Zara Phillips & Mike Tindall Wedding Details: Location, Stag Do, Hen Night & More

The latest updates on the upcoming nuptials of Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall: a royally-funded palace venue and two wild bachelor/bachelorette weekends.

The Daily Mail reports that although Phillips lacks a royal title, her grandmother Queen Elizabeth II is donating the use of Holyroodhouse, the royal residence in Scotland, for her July 30 wedding reception.

The venue will reportedly cost the Queen about $65,000 out of pocket as she will personally reimburse the palace, a popular tourist attraction, for the money they will lose by shutting its doors to visitors for five busy summer days, the Mail writes.

It's a generous gift to Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne, and her rugby-player fiance, who do not exactly fit the royal mold. Tindall hails from a solidly middle-class background and recently celebrated his impending nuptials with a wild "stag" party weekend (that's bachelor party weekend to you Americans) at the W Hotel in Miami, guzzling beer in an "eight-hour drinking marathon" one day and hitting up high-end clubs the next, reported People.

His bride also celebrated with a three-day party in Portugal, playing drinking games and donning crazy costumes with a large group of girlfriends, wrote the Daily Mail.

While it seems Zara managed to avoid the paparazzi during rowdy weekend, Tindall did not, with snaps landing in tabloids. The couple has shown no resistance in the past to photographic intrusions: as previously noted, Buckingham Palace thwarted Phillips' plans to sell wedding day photos to tabloid magazine Hello! for over $800,000.

It's just another contrast in style between Phillips and Tindall and their royal counterparts William and Catherine. As Zara's first cousin, William and his wife will attend this weekend's celebrations, which include a Friday night cocktail party aboard the Royal Britannia yacht and Saturday's ceremony at the Canongate Kirk on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, reports Marie Claire UK.

One detail we still don't know? The dressmaker. Although it was previously reported that Zara's wedding gown would be designed by Stewart Parvin, a favorite couturier of the Queen, those reports have been dismissed and speculation continues over who will dress the sporty bride.

Comments

[siney]

11:44 PM on 07/29/2011

ok. that is a ridiculously crooked nose. i know, i know. he's a rugby player, but that nose is insanely crooked.

[joannevlavender]

12:23 AM on 07/27/2011

Dear HuffPost Krupnik--

I have news for you. We Americans also call it a stag night. And sometimes we call the bride's bachelorette party a doe night. Fancy that.

Don't be so condescending--especially when this royal soap opera you're fawning all over takes another downturn in a decade or so.

[ZMP]

09:21 AM on 07/26/2011

Horrible journalism - we were recently shown that the new royalty mold IS Middle Class.

[kandem]

03:26 PM on 07/25/2011

Partying with these two would be a hoot! A lifetime of happiness and joy to them.

[PoliSci2008]

03:21 PM on 07/25/2011

OMG! His nose is lopsided; a Picaso! Great coffee table discussions when looking through those wedding pictures.

[clarendon67]

06:16 PM on 07/25/2011

The man is a rugby player for pete's sake. A broken nose is a given.

[PoliSci2008]

07:02 PM on 07/25/2011

Aren't you taking this a little too personally? What? You have a nose like him? My condolences.

[Chlowina]

11:20 PM on 07/25/2011

My nose once pointed in the same direction from a run in with another kid. A severely messed up septum corrected in my later years. When told to follow my nose, I went in circles, :~)

[mitch4822]

03:02 PM on 07/25/2011

I thought Mike would have gotten his nose job completed prior to the wedding. Princess Anne thought it was, ugh... ugly.
Also, why would he have such a bizarre party when he is now getting into Royalty. He has to toe the line not to embarrass the "Firm."

[Ramsey G]

11:14 PM on 07/25/2011

He had a nose job, but the repair was destroyed in a rugby game, so now he says he won't get another one until after he retires.

[deluk]

09:41 AM on 07/26/2011

You have strange ideas about the royal family.

[septsong]

02:59 PM on 07/25/2011

all "royality" got there thrones via violence.. mayhem.. murder... please... get over them .. happiness always to the couple

[pete cole]

07:09 PM on 07/26/2011

Gosh so Queen Elizabeth II got her throne via violence, mayhem and murder. Wow you learn something everyday don't you?.

[replay]

02:57 PM on 07/25/2011

And why are even featured in our American news? Do we need to hear about ever marriage they are having for the Queens relatives? I think not, it's totally ridiculous. Just like all the news about PIppa, and who really cares but lonely miserable people without a life. Give us a break.

[GracieGiraffe]

02:30 PM on 07/25/2011

I'm glad they're not selling the photo spread to Hello, like her brother. That was vulgarity personified.

[patriciacaldwell]

04:19 PM on 07/25/2011

Oh, but they wanted to.

[goldengirl43]

04:33 PM on 07/25/2011

They tried, but Grandma said "NO!"

[Sunnyhorse]

05:25 PM on 07/27/2011

She's not a titled royal, though, and makes her own money. It wasn't the most dignified plan, but I felt bad for her when Grandma laid the smackdown.

[henriette and hube]

02:24 PM on 07/25/2011

I like Zara and Mike. They seem so down to earth and human. I'd love to attend the wedding. I've been inside the church and to Holyrood House and I love Scotland. I think it's lovely that she is reportedly having her mom AND dad escort her down the aisle.

[dixiebird333]

02:13 PM on 07/25/2011

THERE GOES THE QUEEN AGAIN PUTTING OUT MONEY LOL. WHILE THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE OUT OF WORK AND HUNGRY , THEY STILL LIKE TO SPEND MONEY ON NONSENSE LOL !!!!!!!!!!!! ALL THEY ARE IS A BUNCH OF SNOBS AND HIPOCRITS !!!

[GracieGiraffe]

03:13 PM on 07/25/2011

Yes, how dare she spend money on her granddaughter's wedding (and reimburse the British public affected by the wedding)....

[EvaluatingItAll]

06:03 PM on 07/25/2011

It's her granddaughter, and her gift to her granddaughter. You begrudge them that?

[oralborealus1]

01:59 PM on 07/25/2011

What a Hunk, that Mike Tindall is! Fawk!
Alex!