If I were still living in London I would likely be heading to Amsterdam to escape the melee...

BUT since I'm not, I am eagerly anticipating 'The Dress' AND the best exhibit of millinery art in the world. (I am *all about* the hats).

I've also scored major Mother-Points by inviting her over for mimosas and breakfast at crazy-'o'-clock. She and I watched two Royal Weddings together when I was a child.

You bet I'll be watching.

His real mom won't be there so the least I can do as a mom is tune in on her behalf and wish them all the love and happiness in the world.

Yeah, I'm a big ol' softy after all.

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We are on vacation so there is no way we will be waking up for this...

I have no interest and luckily my bride doesn't either... (my Mom is waking up though with her book club and having tea and crumpets). I just think of all the resources being spent on this wedding and I look around this planet and see all the suffering going on at this very moment.... and I have to wonder... really really wonder. I know it's a fairy tale (at least that's what my Mom says... with a little giggle... and that's a little cute) so I wish the what seems to be a very happy couple well....

That's a provocative post and nothing to do with the Royal Wedding.

As someone with three bullets still in me due to a (failed) Sinn Fein / IRA murder attempt in 1993, I am rather sensitive on the topic. Add to that my Protestant friends murdered by the IRA through the 1970s and 1980s and you'll hopefully understand some of it?

and what is it? well, it's never sleeping at night, it's reading too much, and yet too little, into every situation. It's about understanding too much and too little at the same time.

An explicit request for the Brits (ie me) to get out of Northern Ireland, a place you've likely never been to? No chance. You are a coward.

I have no interest in the British monarchy what so ever! So I'm not going to get up in the middle of the night to watch a wedding....

That said, I wish them the best like I would wish to anyone getting married!

I am surley not a coward for thinking and believing that the British have no place in Northern Ireland. I have very close friends who have had family members murdered by the British and if you want to call my statement provacative go right ahead it does not change the face that the brits should go home....Im sorry that you have bullets in you, but at least your alive I have friends who have family who are not alive.....I for one am glad that I do not have to suffer under foreign rule in my homeland...and someday the people of Northern Ireland wont have to either....

I also think you're being provocative.

Besides, I'm curious, regarding this homeland you speak of...I'm taking it that you're NOT a member of the indigenous (i.e., Native American) popualation of the United States, correct?

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in honor of the royal wedding
 

Both my bf and my closest friend have stopped talking to me as I want to watch the wedding :|

I'm not planning on watching....but I did watch the Charles & Diana wedding as a freshman in college with a group of friends. Diana was our age, and we were pretty taken with the whole thing.

The irony was watching what happened to her in the aftermath....and feeling like she was so ill prepared for what she was getting into.

Her death happened when I was home on maternity leave with my son....so I watched a lot of that media coverage too. (How could I not...it was on every channel).

I'm with you AtLast....my hope is that these two have chosen each other, been together and even lived together for a significant amount of time....and that Kate is prepared for what she's walking into far more than Diana was.

I wish them both well. :rrose:

I am just a hat person- love them. Wish the US fashionistas would promote them more. Don't care if they are for males or females.... they rawk! I miss hat boxes and

Hats are like hair styles/cuts- there are those that look great on all of us... bet there is more than one that would look great on you and everyone else!

The Brits know hats and I love them for this. Philip Treacy's hats are awesome milliner creations. Can't wait to see his hats Friday!!

Also.... I have a deep affection for the historical significance of the working class relationship with hat making that began to cover and protect from the elements. not just fashion statements- hats have utilitarian value.

I'm not into it.

I say, take the money for this wedding and divide it out amongst the hungry. :readfineprint:

The flip side of this argument is that the royal family essentially sits on tremendous amounts of money. With this wedding, they'll be spending millions on food, flowers, clothes and more....and all of that generates jobs. Yes, the taxpayers there will pick up the bill for the security...but those are jobs too.

Not saying it's right, but I don't see the royal family just outright donating those millions....but if they spend them, generating work and jobs....that creates a positive ripple effect economically that will benefit an awful lot of people.

Let them eat cake!

(let me be...England, France, same thing).

I'm a foreigner in your book. I'm going nowhere.

Keep living your fantasies. The rest of us, the real people of Northern Ireland, not the people you read about in textbooks .... we, whether Protestant, Catholic or Dissenter, continue to get on with the most important thing which is living and working together in a Northern Ireland for all of us.

Yesterday, our main city of Belfast basked in glorious sunshine and during the day I caught up with friends of all religious backgrounds and political opinions, and none, on one of my (unfortunately not as frequent as I would like) visits back home.

I don't give a **** about the Royal Wedding ... the Royal family don't represent anything of me. However, I'm strongly Northern Irish - it's at the core of who I am and more important, for me, than any form of gender identity or personal identity.

Any challenge to that and I'll come down on it massively - your posts don't represent a challenge as they are the sort of stuff an idiotic 13 year old boy with a box of kleenex tissues would write but they are provocative so I respond.

Bit of advice - if you want to post something about Northern Ireland again, better than you understand at least a small bit of what you write about. We are a complex people and we don't suffer idiots gladly.

Ciaran