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This is totally selfish....but for those April 2011 brides, is anyone slightly pissed that they are throwing together a wedding for 4/29/11?
This is the DAY before my wedding, and i know it's probably not a huge deal. But I feel like everyone will see this huge fancy wedding...and then come to mine the next day. :(
any similar feelings?
I wouldn't worry too much about it, LOL. I sincerely doubt that anyone is going to compare your wedding to a royal wedding- - No matter what date they picked, it is going to be on/near SOMEONE'S wedding day.
I mean this in the NICEST way possible. But REALLY? Unless you have a similiar budget and/or are marrying an actual PRINCE, I highly doubt ANYONE, including you, will be comparing your wedding to the spectacle of theirs. That's like saying, you WOULD decorate your house for Christmas, but Times Square really has that covered 
I think if I had your wedding, I would love it. Or at least think of it this way, your friends will always remember your wedding date because it was the day after Prince William and Kate's wedding. I would rather have a good memory then a bad one. Like my close friend of ours that I was in her wedding party, she was married the weekend that Michael Jackson died. So yeah, I associate her wedding with Michael Jackson's death. :( Shhh, I would never tell her that.
It's better good than bad, right???
If it's any comfort it's on a friday, UK time, so I doubt too many of your guests in the US will stay home just to watch this live. Besides people care more about real weddings they can actually dance, eat and drink at rather than something they watch on TV!
They actually picked a week day as to not be on Saturday as there were alot of upset women in England who already had their weddings planned for that Saturday and they didn't want to open that can of worms.
holy crap, they're getting married in LESS THAN FIVE months??? jeez, i wish i had a wedding planner. it is so much easier that way.
@tksjewelry: Really? that's why they did it? That's pretty thoughtful of them.
The real reason they picked that date is because it's the "Feast day of St. Catherine of Siena" and Kate Middleton's Christian name is Catherine (clever royal planners!) . Plus that following week is May Day in England so it will provide for a "week long of festivities for the British people."
They're getting married in Westminster Abbey, so sorry girls but the only woman who can compare weddings is Queen Elizabeth and I don't think she'll mind lol.
@ Kitty285, we're getting married on April 30th too! AND we're in the UK, so hmmm, yeah, it's made things a bit more shall we say, interesting... On the plus side, Friday 29th has now been declared a public holiday which means a 'free' day off work for me - but now worried that lots of places will be closed and I won't be able to do all my last minute things... so I have very mixed feelings right now.
I do agree with Lindsay and lola though; any date they picked was going to put someone out...
and @pamplemousse - I know! I guess that's what a Royal wedding budget does for engagement length!
For the most part we're making light of it - the weekend now has a public holiday at both ends of it which is great for our guests who need to travel from out of town as they now have a 4-day weekend in which to do so!
@Kitty285: honestly, i'm inclined to agree with you! i totally get all the other posters' points but still there might be people who see the grandeur and then go to a non-royal wedding and are like "oh. William and Kate released 458 golden doves while 76 harpists played around them and everyone cheered! but... i like your burlap table runners and mac and cheese." or whatever, you know? people compare, whether it makes sense/is a valid comparison or not! i think you're totally justified in your "womp womp" feeling, but you just gotta roll with it - hopefully it'll just get everyone in the wedding mood (with all the buildup) and yours can be the first chance they get to go to and get their wedding release!
@pamplemousse: For what it's worth, it's likely that their wedding has been in the works for a while already. They were engaged for a month before it was announced to the public, and it wouldn't be surprising if the royal planners already had the vendors selected long before that. This wedding has been anticipated for a good while, and things just work differently when it's a wedding that essentially belongs to the entire UK and not just to the couple. (Shame for them - what if Kate and William don't want to release gilded doves?) :)
Haha. I actually kind of like that they are getting married so close to us! It's kind of fun. At least by that time (for me), ours will be over and I can hopefully watch the coverage with friends to chat about it!
ha! Gilded doves, wish I had thought of that ;-)
@ elliestan - loving the mac and cheese comment, LOL!
@LittlestBirds: haha! funny to think of The Royal Planners. you're right. the couple probably doesn't even get a say in any of the wedding matters. i wonder if harry feels bad that he's always been outshined by his big brother.
@Kitty285: For REAL? SERIOUSLY?
You're mad that two people who don't know you exist are getting married close to you?
OMG - I am a 4/30/11 bride too and I am soooo upset that this big fancy wedding is the day before mine! Talk about stealing my thunder! Boo!!
Oh, Brides ... if you had the same budget as Wills and Kate, then yeah ... people will be comparing it. But, you don't and your guests will have no reason to compare.
The wedding ceremony is just that ... a standard wedding ceremony. What are people going to compare? The readings you chose compared to those Kate & Wills chose? Or maybe they'll compare which celebrities and heads of state are at your wedding as opposed to those who attended Will & Kate's?
The reception won't be televised, so nobody will know what that was like. And the kiss from the balcony with the throngs of people? Throw a flash mob and have a throng of people to meet you outside of a balcony and you can have that! If you want the pomp and circumstance of a horse and carraige and ride around town and have large crowds of people waving at you, then put together a parade and advertise it and people will come. I doubt your wedding guests will be saying "Oh, how sad they had to take a limo from the wedding to the reception. That Kate and William got a horse drawn carriage with crowds of people ..."!
And, honestly, I think Wills and Kate stole EVERY bride's thunder the day they got engaged! I see the media constantly talking about their wedding ... not so much anyone else's on the Wedding Bee. 
Poor William and Kate will never win, regardless of the date they pick. They're gonna piss some bride off somewhere. I'm sure that they're not pissed that other people picked their wedding date and might not be watching them get married ....
And, honestly, I do NOT remember Princess Diana's wedding date. Sometime in July but beats me what date!!!
I just want to add that the day this engagement was announced FI said to me, "I feel bad for Will and Kate because they'll only have the second best wedding of 2011." I assumed he meant ours would be the best so I asked him what was going to make ours the best and he responded that our wedding would be the best of 2011 because it was the wedding at which he would be marrying me. melted my heart AND kept this whole thing in perspective. I love that man.
its funny you mention this because my FFIL just said to me "good thing you arent getting married on april (date) because that's when kate and william are getting married" then he just started laughing and walked off lol
Oh yours is awesome and so is mine....there was a news headline as he cooked dinner and listened to the tv "in just a moment, we will tell you more about the wedding of the decade...." and FI without missing a beat said "how did they get details about our wedding?
Love!
Someone told me at work that their wedding was going to outshine mine...and honestly it just made me angry at that person not at them...I could care less that they are getting married the same month/day/day before me. Im sure people that KNOW you will think your wedding is the wedding of the year...because I doubt they will be attending the wedding at Westminster Abby. I just dont understand what the fuss is about!
I dont really understand this. Most people in my circle dont give a crap about these royal weddings overseas and we certainly dont get the hype. It will not overshadow your wedding at all, that's ludicrous.
I mean, are monarchies even still relevant? I dont get it.
@Ms.Teddy: wth?! What in the world does their wedding have to do with yours, unless you were personal friends, there is no such thing as "outshine"
people can be asses sometimes.
@crebre80: yeah this is a generally abrasive co-worker...so im not surprised she made that comment. I am actually pretty excited that Prince William and I are getting married the same month!
@Ms.Teddy: You should've said "It will outshine my wedding, your wedding, and everyone else on the freaking planet's wedding, dumba$$!" and walked away!
I'm an April 30th bride too and I think it is really cool that they are getting married so close to our date!!
If only I lived in the UK and would have the 29th off of work for the rest of my life too.... :)
@pamplemousse: Harry is much better looking. If he's feeling glum I'll gladly cheer him up!
hahahaha interesting topic! uh.... it'll be hard to top the royal wedding, not sure if the Trump wedding was that fancy comparatively
dont worry about it, most people can only DREAM of royal 40million weddings. totally not comperable!
I would compare it to Chelsea Clinton's wedding. That's the closest we Americans have to a "Royal Wedding." No one compares the "commoner" wedding to a Royal Wedding. Although my mom still remembers staying up all night so she could watch Princess Diana and Prince Charles' wedding in 1981. She recalls it in VIVID detail. I imagine a lot of people will either watch the wedding live or DVR it. But it'll be like getting married on Superbowl Sunday. It'll be a distraction, and people will talk about it as small talk at the reception. But compare it? No.
It's a day before mine too and I really couldn't care less. It's their wedding, no one expects mine to compete with theirs. Not to mention I really don't see many people up here really "caring" about their wedding anyway.
I mean, no matter what day they chose would've been around/on someone's wedding.
I was worried that they might pick "my" date, but luckily they didn't (mine is a month after).
But i actually did have a valid reason as my wedding is going to be in central London (in fact practically next to Westminster Abbey) and therefore would have been a nightmare as the whole area is probably going to be closed off...
So i'm definitely glad we don't share the date for that reason - otherwise it would have been great - don't see the reason to panic about Royal Wedding outshining mine or yours - this will happen no matter what, so why panic about it:)
Unless you and the royals are both inviting some of the same guests, I think you are completely selfish or writing this tongue and cheek (I hope you are.)
Unless you have guests who will be in attendance at the royal wedding OR you are spending 40 million dollars, i would NOT be the slightest concern with how your wedding stacks up to Prince William's
I agree that whatever date they chose, would be close to someones. But I think when people plan their weddings, they mostly consider the wedding dates of people in their life. If they considered that some other couple, in the world, could potentially be getting married on that date, they would never be able to get married!!
I highly doubt that anyone with a reasonable mind, will compare your wedding to the Prince of England's!
I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Your wedding has absolutely nothing to do with anyone elses! Plus, it's not like they are your relatives that came and stole your thunder. That would be a different story.
Cheer up... you're getting married!!
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