Royal Wedding Details and Schedules

Prince William and fiance Kate Middleton will have their Royal Wedding this coming April 29. Most of us have been to weddings of friends and relatives. Can you imagine what it would be like to plan the royal wedding? With an ordinary wedding, we just have the church and the reception. Just to give you an idea, I saw a simplified schedule of the wedding day. It's more complicated than it looks.

Royal Wedding Day details from unveiled.blogs.cnn.com

• 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: It will be announced whether William and Kate will take a new title. The decision will be made by the couple and the Queen
• 8:30 a.m.: Guests will begin arriving at Westminster Abbey. Members of the general congregation and guests who arrive before 10 a.m. will use a side entrance known as the Great North Door
• 10 a.m.: The VIPs start to arrive - Government officials first (both foreign and domestic), to be followed by royal families. Kate Middleton is set to arrive before the Royal Family
• 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.: The Royal Family will arrive, with the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh being the last of the family to enter the Abbey
• 10:50-11:00: Bridesmaids arrive
• 11:00 a.m.: Kate Middleton and her father will arrive (collective sigh/gasp!). Details about Kate's dress have not been released in-part because Kate wishes to surprise William (a traditional prerogative/superstition). The moment Kate steps out of the car, details about the dress, shoes and accessories will be released and distributed
• The service will be officiated by the Dean of Westminster. As is tradition, the marriage will be solemnized by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Prince Charles played a huge role in selecting the music. Only Kate will wear a wedding band
• 12:15 p.m. (approximately): Bells will ring as the couple exits the Abbey. A carriage procession will head to Buckingham Palace
• 12:30-12:40 p.m.: Carriage procession will arrive at the Palace
• 12:40 p.m.: Private family photographs will be taken inside Buckingham Palace - an official shot of the happy couple is expected to be released Saturday morning by 11 a.m.
• 1:25 p.m.: The couple, the Queen and their families will appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace
• 1:30 p.m. (precisely!): There will be a Royal Air Force fly-past
• 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.: Approximately 300 guests will return to Buckingham Palace for dinner and dancing hosted by Prince Charles. The crowd will mostly be friends and family, particularly William and Kate's young friends. Speeches will take place

Source: unveiled.blogs.cnn.com

Royal Wedding TV Broadcast Schedules

Just a few days to go and the world will have its new princess. Prince William and soon to be princess, Kate Middleton will have their royal wedding on April 29 at Westminster Abbey. Who wouldn't want to miss this prestigious event. Almost all of the major Philippine TV networks will broadcast live footage of the royal wedding and will be aired both on free tv and cable tv. Here are some of the broadcast schedules: 

ABS-CBN Royal Wedding Coverage Schedule on April 29

ABS-CBN Channel 2

    3:15 pm Coverage starts

Studio 23

    4:00 pm Pre-Wedding Festivities (live)

    8:30 pm Iba-BALITA special coverage with Anthony Taberna (live)

    9:00 pm Wedding Ceremony (primetime telecast)

ABS-CBN News Channel ANC (SkyCable channel 27)

    Anchored by Ces Oreña-Drilon and David Celdran

    5:00 pm Pre-Wedding Festivities (live)

    6:00 pm Wedding Ceremony (live)

    10:30 pm Replay of ceremony

Lifestyle Network (SkyCable channel 52)

    3:00 pm Pre-wedding festivities (live)

    6:00 pm Wedding Ceremony (live)

    9:00 pm Royal Wedding (recap)

Radio dzMM Radyo Patrol 630

    Hourly updates on the Royal Wedding Day

GMA Royal Wedding Coverage Schedule on April 29

GMA Channel 7

    Anchored by Jessica Soho, Vicky Morales and Connie Sison

    5:00 pm Coverage starts

GMA newstv Channel 11 

    5:00 pm Coverage starts

Royal Wedding Replays

Studio 23

    April 30 - 10:00 am Royal Wedding Replay

ABS-CBN News Channel ANC (SkyCable channel 27)

    April 30-May 1 Royal Wedding Replay

Lifestyle Network

    April 30 - 7:30 pm and 1:30 am

    May 1 - 12:30 pm and 8:00 pm

Source: www.abs-cbnnews.com

Justin Bieber Shouted "Hello Manila!" in his Malaysia Concert

Heard this on the radio this afternoon that Justin Bieber shouted "Hello Manila!" instead of "Hello Malaysia" in his Malaysia concert. As expected many Filipinos went nuts over this news. But I can't seem to find any reliable source that this really happened at the Justin Bieber Malaysia Concert. If I were the Malaysians I would flood the internet over this issue. Yet I didn't see any Malaysians in any of the social networks that Justin did said "Hello Manila". 

Is it true that Justin Bieber Shouted "Hello Manila!" in his Malaysia Concert? For me, if it's not on youtube, facebook or twitter then it's most likely not true.

ABS-CBN Van Driver Sued for AJ Perez's Death

Finally the car driving the ABS-CBN van was sued by ABS-CBN according to Bong Osorio, ABS-CBN Corp. head of Corporate Communications. He said that the driver is not an employee of ABS-CBN but an employee of Southbend Express Services, Inc., a service contractor of ABS-CBN. The driver is sued for reckless imprudence that caused the death of AJ Perez and injured 4 others. 



Base on some investigation I read and some images I saw on TV, it showed that the two ABS-CBN vans in convoy was overtaking a vegetable truck.  While the first van was able to successfully overtake, the second van was not able to. Unfortunately it was hit by an approaching PARTAS passenger bus before it could get back to its lane. This happened along McArthur highway in Barangay San Julian, Tarlac. 


Any good driver would say that the van driver is at fault. He clearly was not able to estimate properly while overtaking. In tagalog "alanganin ang pagovertake niya." I'm not saying that the bus driver didn't do anything wrong. We all know that bus drivers here don't really care about approaching vehicles. But technically the responsibility of looking ahead to estimate the approaching vehicles lies with the one who is overtaking. 




Source: www.abs-cbnnews.com