Non-royal wedding dates

The big day is nearly upon us. Tomorrow, some of you will be huddled round the TV, wrapped in bunting and armed with tins of Kate and Wills biscuits and jugs of Pimms. Others will shutting your eyes, sticking your fingers in your ears and singing loudly until the day is over. Well, there are other ways to avoid it if you really want to, and they make great dates too.

1. Get out of London

It's going to be Kate and Wills-tastic, with road closures, heaving public transport and more royal wedding themed nonsense than you can shake a commemorative  plate at. If you live in London, leave. Nip down to Brighton for a day by the sea, take a tube out to Epping Forest or a train to beautiful Oxford. You can be in all of these places within about an hour.

2. Take advantage of the lack of queues...

What with everybody glued to there televisions, the likelihood of shorter queues at theme parks and other tourist attractions is higher than at any other time until after the summer. So take advantage! There are loads of theme parks all over Britain, but avoid Alton Towers - they're showing the wedding on a big screen.

3. Indulge in a film marathon

Television, radio and internet will be wall to wall royal wedding coverage, so put yourself in charge of what you're watching. Try watching a whole trilogy, maybe The Godfather, Lord of the Rings or Back to the Future, then stumble blearily into the evening searching for your hover board.

4. Go to your local pub

All you have to do is make sure you're going to one without a TV. Have a few drinks, a bit of food, relax, enjoy the sun (fingers crossed) and soak up the wedding-free atmosphere.

5. If you can't beat 'em...

Join them. If you find you can't escape for one reason or another, you might as well get amongst it instead of spending the day carping and moaning. Invent a royal wedding drinking game, charge your jug of Pimms and unlease your inner royalist.