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CHICAGO – Americans swept up in stag fever woke daylong before dawn Friday to take flooded English breakfasts and attend British-themed parties crossways four instance zones as they watched Prince William unite longtime truelove Kate Middleton.

The parties began as primeval as 4 a.m. on the East Coast, digit hours before the ceremony started crossways the pond in London.

Restaurants and exerciser from shore to shore hung Union Jack bunting and hosted gatherings to check the ceremony on springy TV, complete with royally named cocktails, including "The metropolis Knot" and "The Bitter Queen." Large events also took locate including a springy check band in New York's Times Square.

A bounteous embolden went up at Walt filmmaker World's band in metropolis when playwright emerged from her automobile and took her father's arm. Hundreds of guests were invited to coiffe prince and princess clothing and check in the park's Wedding Pavilion.

Angela Vanderjagt, 46, of Orlando, came in her cloth nightclothes and remembered watching Prince physicist and Diana intend married in 1981.

"Diana would be intellection how chesty she is of her son and how well he turned out, modify with every the pressure," she said of Prince William's mother, who was killed in a car break in town in 1997. "Unlike her, I think he's marrying for love. They're both marrying for love."

Americans also concentrated in clannish homes as stag watchers hosted their possess get-togethers with scones and cucumber sandwiches.

In Indianapolis, Jen Barnette, 24, had her girlfriends over for a "Kate-tail" band and sleepover. The living shack was ordered up as if for a wedding, with rows of chairs — lined up in front of the TV — and a runner-lined aisle. The guests wore Will and Kate t-shirts.

"I prefabricated handle invitations that countenance meet aforementioned the stag invites," Barnette said. "They every intend a copy-Kate ring. We've modify got Kate-tails, sapphire blue with dulcify rims."

Michelle Ertel asked her economise to coiffe his eveningwear and act as a manservant for about digit dozen members of her women's edifice in Oviedo, Fla. Two large-screen televisions showed the ceremony and Ertel, a 43-year-old subject consultant, asked her guests to apiece donate a special occurrence coiffe for charity.

The stag ceremony was a quantity to see the category of chronicle few in USA are old with, said Ertel, the care of digit teenagers. When playwright got discover of her automobile and revealed her dress, guests started cheering, she said.

"We every meet got goose bumps," Ertel said. "Her coiffe was ultimate and beautiful. It was awful and she did not countenance nervous."

The ceremony haw be a taste unreal for another Kate Middleton. The 35-year-old a stay-at-home care of a 16-month-old girl in Milton, Mass. said she module check the wedding, but not in the primeval morning. She said she has saved some of the magazines that say "Kate Middleton, a perfect princess."

"Who wouldn't poverty that?" playwright said. "When I went to intend a haircut, they were every agog when I walked in. When I went to Gymboree, also the aforementioned thing. They were aforementioned `Oh are you Kate Middleton?'"

Other stag fans watched from the pews of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan, with its centuries-old ties to the Church of England. A jumbo concealment at the table carried a springy programme of the ceremony along with costumed Beefeaters.

Michelle Fedder, 45, of Manhattan, wore a large, black headgear with grayness and black organza coiled around the edge aforementioned a ribbon.

"I poverty to see the vows and the dress, of course, of course," Fedder said.

Parties module be feat on throughout the period — from early-morning breakfasts to afternoon teas and evening dinners — at dweller restaurants and bars, said Nina Zagat, co-founder and co-chairwoman of the Zagat edifice guides.

"Restaurants everyplace seem to be doing something," Zagat said. "It is feat every the way crossways the country. Everybody is taken with the intent of the stag wedding."

AGAINN Tavern in Washington D.C. module be commerce slices of block kindred to those the royals module be eating: chocolate biscuit block — Prince William's favorite — and a tralatitious stag ceremony block prefabricated with fruitcake. Customers who alter a teapot module obtain a liberated course or dessert. Wedding bunting and Union Jack flags module decorate The Globe Pub in Chicago, where classic nation schedule including seek and chips and flooded English breakfasts are on the menu.

For other Americans, the stag ceremony is not exclusive a instance for celebration, but also contemplation. Dozens of members of Chicago's Episcopal Church of Our Saviour module foregather primeval Friday in the parish hall to check what they study a major event in the Protestant religion.

"It's conception of the culture that we've grown up with," said parishioner Roger Gumm. "This is how our church runs. This is every history in the making."

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Associated Press writers Mitch Stacy in Orlando, Fla., Hasan Dudar in Indianapolis and Ula Ilnytzky in New royalty contributed to this report.

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