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With kathrynzj's help, here is a Royal Wedding Friday Five:
1) Will you be watching? If so, is this your first royal wedding?
2) The bride has chosen as her wedding cake a fruitcake. Where do you stand on this pastry?
3) The dress code for royal weddings has not seen the same sad decline as that for most other weddings. If you could design your own royal wedding hat, what color would it be and what special decoration would it feature?
4) Any chance the Archbishop of Canterbury is using a Sustainable Sermon (tip of the mitre to the Vicar of Hogsmeade)? What would you tell the couple were you offering the homily?
5) Believe it or not, kathrynzj is getting up early mostly to see the wedding dress. By the time this post is up, the world will have seen it. Did you like it?
ALTERNATIVELY: If you don't want to play this, and think we are goofballs, that's okay. Instead of telling us we're goofballs, why don't you tell us something fun you're going to do this weekend. We promise to get around to visit all of you eventually!
If you play, please leave a comment, and you'll be likely to get more comments if you link directly to your post. Here's how!
Watching history unfold down the aisle of Westminster Abbey here!
ReplyDeleteSigh. Watching wedding live. Diana's wedding was a month before our daughter was born. Watched with her namesake. Martha. Our son left for college the day Diana died.
ReplyDeleteThere is something awesome about 2 billion watching this. Good sermon.
Oh n I Love her dress.
Watching here! Will get onto laptop ASAP!
ReplyDeleteI remember Diana's wedding as I was getting ready to go overseas to Japan; I was at "missionary school". A bunch of us got up in the middle of the night to watch it.
ReplyDeleteI haven't felt all that connected this time, but I don't think you're all goofballs. :)
I'm going to on retreat with 9th graders part of the weekend.
I played like the good Anglican that I am....LOL
ReplyDeleteWatched the wedding too! So lovely. Loved Princess Katherine's dress.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice the lack of female clergy in the ceremony. Hmmmm
Question, do female clergy have to wear a hat if they are participating in the ceremony?
Word verification: grans. Makes me think of the queen.
Okay, I played! Thanks for your comments so far.
ReplyDeleteGod_gurrll, lack of female clergy would be typical for the Church of England....they do have women ordained as deacons and priests, but not as Bishops or (gasp) an Archbishop...our own (Episcopal) Presiding Bishop Katherine (on the same level as an ArchBishop) was prevented from wearing the vestments of her order (Bishop) when she was in England last year...so, when she couldn't wear them she carried them!
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ReplyDeleteI have a question, does the Anglican denomination have NUNS? Just something I saw on the news watching the procession.
ReplyDeleteHere are my thoughts...after making it through the tornadoes I might be a shade...jaded about the whole thing though.
Yes, the Anglican Church has both monks and nuns...not many, but some.
ReplyDeleteI walked down the aisle here.
ReplyDeleteScroll down at my blog for coverage of my work on the local Dignity (LGBT Catholic ministry) harboring a pedophile priest. Prayers and reposts appreciated--this is national news as the President of Dignity USA is complicit and other progressive Catholic orgs are tied in as well.
I don't think I'll have time to play on my blog today --- I saw only a few minutes of the ceremony - the actual vows, the reading of Romans 12 (a favorite passage and beautifully read), and the lovely choral anthem afterwards. I loved her dress. I love a good fruitcake, and I wish I could have seen more "live." I got the impression from the little bit I saw that Kate knows what she's in for much more clearly than Diana did. (And I did get up early 30 years for that one!)
ReplyDeleteAh well, back to work!
Major life stuff going on yesterday and a 24-hour power outage, so I forgot all about the wedding till I opened the computer a few minutes ago.
ReplyDeleteI think the dress is gorgeous. Guess I'll look around and see if I can find some videos.
I played. Hope the rest of you got some zzz.
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I commented on the wedding
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I'm only seeing bits of wedding fluff but I played anyway here.
ReplyDeleteoh i played... but the computer won't let me link it...
ReplyDeletebloody #@$$
Ok, I watched. My knees up good time is over here
ReplyDeleteJust watched and blogged through the event. Forgive me, but the code for linking is just too hard for the double vision thing I have going. It's kind of like being dyslexic.
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ReplyDeleteok, I'll try this again: I played over here
ReplyDeleteTake a carriage ride over to signs-alon-the-way.
ReplyDeleteOK, I admit it, I got up early to watch then played Friday Five over here
ReplyDeleteDidn't watch (had little desire to do so) but I did play!
ReplyDeleteForgive me if this is a double post but I don't see my comment I have Royal Wedding Fever
ReplyDeleteLate to the party but still playing!
ReplyDeleteAh, the perils of middle age: I set my alarm for 2 a.m. PST, and when it went off, I couldn't remember why I'd set it! :-) Fortunately my husband woke up too and reminded me...
ReplyDeleteNah. I didn't watch. Glad someone did. And I don't think you're goofballs! I hope you had a wonderful time. And thank you for not thinking I'm a goofball for not even CONSIDERING getting out of bed to watch. Love the RevGals! :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. Fruitcake? Ew.
ReplyDeleteMissed the wedding (hoping to catch some highlights at some point), so I blathered on a bit about my too-busy weekend here
ReplyDeleteOverslept, but caught up thanks to BBC online. Here's my response.
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