Unless you plan to pack a picnic and take it to the top of a high mountain, or hide out in a bluebell woods tomorrow with a bottle of wine (or two), I doubt if you will be able to escape Kate and Wills’s big day. Even shoppers will be bombarded with details as this fairytale Royal wedding unfolds, particularly if they visit their local Co-op where there will be live coverage on the in-store radio. A pub visit could offer even more, including wedding themed menus, champagne breakfasts, fancy teas and wall-to-wall television, inside and out. And with many communities planning street parties, even walking the dog round the block could bring you face to face with tables bedecked with Union Flag bunting, and groaning with sandwiches and cakes.

I guess, there’s nothing for it but to accept that this is a special moment in our history that we are all destined to share. As a foodie I am fascinated by the food that will be served to this charming young couple who are already breaking many of the traditions that normally govern royal weddings. I love the fact that an alternative wedding cake, created from chocolate and Rich Tea biscuits will stand alongside the stylish multi-tiered cake, decorated with sugar paste flowers, lattice-worked icing, scrolling and all those traditional touches that call for the expertise only a cake maker like patissiere Fiona Cairns can provide. It seems that Prince William shares my brother’s aversion to fancy fruit cakes — all our family events that call for a cake include one chocolate cake for my brother and a rich fruit cake for the rest of us. I am sure this happens in families all over the country. What fun to know such quirky likes and dislikes exist in the Royal family too!

The main cake will be adorned with 16 different sugar flowers, each symbolising emotions such as happiness, tenderness, and marriage, but that’s all we are allowed to know until the reception in the majestic Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace.

There will be 600 guests at the wedding breakfast — so called because it’s the first meal the newly-weds take together as man and wife. It takes place after that traditional kiss on the balcony. This is usually a grand sit-down affair, but the couple have broken tradition by planning a buffet-style meal, which those who are supposed to know these things believe will resemble an afternoon cocktail party. This means there will be no top table, and the food will probably consist of substantial canapés — all approved by the Royal couple. At least 21 chefs will be preparing the meal that will include at least 10,000 canapes, savoury tartlets and the like.

The more formal evening dinner will be hosted and paid for by Prince Charles, which suggests that the food will be both British and seasonal, and certainly won’t include dishes containing foie gras, which the prince banned from all his menus three years ago, because of the way it is produced.

Menus for the day are traditionally printed in French with no translation. But this might not be so tomorrow, which in every respect will be a very English day. One tradition that will doubtless be honoured, however, is the naming of a special dish after the bride. It is thought this will apply to one of the dishes served during dinner. This has been created from some of Kate’s favourite ingredients, many of which still remain a secret, though it’s thought that she shares Wills’s love of rich dark chocolate.

The caterers organising The Queen’s wedding to Prince Philip in 1947 honoured the princess — by creating Bombe Glacée Princesse Elizabeth — Princess Elizabeth ice cream.

Another wedding tomorrow will not be subject to such secrecy. It’s the wedding of Oxfordshire photographer Chris Wignall and Sandra Read (née Middleton) whose plan to marry on April 29 and hold their reception at the James Figg pub, in Thame, was arranged long before the Royal couple chose this date. Imagine their surprise on discovering Kate and Wills had chosen the same day and that Kate and Sarah share a surname.

Their wedding will take place in the stables at the back of the pub. Obviously, there are massive differences. The Windsors, for example, will have a guest list of more than 2,000, whereas Chris and Sandra have invited 80 guests.

Because the Oxfordshire couple were on a bus when they decided to marry, they thought it would be fun to travel to the Oxford Register office and back to Thame by the same means. The Royal couple will travel in a carriage.

While the Royal wedding guests will be nibbling dainty canapés that vanish after the second bite, Chris and Sandra’s guests will enjoy the delights of special James Figg pub boards, which include home-made Scotch eggs, sausage rolls and pork pies all made by Newitts the prize-winning Thame butchers.

Sandra says they are very excited about the idea of sharing a Royal wedding day.