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GIRL ABOUT NEW YEAR: Pippa's family are trying to save the pennies as her wedding is set to cost a fortune

By Charlotte Griffiths, Diary Editor For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 19:03 EST, 31 December 2016 | Updated: 08:03 EST, 1 January 2017

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With Pippa Middleton’s nuptials to James Matthews approaching, money seems to be on mum Carole’s mind.

The dress could cost thousands, perhaps explaining why the family’s online store Party Pieces has launched a sale.

With Pippa Middleton’s nuptials to James Matthews approaching, money seems to be on mum Carole’s mind (pictured, Middleton and Matthews together)

Pippa's wedding dress could cost thousands, perhaps explaining why the family’s online store Party Pieces has launched a sale (pictured, Carole Middleton)

A couple of items caught my eye: a hen party ‘mother of the bride’ sash is reduced to a £1.49, and a ‘bum pincher’ is just £2.99.

Whatever Carole is planning for Pippa, 33, it doesn’t look like a quiet night in.

More happy news for Britain’s biggest opera star, the newly-knighted Bryn Terfel, he’s having a baby with his musician fiancee.

Due in the spring, it will be 51-year-old Sir Bryn’s fourth child and the first for his girlfriend, blonde harpist Hannah Stone, 29.

More happy news for Britain’s biggest opera star, the newly-knighted Bryn Terfel, he’s having a baby with his musician fiancee

Old romantic Sir Bryn told last week how he proposed to Ms Stone, formerly the Prince of Wales’s official harpist, at the top of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris – after first asking her parents’ permission.

The couple, both divorced, got together in 2014.