AS any female wedding guest will know, the biggest dilemma on receiving your invite is what to wear on the big day.

So how do you cope when the post that drops through your door has a royal crest on it – and the card inside is from Prince William and Catherine Middleton?

Lower Blakemere villager Heather Gorringe, who is attending next week’s royal nuptials with husband Phil, says her first reaction when their envelope arrived in February was that it was a practical joke.

“I thought it was a wind up really, but after looking at it for a good weekend it seemed obvious that it wasn’t,”

the Wiggly Wigglers proprietor said.

“Then I saw Prince Charles a few weeks ago, because he came to Tibberton to look at a diversification, and he said to me, ‘I hear you’ve been invited’.”

Specific reasons why the couple, who run a natural gardening firm together, should be included are unknown although they are tenants on Prince Charles’ Duchy of Cornwall estate.

Either way, Heather naturally wasted no time getting their outfits sorted – with help from Hereford outfitters Cherry Savidge and Pritchard & Sons – and now wonders who else they might see at Westminster Abbey.

“I want to be seated between Elton John and Becks, although I’ve a feeling I’ll be a bit further back than that,” she joked.

“I am not big on all the outfits but I love the sense of occasion. I love the hymns and I love that the British can ‘do’ monarchy like no-one else on earth.”

And aside from anything else the pair say they are simply honoured, along with 2,000 fellow guests, to be taking part in history.

“It is amazing because I have got a son and I am thinking that, hopefully, I will have been to the future king’s wedding,” Heather added. “It’s a story for the grandkids.”