LIZ TRUBRIDGE: Big day for us.
Rose is getting married.
(laughs)
She's marrying Atticus, the son of Lord and Lady Sinderby,
and they are from a Jewish immigrant family,
so it's quite a big deal at that time
for people to marry across faiths.
It's special and awkward for a number of reasons:
Because Atticus is Jewish, Rose is Christian.
LILY JAMES: They can't have a normal Christian wedding obviously,
so they are marrying
in Caxton Hall registry office,
and then they have a wedding reception afterwards.
So I get to wear a beautiful registry office suit,
and then a wedding dress as well.
LINZI BOWEN: Lin has an hour for hair and makeup,
so we do hair prep and then her makeup,
and then her wig goes on,
and in that time, we just get us both ready for the day.
Just chat.
BOWEN: Lily's wedding look today,
she's got a much softer look for her Wig.
As you can see from these photos,
the wig that she's been using for the other episodes
is quite structured and finger-waved,
whereas this one's a bit more playful and romantic
to reflect her storyline.
So yeah, that's what you'll be seeing today.
JAMES: Like true English weddings,
it's pissing it down with rain.
(laughing)
MARK ELLIS: Hopefully looking at it,
it might somewhat burn through, but at the end of the day,
we have to shoot what it is.
But as long as we get consistent weather...
if it's rainy, it's rainy, if it's sunny, it's sunny.
But I think we'll be okay.
TRUBRIDGE: The scene as written,
the scene we're shooting at this minute,
which is on the staircase,
as written was outside on the street
as they approached Caxton Hall,
but for very obvious reasons, we moved it inside.
ELLIS: Originally, it didn't have an exterior,
but we thought we could do the exterior interior
because it has such a wonderful staircase.
We thought, "Just bring that scene inside
"and use the beautiful staircase,
and then cut to the main ceremony hall."
This is Where I become his wife.
I hope you will be very, very happy,
my dearest darling.
ELLIS: We needed an up-market registry office.
In the script, it's down as Caxton Hall.
That location still exists,
but it doesn't give us what we wanted, really.
We are a period show,
and there's an awful lot of noise around Caxton Hall,
so we're in Temple Place in a beautiful, stunning building.
BARBER: I mean, the room's absolutely incredible,
so we did this and we were like, "I don't think it's that bad."
JAMES: It's always nice to go on location
because, especially on Downton,
the sets or the houses that you go to
just feels, like, completely real.
It has to be beautiful.
You can't just offer up any sort of second-rate location
because it's still the quality and, you know,
you're still looking for that same level of class.
So I personally think this place works brilliantly.
Coming into central London with a period show
and the huge circus that is Downton Abbey is a challenge.
ELLIS: Chaos is the word.
It is tough.
The planning in Westminster,
they're constantly throwing challenges at you.
But you just gotta ride the challenges and pray it works.
TRUBRIDGE: London has great, great buildings
and wonderful places to offer up as locations,
so it's exciting and good fun to come into London.
ELLIS: I've seen some of the rushes,
and it just looks incredible.
TRUBRIDGE: Well, I think the biggest challenge this time
before costume and makeup is that they have two outfits.
Normally it's just one,
but this time it's the registry office outfits,
and they're for all of them.
You know, they all change.
Does it add to the workload?
Yeah, it sort of doubles the workload,
so when you get the schedule and you think, "Oh, brilliant,
I've got a wedding, that's so exciting,"
and then you read it and you're like,
"Oh God, I've got two."
And so we've basically had to cover twice the ground really,
because not only does Rose have two dresses,
everybody does, everybody changed.
Oh, do they?
So we've had to step it up completely.
Rose's registry wedding outfit
has come basically from this piece
I found in Paris in a flea market,
at Clignancourt,
and the whole thing kind of came from that.
And it's just been designed from scratch
and made up with just original trim
so that you've got some hook to the 19203,
because this is probably over 100 years old,
but then with contemporary fabrics
just to make it feel like it's new and bespoke
and has been made for her for the day.
The flowers are roses that have been preserved,
so they're real, but they'll last now forever,
which is the same with the bouquet.
Oh, I didn't realize they'd last forever.
Yeah.
It feels amazing,
especially that it's, like, made from scratch.
ROBBINS: It is a bespoke outfit,
and I think the thing as well with Lily
is that I always design something that can move,
because Lin gives great movement,
the way that she swishes and walks
and does really amazing turns with her back.
It means I can design for that.
Quite flirty, isn't it?
Yeah, it's flirty, but it's kind of grown-up,
and it's a real sort of finishing point
that we've been kind of leading towards through the series.
And yeah, we've got a beautiful vintage engagement ring.
Which I'm wearing on my right hand because...
After the ceremony,
when the wedding band goes onto your left,
then the engagement ring goes on top.
Which I think is quite nice.
The actor I'm marrying is really getting married soon.
He just engaged to his proper fiancee.
So I feel a bit guilty
because we're going to do it before them.
Yeah, before I turned up this morning,
I was a bit apprehensive.
I'm getting married next summer,
and I was chatting with my fiancée this morning,
and she's like, "How do you feel
about going off and getting married today?"
and I said, "It is a little bit strange."
TRUBRIDGE: Atticus was a great part to cast,
and we had some fantastic people come to the audition.
And there was something that Matt brought to it
that had such genuine warmth and a real twinkle,
and you could see him very nicely with Lin.
I remember the director and I looking at each other
and just going, "Wow, they look wonderful together."
I think people always say this sort of thing,
but it genuinely is true about this,
that everyone in the cast, the crew and all around the place,
they're so nice and so welcoming
that it's just been a really fantastic experience.
MARY: I daresay this is a first for you, Granny,
to sample the joys of a registry office.
VIOLET: Well, then you would be quite wrong.
Getting married is such a sort of... thing.
I mean, it's like the big day, and as a girl,
I guess if you've thought about it and imagined it,
and then suddenly you're sort of doing it,
and you've got the ring, which is the weirdest thing.
Wearing this ring is just like...
I keep looking at it and it feels so right
and I'm like, "Oh God!"
You know, watching someone come in and open the door
and sort of be like, "Yep, she's here."
"Oh... okay."
But also playing around this kind of bit that blows up
and everything just before that, it's quite shocking.
But no, it's been a very cool day.
JAMES: Just then, actually,
we did a rehearsal and I had to just walk in
and I was a little bit like, "Oh, God..."
You feel sort of overwhelmed by the cast all staring at you,
but then it also genuinely does feel like family,
so it kind of just feels like,
"Yeah, of course Maggie Smith's watching me get married."
It felt real, and it's such a big moment.
Now I'm married!