(CBS) What a year it has been for royal weddings!

Today,the 31-year-old bachelor king of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, married commoner Jetsun Pema in a series of ceremonies televised for a nation that has been awaiting this day since the Oxford-educated king was crowned five years ago.

Pictures: Bhutan’s royal wedding

Thousands of Bhutanese from surrounding villages joined the king and queen at their wedding reception at a fairground outside the country’s most sacred monastery fortress, where a slate of dancers performed traditional routines for the new couple.

These festivities were just the latest in a long string of ceremonies that might just put 2011 in the history books as the “Year of the Royal Weddings.”

First there was the April 29 union of Britain’s Prince William, second in line to the throne, 사설 먹튀 and commoner Kate Middleton, who was given the title Duchess of Cambridge.

Millions around the globe watched on TV as the two exchanged vows at Westminster Abbey and then rode off in a horse-drawn carriage for a round of parties at London’s Buckingham Palace.

William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, is the son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the late Princess Diana.

Three months later, his cousin Zara Phillips married rugby star Mike Tindall on July 30 in Scotland with a reception at the queen’s Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh.

An accomplished equestrienne, Phillips is the queen’s oldest granddaughter, born to the queen’s only daughter, Princess Anne.

Also that month was a three-day wedding pageant in Monaco as the principality’s ruler, Prince Albert II, married commoner Charlene Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer from South Africa.

The two exchanged vows first at a private July 1 civil ceremony in the palace throne room and then at a July 2 religious ceremony attended by royalty, heads of state and hundreds of guests in the palace courtyard.

The summer also saw Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Prince of Prussia, marry Princess Sophie of Isenburg at the castle in Potsdam, Aug. 27, 2011.

The Prince of Prussia is is the current head of the Imperial House of Hohenzollern, the former ruling dynasty of the German Empire and of the Kingdom of Prussia. He is the great-great-grandson and historic heir of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, who was deposed and, initially, went into exile upon Germany’s defeat in World War I in 1918.

Finally, Princess Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg married her longtime partner Alexander Johannsmann at the evangelic Stadtkirche on June 18, 2011, in Bad Berleburg, Germany. The princess has ties to the royal families of Greece and Denmark.

The 35-year-old bride is the daughter of Princess Benedikte of Denmark, younger sister of Danish Queen Margrethe II.