How to throw a Royal Wedding Party

Time to haul out the Union Jack bunting, send out the embossed invitations and show off the Emma Bridgewater china!

Kate and William are getting hitched and the children and I intend to hold a street party to celebrate the royal wedding!!

The last royal wedding that I remember celebrating was that of Charles and Di. Now THAT was a wedding! The dress! The ring! The Cathedral! Never mind the debacle it turned into. The event performance and all the accompanying jollities were a lot of fun! Loyal subjects camped out overnight along the processional route so that they could say they were there and for a chance to wave at our future monarch and his bride. Elsewhere there were community street parties with tea and cake and lemonade...and possibly something stronger although at age 11, I was not aware of that!

So how does a good English citizen in the U.S.A throw a royal wedding party for her closest Anglophile Texas friends?

#1: Handwritten invites. "Lord and Lady Long request the pleasure of your presence at a celebration of the marriage of Kate and William on April 29th 2011. Flowery dresses must be worn by ladies and something half way decent by any men brave enough to accompany their women."

#2: Beautiful and patriotic decorations - the aforementioned Union Jack bunting and lots and lots of red, white and blue paper chains and little flags to wave.

#3: Plenty of Veuve Cliquot for those who wish for something stronger than tea and cups of Earl Grey (obviously in your gorgeous Emma Bridgewater commemmorative cup as seen above!) for those driving home.

#4: Have one's humungous flat screen TV streaming in the Royal wedding live with loads of lace trimmed hankies at hand to delicately wipe one's eye as one weeps tears of envy that one savvy chick swiped a prince of the realm!

#5:Smashing eats such as smoked Scotch salmon, Russian salad, cucumber sandwiches and cake after blooming cake!

It's February. It was cold today and cheerless. We have 3 weeks until Spring Break. A girl has got to have something to look forward to! You'd better save the date and watch the mail for your party invitation!