<p>Super excited!! I have to take a final exam that day but will probably still wake up early and power through it… So pumped. My mom is recording it too.</p>
<p>I guess I’d be interested if this were a state occasion, but since it’s not, I’m not that into it. I’m sure I’ll see the highlights by watching normal news outlets. When my cousin got married, Elizabeth sent a gift and her best wishes, but didn’t show up. So I’m returning the favor. Minus the gift. :)</p>
<p>If the next coronation occurs during my lifetime, I’d really want to see that. ( But Elizabeth may have inherited her mother’s age genes, so even at her age, she has a chance to outlive many of us.) </p>
<p>But for you with the scones, and tiaras, and champagne - go for it !! Sounds like great parties.</p>
<p>Going to my friend’s house to watch it. Drinking tea and having some sort of fancy breakfast. Might need to get some white gloves, hat, crown to wear. Along with my pj’s. What time will it be on in the east coast?</p>
<p>^^ The wedding starts at 6 am Eastern time, but the coverage will, I’m sure, start many hours before that. </p>
<p>I love the pre-game show on this sort of thing; watching the dignitaries arrive and what they’re wearing, watching the Prince and other principals leave the palace, the crowds. I’d guess C-SPAN will cover it, and they have actual intelligent commentary before and after which, for me, just adds to the enjoyment.</p>
<p>I read coverage was starting at 4am EST. I am moving out of my dorm at 2am that night, so it’s going to be an intense evening.</p>
<p>I know I want to have scones/crumpets and english breakfast tea but I don’t know what else to make! Any ideas? I need something easy that I can make beforehand so I can heat it up so I won’t miss anything!</p>
<p>We are wearing hats to the breakfast. I just bought a white floppy one at Wal-Mart. Now I need to get flowers or a big bow or something to decorate it. </p>
<p>Theaterbrat - Perhaps a fruit cobbler that can be eaten hot or cold. Check out the internet - there are websites for the royal wedding parties. Recipes, games, etc.</p>
<p>If you want to be truly British, the scones should be served with tea at 4pm. For breakfast one takes cold toast, eggs, baked beans and broiled tomatoes. Kippers optional. Enjoy!</p>
<p>Well, not everyone is excited. D2 said today, “Kate who? There is a wedding?”. Absentminded little scientist that she is… I offered to make scones and wake her up early next week to watch, but she declined.</p>
<p>When Diana died, ex-H and I we were on a salmon fishing trip (won from a beer company) in a remote lodge on the ocean in British Columbia. One TV… the men all wanted to watch football, and the women wanted to watch the funeral coverage. It was a bit surreal, we kept switching back and forth.</p>
<p>Y’all are getting me really excited now. I want to make scones!!</p>
<p>We are just excited about champagne. I was thinking about serving finger sandwiches, but scones? How do you say that in Spanish?</p>
<p>The local pub has organised a street party on the 29th and it’s never too early to start drinking on a wedding day, right? Hopefully the weather holds out, it was 27C/80F here today (hotter than all of last summer)!!!</p>
<p>On a side note I really hope foreign journalists can limit their use of phrases like “Queen of England” and “English people” on the day.</p>
<p>OK, can someone tell me when she arrives at the church? I’m not sure I want to watch hours and hours of lead-up.</p>
<p>The bride is supposed to arrive just a minute or two before the ceremony starts: 11 AM in London, 6 AM east coast US.</p>
<p>Okay. Got my red raspberry scone mix. Tea pot is ready. Planning to go to bed early tonight. D2 (the one who didn’t know there was a wedding…) is interesting in the scones after all, but quizzed me about whether I have picked up Devonshire cream to go with them. I have not, so she says she will sleep in and have cold scones when she wakes up.</p>
<p>I am puzzling over TV coverage, though. We are in the Central time zone, and our paper today said most US stations would start coverage at 6 am (implying our local time zone). But I think the wedding is at 5 am our time… I am sure I can find a BBC internet feed if necessary, though.</p>
<p>intparent, in the Central time zone, the wedding starts at 5 a.m.!</p>
<p>There will be* loads *of pre-game coverage, starting several hours ahead of the ceremony. Scrolling through my TV Guide:</p>
<p>NBC: 2 hours before wedding time
CBS: 2 hours before
ABC: 2 hours before
FoxNews: 2 hours before
CNN: 2 hours before, specials 2 hours before that
MSNBC: 3 hours before, specials 2 hours before that
E!: 2 hours before
TLC: 1 1/2 hours before, specials all Thursday evening
BBC America: 3 hours before, specials all Thursday evening</p>
<p>I’m sure coverage will dominate the news channels from mid-evening on.</p>
<p>I can’t find anything about coverage on C-SPAN, but I will be checking this evening. They are my go-to channel on stuff like this; the commentary is actually intelligent and informative, not sensational and inane.</p>
<p>LasMa, I’m waking up at 4 a.m. to watch two people I don’t know from a country I’ve never visited get married. Inane sounds about right. :D</p>
<p>See this weeks New Yorker for a great view of " the wedding " ! The cover is all about it .</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay: Haha, you might be right! 
And I guess I’m even more inane than you – I’m in the 3:00 a.m. wedding time zone.</p>
<p>Also, you can watch it online.</p>
<p>It looks like this coverage starts one hour before.</p>
<p>Moderator’s note: Google YouTube and Royal Wedding for information on link deleted from post.</p>