The Wedding

[TheMercenary]

I can't believe no one has posted a thread about it in Current Events so I will give it a go....


Here is my take:

I don't care what the rest of stuffy Americans think. It was beautiful. I wish them the best in their future. What a great opportunity for us all to temporarily put aside the continual string of bad news from three conflicts where are troops are in peril and enjoy life.

And this looks like great fun:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-William.html

[monster]

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

[Pete Zicato]

Mrs. Z and I watched the replay on the ABC sub channel. I thought the dress was top-notch and the ceremony was nice if a bit stilted.

And it gave me the opportunity to see the most hideous hat I am ever likely to see. The young lady in beige behind the queen mum had a hat that I was sure was supposed to be an octopus. Later viewings convinced me that it was not an octopus, just a really ugly hat. Anyone know who it was? One of Fergie's kids perhaps?

[ZenGum]

Hat, schmat.

Pippa Middleton's arse has it's own fan page!

http://pippasass.com/tag/pippa-middleton-bum

[monster]

spot on, pz, it was Beatrice

[tw]

You folks saw the wrong wedding. Two St Andrews graduates from the same period were married five days eariler in London. That was THE wedding. What happened five days later was the "Other" wedding.

[Pete Zicato]

This may sound silly, but what's Prince Charles' last name?

[monster]

Ah well..................

I think he's going for Windsor, but Wales also works. Royalty just don't have last names. When they get a title, they can use that as their last name. I think.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

And it gave me the opportunity to see the most hideous hat I am ever likely to see. The young lady in beige behind the queen mum had a hat that I was sure was supposed to be an octopus. Later viewings convinced me that it was not an octopus, just a really ugly hat. Anyone know who it was? One of Fergie's kids perhaps?

I feel bad for her, actually. Something like 90% of the hats at that ceremony were designed by Philip Treacy, the undisputed fashion diva of all hat design, ever. What happens when you get a hat by Philip Treacy is, you bring him your dress, and he waves his God-gifted hands and creates an inspired masterpiece just for you. And then you wear it. Because you don't say no to Philip-fucking-Treacy, and you never suggest that something he designed for you is stupid looking.

[Jill]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I can't believe no one has posted a thread about it in Current Events so I will give it a go....


Here is my take:

I don't care what the rest of stuffy Americans think. It was beautiful. I wish them the best in their future. What a great opportunity for us all to temporarily put aside the continual string of bad news from three conflicts where are troops are in peril and enjoy life.

And this looks like great fun:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-William.html

HEY! Something we agree on! Who'da thunk?

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Mrs. Z and I watched the replay on the ABC sub channel. I thought the dress was top-notch and the ceremony was nice if a bit stilted.

And it gave me the opportunity to see the most hideous hat I am ever likely to see. The young lady in beige behind the queen mum had a hat that I was sure was supposed to be an octopus. Later viewings convinced me that it was not an octopus, just a really ugly hat. Anyone know who it was? One of Fergie's kids perhaps?

Yes, that was Sarah Ferguson's daughter, Beatrice.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I feel bad for her, actually. Something like 90% of the hats at that ceremony were designed by Philip Treacy, the undisputed fashion diva of all hat design, ever. What happens when you get a hat by Philip Treacy is, you bring him your dress, and he waves his God-gifted hands and creates an inspired masterpiece just for you. And then you wear it. Because you don't say no to Philip-fucking-Treacy, and you never suggest that something he designed for you is stupid looking.

Even if it looks like a be-ribboned toilet seat?

I can't believe it, but I actually cried when I watched it. Not through the whole thing, but one brief moment. Can't even remember what it was, but it was just so moving to see these two people, so obviously madly in love with one another, commit themselves before, literally, billions of people.

I loved the gown. I loved that she had her sister and the little ones in white (she's a cheeky one, that Catherine!). I loved the processional. I loved the ceremony. I loved how her and her father's hands were shaking as they were holding onto each other (so sweet). I loved how Kate and William kept talking to each other, especially when he told her she looked beautiful when she got to the altar, and when she asked him if he was happy when they got in the coach after the ceremony. I loved that William was driving the two of them to the reception himself, that the Astin Martin was decorated just like any other ordinary bride and groom's would be, and that their new license plate reads JU5T WED.

And I really loved when they walked out on the balcony, she saw this:



and said, "Oh WOW!"

Fantastic from start to finish. I was swept away.

[DanaC]

When Charles uses a surname, it is Mountbatten-Windsor, although, according to letters patent dated February 1960, his official family name is Windsor

Apparently. From Wiki.

But yes, I believe titles can also be used in place of surnames.

Bit like the Duke of Wellington. He is usually referred to as Wellington, not as Wellesley when you read about him.

[Sundae]

Good spot.

[DanaC]

Heheh. I saw that on Digital Spy yesterday. I laughed so hard.

[Sundae]

Yeah well I saw it yesterday too.
But I bothered to share it...

Now go answer my GTG thread so I can ask Limey to start booking things

[DanaC]

Bleh. I was surfing on my phone at the time, and couldn't be arsed :p

Fucking i-phone. Great for surfing the internet, but making a phonecall? Pshaw.