I must say that I just couldn't get enough of the Royal Wedding week. Yes, I did get up early to watch the ceremony. Yes, I did make wedding crafts. Yes, I did record about 16 hours worth of coverage. Yes, I did get the girls to watch with me. I loved the dress and the uniform and the Abbey and the carriage ride and the hats...oh, how I loved the hats. After the kiss on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, I asked Anna and Lauren what they thought about the pageantry of it all. Anna was practically in tears because she wanted to be the one marrying a Prince. Lauren, however, said she just wanted Prince William's uniform. That's our Lauren! They say that every little girl wants to marry a Prince. That is most definitely the case for Anna. I think Lauren would rather just be the Prince. HaHa!
To be honest, I think part of the excitement for me was that it just brought back so many memories. Doug and I began our relationship while living in England. I lived there from 1994-1999 and Doug was there from 1997-1999. We even spent our first few months as a married couple living right outside of Cambridge in a small village called Cherry Hinton. It was such a magical time and England will always hold a special place in my heart. Thus the obsession. I just couldn't let the day go by without acknowledging it in some fashion.
I had wanted to do a "girlier" take on the Union Jack but Lauren wouldn't have it. We ended up with a little frill but in her opinion any frill is too much.
I did convince her to let me take a few shots with our version of the wedding hat. I had to agree to let her bring 5 ladybugs home with us. We now have a ladybug nursery in the house.
I used
Dana's freezer paper stencil tutorial to make the "Royal Lion" t-shirt.
While we were taking pictures, Lauren was up to her knees in ladybugs. I kept trying to get her attention back to me and for some reason kept calling her by all of her siblings' names. I just couldn't get it right. Just imagine if your children had as many titles as the Prince. You couldn't even get through one child's set of names in an attempt to reach the right one. I mean, can you imagine?? It would go something like this. You hear fighting downstairs in the playroom...
Harry: Wills is hitting me.
Parent: Do not hit your brother. I said, "Do not hit your brother. William Arthur Philip Louis Cambridge Strathearn Carrickfergus Mountbatten-Windsor, do not make me come down there".
Seriously though, it was such a fun day. I saw a wonderful quote on facebook that I thought summed things up nicely. "For one day I saw magic. Every other day of my life I watch one disaster after another. Today I watched a fairytale". I agree! Congratulations to the Newlyweds! Wishing all of us more fairytales and less heartbreak!
