This past Friday was a very special day. Not because I had the day off, or because it was the day before Saturday. It wasn't special because it's the day when we 'gotta get down'-- in fact, I didn't have my bowl or any cereal. For breakfast on Friday, I had a full English breakfast. Why? In honour of the wedding of the year-- The Royal Wedding of William, Prince of Wales and Catherine Middleton.
I had spent a fair bit of time preparing for my own celebrations, making some festive wedding bunting and gluing extra feathers onto a fascinator headband that Laura made for me.
I woke up early, just before 5:00 in order to switch on the telly. When I came downstairs, I saw that my Mom had decorated our kitchen table in red, white and blue. She had displayed all her royal memorabilia. She had a book about Queen Elizabeth II, a cookie tin from the Queen's coronation that my Grandma had as well as a cup and saucer set from when the Queen Mum and King Edward visited Canada in the 30's. She came down to watch the wedding dressed in a vintage lace dress, white gloves and a hat! I was a bit lazy and just wore my feather fascinator-- although my pyjamas were red, white and blue. My Dad even joined in! He wore his England football jersey, his Scottish tie and a bowler hat!
I turned on the tv just in time to see some important guests arrive at Westminster Abbey. The Abbey looked beautiful-- especially with the addition of 8 trees. The trees helped the cavernous interior to feel fresh and a little warmer than usual. While the guests arrived, I headed into the kitchen to make a yummy breakfast for my family. Laura lent me her copy of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, so I made an English breakfast according to England's most famous chef. We ate grilled portobello mushrooms, tomatoes, breakfast sausages, bacon, poached eggs, and English muffins (yeah, I skipped the baked beans). I even went the extra mile and made some scones ahead of time, to eat with clotted cream and jam... mmmmm... proper cream tea! We enjoyed our breakfast with hot tea, sipped out of a couple of vintage tea cups, which originally came from England.
It was fun to see what everyone was wearing-- I really like the smart skirt suits and lovely sophisticated coats that many of the women had on. They looked so distinguished… apart from their hats! Well, actually, some of the hats were lovely. Carole Middleton's hat was nice and I actually didn't mind Camilla's hat either, it reminded me of a ship's sail. In fact, Miriam Gonzales' hat was absolutely stunning! (She's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's wife). But most of the hats just made the heads they were perched on look not a little bit silly.
The maid of honour, Pippa Middleton, was stunning! She was only upstaged when her beautiful sister, Kate arrived. Now, I had a bet with Laura over Kate's dress. I said it would be 'Alexander McQueen' style, with intricate detail, maybe even feathers. And although the dress was designed by Sarah Burton of the House of McQueen… it wasn't crazy. It wasn't a simple dress-- the lace was quite elaborate-- it was closer to Laura's vision of a classic gown. I particularly liked how Kate's dress had sort of a 50's silhouette.
I appreciated how Wills and Kate maintained the sense of formality expected from a Royal ceremony. The hymns sung by the choir were beautiful and the order of service, complete with an oration by the Bishop of London and a Bible reading by James Middleton enforced the stateliness of the occasion. However, it would have been nice to hear some unscripted vows from the couple. (P.S. You can buy all the music from their wedding on iTunes!)
We did get a glimpse of the couple's sense of humour when William leaned over to whisper to Kate's father: "We were supposed to have just a small family affair", or when he looked at his bride and told her: "You look beautiful."
We flipped between Global TV and the CBC until about 8:00-- but by that time, the coverage consisted mainly of reporters interviewing people in the crowd… many of which turned out to be Canadian tourists...
The wedding was lovely, and it was fun to watch with my mom, who, 30 years ago, woke up early to see Prince Charles and Lady Diana's wedding. But after getting up so early, I was pretty tired. Luckily, I had the day off, so I went for a little run (my last on before my big race on Sunday) and napped for the rest of the morning.
Did you watch the wedding? How did you celebrate?
I had spent a fair bit of time preparing for my own celebrations, making some festive wedding bunting and gluing extra feathers onto a fascinator headband that Laura made for me.
I woke up early, just before 5:00 in order to switch on the telly. When I came downstairs, I saw that my Mom had decorated our kitchen table in red, white and blue. She had displayed all her royal memorabilia. She had a book about Queen Elizabeth II, a cookie tin from the Queen's coronation that my Grandma had as well as a cup and saucer set from when the Queen Mum and King Edward visited Canada in the 30's. She came down to watch the wedding dressed in a vintage lace dress, white gloves and a hat! I was a bit lazy and just wore my feather fascinator-- although my pyjamas were red, white and blue. My Dad even joined in! He wore his England football jersey, his Scottish tie and a bowler hat!
I turned on the tv just in time to see some important guests arrive at Westminster Abbey. The Abbey looked beautiful-- especially with the addition of 8 trees. The trees helped the cavernous interior to feel fresh and a little warmer than usual. While the guests arrived, I headed into the kitchen to make a yummy breakfast for my family. Laura lent me her copy of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, so I made an English breakfast according to England's most famous chef. We ate grilled portobello mushrooms, tomatoes, breakfast sausages, bacon, poached eggs, and English muffins (yeah, I skipped the baked beans). I even went the extra mile and made some scones ahead of time, to eat with clotted cream and jam... mmmmm... proper cream tea! We enjoyed our breakfast with hot tea, sipped out of a couple of vintage tea cups, which originally came from England.
It was fun to see what everyone was wearing-- I really like the smart skirt suits and lovely sophisticated coats that many of the women had on. They looked so distinguished… apart from their hats! Well, actually, some of the hats were lovely. Carole Middleton's hat was nice and I actually didn't mind Camilla's hat either, it reminded me of a ship's sail. In fact, Miriam Gonzales' hat was absolutely stunning! (She's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's wife). But most of the hats just made the heads they were perched on look not a little bit silly.
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The maid of honour, Pippa Middleton, was stunning! She was only upstaged when her beautiful sister, Kate arrived. Now, I had a bet with Laura over Kate's dress. I said it would be 'Alexander McQueen' style, with intricate detail, maybe even feathers. And although the dress was designed by Sarah Burton of the House of McQueen… it wasn't crazy. It wasn't a simple dress-- the lace was quite elaborate-- it was closer to Laura's vision of a classic gown. I particularly liked how Kate's dress had sort of a 50's silhouette.
I appreciated how Wills and Kate maintained the sense of formality expected from a Royal ceremony. The hymns sung by the choir were beautiful and the order of service, complete with an oration by the Bishop of London and a Bible reading by James Middleton enforced the stateliness of the occasion. However, it would have been nice to hear some unscripted vows from the couple. (P.S. You can buy all the music from their wedding on iTunes!)
We did get a glimpse of the couple's sense of humour when William leaned over to whisper to Kate's father: "We were supposed to have just a small family affair", or when he looked at his bride and told her: "You look beautiful."
We flipped between Global TV and the CBC until about 8:00-- but by that time, the coverage consisted mainly of reporters interviewing people in the crowd… many of which turned out to be Canadian tourists...
The wedding was lovely, and it was fun to watch with my mom, who, 30 years ago, woke up early to see Prince Charles and Lady Diana's wedding. But after getting up so early, I was pretty tired. Luckily, I had the day off, so I went for a little run (my last on before my big race on Sunday) and napped for the rest of the morning.
Did you watch the wedding? How did you celebrate?
4 comments:
omg you amd your fam are tooo cute! I love the outfits and I cannot believe you made all that lovely food. This was amazing! And I adore that fascinator on you. I was clearly the one to bring those things back (the royals owe me a thank you), I've been rockin' that style since the winter!
And yes, I won the bet but it was still a very intricate gown when you get right into it so you weren't that far off.
I went to another wedding so I didn't get to watch the coverage, although I did read about it all in the paper the next day - wish I could have hung with you, what an amazing event!
I was standing right outside Buckingham Palace and I got the perfect view of the Royal Kiss! After 5 and a half hours of standing in the exact same spot my legs did ache a bit though...(I'm Alice by the way, the au pair who was in Italy. I've commented before but I would just like you to know that I still read your blog!)
Thanks Laura!
Hi Alice! Wow, thanks for continuing to read! I'm so jealous that you were right there for the big day! Wow-- 5 hrs in one spot? That reminds me of my standing-room spot when I went to go see a play at the Globe Theatre.
How are you?
I'm good thank you. After au pairing in Italy I moved onto Madrid for three months and I'm now an au pair in London - which is actually only 100 miles from home, so its not too exotic! Next week I'm leaving to volunteer in Mexico for a month at a Christian children's centre and after that it's uni...phew, quite a lot packed into one year!
Well done on the 10k run by the way - very impressive!
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