Tuesday, April 5, 2011
THIS BLOG ALREADY HAS A FAVORITE PRINCE, AND HIS NAME IS PRINCE: I'm just wondering -- other than opening up space for live commentary that day, are folks expecting us to provide continuing coverage of The Most Important Wedding In The History Of Weddings (Other Than His Parents') over these remaining weeks? Nothing about it has interested me yet, and I'm wondering if I'm an anomaly.
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No, due to the political nature of said proceedings.
ReplyDeleteI like a good royal wedding . . .
ReplyDeleteI can't figure out if I only care about the royal wedding because I am planning my own wedding right now. I think I will get by without ALOTT5MA coverage so long as we have more posts about The Artist Formerly Known as the Artist Formerly Known As Prince.
ReplyDeleteAs I noted on Twitter on Friday:
ReplyDeleteThe Royal Wedding is rapidly climbing my lengthy list of "things that I do not care about," though remains well behind "Kardashians."
I'm with KCosmo on this, but I won't complain if there's no coverage here.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I'm concerned, this post was coverage enough. I'm just happy to learn that some people care as little about this as I do.
ReplyDeleteThis has got to split along gender lines. Last week I went to an exhibit of Princess Diana memorabilia in Kansas City - it's a traveling exhibit authorized by the family including the weddding dress and other things. I went as a favor to the significant other. In attendance I saw about 50 women and one other guy.
ReplyDeleteNo build up needed by me - however, post commentary will be much appreciated!
ReplyDeleteThere is and will be plenty of coverage. I don't need it here. But, like Andrea said, if events warrant a post-event discussion, I'll be glad to hear from this crew.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I saw Prince in Charlotte a couple weeks ago and his show was a bit of a let down. My husband was so mad about it, he went to the Greensboro show two nights later and it was exactly as described--with all the hits. So Prince, while still my favorite prince, needs to make it up to me a little. Just sayin'.
Just want to dispel the gender myth. I'm female and have no interest in the event.
ReplyDeleteI am a long-time Anglophile and follower of Di (believe me, even my closest friends are surprised that I am such a fan, considering how generally anti-princess I usually am!) However! I am more interested in the aftermath of the wedding. I think all of the build-up is not so interesting because they have been a couple for SO long, there is not much left to say about them that is new. I do look forward to the spreads after the event, though.
ReplyDeleteI'm not at all interested, but will probaby watch anyways because I love seeing the inside of those old churches. Where is it being held anyways?
ReplyDeleteWestminster Abbey, so right near the remains of Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens.
ReplyDelete+1 for a female who just isn't particularly interested. I'm pleased that Diana's kids seem to be relatively well adjusted. Past that, don't much care about the royals or the wedding.
ReplyDeleteWe have at least one UK-based correspondent who may be able to help provide coverage.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I am grateful for is that we have not had leering coverage about Kate's sexual experience (or lack thereof), while such a big deal of it was made for Diana.
I am interested in getting that groom cake recipe with the McVities biscuit!
ReplyDeleteDon't feel a need for coverage. All I really care about is seeing The Dress, and I imagine there will be a few thousand photos of it online for me to check out.
ReplyDeleteI'm a female and really don't care that much. I don't like weddings of the people I know, why would I want to see this wedding?? When Princess Diana got married, there wasn't 24 hour news cycles, CNN and TiVo. I sense that I will get the idea from the zillions of pictures and replays.
ReplyDeleteWhat in the world is there to be interested in about this wedding?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing is how cool Kate and William seem to be - they seem quite normal and well-adjusted. My second favorite thing is this blog (actual blog seems to be down right now, but this link http://www.omgblog.com/2011/03/omg_the_peoples_wicked_princes.php#more gives you the idea), which imagines Kate as a total jerk...
ReplyDeleteI am interested in royal weddings only as far as it complicates and lengthens lines of succession. It's a technothriller trope when the Secretary of the Interior becomes President during some political crisis. I'm always looking for similar devices related to royalty. I'm a big fan of both Kind Hearts and Coronets and King Ralph.
ReplyDeleteit's interesting only because their first born child will probably be on Canadian money.
ReplyDeleteI'm with KCos...love a good royal wedding. Happy to watch the carriage (or is she taking a car?) drive through the streets of London as cheering crowds toss flowers or rice or whatever (I hope nothing gooey or hard). It's not an A-list crowd like Di's, so that might be a less-interesting aspect, but I'm sure there will be hats to see. We don't get enough good hats on this side of the pond. No need for a live play-by-play, but a post-game wrap up might be nice.
ReplyDeleteDo not care, and wish to remind everyone that if enough of us can manage to turn away, maybe they'll have a happier marriage than his dad and mom did, and maybe she will not end up IN A FLAMING BALL OF DEATH like the last pretty princess.
ReplyDeleteTaking a car with her parents, I believe, to the wedding and carriage back to Buckingham afterwards. (Thank you US Weekly!) There are multitudes of other places to get whatever pictures, insight, gossip I want about the wedding, so wouldn't expect to see coverage here, too.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I was recently in London and decided to join a Royal Wedding walking tour, principally because it was supposed to cover Mayfair, Green Park, St. James Park, Buckingham Palace and Westminster and discuss the history of royal weddings. I left shortly after realizing that it was going to be a lot of stopping in front of shops that might be the dress designer, might be where the wedding ring was from, etc. I realized that even I have my royal wedding limits and spent the afternoon on lounging on the grass in a chilly but sunny Green Park and wandering around Westminster.
I saw this exhibit when it was in Philadelphia, and while the attendance was majority female, there were a fair amount of men (including the friend who was with me and my mom). Might have also been because it was at the Constitution Center, which probably draws a balanced crowd to begin with.
ReplyDeleteI'm following wedding news slightly -- mostly when Ellen Degeneres mentions it on her show (she's Kate's 15th cousin).
The only thing I care about is the dress and that's because I'm hoping she goes non-strapless. BUCK THE TREND, Kate.
ReplyDeleteWhen I last bought a wedding dress (15 or so years ago) there were plenty of options with straps and even, dare I say it, sleeves (short AND long). Now it's all strapless, strapless, strapless regardless of whether or not that's flattering to a bride (in a lot of cases it's not).
My mom and I think Kate, like Diana, could really cause a major turn in bridal fashion if she goes non-strapless and we're hoping for such a thing.
Wait, there was for Diana Spencer? I was only 8 at the time and didn't know that. That's seriously creepy.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that she was a virgin was at least mentioned in the US press, and was big in the UK, where it was alleged that was part of the reason he didn't marry Camilla in the first place was that he needed to marry a virgin to keep up appearances.
ReplyDeleteThe real blog is back up! Hurrah!
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Not true! William and his dad haven't even made it on to our money yet! By the time William and Kate's first born is ready to take the throne, there may not even be a throne to take.
ReplyDeleteYou knew *I'd* respond to that, didn't you?
Nuh-uh, thank you for asking.
ReplyDeleteFemale. No interest. Already a bit peeved that the small portion of the Today Show I manage to see before leaving for work seems to have a daily piece on the wedding. I may start a countdown - not to the day of the wedding - but to the day after.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/08/royal-bride-kate-middleton-virginity_n_846626.html
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