Prince William and Kate Middleton are very global and technology-minded. They want the entire world to witness their wedding, and they’re going to do it via YouTube.

So, are you ready for the big day? Even if you can’t be there on the procession route, you probably don’t want to be down there with all those crowds anyway. Prince William and Kate Middleton have made sure that their wedding will be accessible in every way possible to whomever might want to even glance at it in passing.

Besides the live broadcast of the procession, wedding ceremony and balcony appearance on YouTube (the feed will be from BBC without broadcast commentary and will begin Friday at 2 a.m. Pacific Time — which is my time, so I may have to catch highlights the next day), there will be a live blog alongside the livestream on YouTube, live updates via the British Monarchy’s Twitter account @ClarenceHouse, and photos added to the The British Monarchy‘s Flickr account of the big day. Of course, the British Monarchy also has a cool Facebook event page (when I first saw it, I thought, ‘I wonder if they got a special Facebook deal to have it look so different…..oh, but its also an event page, maybe that’s why it looks so different.’) and is inviting the whole world to video record themselves wishing the happy couple a long and prosperous marriage.

I don’t know about anyone else, but the consideration that this royal couple has been giving to the entire world — and not just British citizens — in regards to interest in their wedding is pretty cool. Its definitely not what I imagined royalty would act like, but maybe its just that they’re very modern.

So, set your alarms if you plan to catch the wedding on YouTube live. And even though my paltry coverage and commentary on this once-in-a-generation event has been hell on my traffic, I enjoyed doing it. In a way, it was in homage to my mom, who was enamored of Princess Diana, Prince William’s mother. I think, if my mom had been alive today, I would’ve found a way to take her to London for this incredibly rare event.