Royal Weddings

Since my news channels have been inundated with Britain royal family wedding coverage, and haven't been able to help coming up with various one-liners making fun of it as well as general points about the frenzy, I’ve decided to make a running list of them in a blog.

Some Jokes
- a red tuxedo is pretty tacky for a wedding
- how can you feel good about your purpose in life if you're a news reporter, stationed in london, discussing the rumors of the possibilities of a honeymoon for a couple and how they might have been transported there.
- William is such a man that he changed her first name too.
- Sucks to be Kate’s sister… (but then again, some other rich white guy will probably want the fame of marrying her, so she’ll be ok)
- The only way 2 billion people watched this was if china forced all of its citizens to watch.

And the finale-
- Apparently, they could be going to Australia, Africa, or a private Caribbean island for the honeymoon... Ironically, 150 years ago, all three of those places would have been "private islands" for the British...

Some Thoughts
- We have a show called (and a pervasive phenomenon of) “bridezillas” because so many women watch royal weddings.
- The idea that “every wedding is a royal wedding” is simply false. I actually am sympathetic to the idea that these ideal (or paradigmatic) weddings provide a way to make our own non-ideal weddings meaningful, but this wedding was not meant to idealize every wedding. Obviously, you cut out all non-protestant weddings, then all non-Christian religious weddings, then all non-religious weddings. I would even go further and say that all non-white, non-Britain weddings shouldn’t treat this as the ideal wedding either. They have the pageantry they do due to a couple centuries of colonization. And if you want that wedding as your ideal wedding, then you should take note that all of that history is written in to many of the images, rituals, and ideals constituting that whole day.

Feel free to add more jokes or thoughts.