2011 will be the year of the marriage. The royal weddings next year will doubtlessly inspire the blue blooded to tie the knot. And for those of us who simply couldn’t care less about the royal union, having a wedding is, ironically, one of the best ways you can devise to draw the family away from such mawkish nonsense. It’s a fantastic way of filtering out those who are deserving of coming to your packed ceremony after all: will your royal loving aunt stay at home just to catch the Westminster Ceremony at the expense of your own?. Give them a little incentive though, and try to upstage the royals with a stunning Castle weddingvenue, or with a dress so spectacular that Kate Middleton herself would be forced to carry on with day to day life the rest of us. We may be talking about a royal wedding here, but really, most of us can out romance a couple who met in Art History lectures.
In attempting to upstage the royals there are two paths: extravagance and kitsch. The first thing you must decide upon is the venue. By birthright the venue of the wedding has been fixed for Westminster Abbey. You may have the sameprivilegeif you’re aresidentof the Abbey’s precincts, or a child of a member of the Order of the Bath (a Knight or Dame). Oh, and if you are yourself a Knight or Dame or a member of the royal family. You’re reading this so you aren’t. Since we’re upstaging the royal couple and not copying them, the fact that 99.9% of everybody in the world cannot marry in Westminster Abbey is a non-issue! Book now for quality 2011 castle weddings if you want to be surrounded by history. Is it not far easier to go kitsch? The world’s fairytale princess-brides converge on the campy Mecca that is Disney World. Kevin Jonas, one fraction of the reprehensible Jonas brothers was there recently for a photo-shoot with his wife of one year, Danielle. Whenever you want Cinderella on YOUR guest list, just travel to one of the Disney resorts. Then they’ll know who’s fairest of them all.
And if you’re tackling the royal couple, you have to work on your media presence. The royal wedding is plastered over television and tabloid news. The trouble for these outlets though, is that they’ve completely over-estimated how interested we are. And also how interested we are in their mediums as a whole. If you’re a youtube hit, you’re already ahead. Particularly original ceremonies are great internet fodder.
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