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[elisi]

The Radio Times echoes my thoughts:

Bunting is hanging from your bookshelves, you have donned your Union Jack deely boppers, a paper plate of sandwiches is balanced on your knees and a sack of crisps is within reach. You don't have to work because it's a proper holiday and you're all set to do nothing but watch telly for hours and hours. Yes, it's going to be a great, great day. Come on, this is terrific, we're allowed to have fun and nothing but fun all day, it's a requirement, as Prince William marries Catherine Middleton. This is History, this is the greatest television event any of us is likely to see, with an expected global audience of two billion. But William and Kate are ours, and I think it's nice we're sharing them with the world in a spectacle full of colour and happiness. So leave your world-weary cynicism in a cupboard...

(You might be able to resist a fairy tale. I can't. *g*)

ETA: God DAMN we give good pageantry! *flails* (Everything's so gosh darn pretty and William and Catherine are *adorable*. Plus the dress is utterly beautiful. ♥)

ETA2: On a VERY shallow note: The BBC just played a (new?) BBC trailer ('cause they're going to have record viewing figures, so clearly they're doing a bit of self promotion)... It was a VERY lovely trailer ("Bring me sunshine..."), but I flailed impossibly much when they included the Doctor/River kiss! /end shallow fangirl mode

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I haven't got the crisps or the bunting (nor the deeley boppers...) but I've got a cup of coffee and some chocolate and I'm in prime position in front of the TV right now!

Oh - and can someone pass Harry a comb?

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

I'm excited. Woke up in the middle of the night to watch the hubbub!

[gillo]

I caved in. The Abbey looks wonderful, the dress is well-nigh perfect and it's all rather moving.

[cinderbella333.livejournal.com]

This certainly has been fascinating. I wasn't planning to watch it live, because of the time difference, but I was already up studying for a big exam today.

I'm unsure exactly how to characterize my reactions. I think a whole bunch of my reaction is based in my background. I am an American who is the daughter of a Canadian. I am a young enough adult that I was never old enough to either be alive or aware enough for any of the big weddings before this. But I certainly remember Diana. My specialty is history and political science. I love fairy tales, but I was never particularly taken with the idea of royalty, probably because of my specialty.

So it feels both completely alien and somewhat familiar. It feels both like a new experience for me and a new chapter of a story I was already following. It certainly fascinates me from a history and political science point of view, since it is a convergence of both. And then from a personal perspective of watching this grand royal event, it is both charming (in a fairy tale sort of way) and befuddling (for a variety of reasons).

Amongst all that conflicting perception for me, one thing is certain: you're right, the pageantry certainly was impressive.

However, beyond all that, Prince William and his new wife both looked genuinely in love and happy. In the end, that's what I was most pleased to see. I wish them a long and happy life together.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

I watched it. Kate looked beautiful, and they both seem very happy and in love. I was unexpectedly moved by it all. :)

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

(I slipped over from kerkevik's LJ, looking for someone less cynical). You do give good pagentry. We love it here on the fringes of the Commonwealth (Oh Canada!)

I got up at 5:30 to watch the Royals arrive at the church, to watch the ceremony, and the carriage ride back to the palace. Then I quickly drove to work and arrived just before they opened the balcony doors. Thank god for streaming video on the Internets.

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

My other half was wide-eyed and bushy tailed at 4:00am Boston time to watch the wedding as it happened. I missed everything but God Save the Queen. (Honestly, I think I'm programmed to stir at national anthems -- well, okay, maybe just the the Star Spangled BBQ, O Canada, GSTQ and Waltzing Matilda. And for some reason, the old USSR theme. I don't even. )

The BBCA was running a replay by the time I woke for breakfast, and I had a damn good cry with my coffee and donut. And!! And!!! I was the only person at my cousin's wedding last May to wear a hat. I stuck out like a gigantic gay sore thumb. I see today as a huge millinery victory.

But oh...my heart, my heart...I love my grandfather's country so much it hurts.