It's no surprise that many people are not in much of a party mood.
"I'm tired of hearing all about it," said Andreas Dopner, 24, a postgraduate researcher at London's Imperial College. "You see it on television, the Internet, everywhere. I don't believe in having a royal family and I think the money could be spent better elsewhere."
For many British businesses, the wedding is good news. International interest in the nuptials and the predicted pro-Britannia "feel-good factor" will bring extra tourists to London, boosting hotels, restaurants, shops, and royal-related tourist attractions.
But there also will be an exodus, with several million Britons heading abroad, thanks to the lucky timing of the wedding day - a holiday for most - between the Easter weekend and the May Day public holiday. Clever employees quickly calculated they could get an 11-day break by taking only three days off work.
"I've booked it myself for that very reason," said Sean Tipton of the Association of British Travel Agents, which has seen a surge in overseas bookings for the wedding period.
Those still in Britain on April 29 will find central London bedecked with Union Jacks, tens of thousands gathering along the wedding procession route, millions watching on TV - and millions more trying their best to ignore it.
"It tends to be kind of an older-generation event," said London student William Dobson, 19. "Young people are much more interested in having a good weekend rather than seeing the wedding."
Even for the uninterested, the wedding may be hard to avoid. But for those determined to do so, alternatives are available.
A Welsh Nationalist group, unimpressed with English royal excess, is holding an "Escape the Wedding Camp" in the countryside for those who really want to get away from it all. A theater company in northeast England is staging a reading of Cinderella 2, the story of a fairy-tale romance gone sour.
