Since it all happened a long long time ago, she should be dead by now. The average life expectancy for a princess is shorter than "long long". And is she were still alive, she'd be one old ugly princess.
On a more cheerful note, there's this financial thing going on these days and it affected the company so badly that upper management barely managed to buy a new fleet of cars for the upper management before letting the employees know there are some sacrifices to be done until it's gone. There's a Faith no More concert this summer I'd like to go to and I hope it's all over by then so I can go to my boss and take a few days off without having him saying it's the crisis and I need to work hard.
Also happening this summer is a wedding of some guy I know. This isn't actually the first wedding in my circle of friends but I haven't been invited to the others so far because my attendance would have caused uncomfortable situations for the bride.
This guy and I go a while back and I like him, but his wedding I do not. There's something extremely irritating about weddings, starting with them being scheduled way ahead, at least 3 months to a year. If you know you'll take vaccine shot in 100 days you have to think about it from time to time and it just sucks, even if it's good for you. Just tell me the wedding happens tonight and that's it.
For the happy event I'm supposed to wear a tie and shirt. Doesn't matter it's mid-summer and 45°C, you have to dress nicely because everybody else will dress nicely. I haven't worn a suit in 3 years, and I don't even have one in my wardrobe anymore; the last one I had was an old-fashioned one and I had it from an uncle. I only wore it at job interviews (some of them successful) and funerals (none of them successful) but it stopped fitting me some 10kgs ago. I think I still have some dungarees somewhere, though.
You can't have a proper wedding without music. For a little experiment, put 10 people in a room with some music and chances are you'll end up listening to some crap in less than 10 minutes. Even if the majority agrees on the selection and enjoys it, I'm probably in the minority and it will suck for me anyway.
Since you have more than a hundred people at a wedding and some of them are quite old (parents, grandparents and other relatives unless the groom and bride are both orphans) so it's a very grim outlook.
But just before the actual wedding, there's the... yes, you've guessed it, it's the church going. I won't get into the idiocy of this tradition, but the ceremony itself is more boring than an accountant's 72-slides PowerPoint. Should it be a christening, at least there's a chance you'll see the toddler piss on the priest at some point (if the priest's Catholic he'll probably get even in about 5-8 years). At a wedding all you get to look at is a crowd listening to an old guy dressed like a pimp. And if you're lucky to be close to one of the weds, you'll end up carrying a huge candle or some flowers during the whole ordeal. When you finally get out they'll kiss and everyone will be throwing rice on them.
There's your wedding. When someone in your circle of friends gets married, expect others to follow. Soon.
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