By Brigitt HauckSunday, 20 February 2011
The stag party, slimming contests and sick bags
With the big day nearing for Prince William and Kate Middleton, the internet is abuzz with royal wedding stories. As a confessed wedding obsessive, I'll be keeping up with what's being talked about. Today's round up includes stag parties, slimming contests and sick bags.
Will the future king's final evening as a single man be a bit blurry?
After it was formally announced Prince Harry will be his brother's best man, the focus shifted to the stag do.
As best man, tradition holds it's incumbent on Harry to arrange this farewell to bachelorhood.
Cue much speculation - for that is all it is - about what might be in store. "[Can Harry] be trusted to stage-manage that iconic British institution, the stag night, without embarrassing the royal family?" asks the Telegraph.
"Harry has form as a party animal and, when party animals are invited to be best men, it is like a bugle to a warhorse. In the lifetime of the two Princes, the traditional eve-of-wedding stag which bequeathed no more than a mild hangover, treatable by Alka-Seltzer, has metamorphosed into the stag weekend, or even stag week, a rolling programme of events."
But before imaginations are allowed to run riot, the Daily Mail signals Prince William has put a cork in any debauchery.
"Suggestions for William's stag night had ranged from a saucy burlesque act to exclusive use of close friend Guy Pelly's club Public, a regular celebrity haunt. But William, 28, is thought to have insisted on a 'private' and 'more mature' long weekend outside the capital."
Though William and friends won't be enjoying too many pints, it doesn't mean others can't host a proper celebration on his behalf. Castle Rock Brewery in Nottingham has created a special ale appropriately named "Kiss Me Kate" to commemorate the royal wedding, says the Nottingham Post.
"Castle Rock folks' description of the regal tipple makes it sound appropriate enough for a royal wedding. It is, they say, elegant and full of British ingredients, which means the hops and barley aren't imported."
Lydia Leith“It's OK to be disgusted to the point of losing your lunch over this whole ordeal”
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