Pre-wedding visitors arrive in Granada

On Friday 27 May, 2016, we had great excitement in Illora, in anticipation of the arrival of the bride, groom and wedding guests. We had learned from the press the day before the wedding, that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and James Blunt were to attend, as they had been sighted flying into Granada airport, but who else would be visiting Illora pueblo?

Charlotte Wellesley (bride) and Alejandro Santo Domingo (groom)

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington

  

Camilla Duchess of Cornwall

 James Blunt and his wife, who is cousin of the bride

 

Preparations were ongoing in the town, lots of Guardia Civil presence, several TV crews interviewing the locals; many yellow barriers appeared around the church, to hold back the crowds; a florists van from France that arrived with flower displays for the church  and a security guard on duty at the entrance to the Duke of Wellington estate, where the wedding party would have their reception after the service.