Who's awake watching the pre-wedding show waiting for the wedding to begin?

[Tx4obama]

I never watched Diana's or Fergie's so I thought I'd stay up and watch this one - one out of three ain't bad ;)

Edited to add...

Live stream link: http://www.justin.tv/live_news#/w/1129227568/35

[davepc]

1. Watching all this I cant help but think thank god for Thomas Jefferson et al

We may be the world leader in jingoistic nationalism today but every now and then the UK likes to remind the world who wrote the book.

[franzia99]

9. amen to that

[readmoreoften]

2. Yeah, no thanks. I don't need to watch a bunch of parasites spend people's money.

[Tx4obama]

4. The money spent on the wedding is 'less than' what the USA pays in interest to China for ONE DAY

They said on the news earlier tonight that it is excepted that the wedding will bring ONE BILLION dollars into their economy.

[joshcryer]

15. The economic cost to the economy for largely shutting down the UK is supposedly 10 billion pounds.

[pnwmom]

87. Wouldn't that be somewhat offset by some stimulus to the economy, too?

All those people camping out overnight and buying souvenirs are spending money. The BBC must be making money, too.

[dipsydoodle]

108. An estimated 1,000,000 tourists are here for the occasion.

Which I guess brings in about £1 billion or so.

[blueamy66]

129. Do the royals

get the tax money on that billion?

[JackRiddler]

131. On that basis, any spending can be justified.

[FedUpWithIt All]

128. I am watching. It doesn't look like the people, who are actually paying, share your disdain.

In fact, there are a lot of them and they look pretty damned pleased with the way their money is being spent.

[mucifer]

3. I can't sleep, but I refuse to watch that.

[Raine]

5. I watch both the others, so I'm watching this one too. nt

:-)

[Jeanette in FL]

6. I am

Watched Diana and Charles' wedding in 1981. Watched Diana's funeral. And now watching her son get married.

I am fascinated by the whole thing.

Happy for the two of them, hope they have a wonderful life together.

[dmr]

7. I have it on as background noise. The only interest I have is

that it's Diana's son that's getting married. I liked Diana, & thought she was a good mom - considering she married into dysfunction.
:hi:

[madmax]

109. +10 and I confess the dress is another.

[Misskittycat]

8. I'm watching. Got a few hours of sleep between 10 and midnight.

It's now 12:43 PDT. I was up all night for Diana and Charles' wedding as well.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Me too. So many silly hats! :)

[pnwmom]

55. I'm loving the hats. They're fun! n/t

[calimary]

11. Here! Up all night! Savoring every morsel!

Everything AND Richard Quest. LOVE IT! How long has it been since we've been able to wallow in foolish frivolity, with people hooting and funny hats and smiles everywhere and everyone in a celebratory mood (other than some sports event which wouldn't ever ring my chimes like this stuff does)? So much crap in the news just almost literally pelting all of us. I'm enjoying the hell out of it! It's nice to see everybody smiling and festive and the mood so upbeat. I haven't felt this way since Obama got elected - and all of that great upbeat stuff was of course juxtaposed by hoards of glowering, pouting republi-CON Sore Losermen-in-waiting. This is just fun and festivity and frivolity across-the-board.

Look at the trees inside Westminster Abbey. Can you believe the hats already? And the VIPS aren't even there yet.

Strange black dress that just went in, with white "streamers" or toilet paper or something trailing down below the hem in front. Odd.

Lots of men in tails. London Chamber Orchestra. Oh boy, just announced: Anderson Cooper. :sarcasm:

[Tx4obama]

14. I'm not so sure about those trees in the church - but I'm lovin' the hats. n/t

[truth2power]

43. I love the trees. They just said they'll be planted, somewhere, I didn't catch where....

Sandringham?

[Tx4obama]

64. I heard all the flowers will be donated to hospitals.

They used over 100,000 flowers altogether for the arrangements for the reception, etc.

[dipsydoodle]

116. To be planted at Highgrove

Some came from Highgrove anyway. That's Charles's house in Gloucesershire.

Over a period of 30 years he's created an amazing wild garden there http://www.highgrovegardens.com/

[Raine]

17. I saw that odd dress too with the white streamers

I thought it was butt-ugly. I love looking at all the hats though. :-)

[calimary]

27. The hats are an absolute scream! I found an old crazy hat with a feather on it

that I had in college, and I put it on in honor of the occasion. I'm sitting here in bed, working on my laptop and watching CNN in my Rockband t-shirt and ratty pants that I ordinarily sleep in and lots of rhinestones and my crazy hat. Such fun! I'm a sight. No wonder my husband is outside smoking a cigar. He's being very patient. Love the band leader I just saw - with those white spats that go from his feet to his knees!

:rofl:

And yes, we all need a holiday after what we've all been through lately! Why not this one?

[Tx4obama]

33. LOL that's great about your hat. I don't have one :(

But I did wear my Obama shirt and put my Obama yard sign next to the TV in the den on election night :)
So, I know how you feel.

[calimary]

OMG!!! I'm listening to - who? Piers Morgan? Somebody talking about some young woman

in bright blue - with this VERY strange marquis-diamond-shaped hat on her forehead, one of its points coming down toward the bridge of her nose. And whoever was talking was going on about this aristocrat just having had her nose redone after ruining it with a really bad cocaine habit. ON CNN for all the world to hear! OY! And then the woman with him said maybe she should have just worn the hat down over her nose...

OMG!

I wouldn't miss this for all the bangers and mash at the Kings Head pub in Santa Monica!

OMG did you just hear them carrying on about the Earl Spencer (Diana's brother) - "is that his fourth fiancee there with him?"

OMG!

:rofl:

[Raine]

45. He's really dishing the dirt

talking about the "naughty boy" too. I love it! :bounce: I just wish he would've said what the "naughty boy" did that made him naughty. :evilgrin:

[calimary]

50. There's Elton John and his partner.

And Victoria Beckham's wearing custom made Christian Louboutins.

Here's to naughty everything and everybody!

:party:

I love those periscopes - Richard Quest is talking about those just now. Several royal purple neckties spotted among the gents.

Look at the chartreuse hat with the big rose in it. Okay they're cutting to commercial - you can all pick your noses now!

[Raine]

37. Some of the hats are pretty but some are just bizarre

very strange! :wow:

[calimary]

54. There's a lady with a black satellite dish on her forehead.

Looks like the weather's fogging up a little. And the Vera Wang interview - MAN are they having focusing problems! I've seen several segments in which nobody seems to be staffing the camera.

[pnwmom]

74. That's the fun -- getting to wear something that odd.

And, it seems, the odder the better!

[Raine]

86. I would love to be a guest

it would such fun to get all dressed up with a fancy hat! :-)

[Raine]

39. Dupe ... self-delete

[leftynyc]

40. I just texted that to my sister

who is also awake watching. The only time I see hats like that just happens to be on Easter Sunday. Watching people coming out of St. Patrick's Cathedral Easter morning is always a scream.

[pnwmom]

71. I don't think I ever saw David Beckham before.

Or if I did, he never looked like this! Perfect! . . . except for the neck tattoo.

:rofl:

[Hardrada]

12. I'm half-working and half-watching.

A little pageantry is OK now and then. I'm 8th cousin to the Queen of Norway so I guess I have some of this in my blood!! :-)

[pnwmom]

56. Me, too. It's a good time to go through the mail, write some checks. n/t

[Tx4obama]

13. Andrew Lloyd Webber said ..

earlier on CNN that he had no desire to go to the wedding, but that after he saw the list of the music that will be played he was disappointed that he wasn't invited.

[joshcryer]

16. I'm not really interested in it, but my mom is glued to it!

She was all giddy with me last night when I talked to her about it. :hi:

I'm not going to fault anyone who is watching it.

[JI7]

19. i had no interest in the pre wedding crap, but actually watching it and seeing the hats so far

is kind of interesting.

[joshcryer]

29. Haha, that's great.

My mom was pining for the days of old where women were obliged to always wear hats when they left the house, and wear long arm gloves and drink tea (she grew up in 40s-50s Atlanta).

[joshcryer]

36. A hat for you:

[calimary]

41. YES!!!! That's the one!!! She's the one that Piers Morgan told the whole world had her nose redone

because she'd had a terrible cocaine problem!

OMG!

[JI7]

60. who is she ? was it a secret or well known ?

[Raine]

66. I think she's a lesser royal probably some

"shirt-tail" relative since she arrived earlier. They said that the later it gets the more important the arriving guests are, those less important arrived early. Apparently her coke habit was well known.

[calimary]

67. They said her name - it didn't ring a bell with me but evidently the Brits know who she is.

[Tx4obama]

47. The woman in blue is the one that Piers Morgan said had to have her nose fixed due to cocaine. n/t

[eagles55]

134. If you're talking about the blue hat'

it looks like there is a blue flame on the front of her head. In fact, I saw several "flame" hats at the wedding. They were in different colors.

[JI7]

18. it's 1 am here, i thought it would start 4 am here, but when it the wedding starting ?

if it starts like 1-2 or more hours later i will probably go to sleep by then.

[Tx4obama]

22. Wedding starts at 11am there. So, I think that's in about 1 hour 45 minutes from now. n/t

[sabrina 1]

20. I am. I love all this stuff, the dresses, the hats, the people who

are sleeping on the sidewalk, partying all night last night, wearing all those silly hats and flags and eating and drinking. It's a party for the whole country and they all have tomorrow off so the party can go on all day! Countries need a day off to party every once in while.

The current Prime Minister who was a teenager then, slept out all night in a sleeping bag when Charles and Diana got married, and now he's the PM! He won't have to sleep on the sidewalk this time. I guess he'll be a guest of honor.

Making coffee and getting snacks ready and the puppy is delighted to have someone awake to play with.

[Tx4obama]

24. My dog thinks I've gone nuts.

I went to bed three hours ago to watch everything on the TV (my dog sleeps on my bed) - after two hours I decided to get out of bed and come back outside and watch the wedding on the computer. He is not happy about having to leave the bed and he's still looking at me like "Hey what the hell is going on!". LOL :)

p.s. I heard the PM tell that story earlier today and it was pretty cool.

[sabrina 1]

34. Lol, my puppy never wants to go to bed. She just wants to play

so tonight, she's thrilled and excited and will probably be a pain. I think I'll watch it on the laptop in bed though, as she goes to sleep once everyone is in bed!

I hope your poor puppy gets some sleep! :-)

[calimary]

21. Did you see the odd red knot on the side of that girl's head? I think it's a hat...

Oooh, marching band! Rose Parade already?

DANG this is gonna be fun!

Look at the people in the crowd with those periscopes that say "Blighty" on them! And more hats!

And it says the marching bands will be entertaining the crowds with "show tunes and sing alongs." Amazing! What a time!

Uh-oh! There's David Beckham and Victoria Beckham - what a hat. Barbed wire antennae.

[Sherman A1]

23. If you enjoy it, good for you.

I am up as usual getting ready for work and have no interest.

Would like to catch the shuttle launch later and am concerned about the tornado victims.

[pnwmom]

61. I doubt that there are many American men interested in this.

But I love weddings and I'm having fun watching the hats.

[joshcryer]

25. Anyone have an online stream?

I go to work in 4 hours, could stem the tide. :P

*shameful*

[Tx4obama]

28. Here's link

http://www.justin.tv/live_news#/w/1129227568/35

They just now went to a commercial.

[joshcryer]

30. Thanks.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. Watching NBC and Beckham enters the Abbey, Cuts to his Pepsi ad.

Product placement!

[SoCalDem]

31. Watching here.. flipping from BBC to CNN-I..and back & forth

I won't be watching Mika scowl & grimace, and have to watch snake-eyes make snide remarks..

[redwitch]

32. me.

Some seriously weird outfits.

[Tx4obama]

35. Some of the hats are lovely, some are cool, others are ridiculously funny! n/t

[pnwmom]

63. I think we lost something when we gave them up, don't you?

I can remember wearing big hats for Easter when I was a girl. We were Catholic and so were supposed to wear something on our heads at Mass. But eventually that rule disappeared and the hats, too. Too bad! I kind of miss them -- at least occasionally, they would be fun. (Now that they don't sell many, they only come in "one size fits all" -- which is too small for me, even if I was brave enough to wear one.)

[jbnow]

126. Then you must remember those lace chapel caps?

I was thinking of the new outfits my sister and I would get for Eater. New dress and maybe shoes and socks but certainly a hat! Was thinking it's a nice tradition even for grown ups even if they do not go to church
A nice and fun symbol of fresh starts or hope renewed or something

I am now inspired to go and get a hat!

[leftynyc]

38. I'm always up at this hour

but do have the tv on msnbc in the background. I watched Diana and Charle's wedding (I was in college) but I think that draw was that Diana and I were the same age. While I had no other responsibilities other than getting good grades, that shy young woman was marrying the future king. It was a beautiful wedding. Didn't watch Fergies wedding but did watch Diana's funeral. I've always been a very early riser so it wasn't a hardship. Looking forward to seeing the dress.

[Tx4obama]

44. I heard a rumor earlier that MSNBC is going show a repeat of the wedding instead of ....

their normal nightly line up Friday evening.
So, I'm watching CNN now and will watch the rerun of MSNBC later tonight.

p.s. They said earlier that the 'two' things that will be the most anticipated and talked about are the 'dress' and 'the kiss'.

Edited to add...

Piers Morgan on CNN is doing a good job of telling us about all the tidbits of gossip regarding all the arriving guests.

[Raine]

49. Yeah I'm loving that gossip

fun to know about the dirt. :evilgrin:

[leftynyc]

51. I really have no idea

why some people feel compelled to sniff haughtily at all this. How many times do you get to see a royal wedding? Great Britain has been our most loyal ally during my lifetime and this isn't costing me a dime. If the Brits don't care, why should I? Meanwhile, I'm watching while posting and texting with my sister about the hats.

[pnwmom]

65. I want to see the dress, too. And I hope

she wears her hair down.

:)

[leftynyc]

72. A bit earlier

it was being discussed whether she'll be wearing flowers or a tiara in her hair. I, too, hope she wears her hair down as she has beautiful hair. The fact the dress is still a secret in this day and age astounds me.

[pnwmom]

75. I heard Diana's gown designer saying how they used to put odd things

in the trash just to fool anyway who was going through it -- like scraps of pink silk. But this time, they really kept the identity of the designer secret.

[leftynyc]

96. You know what I just remembered?

During Diana and Charles's ceremony, Diana screwed up his name. It was a very human moment.

[leftynyc]

117. Hair is down

and while I can only see the top of her dress in that car, she looks lovely.

[applegrove]

42. I wasn't going to watch but I find myself sucked in. I saw Diana's wedding as a teen

and really enjoyed it.

[pa28]

46. Well it makes for good tv. It's great pageantry with storybook overtones.

Just don't forget to poke a few holes in the fairytale from time to time.

Today I was thinking about the last time my cousin from the UK was here. He got drunk and tried to throw a pool cue at the portrait of the queen at McMenamins in Portland. Maybe that was just him but based on my own visits I get the feeling quite few Britons share his opinion.

They would serve themselves really well IMO by living like normal people and shocking everybody by having a wedding like this:

[dkf]

48. How much longer til it starts?

[Tx4obama]

52. In about one hour.

I'm wondering how many of the folks that arrived early will be sitting there having to go pee during the ceremony :)

[dkf]

53. I hear it was really cold earlier too.

I've seen enough pre wedding stuff so I'll just tune in for the real thing...if I can stay up

Thanks for the heads up.

[LynneSin]

57. I'm watching and thank goodness for BBC America

NBC Today show was just ugh!

[Tx4obama]

62. CNN is pretty good. Piers Morgan is dishing the dirt on everyone. n/t

[Lucian]

58. I am.

[Tx4obama]

59. The PM's wife looks underdressed. She should have worn a hat. n/t

[pnwmom]

68. I heard that Tony Blair wasn't invited. That seems like a snub.

Shouldn't the former P.M. have been included?

[Raine]

76. That's what I thought too

she looks so plain compared to the the women.

[Tx4obama]

69. Prince William and Harry are arriving, the crowd is going nuts!

Edited to add...

Prince William is wearing a military uniform.
And he will not be wearing a wedding ring.

[progressivejazz]

70. My wife, and thanks to that, me.

[calimary]

73. Groom alert! There's Wills in a red-jacketed military uniform with a bright blue sash.

His brother's next to him in the back of the Bentley.

They just said the blue sash represents the Knight of the Garter - which William is.

The car has a crown on top.

[pnwmom]

77. So Prince William -- or the Duke of Cambridge -- gets to wear red.

[pnwmom]

78. Harry's outfit, alas, makes him look a bit like

a bellhop.

:)

[Tx4obama]

79. I think Harry's uniform looks better than Williams. n/t

[dkf]

80. Me too.

[pnwmom]

81. Maybe Prince William will make early balding acceptable?

Given the genes in my family, I hope so.

[calimary]

90. My husband and I have been talking about that. Poor Wills has a good start on baldness.

His brother has more hair but he's thinning in back, too.

Oh what the hell? It just proves you can't have everything. Even if you're the heir to the British throne and handsome as hell and wealthy beyond imagining with a gorgeous new wife and a marriage that may actually last. Maybe it's the Great Leveler.

Mother-of-the-Bride alert! Wearing Catherine Walker - I remember Catherine Walker being one of Diana's favorite designers. Light blue - almost a periwinkle color. She won't piss anybody off today. Very tasteful and elegant. The bishop has a great hat! But then, don't they always?

[calimary]

101. Camilla alert!

Piers Morgan says she's getting a massive ovation from the crowd - something that wouldn't have happened 15 years ago.

Beatrice and Eugene - and one of them has a peach-colored garden gate on her forehead.

[calimary]

102. Queen alert! She's wearing yellow so she and the mother of the bride won't clash.

Big huzzahs from the crowd. Everybody's happy.

Bridesmaids! Cute dresses and not as fussy as Diana's group.

Interesting limos with the back windows so big.

Uh-oh - I see what must be Kate's limo parked and ready to pick her up!

[calimary]

118. Bride and dad and dress and tiara in car, on the way. Pretty! Veil over face.

From what I can see of it, the dress is a nice one.

And the crowd goes wild.



OMG look at all the little prince costumes - on the page boys! Walking in with Kate's sister Pippa - who looks great! Nice dress on her too. Lots of talk about V-necklines.

Kate's car has an even more window-y back end.

[XemaSab]

82. Y hello thar Wills and Harry

:D

[Tx4obama]

83. OMG. Piers is REALLY being a bad boy - he mentioned the name of Diana's last lover....

the one that was in the car accident when she died.
Piers saw someone there that looked like Fiad (sp?) and then said something like "no that's not him, but wouldn't that be something if it had been".

Piers is really making the commentary 'interesting'.

[Tx4obama]

85. Anderson Cooper on CNN just said 'no more commericials' - everyone run and go pee now! :) n/t

[Raine]

94. uh oh this is going to be a bladder buster! nt

[RandySF]

84. I'm staying up until the wedding itself

I just want to see folks as they show up.

[RandySF]

88. It sort of feels like

The lurid Charles/Diana, Andrew/Fergie era is finally being washed away.

[JI7]

89. What did Anderson say about Diana's Wedding Dress ?

it's funny they got offended.

[RandySF]

92. Because nobody ever dare say anything about Diana

unless it's fawning worship.

[RandySF]

110. DELETE

[Tx4obama]

93. I don't know. But someone just said that Kate's mom's dress reminded them of what Camilla wore

when she married Charles.

[pnwmom]

97. Both wore a light, neutral color, but otherwise --

she doesn't remind me of Camilla at all.

[Gin]

130. I don't like Camilla (because of what she did to Dianna) god...I need

a life....but..Camilla wore a beautiful outfit when she married Charles and her outfit today was silk and very pretty....so I give her fashion points anyway...

ok...now that the fantasy is over...back to reality in the USA Inc.

[pnwmom]

91. Mrs. Middleton looks great! n/t

[Tx4obama]

95. A couple comments from Twitter.... regarding William's and Harry's military uniforms

# OTOOLEFAN

Prince William & Prince Harry look like they're starring in a remake of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band movie. 13 minutes ago via TweetDeck


# OTOOLEFAN

Prince William & Harry just saluted Captain Crunch.

[Tx4obama]

98. I do NOT care for the hats that look like flying saucers. n/t

[Raine]

111. Fergie's daughter's hat was really strange

it looked like some weird pinkish scupture sticking straight up from her forehead! :wow:

[SoCalDem]

122. It looks like a hood ornament

:)

[pnwmom]

99. I wonder what Kate's popular name will be?

As opposed to her official title, the Duchess of Cambridge. They're not going to call her Duchess Kate, are they?

[Tx4obama]

100. She has said that she now wants to be called Catherine. n/t

[madmax]

107. I want to be called Filthy Rich. :) nt

[madmax]

103. What is with these WILD ASS HATS??

Fashion run amok! I thought it was a parody or something.

[JI7]

112. it's a British thing

[madmax]

125. Did you see the one that is worn by I believe

Princess Eugenie (sp) and the woman with her. Those two hats were way out there. Ok, maybe futuristic comes to mind.

[Tx4obama]

127. Princess Eugenie of York and Princess Beatrice of York

Here's a photo of both of them together with their hats:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/royal-wedding-arrivals_n_855303.html#s271229&title=Princess_Eugenie_of

[madmax]

132. That's not even Avant Garde it's just

tacky, tasteless shit. LOL Sorry, I'm a woman and I don't think there are another two women on the planet who would be caught dead in one of those hates in a dark room with no one there. To wear that to a Royal Wedding where every camera on earth will be taking pix - ok, just my not so humble opinion is batshit crazy ala Palin and Bachmann. Was that snarky? rofl.

[Tx4obama]

104. Camilla is wearing cream. Only one supposed to wear cream or white is the bride n/t

[madmax]

133. Well... consider Camilla's history with Charles

while Diana was alive. Hell they were going at it before and after the wedding.

They're both snipes now matter how 'Royal'.

[Hannah Bell]

135. not the case in england. btw the bride's sister wore white.

[FedUpWithIt All]

105. I teared up when the princes arrived. Remembered them as boys

walking behind their mother's casket.

It is nice to watch them again on a happy occasion. I wish the young couple many happy years together.

[Misskittycat]

106. Camilla looks very nice and quite stylish - unlike the usual Windsor frumpiness.

[RandySF]

113. Somewhere in New Jersey

A vulgar real estate hukster is getting a look at what class really looks like.

[pnwmom]

114. Like the dress so far -- hope it starts a trend away from strapless.

So many years of boring strapless wedding gowns . . .

[Raine]

119. Yeah those strapless ones look more like prom dresses

than wedding gowns, the ones with sleeves are classier.

[Tx4obama]

115. This thread is getting long - let's all move over to a NEW thread - link below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x985058

[deacon]

120. I'm watching but i'm royally exhausted :))

[tomm2thumbs]

121. trees are nice

[Tx4obama]

123. Wedding watching party has moved over to Thread #2 - link below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x985058

[madmax]

124. Remember Diana's tiara?

It was large and I'd bet heavy. Princess Catherine's seems so much more comfortable. My impression is that this is definitely not an arranged marriage as was Charles and Diana - this may be a real marriage of love and duty to country, without sacrificing - their sense of self and a partnership of love, duty - but, not duty alone. I'm liking this.

:waving: to Elton!