Plan parties to watch Royal Wedding

Dental assistant Kelley McVeigh of Quincy is too young to remember the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer nearly 30 years ago.

I feel like we live in a world with so much tragedy that we can’t control so I wanted to have a fun day to celebrate the royal wedding,” McVeigh said. “A few people first thought the invitation was for my sister, who is getting married next year.”

In addition to the promise of tea and crumpets at “McVeigh Castle” on North Bayfield Road in Quincy, guests will get a keepsake CD with a number of tracks that include Here Comes the Bride, Get Me to the Church on Time, Kiss Me Kate, The Boy I’m Going to Marry and Wedding Bell Blues. Tiaras are optional.

While Weiss cannot be with her British cousins in London for the Royal Wedding, she is doing the next best thing.

She is having several friends over to her Breer Street home to watch the royal couple’s marriage ceremony on her large-screen television. All, including Weiss’ five daughters, plan to wear tiaras.

Since there is a five-hour time difference, Weiss and her entourage will be up at 5 a.m. as they eagerly anticipate the event to begin.

“I’m going to make scones,” Weiss said. “We will have champagne for the adults and tea for the kids.”

Shrimp cocktail, grapes, bagels, salmon, and melon wrapped with prosciutto are also on the menu.

Weiss has fond memories of being in front of a television set with her parents as they watched the wedding of Prince Williams’s parents, Princess Diana and Prince Charles, at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. The worldwide audience was estimated to be more than 750 million.