Welcome to Pippa's wedding of the year: A marquee for 350 in mum and dad's back garden. A Caribbean honeymoon BEFORE the big day.

Just four months to go - not long in Bridezilla terms - until the nearly-royal wedding of the year. Then the world's most famous bridesmaid, Pippa Middleton, 33, will finally be the bride. On May 20, Michael Middleton, salt and pepper dapper in his morning coat, will walk younger daughter Pippa down the aisle of St Mark's Church, in nearby Englefield, to marry her hedge-fund beau, James Matthews, 41.