I'm really sorry to disappoint you, but I have nothing whatsoever to write about for the celebrity weekly round-up. I haven't heard any good celebrity news this week and nothing appears to be going on, so I'm just gonna call it a day. Have a good weekend folks...
SIKE!!!!
Unless you live under a hollow log, you know that today is the WEDDING OF THE DECADE. Prince William and Kate are going to the "chapel" and getting married. I can almost guarantee their wedding makes yours look like a shotgun wedding held at the barn. Sorry for your crappy wedding. Hope their fabulousness didn't make you feel too inferior.
Hubby can't figure out why I was so excited for this, and to be honest, I wasn't sure why I was so excited either. Maybe it's because my Mom watched the wedding with me when I was just a wee tyke and now I can watch this one with my son. Or maybe it's because deep down inside, a lot of little girls and grown women alike wonder what it would be like to be a real, honest to God princess.
Although the Royal Wedding ceremony is over, the coverage will live on for weeks and weeks on the internet, as all the best stories do. Lots of others have written about the royal wedding much better than I (like, for instance, Chalupa's Mom , who wrote the funniest Royal Wedding post of the week). So I'm here to just throw together my favorite links I've been collecting all week.
First, you have to go to the E! Online Royal Name Generator and get yourself a Royal name post haste. You can refer to me as the Duchess Amanda Arabella Austinton of Gainesvilleham for now on. Or just The Duchess for short, because I'm not stuffy.
Then after that, go on and Princess Yourself.
Also related: How glad are we, collectively, that this technology exists? (Super glad!)
Let's talk about hats. Facinators, is what they are called. And I'm fascinated har har har. First time that joke's been made, I'm sure! Give me a second while I pat myself on the back for cleverness. Here, why don't you check out the best hats at the Royal Wedding while I give myself the "GURL UR SO FUNNY!" blog award.
Anyway, fascinators are big business here in the US since
All this Royal Wedding hoopla makes me realize how very little I know about English royalty. I mean, more or less everything I've learned about it is from The Tudors, and I hardly think they are still chopping off people's heads for sport anymore. So, will Kate really be queen someday? Here's the scoop from E! Online, in which they go into detail about the royal succession. For some more royal fun, check out People's gallery of royal family look-alikes through history. And then there is the A-Z of Royalty from People.
You're welcome for giving you all these links to waste time this Friday.
On to the actual wedding. She looked gorgeous and her dress was both modern and traditional (is what I learned this morning from Guiliana Rancic) and Grace Kelly-esque. If you weren't one of the 1000 some odd people invited, US Weekly gives you a glimpse inside the ceremony. Then after she said her "I DO"s, Kate automatically became Princess Catherine and a few hours before was bequeathed some other fancy pants titles. Not bad for a regular Jane.
Then they made history by kissing TWO TIMES while e'rybody and their brother got drunk in the streets below them. BEFORE NOON. They ain't playin'. I missed the kiss by 5 minutes, but you don't have to because E! wrote all about it.
Click on any of those links and it will lead you down the rabbit hole of thousands upon thousands of articles, galleries and fun facts. Enjoy.
Have a happy weekend!
Did you do your royal name? Leave it in the comments!
15 comments:
Wait, I DID get married in a shotgun wedding in a barn. That's tacky??
I have been royally obsessed with the Royal Family since my mom bought me Princess Diana paperdolls back in the day. And I wasn't even BORN when Princess Di married Prince Charles (seeing as I'm days older than Wills)!
This wedding is quite the event. Mama Kat had a prompt for yesterday on gifts to get the royal couple. Some of those blogs were hilarious. If you feel like wasting more time on this wedding you should check some out.
You have just made it insanely easy to get all the RW coverage I crave without the all the oh-look-i'm-not-working-at-all-ha-ha google searches. Therefore, I love you.
My Mum woke us at 5am to watch Princess Di and Prince Charles' wedding and so I was excited to share it with my girls. On PVR of course ;)
Oh, THANK YOU for the Royal Name link!
Most Sincerely Yours,
Baron Desperate Crispin Housemommycock of Chicagoburgh (yesssssss!)
I went to see my Royal name it was insanely long. I got up for the wedding because I was breastfeeding anyway. But there are so many blogs and posts and magazine articles about it that I probably could've just gone to sleep.
Ummm, yeah I don't get the fascination. But I never dressed my Barbies as princesses or brides. They were rock stars. Sometimes nannies to the stars. Yeah, I don't know, either.
I'll weigh in when we get back to LiLo or the whole Rob Lowe wrote a tell-all book that sounded boring even on Oprah.
Ha! My Royal Name is.........Lady Ingrid Pippa Hilliardcott of Brooklynpool! I think I likes!
So, I really didn't give a flip about the wedding but I was curious about what my "name" would be. So, here it is:
Lord Lisa Heston Cardencott of Birminghqmport
Ok, first off, why am I a Lord? Did I check the wrong box? Also, what's up with all the crazy consonants in the last word? Freaky!
I really disagree with this post. Their wedding didn't look all that great - I watched a few minutes, and it looked drawn out, boring, and full of people they probably didn't know or care about on a personal level. Being a princess doesn't seem all that brilliant either. It seems to me that, when he asked her to marry him, the implied question was "and invite the media into your life forever?"
I think she must love him very much to take the whole package.
To be fair though, my dream wedding would involve a registry office, and a day spent doing the things we both love, tradition be damned.
This is so funny! I'm tweeting it!
I did know about the name generator, though not the Princess Yourself. You've got the royal wave down, girl!
Dude, I totally want to check Etsy now to see who's selling fascinators.
Princess Tracie Tildsley Jarvisham of Spencerburgh
I went with my maiden name and hometown.
I love looking at all the wacky hats. I used to have a thing for them, you know. I blame it on my English ancestry.
I thought the wedding was wonderful! I got up and watched because my mom has told me for years how she got up to watch Diana get married! btw my royal name is...Duchess Jennifer Duckworth Millerton of Huntingtonburgh
How can I possibly land a prince with this name?! Marchioness Cheryl Duckworth Nailton of Columbiabury
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