royal wedding

In the era of email and Twitter, the Canadian postal service is not exactly known for speedy delivery. But they have decided to step up the pace over the next few months in honour of the royal wedding.

Miss Jerramy Fine is the author of Someday My Prince Will Come, a hilarious memoir chronicling the story of an American girl who grows up longing to become an English princess – so much so that she eventually moves to London, and stalks a real live prince.

They take their bachelor parties very seriously here in England. To be accurate, that's not even what they call them. Here, it's a "stag do" for the boys and a "hen night" for the girls.

Recently, my husband and I have been going through the expensive and incredibly labour-intensive process of renewing our UK visas. We are eligible through a complicated "special skills" (or skillz, like the kids say) program that requires us to jump through a series of smaller and smaller hoops. Hoops we could bypass completely if one of our parents or grandparents had been born in England. I'm proud to be Canadian but what I wouldn't give right now for a Liverpudlian grandfather.

Advice and bowls. This, in my experience, is what most newlyweds can expect to get lots of in the months leading up to a wedding. The bowls are slightly curious – what is it about the celebration of unity that inspires people to gift crystal fruit and salad vessels?