Once Upon a Time

This is the big week.  The final preparations are being made and every last detail is being checked and rechecked for the big day.  The Royal Wedding is less than  four days away.  The world is engaged in all the activity that is leading up to Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding.

While I am not glued to my television, I certainly can understand everyone latching onto a seemingly wonderful story. Cute couple that happen to be part of history. How many young couples can go around saying "We are going to be the King and Queen of England someday."  Really a modern day version of a fairy tale OR so everyone keeps saying...

My thought is that everyone needs to quit saying that.  If the press had gotten a hold of the stories we grew up with and did what the media tends to do....that is pick every lurid detail and run with it...what would the fairy tales of our past sound like?

I can tell you what they would sound like.  They would sound SCANDALOUS.

For example the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would have made the news like this:














 BREAKING NEWS.... It has just been released that a background check shows that the woman that is engaged to Prince Charming has been most recently been living in a house with seven men for a period of time under questionable circumstances.  The men, using various aliases i.e. Happy,  Sleepy, Grumpy, Sneezy, Doc, Dopey, and Bashful have been uncooperative in responding to our questions. When asked  nature of the living arrangements, Grumpy replied "No comment and it's none of your d*** business." Another source (a little birdie) confirmed that the Prince initially found Ms. White in a drug induced coma.

A reporter for the weekly magazine The Instigator, reported earlier in the week that a hidden camera placed in the one and only bedroom of the small cottage, showed Ms. White in a bed with all seven of the male inhabitants.

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Or, what if  one of today's entertainment rags got a hold of this story.

Princess C. Ella has Admitted  to Delusional Episodes Involving Pumpkins and Mice
I.C. Dert, reporter





 It has been reported that the Princess has a history of psychotic breaks leading to delusional episodes. According to her stepmother, it is reported that Cinderella believes she has a fairy godmother that comes to her and "magically"  grants wishes.  Her stepmother went on to say that during the immediate period of time prior to the Princess' marriage that she was showing signs of mental illness.  There have been periods where she seemingly is totally unaware of reality but talks to rodents around her home and even going so far as to dress them in little outfits. 

"I tried desperately to have her seek professional help upon finding her dancing with  mice singing in a gibberish language that made no sense.  She goes around saying things like Bibbity, bobbity, boo.  Really, she has periods that she is not being coherent at all". stated her younger stepsister. "We are all quite worried about her mental well being".

Even, some of the staff working at the Castle relate that she has spoken of a crystal coach that she claims was once a large pumpkin that was transformed my her "fairy godmother".  Stay tuned for more as we snake out the continuing details of the Princess' strange behavior.


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So let's not compare the upcoming wedding to fairy tales but to the fact that two young people are in love and happen to be in the unusual position to be real "royalty".  Don't we all wish them the best?  Let's all hope they see their own "happily ever after".

What are your thoughts?  Is the media "over doing" the coverage?  OR are you wanting to see every last detail?  Are you going to watch the ceremony?  Any additional thoughts on all the wedding related events?  Give me your comments.


Even if this would have been part of a psychotic episode for Cinderella, it would have still been cute.




The Good for the Day....Busy week in London with a lot of people having fun



The Bad for the Day....Busy week in London with a lot of people under a lot of stress to pull off the perfect wedding.



The Weird for the Day.... I guess weird is in the mind of the beholder but this is certainly a wedding with a less traditional theme. 

 

The superhero-themed wedding of Megan Harrod and Thomas Suszynski embodying the theme and aesthetics loved by them both, the never-say-die idiom of superheroes influenced everything about their wedding, which was captured in a series of  portraits and published on the bride's Etsy blog.