Weddings - they’re all royal wonders
Look I have this coming Saturday sorted but here’s hoping others in my family circle are as involved in royal family weddings as I am.
And of course, realistically, I know they are not.
I think I’ve watched every wedding in that special family over generations; some in historical flashbacks, some as special movies and some in real time, as they are happening.
Which is best, as it will be on Saturday night when it starts at 9pm and we are watching what’s happening that morning in London and Windsor, seeing the exciting preparations going on for the big day, all those people gathering to watch what will be a time in history for ever after.
We could envy the crowds who are close but we do get a better look through wide ranging cameras in and outside the chapel.
It is easy to remember these weddings because they are state occasions with heraldic splendour, well mannered horses, golden carriages, flags and flowers.
We remember the fairy tale bridal beauty of Princess Diana and now will see the beauty of Meghan Markle about to marry Diana’s younger son Prince Harry.
The generations compress and memory makes it even more moving.
But when is a wedding day not romantic, exciting, beautiful and special? Reminding us of our own, I guess.
Every Coronation Street wedding has been special too and although the storyline has not made them all happy-ever-after events, they do start that way with the promise of love and loyalty overcoming all else
On Saturday, the royal wedding programming starts around 5pm, fours hours with lead-up stories and interviews with designers and family members, florists and dressmakers, speculation, second guessing and storytelling, all involving the couple about to be wed.
It won’t be easy to see and hear all of this with neither Himself nor number one son having real sustained interest in this. Or in Coro Street come to that. These times I battle on on my own knowing that once another hand finds the remote, the screen takes on a life of its own as he who holds the clicker feels it an extension of his arm, there to do his bidding.
Think of the bride but spare a thought for the ardent at home viewer for whom every moment is special, who will hold the memory of this day for years, as for its predecessors.