By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:57 PM on 21st April 2011
All eyes will be on Kate Middleton next Friday as she walks down the aisle at Westminster Abbey and finally marries her Prince.
But her dress will no doubt look positively plain to some people, particularly those in the gypsy community.
Because anything William and his bride-to-be can do, travellers Mary and Paddy are hoping to do better – and bigger and fatter.
What Royal Wedding? Irish traveller Mary hopes to match Kate Middleton and Prince William’s big day with her lavish wedding gown and no expense spared ceremony
Next Thursday night, Channel 4 will be airing a special one-off episode of its hit TV series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, which it promises will be ‘the biggest, fattest wedding of the year’.
And although all gypsy wedding are big and flamboyant and, in some case, rather garish, this time the families wanted to create the most lavish wedding possible with no expense spared.