A Royal Wedding Celebration

This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone, I took today off to get up early (4am) and celebrate the royal wedding. Two of my friends, MEM & JR, slept over in order to be there when the festivities began, and we were later joined by Marta, who came directly from Logan having taken a red eye from Vegas. (Hard core fans, us.)

Over the course of the morning, we had tea and scones and (cup)cakes and champers (bellinis). We laughed; we teared up; we cheered for the happy couple. We also were DVRing the coverage and rewatched our favourite bits. [We all agreed that Kate's dress was gorgeous- simple, elegant, tasteful, while Princess Beatrice's hat was a seriously unfortunate choice.]

The music during the ceremony was beautiful. I hope they are releasing a soundtrack of their wedding music. It would be guaranteed to reach #1 on iTunes. (ETA: looks like they had the same idea.) Props to BBC America for showing the BBC live feed without any commercials. That was GREATLY appreciated by our viewing party. (Also appreciated not hearing trite American media commentary on the wedding.)

Me being me, I totally got into decorating for the party. I printed off a bunch of different things from links sent to me by friends who know I am a Royal-holic coupled with a couple of ideas of my own.