Royal Wedding!!!

 It's almost 11 (MST) and Royal Wedding Watch is on full, er, watch here. My pearls are on and crystal chandelier earrings in. I have  both  English chocolate and English tea to keep me awake. I'm so bloody excited!! Whee!

Now, since I have the luxury of staying awake all night, y'all don't, I will be keeping a close eye on everything and blogging all the important details. For now, busy yourself with some exhaustive coverage from the BBC.

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1:00am/8:00 It's almost here! All of the non-royal, non-government people are filing in. It's all very important. Look, the Beckhams!  I'm nervous. I'm not getting married, I don't have to get any of this right, but I'm nervous. There are butterflies stirring awake in my stomach.  Ohmigod, sooo glad I'm not Kate, soon to be Duchess of Cambridge. I would probably trip and fall 5 feet down the aisle and then accidentally say, 'holy batshit' in front of the Queen.

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3:00/11:00 THE DRESS!! Holy Moses, that dress! Princess Katherine, Duchess of Cambridge,  can do no sartorial wrong in my view now that I've see the dress. Plain white, fitted bodice flowing into a full, flowing skirt and ten foot train. With the sweetheart neckline and lace sleeves, there are only two words to describe her: Grace. Kelly.  It's elegant, beautiful, and timeless.  Okay, so maybe there were three more words.

 3:03am/11:03 So Kate's walking up the aisle, graceful and with a touch of mystique, hidden behind waist length blusher which cascades down from a tiara lent to her from the Queen herself. She is the picture of a royal bride, but Prince William can't see her. Because of the way the ceremony's set up, he won't see her until she's right next to him. Wha'?! Lame. Did you hear me, Church of England? Lame!

3:10/11:10 Yay! All the vows done in 10 minutes, ceremony done!

3:20/11:20 Holy crap! 10 minutes later and they're still singing the hymn. Holy crap! There are six more pages to the ceremony!



4:05am/12:05 The Learning Channel is covering the wedding and it's obvious they've never done something like this before. While CNN and FOX plod on, at ease with hosting live events, the TLC broadcast has a sweet note of panic; everything is on the edge of bursting out of control and running amok like a drunk royal guard. They laugh freely and nervously and co-host with people like Ivana Trump and Rupert Everett. I think they're my favorite.  TLC, will you narrate my life?

1:01pm/9:01  Must keep wedding fervor alive! Must keep lovely everybody-loves-the-British spirit alive! Am actually watching a Lifetime movie! The 'Kate and Will' story. Oh god, he's singing karaoke to Kate; cheesy even for Lifetime.

1:10pm Okay, so in this Lifetime-movied rendition of the Royal Courtship there's a really uppity girl of royal lineage who says to Kate, "You the girl Will hangs out with, not the one he takes home to the Queen.  Deal with it. Your mom is what, an airline stewardess? Those don't marry royal."  So I'm watching and thinking, "Oh, yeah! You'll be eating your drawers, won't you, sweetie!? Haa-haaa!" And then I realized, think of all those people in the UK who actually opposed Kate based on her class; well up yours, buddy!"

1:11  It's really a very American success story. Parents are self-made millionaires and the daughter raises to the highest position in the land through marriage. It's like a1930s movie.

3:24
Love tea. Love, love, love, love, love tea. Loooooooooooove tea. Had a couple cups now. Can't sleep. I  neveeeeeer have caffeine. Whoop!

Watching coverage on Lifetime. It's redundant but I can't get enough; wanna bloody mainline the stuff.  Big fat needle of Royal Wedding Detritus straight to the heart. Mmm, and some  TEA! T! TEE! Time for another cup.  Susan's been up past her bedtime. Giggle.