Day 28 - Favorite costume

Day 28 - Favorite costume

All the pirates films have exceptional costumes. My favorites were the wedding clothes and despite it not being Wednesday anymore, I'm a waistcoat kind of girl. I love Weatherby's waistcoat. It's so bright and yellow with those bright pink flowers. It's such a contrast to the dreary, rainy colors that make up the rest of the scene. Even Liz and Will are wearing more earth tones. Weatherby always has to be the most garish person in the room: very lavish, very rich and I love it.

Ignorant American Here

So, everyone in the media seems really excited about the royal wedding. They like doing live shots with random people.

However, there was this one live shot with all the union jacks hung up and my first thought was, It looks just like it did in The Idiot's Lantern!

I feel like I should care more because they all seem very excited, even my mom's like "but he's going to be King!" but everyone was so excited for the Charles and Diana wedding and look how well that turned out. At least I don't seem to be alone since Daniel Radcliffe mentioned on Late Night that most people are more excited about the four day weekend.

Although I did think the email I got from Disney was cute. They had tips for throwing a whole royal wedding tea party!

http://family.go.com/disney/royal-wedding-tea-gallery-pg/view-all/

How can I get my very own Disney princess paper doll?

I finally figured it out.

So, it still puzzled me how disinterested I've been in the wedding. History in the making, right? Shouldn't this be right up a history buff's alley?

I wondered if it had to do with William and Kate's ages. We're basically the same age and I know I have my own hang-ups with marriage where I feel like I'm a good 5-10 years away from doing that. However, I was so happy for my friends from college when they got married in December so that wasn't it.

Then, a Freudian slip occurred. They referred to William as the future King on tv and I blurted, "No, don't jinx him or he'll die!

That's not a normal response. So, that's when I realized, my problem isn't just with Diana and her marriage or celebrity marriage in general, it's with our American Camelot, the Kennedys.

I wasn't born yet when Diana married Charles but I was 13 when JFK, Jr married his princess. All my life I'd heard about the legacy of Camelot and how he was the prince, John-John. He was going to grow and mature and become president and everything would be wonderful. Plus, he was handsome, gorgeous, hunky...everyone had a different adjective but it all added up to the same thing and Caroline was beautiful, too.

There was so much promise, so much hope on his shoulders. He was our prince, seemingly capable of anything to hear the adults talk. Then, his plane went missing over the Atlantic. Everyone hoped against the facts presented because they didn't want the fairy tale to end. I remember my mom and I went shopping in Brandon and she called it "running away" because she didn't want to hear the news anymore. She could still remember that little boy on the news, playing in his dad's Oval Office. When we came back, the bodies had been recovered.

This is my hang-up to work on. As much as I want to believe that William and Kate will get their happily ever after, it just seems so impossible but I would really love for them to prove me wrong.

Also, there have been people waiting for the sidewalk for DAYS! They're waiting for a fleeting glimpse at the most. If I'm going to wait on sidewalk for days, there better be a special screening or at the very least, an autograph involved.