Posts Tagged ‘Royal wedding’

We Asked, You Told. Where Are You For The Royal Wedding?

Friday, April 29th, 2011

The day of the Royal Wedding is finally here! Are you still yet to sort out plans? Have you not bought a union jack flag?? The weather still looks pretty sketchy but still, after prodding you all for your Royal Wedding suggestions, here’s what you told us about your plans.

Hyde Park

Hyde-Park

Hyde Park is one of the favourite venues for today’s grandiose nuptials so we’re to believe. With big screens set up so you won’t miss any of the action, it’s definitely one of the places to be! There will be food and drink stalls on hand and photo booths so you can capture the memories with your friends. If you plan on going there, you have been advised to wear a hat… for the festivities of course.

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square Royal Wedding

Another great  option if you don’t want to miss the wedding amidst the early morning drinking. Who designed Kate’s dress? What are their vows? Find out at Trafalgar Square as they will also have big screens – the other reason is that it is surrounded by bars so you can run and take cover should the heavens open (as they inevitably will, we are in the UK after all!)

Regents Park/Primrose Hill

Regents Park Royal Wedding

I’m going to bet that this will be the quieter of the three parks, Regent’s Park will open their open air theatre to the public to broadcast the Royal Wedding. Like Trafalgar Square, there are plenty of bars around the perimeter to fall into once Wills says I do.

Originally we were going to list the best bars to be in but to be honest everywhere will be so busy, I think you’re best  option would be to fall into whatever one is close by. Grab your flags, don’t forget the champagne – let’s go!

Has Anyone Noticed There’s A Wedding?

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

No? Me neither. Seriously though, you cannot escape the wedding fever that has gripped London and the rest of the world it seems. Wherever I turn, there are Will & Kate souvenirs and other rubbish tourist paraphernalia (my favourite includes a t-shirt with the words “it should have been me”) not to mention a million union jack flags hanging over my head in Central London.

Royal Wedding madnessMore than this, every TV show is geared towards weddings, royalty etc.. Gossip Girl centred around a Taschen book for “Modern Royalty” whilst Blair moaned about not being Kate Middleton, Frasier this morning thought he was descended from Romanovs and Countrywise had a special episode dedicated to Anglesea – the home of the soon-to-weds. Going one step further, the T mobile ad featuring royal lookalikes dancing down the aisle to East 17’s House of Love and the nauseating BT wedding (that you all voted for).

It’s certainly worth celebrating having an extra day off work, what will you be doing? Sorry to disappoint anyone who has planned a street party (bunting, the works) but it looks like rain. I was originally planning to sit in Hyde Park and tank Prosecco all afternoon but now I think our best option is to hit the pubs. Think to your favourite watering hole and we’ll have a vote on the best pubs in London to watch the wedding!

Just to get you in the mood (and also because I couldn’t resist)

The Secret Stag & The Cake Your Nan Would Love

Monday, March 28th, 2011
Prince William & Harry

"Keep it on the downlow Harry"

If you were waiting with bated breath to see what Prince Harry had in store for his big brother’s Stag do, you will be disappointed to know that when the boys celebrated the last days of Will’s singledom last weekend, it was indeed very low key and free from any tomfoolery.

Harry has always had the naughty boy reputation (think back to Nazi fancy dress, lapdancing bars etc.), William on the other hand, as future heir,  has had to proport himself with royal decency. Thinking of his Stag do then, you would imagine Harry would plan all sorts of debauchery (I’m giggling trying to imagine Prince William showing up  on his wedding day with only half an eyebrow!).

Originally Harry had planned a weekend of watersports in Exmouth, Devon but opted to instead play host to the 22 guests at their friend’s mansion in Norfolk once the British press got wind of the plans. So far there has not been a single detail leaked about the weekend’s events…what happens in Norfolk, stays in Norfolk.

In other royal wedding news, an official wedding cake has finally been decided on and it will be a fruitcake (deflated sigh!). Very traditional and yet very old fashioned, the cake will be a “multi-tiered traditional fruitcake” made by royal baker Fiona Cairns. Fortunately for wedding guests, William has requested the addition of a chocolate cookie cake (hurrah!). If you think the cake will be made by a royal baker or esteemed French confectionist, you’re wrong. Think to everyone’s favourite tea-dunking biscuits…McVities (yes those of the hobnobs) will bake the cake from 17kg of chocolate and 1,700 of the company’s buttered rich tea biscuits. Now that’s better

Fiona Cairns

Fiona Cairns and team prepare the decorative touches for royal cake

If you’re reaching a fever pitch with all of the Royal wedding fervour, come join our very own Royal Soiree @ Maya next Thursday night! Details here…

Royal Lovebirds Will & Kate Announce The Date

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

So they have finally announced the date of the Royal Wedding. Prince William and long term girlfriend Kate Middleton will get married on the 29th April at Westminster Abbey. What’s in it for us – a day off of course!

Will & Kate announce date of engagement

Will & Kate announce date of engagement and we get a day off!

After coming clean about their engagement, the happy couple faced a  media frenzy as the country went royal wedding mad. I honestly don’t think I’ve heard much else on the news since.  Clarence House brought the news to light on the 16th November after Wills & Kate had gotten engaged secretly in Kenya in October. To the point of ridiculous, have people already started manufacturing memorabilia and general tourist rubbish commemorating the engagement and god help us, even more now that we have the date!

Will had proposed with his mother Diana’s diamond and sapphire engagement ring explaining that, “It is very special to me and Kate is very special to me now as well. It is only right the two are put together.” One, two, three…Ahhhhhhh! Not everyone has welcomed news of the announcement with the standard positive fervour however, as Church of England Reverend Pete Broadbent blasted the couple on his Facebook page, referring to them as nothing more than “shallow celebrities”. Even the clergy are clued up on the social media front! Needless to say, he has since been suspended though he is not going out without a fight, having appealed to St James’ Palace to overturn his dismissal.

Personally, I cannot wait for more news on the wedding. It’s been a frightfully dismal year in the magazines with only the X Factor contestants, Cheryl Cole et al to feed our guilty pleasure gossip. I want to know who’s invited (more importantly, who’s not), who will make Kate’s dress and what does Camilla think about Kate as new Queen potential. Forgive me…

Royal weddings very rarely come along and we would like to know how you will be planning your day off (ok, so it’s a long way away, but still). Already taking suggestions, most of which so far have included beer garden action (weather permitting) and a duvet day (in case beer garden doesn’t materialise). Surely we can come up with better?