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April 6, 2018 8:51 AM   Subscribe

Have some questions about the upcoming royal wedding? The NYT Style section has you more than covered. The Royal Wedding: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers to Everything You Ever Wanted to Know — and Some Things You Didn’t
posted by everybody had matching towels (40 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 
I love this, but I am viewing this on a desktop computer -- why on Earth is the font so large? For a moment I thought I was mistakenly viewing a mobile version but even when I get to this directly via the (desktop) NYT website the giant text still shows up.
posted by andrewesque at 8:56 AM on April 6, 2018


It might be helpful to keep #31 clicked open for easiest reading.
posted by mochapickle at 9:01 AM on April 6, 2018 [7 favorites]


I haven't seen that many Blingees since my MySpace days! I love it, though.
posted by Elly Vortex at 9:03 AM on April 6, 2018


i don't
why
what IS this
help
posted by halation at 9:09 AM on April 6, 2018 [2 favorites]


why on Earth is the font so large?

it's like an allcaps email from an elderly relative where the subject line, right below their name, is AN EMAIL FROM GRANDMA, in case you did not know that already.
posted by poffin boffin at 9:10 AM on April 6, 2018 [7 favorites]


My favorite part of this is what happens when you click #11, "Is Donald Trump invited to the royal wedding?"
posted by dnash at 9:18 AM on April 6, 2018 [5 favorites]


As a friend remarked, "I want to make an old Angelfire page but for the NY Times. That cool?"
posted by Navelgazer at 9:18 AM on April 6, 2018 [2 favorites]


Wow this is fabulous. The NYTimes interactive team has really outdone itself, absolutely love it. I managed to get like six cats strolling along the bottom of the article at once!

And if you absolutely can't stand it, #27 shows the product team is self aware and will let you demonstrate your hatred of fun.
posted by Nelson at 9:18 AM on April 6, 2018 [6 favorites]


OMG I love this
posted by slipthought at 9:21 AM on April 6, 2018 [1 favorite]


....I liked the bells and whistles of the art direction. I think they got me from the very first by ornamenting their picture of Henry and Meghan with a little picture of a Corgi in a Union Jack sweater.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:33 AM on April 6, 2018 [1 favorite]


Click the squirrel!
posted by slipthought at 9:37 AM on April 6, 2018 [2 favorites]


[pic] Also, there is always the chance that Prince Philip will say something completely inappropriate.

That is HILARIOUS. Thanks so much for this FPP!
posted by Melismata at 9:38 AM on April 6, 2018 [5 favorites]


There is one reason, and one reason alone, I want to go to this wedding: so I can wear a fancy hat! I love hats, and I've always wanted a fancy hat, and while I could not give a fuck and just wear them, you know around, I yearn for an occasion to which I could wear a fancy hat! A real occasion, not something like, hey, a fancy hat party I throw because I want to wear a fancy hat. A fancy hat that's also jaunty! I would get up that morning and put on my fancy hat right away, and be the last guest to leave just because I would want to prolong fancy jaunty hat wearing time as long as possible. That's the dream.

But considering I don't have the slightest clue how or where to buy a fancy hat, let alone how to dress appropriately to match said fancy hat, it's probably for the best I wasn't invited.(Also I have a problem that, due to my large breasts, the wrong hats make me look like a dodecahedron with legs.) I suppose I could buy a fancy hat and wear it while watching the wedding, but that would require actually caring about the wedding itself, and I don't. Probably another reason why I wasn't invited.

Anyway, that was my one question - what about the fancy hats? - and the NYT team had it covered for those of you with similar desires.
posted by barchan at 9:39 AM on April 6, 2018 [5 favorites]


omg i love this hahahah

this is top-notch trolling WHILE ALSO BEING INFORMATIVE
posted by alleycat01 at 9:40 AM on April 6, 2018 [6 favorites]


The blingees are incredible but I really lost it at "a young bird in spring time". YES! I'm so informed about the wedding now!
posted by capricorn at 9:46 AM on April 6, 2018 [3 favorites]


And yeah, OMG the NYT did something totally right. Very impressed, keep it up!!
posted by Melismata at 9:46 AM on April 6, 2018


..and it turns pink.

It turns pink.
posted by Melismata at 10:00 AM on April 6, 2018 [2 favorites]


(click on the "was there a bachelorette party" question again a second time to make it stop being pink)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:05 AM on April 6, 2018 [2 favorites]


I appreciated the Kind Hearts and Coronets reference.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:15 AM on April 6, 2018 [1 favorite]


but I don't ever want it to stop being pink
posted by mochapickle at 10:17 AM on April 6, 2018 [4 favorites]


I yearn for an occasion to which I could wear a fancy hat! A real occasion, not something like, hey, a fancy hat party I throw because I want to wear a fancy hat

The Kentucky Derby is an annual opportunity for this!
posted by Fig at 10:18 AM on April 6, 2018 [2 favorites]


27. Would it be at all possible to surf this website without such cutting-edge art direction?
NO
posted by Grandysaur at 10:25 AM on April 6, 2018 [4 favorites]


I love this so much, it's almost made up for us not getting a bank holiday for the wedding.
posted by Catseye at 10:34 AM on April 6, 2018 [2 favorites]


Bless nyt for finding a way to let me read a bunch about Meghan Markle's wedding -- a thing that I apparently wanted to do haha who knew -- in a way that I can giggle and pretend to have ironic distance over it.
posted by grandiloquiet at 10:43 AM on April 6, 2018 [6 favorites]


I think the fancy hats are called fascinators.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:57 AM on April 6, 2018


How do you get all the cats, I didn't get the cats.
posted by jeather at 11:08 AM on April 6, 2018


Just dropping in to say I've been chortling over the caption "members of the royal family stand without smiling" all morning. Truly the NYT had just the right amount of snark for this.

I also enjoyed the detail about the corgis always barking at Harry and his disgruntlement about it. About the only thing I know about him is that he once thought it appropriate to wear a Nazi costume (bad) and he once ran a race wearing a mask of his brother's face (fun). This fits in with those details.

The Kentucky Derby is an annual opportunity for this!

oh I know but I'm afraid of rich people. Also afraid of how I might respond to really rich people in these trying times . . . and I wouldn't want to ruin my fancy hat!

posted by barchan at 12:00 PM on April 6, 2018 [3 favorites]


How do you get all the cats, I didn't get the cats.

If you see one cat at the bottom, click on it - you'll get more.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:29 PM on April 6, 2018 [2 favorites]


I hated the layout until it asked me if I wanted it to stop

NO
posted by drunkonthemoon at 1:19 PM on April 6, 2018 [3 favorites]


This reminds me of watching the crowd around my grandparents observing the Princess Di wedding. That group was elderly emigres from eastern Europe, a fascinating mix of ex-Soviets, pro-Soviets, and other splinter groups, not to mention ethnicities from Poland to Ukraine.

Some of them, almost entirely women, watched the wedding on television with rapt attention. Others pointedly ignored the proceedings, either in glacial silence or by offering a few cutting remarks.

I was 14, and too shy to ask anyone but my grandfather about their views. Grandfather snarled at the whole thing; several years later he left much of his savings to The Daily Worker.
posted by doctornemo at 2:07 PM on April 6, 2018 [3 favorites]


I did smirk with some satisfaction at the description of Eton as merely a "private high school". #ChippyComprehensiveEducatedLass

> I love this so much, it's almost made up for us not getting a bank holiday for the wedding.

And yet I still Ctrl+Fed for "day off" and "bank holiday"... #TriumphOfHopeOverExperience
posted by Morfil Ffyrnig at 4:06 PM on April 6, 2018 [1 favorite]


Other people's spring and summer weddings are a GREAT time to wear a fancy hat! (You can keep them on in Christian churches, if you're a lady-person.) A nicer department store, like a Nordstrom's, will have some selection (even a Macy's will have some); Etsy has a pretty big selection. "Fascinator" is the word for a fancy hat that is not TECHNICALLY a hat (and is pinned to your hair or worn on a headband).

Formal tea is another good hat-event, you could gather some friends and go to a fancy hotel's formal tea, in hats.

No brims after dark!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 4:10 PM on April 6, 2018 [2 favorites]


The black lightning on Trump!

I read "Not In Front Of The Corgis" and apparently the Queen's are totally awful untrained brats that are usually around her. If you hear them coming, guess who's right behind.

Needs more corgis on that page.
posted by jenfullmoon at 6:13 PM on April 6, 2018 [4 favorites]


The Kentucky Derby is an annual opportunity for this!

oh I know but I'm afraid of rich people. Also afraid of how I might respond to really rich people in these trying times . . . and I wouldn't want to ruin my fancy hat!


If you live in a big enough city there are bars that host themed, dress-up TV viewings of the Derby. If not you could maybe host your own? Or your own themed, dressup viewing of this wedding!
posted by mrmurbles at 4:33 AM on April 7, 2018 [1 favorite]


Last night I dreamed an entire plane was celebrating Meghan Markle. Thanks, NYT and your bling site!

I admit I want that butterfly hat in the link.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:44 AM on April 7, 2018 [1 favorite]


but I really lost it at "a young bird in spring time"

OMG the hats! I missed the hover-over the first time around and just when BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH at "A stack of crepes"

This was well done. I couldn't achieve Nelson-level of strolling cats tho, and not for lack of trying.
posted by wallabear at 1:27 PM on April 8, 2018


The BBC is reporting that Barack and Michelle Obama are not invited, nor are many other political leaders, due to "the church's size and the fact Harry is only fifth in line to the throne."
posted by dnash at 7:39 AM on April 10, 2018


The list has been updated with a few new questions like “Will any corgis be in attendance?” but as far as I can tell no new features to the page.
posted by everybody had matching towels at 2:22 PM on April 30, 2018 [1 favorite]


I'm gonna save everyone a click and let you all know that the answer to the corgi question seems to be a no. And the answer is kind of a bummer:

the simple fact that there just aren’t that many of them in the royal household anymore: The Daily Mail reported that the queen’s last "royal" corgi (descended from a corgi owned by her father), Willow, died on April 15th, 2018 at age 14. The monarch still has two dachshund-corgi mixes (“dorgis” named Vulcan and Candy), and one corgi (Whisper) she adopted after the death of its owner.

posted by grandiloquiet at 6:51 PM on April 30, 2018 [1 favorite]


"the simple fact that there just aren’t that many of them in the royal household anymore"

Yeah, QEII said several years ago that she wasn't going to breed them any longer because she's getting so old and didn't want the dogs to suffer when she died. She stopped some time between 2002 and 2012.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:28 PM on April 30, 2018


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