Well I'm sorta still processing it all.
I'm not big on the girly stuff (could care less about the dress, although I thought it was reasonably classy as these things go....), I find I am pro-Royal Family, although it's hard for me to express why -my general political views etc say NOOOO!, but I like having them -they're the exception that proves my rule......
But I loved it. And I was a little surprised by that.
I wasn't even going to watch it and then I thought, well I'm usually pretty awake by then and maybe Hebe (13yo dau obsessed with clothes/design) will want to so I asked her and she was totally up for it and happy I would let her and watch it with her....
So we got up at 5:30 and watched it drinking our morning tea and eating scones. And it was great. Very nostalgic for me. I used to sing in a church choir and weddings were the best because we got paid for them and the music was all happy and fun. And Wills and Catherine picked all my favorites, starting off with Parry's "I was Glad" -my very favorite. That's what I sing in the shower. And the words of the service were so familiar, I heard them several times every Saturday for years.
And I love that in such horrible times, the nation truly comes together like this. The nay-sayers/uninterested just quietly get on with what they would have done anyway, it doesn't have to be a huge press drama about whether it's the right thing to do.....and the pomp and ceremony and the colors and the precision and.... wonderful. No hitches, all the stops pulled and the church bells....well that sound makes me miss England something rotten, and not much does.
I run a scrip store on Fridays after school. It's a gift-card based fundraiser. They started calling me the Scrip Queen, so two halloweens ago, i made a crown out of used gift cards. I often pop it on the table at the store just to draw attention. The wedding made me feel good enough to take in my union-jack tea cosy and pop it on top of the crown. It was Scrip by Royal Appointment this afternoon
