvellous start!

As we discussed, I have now created a special sub-board exclusive to forum members for these scans and so any further ones will be moved into there by our forum staff.
Here is the exclusive sub-board for members:

Hayley and Arnaud's Wedding Album

Cheers, Dave

Just thought I would quote this again in case anyone missed it

[Libby]

Jan 7, 2014 9:29:52 GMT Jillian said:

Great photos! Though, I must say that I found the writing style of Woman's Day to be rather syrupy! Reads a bit like a Mills and Boon romance novel.
This article rather humorously comments on that: nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/celebrity/blogs/b/-/20630126/in-the-gossip-mags/

Short excerpt:

Beloved Kiwi songbird Hayley Westenra went and got wed last week, and Woman's Day shared her special day as she tied the knot with French sound engineer Arnaud Sabard.

Poor fella doesn’t get a mention until halfway through the second column as the mag is busy breathlessly setting the scene in the style of a gushy romance novel. I’ll give you the abridged version: it’s raining.

That is funny. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif But I admit I didn't notice the difference. I enjoy reading descriptive writing (as I also enjoy writing using vivid vocabulary), and I think I was too busy trying to absorb every detail, to try to imagine the beautiful day, that it didn't even occur to me who was mentioned when. The bride is normally the center of attention at weddings, so I don't think that was abnormal. I've never read any romances by the author you mention, either, so I wouldn't know about that.

[Richard]

This made me chuckle this morning.

8 January 2014 from The New Zealand Herald:

Five things the goss mags swear are true
1:00 PM Wednesday Jan 8, 2014

We trawl through the gossip mags, so you don't have to.


Hayley Westenra on the cover of the latest Woman's Day.

1. Hayley Westenra's new hubby doesn't need an alarm clock - he gets woken up by his wife's singing. That's what Arnaud Sabard tells this week's Woman's Day: "I know I'm very lucky," he says. "She's not only beautiful, but she makes my day beautiful as well. I don't need a wake-up call in the morning because I get to hear Hayley singing. It's something quite special." Look out for an array of Westenra ringtones, coming soon to an iTunes store near you.

---------------------------------------------------

Click on the link to see the rest of the article, which isn't about the wedding.

Richard

[Jillian]

Jan 8, 2014 6:26:58 GMT Libby said:

Jan 7, 2014 9:29:52 GMT Jillian said:

Great photos! Though, I must say that I found the writing style of Woman's Day to be rather syrupy! Reads a bit like a Mills and Boon romance novel.
This article rather humorously comments on that: nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/celebrity/blogs/b/-/20630126/in-the-gossip-mags/

Short excerpt:

That is funny. But I admit I didn't notice the difference. I enjoy reading descriptive writing (as I also enjoy writing using vivid vocabulary), and I think I was too busy trying to absorb every detail, to try to imagine the beautiful day, that it didn't even occur to me who was mentioned when. The bride is normally the center of attention at weddings, so I don't think that was abnormal. I've never read any romances by the author you mention, either, so I wouldn't know about that.

Hi Libby,

Mills and Boon is a publishing house that specialises in romance novels.

Think anything that looks like this:



Need I say anymore? ha ha ha

[Paddy]

Jan 8, 2014 8:53:14 GMT Jillian said:

Jan 8, 2014 6:26:58 GMT Libby said:

That is funny. But I admit I didn't notice the difference. I enjoy reading descriptive writing (as I also enjoy writing using vivid vocabulary), and I think I was too busy trying to absorb every detail, to try to imagine the beautiful day, that it didn't even occur to me who was mentioned when. The bride is normally the center of attention at weddings, so I don't think that was abnormal. I've never read any romances by the author you mention, either, so I wouldn't know about that.

Hi Libby,

Mills and Boon is a publishing house that specialises in romance novels.

Think anything that looks like this:



Need I say anymore? ha ha ha

Hi Jillian,

I don't share your 'Ha Ha' at all.
I've read and enjoyed many Mills & Boon novels and make no apologies for it.

'Syrupy' - strange literary term?
If 'syrupy' means 'romantic', long live romance, especially for the wedding of two wonderful young people.

What really gets me though is the pseudo-expert tone of the 'humorous' article you quote, which is really just cheap, dismissive and inane (and somewhat vulgar) gossip - so typical of gossip columnists who have little or nothing to contribute by way of worthwhile comment on a much better written article. To use their idiom, 'Get a life!', I say.

Paddy

[Jillian]

www.thefreedictionary.com/syrupy - see, it is actually a word

I think the satirical articles listed above serve as good PR for Hayley in that they provide some humour, personality and relevance to the news about her. They help provide some contrast to the rather sober and very conservative media image which has been created for Hayley.

[Bamafan]

I understand both of yall's viewpoints. The Woman's Day article is good for Hayley fans, who want to feel like we were there. The other, much more succinct article, I think could serve as a hook to some. They read the humorously-toned snippet, and get interested in the wedding. I mean, it doesn't say anything at all negative towards Hayley; it just put a more lighthearted spin on the whole thing.

-Taylor i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

[Paddy]

Jan 8, 2014 12:57:31 GMT Jillian said:

www.thefreedictionary.com/syrupy - see, it is actually a word

I think the satirical articles listed above serve as good PR for Hayley in that they provide some humour, personality and relevance to the news about her. They help provide some contrast to the rather sober and very conservative media image which has been created for Hayley.

Of course it's a (conversational) word but not a recognisable term in literary criticism.

Good PR (by indirection) perhaps - a 'hook' (as Bamafan suggests) - for some who might share the flippant negativity of the writers.
The 'humour' escapes me but the (lack of) personality is obvious. Relevance maybe - the odd time anything is actually said.
Contrast-wise it's chalk and cheese maybe.

I would have said 'traditional', 'tasteful' or 'dignified' rather than 'rather sober' and 'very conservative' but leaving aside your hint of being too much so or somehow inappropriate to the occasion and the people involved.
All depends perhaps on how broad one's perspectives are.

Paddy

[Libby]

I think we're all getting a bit too serious here if you ask me. The part I thought was mildly funny was the part about the abridged version. I guess I meant it as a sort of stupid funny. I don't think their perspective of it all is really worth getting all indignant. It was probably someone who has little if any interest in weddings, if all they can say about it is that it was raining.

As for Jillian's description of the article, syrupy is similar to the word "drippy". I didn't necessarily agree with her description, since I loved reading the article, but that is her opinion. She is not a professional literary critic, so I don't see why we're so concerned about what words she uses.