Royal Wedding Gets String Of Apps Ahead Of The Big Day

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So if you’re following the upcoming wedding of England’s Prince William and Kate Middleton, chances are you’ve seen the flood of swag surrounding the event. It wouldn’t be a major wedding without a whole load of tchotchkes to lay hands on, from ceramics to dolls to the even weirder. But being as this is the post-PC era, allegedly, it’s not really a surprise to see a whole flood of apps hit iTunes ahead of the big day.

You’ll have a wide variety to pick from, whether your app platform of choice is the iPhone (and ostensibly the iPod Touch) or the iPad, including the Royal Wedding Insider app from BBC America (which also, as you’ll see in the pic above, offers an ill-timed faux pas in advertising the Tudors miniseries, something of a minor and very obscure gaffe but a gaffe nonetheless), and Hello! Magazine’s own app called The Royal Wedding. Further offerings come from NBC, People Magazine, and something called a “virtual tea towel” app, which research uncovers is actually an app that plays various organ and trumpet songs as well as offers up some wallpapers.

The prices on these start at free and, not surprisingly, go up from there (the tea towel is a whopping buck), and perform a variety of functions, from providing information about a royal wedding including customs and the like as Stephen Colbert just got done doing a while back, and entertainment functions, like the tea towel.

For those of you who wonder why this is getting so much press, remember that Chelsea Clinton’s wedding was pretty heavily trafficked in news media circles, and she was just the daughter of a former president. And for those of you who want in, you’re no doubt already aware that the wedding day is April 29th, on a Friday, too, probably so everyone who wants to watch can get a three day weekend going.