Hello, my name is Amanda G., and I’m from Sal’s 9th period class. Now the Royal Wedding, what is it you ask? It is the wedding between Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton, a commoner. This wedding has taken place in London, England on 29th of April in 2011; taking place just a few days ago with hundreds of thousands of people attending. Yes, this wedding is not taking place in the United States, nor are we directly associated with it, but the United States have obviously been extremely interested in it. The main reason for this is because of it’s importance to our ally, England; this is the first royal wedding since 1981. Now, you could say that the only reason that we’re interested is our nation’s reputation for being nosy; feel free to think that, although it is going to be considered into our history because we are allies with them. I’ve, personally, found many things quite different and interesting about this wedding. Two of the things that interested me most about this wedding is that there were guards (not surprising, but we just don’t see guards at the weddings we have here), and there was shrubbery in place of the normal flowers. Another really interesting thing is that the attending audience is still standing through the whole thing, which is something that we do not do here. To each country their own, I guess. I feel that although this wedding will be history and it’s obviously an important wedding for them, I don’t believe that it deserves as much press attention as it has gotten.