let’s pretend the phrase hen do doesn’t exist – so katie grand had her pre-wedding celebrations this weekend – where to start? friday lunch at harry’s bar then her outta control posse who included luella bartley and kim sion, dropped some serious dough at marc jacobs, champagne flutes held tightly throughout – hugo’s got the evidence but he used a proper camera and we’re waiting for the film to be developed

meanwhile david waddington was out and about sourcing the final touches to dressing katie’s garden at home where later that evening, his restaurant bistrotheque laid on a sumptous cheese (katie’s favourite food) and ham feast with draft prosecco on tap – his champagne cocktails were slamming

luella was in charge of a fashion quiz but she left most of the questions at home – who needs a quiz when guests who include: joe mckenna, marcus piggott, duncan ord (thanks for these pics), tor gooder, sharleen spiteri, charlotte stockdale, and camille micelli, are knocking back blood orange bellinis, watermelon martinis and very strong margaritas?

katie grand wearing alaïa dress and rouge bois perfume by tom ford

hazel robinson wearing dress by giles

david waddington and charlotte tilbury

angie kurdash wearing an old anthony price dress of katie’s

katie hillier, katie grand and keith warren

sophia neophitou

jeremy healy who took care of the decks, and patsy kensit (who rang katie earlier today to see if she was still up) – david waddington’s novelty hi-light of the night was seeing giles doing a dance with patsy with celery sticks

stuart vevers

harriet quick, officially the naughtiest guest as she put an electric kettle on a gas hob and set fire to the kitchen

katie and luella bartley

camilla lowther

fran burns, jonathan saunders and simon robins

giles deacon

jo ann furniss

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katie hillier

i wanna know what pressies you got – “oh god, amazing things, a sunflower hat by stephen jones from luella, a lanvin tee saying ‘just married’ from victoria young, a negligee from camilla lowther, a painting from charlotte tilbury, heart pillows from ronnie cooke newhouse, katie hillier gave me a lovely necklace with two bunnies turned into paperclips with sapphire eyes, peonies from fran, and…” – sounds like you’re on the generation game – what’s your bestest gift? “the steiff giraffe from hugo”

katie’s hi-light “jeremy playing wham” – and lo-light? “the police coming at midnight to tell us off”

the party carried on thru saturday until steve (mackey, katie’s fiancé) and jarvis cocker came back from their gig in glasgow – steve’s having his stag night at glastonbury

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