And his first words to her were, "You look beautiful."

Seriously, though...

It's sweet and tender and I'm such a sucker for it. 

Women love to hear these things...clearly. See her face? That's what we all look like when we hear compliments like that. :)

Prince William was born just a little over a month before I was, so with every tidbit of media coverage on his life, It has been sort of fun to think, "Hey, we're the same age. Cool." It's like finding out what the people you grew up with have been doing, but uh...you know, cooler because he's a Prince? Yeah.  I've been so excited good 'ol Wills was getting married, and to such a classy catch as the beautiful Kate Middleton...I just couldn't miss out on the excitement, you know? 

So I didn't wake up at 4 a.m. to start watching, but I meant to. Around 4:50 a.m. I dragged myself out to the living room just in time to see the processional start for them to leave the Abbey. My royal-wedding-dedicated roommate had been out there the whole time though and filled me in. Apparently I just missed a lot of prayers and a lot of singing. Which is fine. I was sad about missing the vows, though, until they played a repeat of it during the long ride from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace. Perfection. (minus the whole "til death parts us" part which always just makes me sad, but let's be honest, I still loved watching it.)

Aw, yeah. :) The commentator's words at that moment were my favorite: "That young man does his own thing. He was instructed "one kiss" and this second one was so much better." Bahahha..nice. :)

Her dress is to die for. As tired as I was, I couldn't stop trying to study every detail. Oh man and that tiarra. And the veil! I love the neckline, and the top...I just love the whole thing. And they rode in a horse drawn carriage! That's not a movie, that's someone's real life. * sigh *

And for all the guys out there who can't for the life of them understand why some girls like me are crazy and care so much about a royal wedding, let me clue you in: IT'S A ROYAL FREAKING WEDDING! She's living out all our fantasies of becoming a real PRINCESS. Or a Duchess. But you get the point. She married a PRINCE. * sigh * You really don't get it??!?!!?!?!?!?! (Kaley, the overabundance of punctuation there really has a purpose. It expresses my incredulous outrage concerning the situation.) 


I would hope you get it now. Otherwise there's just no hope for you and every time you whine and cry about girls who don't turn backflips and somersaults about...I don't know...the superbowl? I want you to remember this moment.

Confession: I've been speaking in a British accent in my head all. day. long. :) I also wrote this entire post in a British accent. You should hear me; I'm pretty good.

Just as a sort of side note...although, maybe it could be deemed a little more important than a mere sidenote, but the Bishop of London's sermon afterward was BEAUTIFUL, I thought. You can read it here. He had me listening from the very beginning:

“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” So said St Catherine of Siena whose festival day it is today. Marriage is intended to be a way in which man and woman help each other to become what God meant each one to be, their deepest and truest selves.

Many are full of fear for the future of the prospects of our world but the message of the celebrations in this country and far beyond its shores is the right one – this is a joyful day! It is good that people in every continent are able to share in these celebrations because this is, as every wedding day should be, a day of hope.  

In a sense every wedding is a royal wedding with the bride and the groom as king and queen of creation, making a new life together so that life can flow through them into the future.

A spiritual life grows as love finds its centre beyond ourselves. Faithful and committed relationships offer a door into the mystery of spiritual life in which we discover this; the more we give of self, the richer we become in soul; the more we go beyond ourselves in love, the more we become our true selves and our spiritual beauty is more fully revealed. In marriage we are seeking to bring one another into fuller life.

It is of course very hard to wean ourselves away from self-centredness. And people can dream of doing such a thing but the hope should be fulfilled it is necessary a solemn decision that, whatever the difficulties, we are committed to the way of generous love."

I just love it. :)