The Wedding

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/article-1381820/Royal-Wedding-route-A-MILLION-turn-celebrate-Kate-Middleton-Prince-William.html

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 :D

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?

Hat, schmat.

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

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

spot on, pz, it was Beatrice

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.

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

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.

Pete Zicato wrote:

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.

TheMercenary;729016 wrote:

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/article-1381820/Royal-Wedding-route-A-MILLION-turn-celebrate-Kate-Middleton-Prince-William.html

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

Pete Zicato;729090 wrote:

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.

Clodfobble;729342 wrote:

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.

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.

Good spot.

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

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 :)

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.

While I have the opposite probelm. Two phones that work very well (landline and stone-age mobile) but never get to use them :(

Although I admit if I had surfing capabilities I would get a lot more use!

ZenGum;729139 wrote:

Hat, schmat.

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

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

:thumb:

Beatrice' hat is going to be auctioned on eBay.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/05/princess-beatrices-hat-the-royal-ebay-auction.html

I think they should auction Pippa. she is a hottie.

Fancy toilet seat atop the bastard offspring of anime and Shergar or what?

I can see the reemblance...

Another point of view:

That bottom pic explains Kate's shit-eating grin.

'shopped Disney? :lol:

Maybe somebody should 'shop some pants on that asshole Donald Duck. :rolleyes:

http://failbook.failblog.org/

From the guy from Failbook:

While this is not the first comparison made between the royal wedding and its Disney-esque storyline, it is quite a popular one. As a seeker of truth and justice, I just wanted to let everyone (well, the seemingly large number of people who can’t spot a little Photoshop MS Paint trickery) that it is indeed a falsehood.

How do I know? Besides providing you with the originals (and the fact that it’s fairly obvious), I have seen quite a few shops in my time and can tell from the pixels.

TheMercenary;733205 wrote:

I think they should auction Pippa. she is a hottie.

I bid 20 camels!

ZenGum;733860 wrote:

I bid 20 camels!

Are they virgins? Bin Laden's associates may be interested!

Disney's Princess (no idea which one - I despise them all) looks apprehensive.
She knows Happily Ever After requires her to produce a male heir and look the other way once she has. She also fears the "religious wounding" to follow.

The Duchess of Cambridge knows both what she is getting into and what she is getting.

I was so proud on Castle Day that among the Disney Princesses we had a female Knight, and an Empress Matilda. We learned about her on our visit to Oxford Castle - how she escaped the siege by Stephen the Usurper, all dressed in white because of the snow, and galloped to join her troops outside Oxford. She successfully negotiated to have her son (Henry II, first of the Plantagenets) become King on Stephen's death. We also had two Cooks - roles we'd researched during Projects. I like it when girls don't believe the hype.

Did that include the tale of her escaping across the frozen Thames? *smiles*

Fascinating period in our history. There were 19 years that we had two contending monarchs fighting it out in Britain. A period known as The Anarchy or The Nineteen Year Winter.

DanaC;734639 wrote:

Did that include the tale of her escaping across the frozen Thames? *smiles*

It did :)

The children do history in more detail and much earlier than we did when I was at school.

I'm looking forward to The Great Fire of London with Tiger next year (specially as I did it last year and am now an expert).

Pippa Middleton is in the news again-this time because she wore a see through dress to Wimbledon. OK, so yes, she is relatively attractive and I had another look at the wedding pics and yes, no issues with how looks in rear view in a bridesmaids dress, but despite looking at every image I could find of her on the image search engine, I really don't see that she is anymore attractive than the average person. Not sure what all the furor is about. Can anyone enlighten me?

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/07/pippa-middleton-wimbledon-dress-george-percy.jpg

Yeah..well, she's related to royalty now...have you seen what the rest of the royals look like? :p

I think she's above average pretty. Like a lot of the movie stars. They end up plastered all over the magazines with people gushing over That Dress at the oscars and the like. Less beautiful women than her (imo) have made entire careers out of their looks.


In this pic she wouldn't look out of place amongst the Beautiful People:

DanaC;743678 wrote:

Yeah..well, she's related to royalty now...have you seen what the rest of the royals look like? :p

:)

DanaC;743678 wrote:

In this pic she wouldn't look out of place amongst the Beautiful People:

I'd agree, but I've also seen some very average pics which remind me (as a very extreme example) of Tori Spelling in that someone who is not particularly attractive is made up/dressed to punch above their weight so to speak in the beautiful people stakes. (Also, I can't stand obvious fake tan and there seems to be a lot of that).

The British Press adore setting people up.
All the better to batter them down again when the papers need more money.

Collette Rooney, Elizabeth Hurley, Jemima Khan, Sienna Miller.
And to even it out, David Beckham, Elton John, Ian Botham, Jonathan Ross.

The names might not mean much to Americans, but that's because you avoided the Shark Pool of the British tabloids in the first place.

Pretty girls (who don't show their nipples) get pictures on front pages, even in the broadsheets. Because they sell. They just have to categorise them as IT-girls, serious actresses or related in some was to Royalty (preferably through marriage, as it's easier to smash them up again later that way).

The press conveniently forget how much they lambasted Diana before she died. Sneering at her for the Queen of Hearts interview (it was soppy) for her expenditure and for knowing another man when her children were heirs to the throne.

They reamed her to hell and back.
But the second she died she was a saint.
The Queen nearly had her head on the block for simply following protocol after the death of her ex-daughter-in-law. She reluctantly expressed grief in an interview afterwards. My ex Mother-In-Law wouldn't have, and no surprise.

Kate is a wife.
If William chose his bride for her looks then shame on him.
I think she's above average attractiveness, is loyal, intelligent and willing to live life in the goldfish bowl of the Royal Family without going fruitloop.

And those are tough boxes to tick.

Pippa is the It-girl of the moment.
So was Tara Palmer Tomkinson (who I love, because she's so honest) and Tamara Beckwith.
Neither stop traffic with their looks.
But when the papers agree you're worth photographing, you're worth photographing.

Or your phone is worth hacking.
Or your dead daughter's phone is worth hacking (Milly Dowler)