Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress Will NOT Be Made By Bruce Oldfield

Bruce Oldfield has broken his silence on Kate Middleton's royal wedding dress, finally confessing to Women's Wear Daily that he won't be making it.

The designer told the fashion newspaper, "It has been such a subject of rumor and speculation over the past months, but I am not designing it. We will all know [on Friday] -- and I thought I'd duck out of the 'possibles list' to give everyone 24 hours to place their final bets!"

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Oldfield was, at one point, the bookies' favorite with the odds 1-3 that he'd be making The Dress. In fact, Irish bookie Paddy Power put betting on hold thanks to a bunch of big-stake bets of more than £500, or $780. In December, a Paddy Power spokesperson said, "Although we didn't expect a betting plunge on the dress designer to happen quite so soon, when the stakes changed from fivers and tenners to hundreds of pounds, it appears as though the cat is out of the bag."

Oldfield also sat down with "Good Morning America" in February and remarked that when Kate Middleton steps out of the car and debuts her dress, it will be a "nightmare. I think nightmare. Whichever happens it's going to be a sharp intake of breath, isn't it? It's going to be...oh my god, what is she wearing? Or, oh, doesn't she look fabulous?" He did also say that he'd be dressing "a huge amount" of people at the affair.

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Royal Wedding Weather Forecast

Despite earlier predictions that sun would shine on Kate and Will's big day, revised forecasts indicate a strong chance of thunder storms and brisk winds. "We wouldn't rule out the odd lightning strike as well," says Aisling Creevey, a forecaster at MeteoGroup. "At the moment we're waiting to see how much sunshine is going to come off that day. If there's more sunshine there's more of a risk of heavier showers."

If rain does fall, a retinue of lackeys will cover the bride-to-be with over-sized umbrellas as she enters the Abbey—potentially denying well-wishers on the street a glimpse of Kate and the most talked-about dress of the century. Prince William and Kate would also have to re-think their procession from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace following the ceremony. Rather than riding in the open-top, 1902 State Landau carriage, the pair would instead cruise in the Glass Coach—the same one Diana, Princess of Wales, took to her wedding at St Paul's Cathedral in 1981. The rain won't affect Kate's transport to the wedding because she'll arrive by car.

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