man.. one year eh? feels like just yesterday I told everyone at work for a week about Will and Kate's wedding and who would be watching it (a common response would be someone not caring and/or telling me that they knew their grandmother would be watching it)
BUT I kneeeewww it would be time well spent! so.. of course I booked the next day off work so I could spend a evening/night/morning cuddled up by myself on the couch drinking tea.. eating toast in substitute of crumpets. Much exciting times at my house I tell you!
my memories of the wedding goes as follows
- Watching all documentaries (even though I've seen 95% of them all before) about the life of Will and Harry, Will and Kate movie, Kate's upbringing, Will's upbringing, princess Diana, the Queen, Princess Diana and Charles etc.
-flipping to many different channels for every channel had the wedding on but it was very exciting to go from watching all the different hosts and what topics they found most interesting to look at.. I personally favoured E-news with Guiliana Rancic she was almost as excited about the wedding as I was!
-Hearing about how William went out and thanked guests for being at the wedding!
-Watching the excitement on the town that Kate had grown up in (Berkshire) . and everyone explaining how Kate used to go in their and eat candy etc. EVERYONE was plunked in front of their tv's to watch the celebration take place
- The Queen was wearing a very cute light yellow dress, and Kate's mom looked delightful and lovely as well
- admiring all the hats (I told my brother's fiance that I am going to wear a fascinator to their wedding this June just like Beatrice!)
- confirmation of how in love I am with Prince Harry
- they added trees as some of their own wedding special touches and the trees then after would be planted at Prince of Wale's High grove estate, as a permanent reminder of their wedding
- waiting and waiting for the songs and solum talking to be over with
- seeing Kate snicker when she said all of William's names when she said "I Kate will take thee.. William Arthur Philip Louis" because she was thinking of Princess Diana because she had said Charles name wrong at their wedding (heh)
- MUCH excitement to see their kiss.. POOF over! both of them!
- loved the people watching..
etc etc
and then I watched news clips all day/ probably later than that day of them talking about the wedding, or tv channels doing full reruns.. for some reason I found it more exciting the more times I watched it.. even though the gospel music music at the time was making me a tad on the sleepy side.ANYWAYS as we all know! they came on their first Canadian Tour just after the wedding.. tres exciting!
and my father and I woke up bright and early the day of the Calgary Stampede and found ourselves the PERFECT SPOT to see the newly weds FIRST HAND at the parade, no one out of the estimated 424, 00 people at the parade were NOT talking about the Dutch and Dutchess of Cambridge. Nice cameras fully charged, everyone rubbing elbows to sit right up front and HERE THEY CAME
first the very slow motorcycles...
sirens
everyone clapping cheering loosing it with excitement and chill in our bodies
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
gone! 3 limos just rocketed past all of us through the whole parade!!!
yes people.. it is in my list of disappointments!
as did it I'm sure for many people.. for it was the only thing people talked about for the rest of the 2 hour parade.
those poor excited children were so confused.
I think its likely I teared up?
anyways.. here is the best photo taken.. brought to you by my dad. enjoy
if you are having troubles figuring it out.. that would be Kate in the back there.. with a white cowboy hat on.
sigh.
on the bright news I found out yesterday Prince Charles and Camilla will be on their way to Canada.... but sigh
anways.. happy anniversary you busy beas