I had a funny conversation with Naoko and Zen this morning:
Peter: (facetiously) Hey, someone very famous got married yesterday, do you know about it?
Naoko: Really? Â Who?
Peter: You mean you don’t know? Â It was big news.
Zen: Ohno from Arashi!
Peter: No, it was someone very, very famous.
Naoko: Are they young?
Peter: Of course they were young!
Zen: Justin Bieber?
Peter: How can he marry – he’s only 17 years old!
Naoko: Which one is more famous, the bride or the groom?
Peter: Well, the groom is much more famous than the bride, I’d say.
Naoko: Can you tell me what nationality?
Peter: The UK.
Zen and Naoko (together):Â Mr Bean??
Naoko finally guessed it, but it was a pretty funny conversation.
I had heard that this wedding thing was coming, but I didn’t realise that yesterday was the big day. Â Then, in the late afternoon at work, some of my colleagues in the sales department were watching the royal wedding broadcast live on the internet and talking about it. Â It irritated me, because I was hard at work putting a magazine together, and I was wondering why these people weren’t selling ads! Losers.
Last night I got on the internet and checked out the pictures. Weird to see all of these people in their cosplay clothes. Oh, that’s right – that’s not cosplay, that’s their real clothing. But the hats – the hats were very strange. Â It’s like saying “ooohhh… look at me… I have a weird hat… look at me… I’m important, see, I’ve got a weird hat… ooh, look at me – give me some attention, I have a weird hat.” And then there was William’s bald spot. Â Poor kid – only 28 and already about 50% bald. I guess now that he’s married he can really let himself go. Weird to think that he was once a heart throb (even weirder to think that Charles was once a heart throb, but those were different times, and everybody’s young once).
I remember 30 years ago being on my parents’ boat, tied up to a dock at an island somewhere in the St Laurence River, fishing for perch while they watched Charles and Diana’s wedding on a little black and white TV inside the boat. I was disinterested then, and I’m disinterested now, but at least it’s all good for a laugh. I hope William and Kate’s pairing turns out better than Charles and Diana’s did.
And so, here’s a picture from Naoko and my wedding of 14 years ago. Enjoy.
The Royal Wedding