So, the big day is here and as the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton approaches, thousands of people are out on the streets for the wedding procession and the city is hosting several parties, with large screens erected in places like Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square. But what about if you can’t travel to London for the day: what will you be doing?
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Read on for some ideas and to let us know what you’ll be up to.
What will you be doing today, the Royal Wedding Day?
Getting married?
Churches and registrars across the country reported a surge in interest in setting a wedding date after Prince William and Catherine Middleton announced that they would marry on 29th April, 2011. Many couples were keen to marry on the same day as the Royal wedding. Even though it is a Bank Holiday, you can get married on this historic day.
Camping out on the wedding route?
Tens of thousands of people are expected to camp out in the capital to get a good spot on the wedding procession route from which to see the happy couple returning from Westminster Abbey.
If you are one of these people you will be in a good position to get one of the 150,000 copies of the official souvenir programme booklet which will go on sale on Friday. Military cadets and Explorer Scouts will hand out the programmes along the route, for a price of £2, to raise money for the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry. You can also download a free programme from the Internet. Go to the official Royal Wedding website and get your copy.
Having a street party?
There was initially a poor response to applications to close of roads in order to hold street parties safely across the country. However, it is likely that many quiet residential streets are intending to hold informal street parties without officially closing off the roads. Still more people will congregate in the houses of friends and family to watch the wedding ceremony on TV.
However, councils are now reporting a late upturn in applications for road closures. Over five thousand street parties are now going to be held, officially. The street parties will be most common in Hertfordshire and Surrey, but certain other places, such as Glasgow (at the time of writing), have not applied for any road closures to hold Royal Wedding street parties.
As would be expected, street parties are also a popular chose of Royal Wedding celebration in London. Cardiff and Bristol will also have over fifty roads closed off for festivities. Newcastle has had thirty-two applications for road closures and Lancashire has had ninety, so there is a good spread across the nation.
Prime Minister, David Cameron, has encouraged people to dress up for the occasion 
The first multimedia Royal Wedding
The wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton is certainly the first multimedia experience we will have ever been able to have of a Royal Wedding.
Live streaming of the royal wedding ceremony will be up on the Royal YouTube channel. There will also be live blog reports from staff at both Clarence House and St. James Palace, giving historical information as well as up to date news of the day. The blogs will also feature photographs and videos we will ever have seen before.
You can expect the Royal Facebook account to be busy with updates throughout the day, too.
Digital Wedding Book
You are invited to send your good wishes for William and Catherine in the form of a video message that will go into an online digital wedding book.
This will be the first royal wedding with its own twitter hashtag: #rw2011.
You can follow these Tweets and leave your own with your thoughts on the wedding and the marriage, your good wishes for William and Kate and let people know how you spent or will spend the Royal Wedding Day.
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We would also love to know how you celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
Leave your comments on our guestbook and share your memories of this historical and happy day. It will be an interesting historical record to look back upon and see how ordinary people in Britain and around the world celebrated Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s wedding day.
