Kate Middleton's Dress Topic of Discussion
BALDWIN: Cue the royal wedding music. What is trending today? Have you saved the date? The royal wedding is this month. I can't believe it's April. Monty Durham, TLC's "Say yes to the Dress Atlanta." You're headed to London. I'll talk about that in a moment. But I want to talk about, this is the home stretch.</s>DURHAM: We're down to the wire right now.</s>BALDWIN: What are they doing right now?</s>DURHAM: I would imagine the response cards are coming in to the palace. I'm sure people sent it in immediately. Seating arrangements are being readjusted for people that aren't coming. It's not really a state affair so it's really a family gathering for the luncheon in the palace.</s>BALDWIN: It's a family gathering. I'm curious if Kate -- how involved would she be?</s>DURHAM: Very involved. You've got to invite people you don't want --</s>BALDWIN: Who do you sit next to whom?</s>DURHAM: I think what we're having here is she's pretty much going to show up and do as she's told.</s>BALDWIN: Show up and say "I do." When we talk about the dress, do you like the blue?</s>DURHAM: Stunning. Kate blue.</s>BALDWIN: When it comes to the dress -- and we don't know yet.</s>DURHAM: We don't know anything.</s>BALDWIN: Everybody is watching to see what it looks like. When will designers start sketching that dress for future brides?</s>DURHAM: The minute she steps out. With TLC, I'll be outside her hotel. This is huge. I'm going to get that first glimpse as she gets into that beautiful car and rolls away. Artists will be sketching it, designers, the minute she hits any door way.</s>BALDWIN: Are you serious?</s>DURHAM: Oh, yes. That dress will be in the market if not seven days, definitely 12 days after she goes down the aisle. It will be in stores for sale.</s>BALDWIN: She's tall.</s>DURHAM: She's 5'10", Lady Di.</s>BALDWIN: Tall girl like me. He would be the tallest monarch.</s>DURHAM: He's going to be the tallest monarch when he ascends to the throne. He's 6'3" and his brother 6'2" and his father 5'9".</s>BALDWIN: Let's speak of Lady Di, let's explain this.</s>DURHAM: Let's explain this doll. Lori, how sweet of her, she dug this out of her attic I home. Anyway, her parents brought this back to her.</s>BALDWIN: This is Lori Daniels, your -- Lori Allen.</s>DURHAM: Of "Say yes to the Dress Atlanta," my co-host there and her parents brought this to her as a souvenir from the wedding and a replica of what they thought it was going to be.</s>BALDWIN: So when we think of what's the saying, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Do they have traditions in England?</s>DURHAM: They have a horseshoe most American girls don't do.</s>BALDWIN: A horseshoe?</s>DURHAM: Of all things.</s>BALDWIN: Please explain.</s>DURHAM: They put it in their bouquet, and it catches all the well wishes offered them on their wedding day and they hang it over their cottage door frame, in this case a palace probably, to continue the good luck and Lady Di had a gold one made out of welsh gold, the nugget her wedding ring was made from and set in diamond stone at the back of her dress, as well as a blue bow.</s>BALDWIN: Wow.</s>DURHAM: And her old was a piece of lace from queen marry.</s>BALDWIN: What do they think Kate will have? What will be passed on along to her?</s>DURHAM: It will be -- it will be very interesting to see what she wears on her head. Lady Di was given a love knot tiara from the queen and she chose to wear the Spencer tiara, no royal significance but her sisters have worn it so it's a family piece.</s>BALDWIN: Do you think Kate will be in flats?</s>DURHAM: No.</s>BALDWIN: Like Di, Di was in flats.</s>DURHAM: Because she and the future king are the same height. He's 5'10" and she was 5'10." So she wore little low heel stack shoes and had the monograms on the bottom, their initials. How sweet was that.</s>BALDWIN: Since Kate is 5'10" and William is 6'3", she can swing the heels.</s>DURHAM: She'll be in shoes, definitely.</s>BALDWIN: What about the shade of the dress, so many shades of white?</s>DURHAM: What we see traditionally when you look at royal weddings, and I've been researching it, royals have been getting married in this era, the younger royals that are cousins, not at Westminster abbey, they have been sleeveless, strapless gowns with tiaras and veils. However they are not marrying the future king and not getting married at Westminster Abbey, so with that being said I think she will be in ivory. All the gowns tend to be ivory. They feel that it complements the English complexion.</s>BALDWIN: Are you so excited, so up your wedding wheelhouse?</s>DURHAM: I am so excited, I can't even talk. The place to watch me is</s>TLC. BALDWIN: When do you leave for London?</s>DURHAM: I'm leaving Easter morning, right after sunrise service, there you go. I'll get up and enjoy that and get on a plane.</s>BALDWIN: And a quick preview, you said you'll be at the spot when she walks out of the hotel? You'll get the first glimpse.</s>DURHAM: And I'll be telling you all about it.</s>BALDWIN: You'll send me a quick twit picture.</s>DURHAM: Of course, the minute I get it.</s>BALDWIN: And we'll watch Monte and CNN, the whole big live coverage.</s>DURHAM: We'll team up and make a great coverage team.</s>BALDWIN: Monte, thank you so much.</s>DURHAM: My pleasure, as always.</s>BALDWIN: Thank you. And CNN's Richard Quest will be bringing us even more wedding lowdown at 2:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. We're calling it a CNN royal wedding special. Are you going to be watching?</s>DURHAM: I'm going to be watching.</s>BALDWIN: He'll be watching. Coming up next, a warning from former President George W. Bush. We'll tell what you he said last night. And then I know many of you have heard about this by now. This is definitely the talker of the day, an online video of Go Daddy's CEO killing an elephant. He's getting a lot of flak for this video. But guess what? He'll be joining me in a matter of minutes, and I'll ask him why did he do it? It's a conversation you don't want to miss.</s>DURHAM: I'm out of here.