The Wedding News Blog

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have celebrity-studded pre-wedding ...

2006-11-25T03:09:00.000-08:00

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes enjoyed a pre-wedding dinner with a number of their celebrity friends and family in Rome last night. The couple are thought to be marrying in a small civil ceremony today with a large scale Scientology ceremony at Castello Odescalchi in Bracciano tomorrow. Tom and Katie carried seven month old daughter Suri to the dinner at the Nino restaurant in the city centre, with friends such as Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony, and Jim Carrey with girlfriend Jenny McCarthy. Katie's Armani outfit coordinated with Suri's clothes and Tom's daughter Isabella's dress while Tom himself wore a black Armani suit. Katie's mum and dad, previously rumoured to be boycotting the wedding, were also in attendance. A waiter at the restaurant revealed: "Tom and Katie went from table to table saying hello to everyone.

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Katie's Wedding Dress Recreated

2006-11-21T02:52:00.000-08:00

Katie Holmes looked like a princess in her Armani wedding gown. Now, ET reveals how you can get her designer look for a fraction of the price! KATIE HOLMES married TOM CRUISE Saturday night in a fairytale wedding in a gown fit for royalty. Holmes walked down the aisle in an off-the-shoulder bridal dress, designed by GIORGIO ARMANI, with a train in ivory silk caddis adorned in VALENCIENNES lace and SWAROVSKI-beaded crystal embroidery, featuring a delicate crinoline frill at the shoulders and a silk soleil border around the hem. The gown was complemented by an ivory tulle, floor-length veil and ivory silk shoes. For soon-to-be brides who are drooling over the dress -- but not the price tag -- ALLEN B. SCHWARTZ is here to make your day! He will be re-creating the Armani gown for ABS Fashions at an affordable price -- and ET was at his studio to get all the design details.

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Same-sex marriage foes to hold rally

2006-11-19T02:46:00.000-08:00

BOSTON -- Opponents of same-sex marriage will join Gov. Mitt Romney at a Statehouse rally tomorrow to pressure lawmakers to allow the public to vote on a ballot measure banning gay marriage. Romney and gay-marriage foes said they are still outraged that legislators avoided voting on the proposal last week. "Gov. Romney is deeply concerned that our rights and freedoms are in danger. The people have a right to participate in their government and by avoiding the constitutionally required vote on marriage, the Legislature has effectively repealed our constitution," said Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. Residents collected 170,000 signatures to put a question defining marriage as only between a man and a woman on the 2008 ballot. "We want to keep visibility on this issue," said Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institution.

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Celebrity guests arrive for TomKat wedding

2006-11-17T02:57:00.000-08:00

ROME - Jim Carrey was the first to land in Rome on Thursday, when he landed at 11 a.m. on his own private jet. Moments later, the Holmes family arrived from Ohio for their little girl's big fat Italian wedding. And one thing is for sure - the tiny town of Bracciano is about to get a whole lot bigger. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony arrived. So did Jada Pinkett Smith and Brooke Shields. Also making the trip was Access Hollywood's Billy Bush and People magazine senior editor Galina Espinoza, who were on the scene to cover all the wedding happenings. "Moments ago we witnessed Ken Paves - hairstylist to Jessica Simpson and Eva Longoria - arrive. He's here to do Katie's hair and perhaps he'll be working overtime," Billy told Galina. "I would imagine he's going to be working on the other female guests because we know that Katie's mom and one of her sisters have arrived, as have her father and her brother," Galina revealed.

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Tom Chows Through Pre-Wedding Nerves

2006-11-09T03:58:00.000-08:00

In news of another, seemingly happier celebrity couple, it seems that TomKat is going through the usual pre-wedding jitters, and that Tom Cruise is eating his way through the nerves before his upcoming wedding to Katie Holmes.Cruise recently shelled out $10,000 for dinner with his bride-to-be at Mastro's Steakhouse in Beverly Hills, according to In Touch Weekly (via MSNBC), and wasn't particularly concerned about fitting into his wedding suit, if his vast repast was any indication. While his svelte bride "barely touched" her grilled sea bass, Cruise inhaled a porterhouse steak, wasabi mashed potatoes, French fries, onion rings, cheesecake and chocolate-covered strawberries. But Tom isn't the only one with expensive tastes: Katie's perfume of choice for her wedding day is Clive Christian No.

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USA. Celebrity introduces new wedding vow renewal ceremony cruises

2006-11-05T02:43:00.000-08:00

Celebrities ranging from pop star Celine Dion and husband Rene Angelil to actor Robert DeNiro and wife Grace are among the increasing number of couples choosing to renew their wedding vows in recent years. Celebrity Cruises is keeping pace with the trend by introducing a new vow renewals program, which the line launched in a particularly meaningful way. Dr. Charles Garbarino booked Celebrity's vow renewal package as a surprise for his wife, Lydia, while the couple sailed this season in Alaska on Celebrity's Summit with two other couples, one of whom they met on a cruise during their honeymoon 20 years ago. Garbarino, an Army colonel and pediatrician, has served twice in Operation Iraqi Freedom and is being deployed to the region again in April 2007. "I have always lived my life to its fullest, and never feared death, but if I don't return from my next tour, I wanted something for Lydia - the love of my life and my soul mate - to remember always," said Garbarino.

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Date nearing for same-sex marriage vote

2006-10-30T03:15:00.000-08:00

BOSTON — Thursday, Nov. 9, seemed like a faraway day back in July, when legislators agreed to postpone a controversial vote on whether to put same-sex marriage on the ballot. But now, with the flip of the calendar page less than a week away, all 200 legislators are scheduled to assemble as a body in the House of Representatives' chamber to call the joint constitutional convention to order. The question is whether legislators will decide to take a definitive stance one way or the other. Since the Supreme Judicial Court legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts in 2003, the state has seen many gay and lesbian couples tie the knot while supporters and protesters looked on. Some opponents called for a ballot vote on whether an amendment should be added to the constitution banning same-sex marriage.

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The celebrity wedding of the year - in Killeavy

2006-10-28T07:03:00.000-07:00

A YEAR after being seriously injured in a road traffic accident, 16-year-old Sean Downey got a standing ovation in Killeavy on Sunday night as he took to the stage during the Celebrity Mock Wedding of the Year. The event, which was attended by an audience or should that be a congregation of several hundred, was arranged by Seans family and friends to raise money for the brain injury unit of Belfasts Musgrave Park Hospital and other rehabilitation centres in recognition of all that was done for him during his convalescence. The identity of the happy couple was a closely guarded secret until the big night, which was covered by not only the Democrat, but also by that renowned society magazine O Hell. The wedding was, it is fair to say, full of surprises from the moment we were told by local woman and MC for the evening Keara Magennis how the legendary movie producer Alfred Hitchcock had filmed his most famous work, The Birds, in Killeavy.

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Lost wedding ring found... 2 years later

2006-10-24T03:31:00.000-07:00

JUNEAU, Alaska -- Elaine and Jim Canary thought for sure they would never again see her diamond wedding ring, lost on a business trip.She noticed the ring was missing Oct. 14, 2004, when standing in line at a coffee shop."I was devastated," she said.A subsequent and frantic search of the couple's hotel room didn't produce the ring.Then, two weeks ago, just shy of the two-year anniversary of losing the ring, they got a call from the coffee house owner in Petersburg. The ring had been found when an old Pepsi cooler was moved to make room for a pastry case.Canary surmises she put the ring in her pocket to put on lotion and forgot about it. Then, while standing in line, the ring probably fell out when she reached in her pocket. .

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Gambrell - Poole wedding

2006-10-14T03:25:00.000-07:00

Nicki Tai Poole and Harley Wayne Gambrell, both of Rome, were married at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, at Barnwell Chapel at Berry College. The bride is the daughter of Kenneth Anthony Poole and Rita M. Poole, both of Rome. The groom is the son of Larry Gambrell and Deborah Gambrell, both of Silver Creek. The Rev. Robert Anderson of Rome performed the double-ring ceremony before two seven-branch candelabras and two five-branch altar candelabras. The altar was adorned with arrangements of yellow, honey, orange and pink roses and accented with green buckle berries. A ceremony table placed in front of the altar was draped in white linen, with a greenery arrangement at the beginning of the table. On top of the table was a pewter bread tray, a pewter and crystal wine decanter, a pewter wine goblet for the communion ceremony and two vials of Jewish salt with a white linen salt covenant bag which was embroidered with the groom’s last initial and the scripture, “I am my beloved’s and he is mine.” Elders Gary and Brenda White performed the two Jewish ceremonies, including other scriptures of the couple’s choice.

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Letters: Reject marriage amendment

2006-10-10T03:26:00.000-07:00

The first clause is redundant. It states that marriage is only valid between a woman and a man, already contained in Wisconsin law. The second clause reads: "A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized in this state." This clause closes the door on civil unions in Wisconsin, which 60 percent of residents support. It also strips legal protections from unmarried couples. This has been dangerously demonstrated in Ohio. A man accused of hitting his live-in girlfriend was charged with domestic violence. The judge reduced this felony charge to misdemeanor assault because the amendment prohibits law recognizing the legal status of unmarried couples. This limits the application of the domestic violence law to married couples.

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Governor to officiate at Bluffdale celebrity wedding

2006-10-08T03:27:00.000-07:00

Bluffdale's celebrity couple, Mayor Claudia Anderson and former City Attorney Dale Gardiner, have set a date to marry Nov. 4, with Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. performing the ceremony at the Grand America Hotel. In a phone interview Thursday, Gardiner confirmed the details. "We've arranged for three ballrooms and expect a crowd of about 500. At my age, I've made a lot of friends and so has she," Gardiner said. This will be the second marriage for Gardiner and Anderson, who both were recently widowed. Earlier this week the Bluffdale City Council pared back some of Anderson's administrative powers in favor of hiring a city manager to run the daily affairs of the city. "We've known each other since grade school at Riverton Elementary," Gardiner said.

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Parents kidnapped bride until wedding time passed, cops say

2006-10-04T03:28:00.000-07:00

SALT LAKE CITY -- The parents of a bride-to-be told their daughter they were taking her on a shopping trip, but then drove to Colorado and kept her there until she missed the wedding, officials said. Lemuel and Julia Redd have been charged with second-degree felony kidnapping. Utah County Attorney Kay Bryson said Tuesday he met with the couple's daughter, Julianna, and her now-husband Perry Myers before charging the parents. ''I've never had a case quite like this,'' Bryson said. The Redds told their 21-year-old daughter they were taking her on a shopping trip Aug. 4 and then drove 240 miles from Provo to Grand Junction, Colo., according to police. Myers, 23, called police when his bride didn't attend a pre-wedding dinner with his parents that night. The Redds spent the night in Colorado and drove back to Provo the next day, arriving after the couple was supposed to have been married.

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How long before marriage is illegal?

2006-10-02T03:28:00.000-07:00

Here is an advert from a local newspaper. "Retired couple wanted to look after large country home while owners abroad. Small salary payable. Married quarters available." As of yesterday, the potential employer has committed an offence. Under the new EU age discrimination rules, it is unlawful to restrict a job to older people, or to younger for that matter. However, you may be surprised to learn that, under separate legislation, the final sentence of this advert will also soon be illegal because it implies that the applicants should be married, and could, therefore, be considered discriminatory against homosexuals. .

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A storybook wedding: A traditional, yet modern, Muslim couple are ...

2006-09-24T03:35:00.000-07:00

Syma Chowdhry and Aamer Hayat were married on Friday, Aug. 25, at the bride's parents' home on a residential street in Dover Township. It was a day of religious observance and a celebration of Pakistani culture, a day full of lights and sounds and colors. It was a love song and a prayer. And the whole thing was filmed for television. A crew from the Style Network show "Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?" was there to record the day for a future show. The show focuses on the work of the wedding planner, and in this case, there was a lot of work to be done. The bride and groom seemed to have stepped out of some ancient fairy tale. But they are both very modern. "We met on a Web site, kind of a "My Space' for Muslims," says Syma, 25, an associate producer for News Channel 12 and a former Miss Ocean County.

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South Africa's Cabinet Warned Not To Defy Same-Sex Marriage Law

2006-09-22T03:33:00.000-07:00

The South African Cabinet has warned opponents of same-sex marriage legislation to be careful not to behave in a way that suggested they wanted to defy the decision of the Constitutional Court that extends rights to domestic partners. According to South Africa's Independent Online, government spokesperson Themba Maseko said Wenesday that the cabinet had "noted the discourse on the Civil Unions Bill". "While every individual or group has the right to express their views, the cabinet emphasized the need for everyone to be reminded that the definition of marriage in the Marriage Act was unconstitutional," he said, Independent Online reports. Maseko said parties should not express themselves in a way that suggested they wanted to defy the decision of the Constitutional Court.

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Cruise-Holmes Wedding Happening Pretty Soon, Probably

2006-09-14T03:43:00.000-07:00

A mere 15 months after a whirlwind fake courtship resulted in an almost instantaneous, indefinite engagement and a mysterious pregnancy that resulted in the cutest set of rented babies that you're ever likely to see in the pages of a national magazine, Tom Cruise is very nearly ready to make an honest woman of Katie Holmes. Us Weekly reports that Holmes' "dream wedding" is just "days away," happening "soon," "in the next three to six weeks," or during the even more tantalizingly vague timeframe of "the early fall." We're sure she's eager to finally get this next step out of the way, as the billion-year commitment to her soulmate won't feel truly official until Cruise smears some wedding cake on her face, flashes his trademark smile, then whispers in her ear, "Don't even try to run. There are snipers everywhere.

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Bus workers drive bus to their wedding

2006-09-12T03:27:00.000-07:00

September 9 is an auspicious day for weddings, according to Chinese tradition. In Chengdu, the capital of western China's Sichuan province, a couple have made their wedding stand out from the rest by using bus number 27 for their wedding transportation, as that bus line is where they both work and where they met and fell in love. The couple are both employees of the city's public transportation company. The bride, Liu Min, works as a ticket-seller, and the groom, Wang Dong, is a bus driver. They met three years ago when working on the same bus and that's when their romance began. Therefore the bus is special to them, and they decided to make it their wedding vehicle instead of using a traditional fancy limo. "We love our jobs," says the groom, "and the bus is the witness of our love." Besides its distinctiveness, the "wedding bus" is also an economic and environmentally-friendly method of transportation.

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Star-studded Southern wedding

2006-09-12T03:25:00.002-07:00

Southern sirens Surya and Jyothika first came together in the film 'Poovellam Kaettupaar'. And since then, their on-screen chemistry became extremely popular. What followed was a string of hits like 'Kakka Kakka', 'Perazhagan' and 'Mayavi' that gave them their due as a pair. Jyotika who is also southern star Naghma's younger sister has a number of blockbusters to her credit. And so does Surya who is the son of veteran actor Siva Kumar. With the media hoopla surrounding their marriage for a long time, it sure was an event looked forward to by the entire Tamil film industry. And the presence of actors like Kamalhassan and Rajnikanth only added to its glamour quotient. .

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MTV's Wedding Curse: Three Celebrity Couples Bite the Dust

2006-09-12T03:25:00.001-07:00

I could write an article about how MTV constantly ruins lives. People waste 17% of their lives watching MTV, time that could be spent curing cancer, bike riding, building birdfeeders or doing jumping jacks. This is science; I read it in a science book. Don't even get me started about the countless humans they've brainwashed through reality TV. You could go on and on, you could write your college thesis on the matter; the bottom line is this: MTV is evil. I don't want to talk about all those things though. I'd like to look at the destructive nature of MTV by peering into the microscope of celebrity marriage divorce. MTV has been directly responsible for the break up of three marriages in the last year alone, and by celebrity I mean: people who were famous (or at least semi-famous) before they got a show on MTV.

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DWI Murder Trial Begins For Wedding Day Crash

2006-09-12T03:25:00.000-07:00

(CBS/AP) MINEOLA One of Long Island's most notorious drunken-driving cases is goes to trial Monday. Jurors in Nassau County will begin hearing testimony in the trial of a Valley Stream man accused of being drunk July of last year, driving the wrong way on the Meadowbrook Parkway and killing a flower girl in a wedding limo. Prosecutors say Martin Heidgen's pickup truck crashed into a limousine coming from a wedding. He's accused of killing a limo driver and seven-year-old flower girl Katie Flynn. Prosecutors want to see Heidgen convicted of second-degree murder. Heidgen's lawyer says his client is no murderer. Just days after the crash the girl's mother described how she held her daughter's severed head while other people were rescued from the carnage. She said her remarks were intended to emphasize the consequences of drunken driving.

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The Much Awaited Celebrity Wedding Of The Year

2006-09-12T03:24:00.000-07:00

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 (Bernama) -- Who would expect the marriage of a girl who rendered her first song at the age of 12 in her birthplace Kuala Lipis many years ago, will become the much awaited "Wedding of the Year"?. That is exactly what Malaysia's number one singer Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin, 27, will experience when she officially ties the knot with 47-year old businessman Datuk Khalid Muhamad Jiwa, better known as Datuk K, this Monday. Moments of happiness of the pop diva adored by many since the past 11 years, will be shared by over 26 million people in the country as TV3 will show them live. It will be the first wedding of a Malaysian artiste to be broadcast live on television in Malaysia. What is so special about Siti, as she is affectionately called, that the private television station obtains the exclusive rights to broadcast the ceremony? Bernama posed this question to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's broadcasting and mass communication lecturer Prof Madya Dr Asiah Sarji.

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No Wedding Bells for Pitt and Jolie, Until for All

2006-09-12T03:22:00.000-07:00

The date to be saved has not been determined just yet. Hollywood's hottest couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, has made a commitment not to get hitched until all couples are legally allowed to wed, according to People Magazine. In an interview with Esquire Magazine, the actor talked about his plans for the future. “Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," Pitt said. Though their sequence of events – love, marriage, and children – may challenge old-fashioned traditions, the couple could not be happier with their family life. Jolie and Pitt recently welcomed the birth of their daughter, Shiloh, in May, and consider Julie's adopted children Maddox, 5, and Sahara, 1, no different. “They're as much of my blood as any natural born, and I'm theirs," Pitt tells the magazine, which hits newsstands Sept.

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