The rules for second weddings - from a midlife bride-to-be

The rules for second weddings - from a midlife bride-to-be

When Wallis Simpson married the former Edward VII in 1937, wedding guest Lady Alexandra Metcalfe was not impressed. “It was a sad little service,” she said, of the intimate ceremony in Chateau de Candé, near Tours in France. “It could be nothing but pitiable and tragic.” For Simpson’s first wedding to Earl Winfield Spencer Jr in a Baltimore Episcopalian church, 20 years earlier, she was resplendent in a white velvet gown embroidered with pearls,…