So the official photographs of Wills and Kate have been released. One casual and relaxed, the other more austere and formal. They were taken by renowned photographer, Mario Testino at St James's Palace. I think they're really lovely photos, especially the casual one where they're beaming at the camera in a tender embrace. Kate looks stunning, while Wills is looking quite the dapper young fellow.
I love these photos, but this isn't what I want to talk about. No, what I want to talk about is the plethora of websites that have popped up all over the Internet with all things royal wedding.
Here are a sample of the best I've found so far:
The Royal Wedding Countdown! In their words.
"The most anticipated event is here. Put a magnificent dedicated countdown clock on your desktop and keep an eye on the wedding as it is approaching."
Brilliant and the best thing is the lovely swan motif they've gone with. Click on this link to check out the Royal Countdown.
http://www.crossgl.com/rwc_overview.htm
Royal Wedding Food:
"This site will be home to stories and information relating to Weddings food and beverages. Whats going to be in store for the Royal Wedding in April 2010? There's also going to be some great recipes and idea’s for you to cast your hungry eyes on! Watch this space!"
OK so they got the year wrong (it's 2011 people, come on!), but they have a Royal Wedding Party Store where you can buy this -
The perfect dress for the Royal Wedding! Patriotic and classy! Buy it here:
http://www.royalweddingfood.co.uk/
Royal Wedding Mania! They have a whole section just on hats. I don't think I need to say anything else.
http://www.royalweddingmania.co.uk/
Look at this beauty!
So that's it for the moment. I'm sure over the next six months I will find a down pouring of similar sites and before I hear you say that I'm being a curmudgeonly old geezer about this, you have me wrong, I love this shit. This is what a good Royal wedding is about - all the tacky, crappy knick-knacks you can get. From January every market vendor in London will be peddling Royal wedding souvenirs to the gullible tourists and everyone is a winner. I just hope that someone comes up with something really fucking tacky this time. We're British, lets make the tackiest crap imaginable and sell it to the foreigners! Bring it on I say!
Blog soon x
