I’m so excited for the royal wedding I can’t even stand it!
Princess Diana
When I was 4 and came down for breakfast, my mom had the little tiny 4″ black and white tv on at the table. When I peered in, I saw a woman in a big white gown.
“Who’s that?” I asked.
“That’s the princess,” my mother responded.
“That can’t be the princess, her hair’s short.”
In my tiny little mind, I couldn’t fathom that a princess didn’t have long hair. It came with the territory after all.
Prince William
Oh my God, this wedding….this wedding was beautiful. Kate Middleton was so gorgeous and so classy. Still is. Now I have a question for my friends across the pond. What do you think of Kate Middleton? I ask because after going on Pinterest and reading the memes, they weren’t in her favor. There is one however that is so fuckin’ funny, I had to share it with you. Moms, how true is this?
So I digress. I watched that wedding in 2011. It was everything I could have asked for.
Prince Harry
And now we are just under 48 hours from when Prince Harry marries Megan Markle. Folks say it’s the most modern royal wedding yet but I don’t know if that’s the case. Perhaps we should say it’s the most inclusive. Had someone told the king or queen of England, 100-years-ago that one of their ancestors would not only marry a commoner but a multiracial American; well, they would have probably used the fainting sofa.
And why are Americans so excited about this wedding? Is it because one of our own is now going to be considered a royal? Honestly, that doesn’t draw me to the wedding. What draws me to the wedding is it’s the closest thing to a real life fairytale. Where else can you watch princesses, princes and queens, parading about? You can’t. And as an American, I feel like we totally got shafted when it comes to the whole royal thing. If I had lived back in the 1700’s and caught word we were trying to separate from England, I would have been like,
“Now hold your horses people….do we still get to have queens and kings?”
Royal Watch Party
Now of course by now you know these ladies. As usual, we will be spending another weekend in a hotel for a soccer
tournament and we will all be together. NC suggested a royal watch party and I couldn’t say yes fast enough. When we found out it’s at 7 am our time, AF was less than enthused.
I had big plans to make each of us fascinators and bought was I thought was the proper materials. After starting the process last night, I threw it against the wall and screamed, “fuck it”.
The problem was that the fascinators called for sinamay squares. I used sinamay ribbon. The feathers were to be cocktail feathers. I bought the ghetto-fabulous $1.99 bag of assorted feathers. Had I gone through with our fascinators, we would have looked like an indian drag queen.
I accepted not long ago that we will be watching the royal wedding without fascinators. I’ve searched every fabric store for sinamay squares and cocktail feathers and nobody has ANYTHING! You’d think between the royal wedding and the Kentucky Derby, they would have a small offering of materials to make fascinators but no, no we don’t. We have stupid fabric offered with the likes of Pooh Bear or Holly Hobby staring up at you like, “fuck you and your royal watch party. It ain’t happening.”
So tell me, will all of you be watching? They are predicting 3 billion viewers across the globe. Knowing my luck, I’d probably trip over my feet with that many people watching.
I will be watching!
Yeah! And your lucky! You don’t have to watch it at the ass crack of dawn!
So true!!
Unpopular opinion time – I live in England and I will absolutely not be watching. Couldn’t care less about the wedding but miffed that we’re paying for it (tax payers). I’ll be out with friends hopefully not talking about the Royal Wedding. It is everywhere and in my house we’re bored of it. Hope you enjoy watching it though! And I do wish Harry and Meghan happiness as I’m a big fan of love just not the Royal family.
Wait…hold up….your taxes go towards the royal wedding? WTF?
Extra policing, cleaning, council costs not to mention that we pay for the Royal family anyway. Can you see why I’m not enthusiastic now? There’s quite a few people and groups speaking out about it over here.
I can see why you wouldn’t be enthusiastic!
I’ll be watching. We love Windsor, used to live near there when we worked at Heathrow, it is a lovely quirky town with plenty of green space and the River Thames. The Long Walk where you will see the carriage tomorrow is usually full of people walking children and dogs. Am I a royalist? I guess so- we chopped our king’s head off long ago, didn’t like the alternative and welcomed back the monarchy. The Queen is above politics, a spiritual head, but I think she would make a better job than politicians! But I have never camped out in the street to watch royal events – I don’t like crowds.
I didn’t know that Windsor is it’s own town. I guess I just thought it was a section of London. Damn! I’m learning so much from my friends across the pond! Rachael just told me tax payers pay for the wedding. I didn’t know that. That kinda sucks. If Trump’s daughter got married, we would loose our minds if taxes went for it. I love the fashion and seeing all the hats! I can’t wait for the hats/fascinators! I wish we wore those over here!
I won’t be watching as I’ll -ahem- be at some blogging awards bash. Whilst, I’m verrrrrrrry excited for the bash, I am gutted I’ll miss the wedding. I like a good royal wedding. And as I’ll be in my 70s by the time Prince George gets married- well who knows if I’ll be around to watch that. Now Kate Middleton. She’s fine. She’s doing an excellent job. I cannot imagine the amount of pressure she’s under (posing for photos hours after giving birth- absolutely no fucking way!). Anyway, she’s from a village just outside my hometown, so where I’m from everyone is quite fond of her. It’s not like I’m a huge fan of hers. Rarely do we really get to see the real personality of a princess, but she’s fine and doesn’t deserve any negativity. Also, Windsor also happens to be down the road from my hometown and I’m going to my hometown tonight! And will be driving past Windsor on my way to the bash tomorrow morning, so I’ll only be a stone’s throw from the happy couple. I love Harry & Meghan by the way. I think they’re great.
Ahhh man…I do wish I could afford to fly over there and attend the bash! I asked about it being on Facebook live and some of it will be I guess so just know I’m going to be watching from afar. Make sure if you find the camera to wave to me and tell me who you are!!!! As far as the princess goes, I’m glad she is doing a good job. I can’t believe how put together she looked. Now, I would give anything for when Megan gives birth, to come out in sweat pants, a tshirt and her hair in a bun. I would kill for that!!!
Now that would definitely modernise the royal family!
I’m totally wishing for that!
I watched William and Kate’s wedding when I was in Korea. Thankfully, it was during teaching hours at work so we just set up a computer with the live stream and watched it. No waking up 3 hours before God just to watch someone get married in real time haha. I’m not sure I will be watching this weekend but I will definitely watch highlights online! I love all the drama around the royal family, and have publicly declared that the Queen is never allowed to die. Like maybe after Prince Charles so the crown goes directly to William, but really I’d prefer never. And as one of her loyal subjects, I expect my voice to be heard and obliged. We get royal visits here ALL THE TIME in Canada. William and Kate took their first official trip together here – and even stopped in my hometown I think! But alas, I was in Korea haha.
I noticed that! They do do a lot of royal visits. Come on….you dont want to get up at 630 am tomorrow? Will Ferrell is doing an HBO special on this and I cant wait!! I have a soccer game at 915 so I cant watch all of it.
LOL no – I don’t want to wake up at 6:30 am on my holiday weekend to watch it haha. I’ll watch the highlights tomorrow afternoon after thrift shopping at my favourite thrift shop. ps: I’m tagging you in a post in about 15 minutes haha
Awww…cool about the thrift shop! I love thrift shops! I’ll check out your post in a few minutes! We are in a hotel right now and I’m attempting to keep my children from killing each other! Ugh!!!
Make them stand in separate corners hehe
I’m excited too.
Yeah!!! Drink lots of coffee!!!
It’s such a shame you can’t make facinators, I’d love to see all the feathery photos when you put them on!!
Kate M seems okay to me. I’m not a big Royalist (I find it hilarious how lots of Canadians and Americans seem to car more than I do about this!) I might look at the news when I wake up, but it sounds like it might be good weather this weekend, so I’d rather go for an adventure than watch a wedding for folks I’ve never met.
Isn’t it funny how that happens? I always wondered if we were more excited then the British!
Lol I just received an e-mail from my mum, and she is really excited, so don’t worry, there are loads of truly excited Brits too!! <3
Awww….good for her! I hope she has a good time watching!
hahahah… Im still amazed at Kate Middleton and wonders how she does it…
She is soooo amazing. I can’t imagine having to be switched on like that all the time!