What is everyone doing for the Royal Wedding?

Thanks Will and Kate for the extra day I don't have to spend of holiday!

A-freaking-men! We're roadtripping through France for those 11 blissful days, leaving London to the hordes of crazy tourists!

We're going to try to go to a street party.  If not around here, we've been invited to one by friends elsewhere. I am not all that excited about the wedding itself, but I am sort of interested in being involved in a British street party.  I don't know if that makes sense to anyone.  It seems to be such a memorable experience for British people; often these things feature prominently in literature, memoirs, films.  I think people generally make a big deal out of these things because it is one of those times they can, so I am looking forward to participating in something where I can indulge in my crush on this country.  

As for the wedding itself, I really am not bothered.  I don't follow it at all.  I'd go to a street party and watch the coverage whether it was a wedding, a jubilee, coronation, whatever.

My inlaws, on the other hand, are in Westminster not all that far from the Abbey.  They have lived in that spot for nearly 40 years and in the general area since the 1950s.  They couldn't care less about it.  However, if it was the wedding was all that interested in, I'd probably go there and try to get as close as I could to the action as early as possible.  I can't imagine that being all that fun, though, but people do it.

I am not all that excited about the wedding itself, but I am sort of interested in being involved in a British street party.  

Yes, definitely. That sounds like good fun- going to a street party -just like you see in the films 
  
Up here in Scotland, most are definitley not fussed, lots of people don't even have the day off.  We wouldn't at all actually, except that it leaked via email that our sister companies in England would get the day off, so in order to be fair, they gave it to us.  

Since St. Andrews is where it all happened, we get a free bank holiday!  DF and I will be sodding off up north for him to do some landscape archaeology field work near Inverness, and will probably spend the day doing lots of driving and trudging around barely visible hillfort ruins around the Beauly Firth. Depending on the weather I may also spend a lot of time sitting in the car or a pub knitting instead 

Then post-wedding, we'll all be waiting to see if they're really coming to Cornwall (Isles of Scilly, rumour has it) for their honeymoon.

I think it's on too early here to watch live (really, 11:00? who gets married that early?!). So we might tape it and watch it later over British style nibbles.

Have no interest in the wedding, but it's the same day as the biggest eventing (horsey) competition in the US, so I'll probably be geeking out watching that all weekend.

Then post-wedding, we'll all be waiting to see if they're really coming to Cornwall (Isles of Scilly, rumour has it) for their honeymoon.

Jealous--I want to go the the Isles of Scilly!   

I like the idea of a street party, Legs--should be fun!  Friends of ours invited us to a party to watch the wedding and food afterward.  "Wear a hat and bring something patriotic--no heckling allowed!" the invite said.  Like I said before, I've got to work and I think hubby does, too so thank goodness I don't have to be at a party at 10 in the morning wearing a hat and waving a flag.  Hubby would rather stick needles in his eyes than do *anything* patriotic. 

I will be celebrating my birthday!  I think its kind of cool that the Royal wedding is the same day!

Happy Birthday, Torred!

Bath is putting up a bunch of big screen TVs in Royal Victoria Park for everyone to watch the ceremony, then having a "Faux Fab Four Band" play so we can have our own reception.  My street is also closing down and having a street party, so I will party hop.  I'm not much of a royal watcher, but I'm a big people watcher, so it should be a fun event!  Something I would have thought in my previous life was "oh, so British", but now I know, it's done pretty tongue-in-cheek for most people here.

Since St. Andrews is where it all happened, we get a free bank holiday!  DF and I will be sodding off up north for him to do some landscape archaeology field work near Inverness, and will probably spend the day doing lots of driving and trudging around barely visible hillfort ruins around the Beauly Firth. Depending on the weather I may also spend a lot of time sitting in the car or a pub knitting instead 

That sounds so nerd-tastically wonderful! 

I think BF is getting the day off, so we'll probably be at home trying to clear out the loft and filling up the nail holes in the walls, since we're getting ready to move in about 6 weeks.  Very exciting I tell you. 

Though, I think I'd like to watch it on TV, at least the beginning when they arrive or whatever.  I've never seen a royal wedding! 

I think it's time for a poll!  

You can select up to two options.

ETA - I had to go in & fix it, NOW you can select up to two options.

Right - who is attending the Royal Wedding?  Enquiring minds want to know.  Spill it!  

Is it you, Carl?  With a press pass?

Heeee! I wondered how long it would be before someone noticed that! SECONDS! 

Heeee! I wondered how long it would be before someone noticed that! SECONDS! 

Was that you then?