Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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Blair Waldorf's Wedding Gown?

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Could she be the next runaway bride? In this leaked photo, Blair Waldorf, seen on the set of the highly anticipated wedding episode of Gossip Girl, runs down the famous red staircase of the st. Regis Hotel in New York and jumps into a Rolls Royce car -- alone, reports Huffington Post.


The dress she wears is reportedly created by Vera Wang (Leighton Meester, the actress behind Blair, is the face for Wang's fragrance, "Lovestruck."). Blair wears a bejeweled crystal tiara, a delicate necklace and white peep-toe pumps.


The wedding episode, Gossip Girl's 100th episode, is set to air in early January. Do you think Blair will really run from the altar?


Image via Huffington Post.


Monday, September 12, 2011

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Teresa and Joe Renew Their Vows

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It's no secret these days that celebs love to renew their vows. But leave it to the "Housewives" to really make it over-the-top. Teresa Giudice, from "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" renewed her vows with hubby Joe Giudice in a lavish ceremony on Long Island, reports Reality TV magazine. The vow renewal took place at Oheka Castle; the same over-the-top venue where Kevin Jonas tied the knot a few years back, as well as disgraced NY congressman, Anthony Weiner.


And while the family's financial problems have recently become a main topic on the show, that didn't seem to stop them from throwing a totally lavish party. The vow renewal included a horse-drawn carriage for the couple and a wedding dress from Pnina Tornai that is rumored to be $25,000, according to InTouch magazine.


Despite grumbles that the vow renewal was done in attempt to save their marriage, Teresa says it was actually for her four girls. "I wanted to show my girls that marriage is really important, as is being faithful to one another." Well, she might have added, marriage and a fairy-tale wedding day to go with it...


The wedding will air as part of the fourth season of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey. The couple originally exchanged "I dos," in 1999.


Image via Reality TV magazine.


Tuesday, August 09, 2011

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Tori Spelling Wants to Plan
Shannen Doherty's Wedding

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It would be the perfect 90210 wedding reunion: Tori Spelling, of sTORIbook Weddings wants to plan heor former co-star, Shannen Doherty's wedding, reports People.com.


Spelling, 38, is offering her services to Doherty, 40, who is set to tie the knot with celebrity photographer Kurt Iswarienko on her own yet-untitled reality TV show next year.


Asked about the show, Spelling quickly replied, "I'll do the wedding." but then admits that she has no idea what kind of wedding Doherty might want. "I could probably comment on the wedding she'd want 20 years ago," says Spelling. "But that wouldn't make any sense. I don't know. She has great taste, I know that."


This will be Doherty's third marriage.


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Thursday, August 04, 2011

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Kat Von D Plans Her Wedding Gown

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We know the wedding between tattoo maven Kat Von D and biker Jesse James has already been called off, but as they say in Hollywood, the show must go on anyway.


Fans of the L.A. Ink star's reality TV show -- which follows Kat's tattoo parlor in Los Angeles -- might already recall the somewhat-now-cringeworthy episode where she has James' childhood portrait inked on her torso -- but now it gets worse. The doomed-bride-to-be starts designing her wedding dress on the latest episode, reports the Daily Mail. One scene from the show depicts Kat Von D as she pulls out her "wedding folder" to a pair of reluctant designer friends -- who will be helping to launch Kat Von D's debut clothing line in fall -- before giving them details about what she wants her dream dress to look like.


While her friends seem nervous -- due to timing and scheduling with her fall line, "This is not what we do," the designers say in unison -- Kat shows them photos of a cut and sculpted red dress and explains she wants her dress to be completely unique.


though Kat Von D announced her split with James on July 25, this season of her reality TV show is primarily about her romance.


Images via Daily Mail.


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Save the Date! Kim's TV Wedding Date

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Let the countdown begin! Kim Kardashian and Kris Humpphries have set a date -- for the TV wedding extravaganza, that is. The two-part special of Kim's wedding will air on Sunday, October 9 at 8 p.m. and Monday, October 10 at 9 p.m., reports Us magazine.


Kim's Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event will give viewers all of the details we've been hoping for -- from the whirlwind romance to the big wedding planning decisions and of course -- the glitz and glamour that will surely be the highlight of Kim's wedding day.


Kim also recently confirmed that Vera Wang will indeed be designing her wedding dress. "Vera has been a close family friend for a long time and we had talked about this moment for years," she wrote Monday on her blog. "So when it came to picking my wedding dress designer, she was the first person I thought of. No one designs gowns the way she does!"


Aside from picking the cake, and having their bachelor and bachelorette parties last month in Las Vegas, and having made an extensive wedding registry, Kim's can also cross her bridal shower off the list.


Held at Kris Jenner's Casablanca, California home, the stars turned out for Kim's shower (even hubby-to-be Kris was there!), reports OK! magazine. Celebrity guests included Lindsay Lohan, Demi Lovato, former Spice Girl Mel B; plus the entire Kardashian clan. Guests nibbled on bites made by celebrity chef Rachel Ray, who is also friends with the family.Check out more photos from her shower below.


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Photos via Us magazine and RadarOnline.com.

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

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Kim Kardashian Wants a Royal Wedding Cake

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We already knew that Kim reportedly had plans to try and outshine the royal wedding and it looks like now she's making every attempt to do so, reports HollywoodLife.com.


The Duchess of Reality TV and her beau, Kris Humphries, reportedly visited Hansen's Cakes on July 29 for a cake tasting. The two eventually decided on a ten-tier white cake with chocolate-chip icing and black-and-white decorations for their August 20 wedding. But an insider revealed that despite the black-and-white design, "Kim wants it to resemble Prince William and Duchess Kate's!" (In case you forgot about that cake, you can check it out here.)


Khloe has already said it's "going to be royal wedding number two," and indeed, considering her own 2009 wedding was watched by an estimated 3.2 million viewers on TV, Kim's wedding could certainly pull in more.


Image via HollywoodLife.com.


Tuesday, August 02, 2011

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Bachelorette Ashley Gets Engaged

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Spoiler alert! Don't read any more of this if you don't want to know who Bachelorette Ashley picked. If you're like most of the world though, you probably already know that the final rose (or whatever she gives them) went to J.P., according to the Daily Mail.


The couple were all smiles when spotted on the streets of NYC today before an appearnace on Good Morning America. "We're going to prove the skeptics wrong," the former Bachelorette told Good Morning America host Robin Roberts this morning.


J.P., 34, added that "this is something special," and that Ashely was planning to move to NY to finish up school and they were thinking of tying the knot in 2012. The couple also added that going public had been a huge weight off their shoulders.


"It's kind of fun at first to keep the secret, but towardst he end, we were ready to come out into the open," said Ashley, 25. "I think we compliment each other so well," she went on. "He's exactly what I've been looking for. He's been my rock and I think everything that happened on the season really brought us closer and we have a great foundation."


While J.P. admitted that originally be was only interested in being on the show for the sake of winning at some point that all changed. "I wanted to beat all these guys but at some point that all changes. You just fell for the girl. It's no longer about beating him," said J.P.


J.P. proposed with a stunning square cut diamond surrounded with pave diamonds set in platinum from Neil Lane.


Images via the Daily Mail.


Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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Crystal Harris "Runaway Bride" Documentary

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She called off the wedding just days before it was to take place, but as we could have guessed, the show must go on.


Tomorrow, a documentary that details Crystal Harris' would-be wedding to Hugh Hefner will air on Lifetime, reports the Daily Mail. The documentary shows Crystal trying on her wedding dress and progressively getting more and more unsure about her impending nuptials. (You can watch a teaser here, we've got to admit, it's kinda depressing).


The sneak peak released today show Crystal at a fitting for her custom Romona Keveza gown, complete with an intricate veil. She's joined by her would-be bridesmaids, who are all wearing ice blue strapless dresses. Crystal tells the camera, "I never as a little kid imagined what my wedding would be like one day but I kind of knew that I wasn’t supposed to be feeling like this... I saw myself gradually checking out."


Crystal's bestie and fellow bunny Anna Berglund, who's still living at the Playboy Mansion adds, "Two weeks before the wedding Crystal started to feel a little overwhelmed by the wedding plans." (Just two weeks!?)


Catch "Hef's Runaway Bride" Tuesday on Lifetime at 10 p.m.


Monday, June 27, 2011

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Top 9 Memorable TV Weddings

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From Freudian slips to tearful ceremonies and raucous receptions, we've rounded up the most memorable -- in no particular order -- TV weddings of all time.


1. Emily and Ross on Friends (1998)
Played by Helen Baxendale and David Schwimmer
How could anyone forget this season finale cliffhanger in which Ross (David Schwimmer) botches his vows to his English fiancee, Emily, saying, "I, Ross, take thee, Rachel… ." The wedding does go on and the two later break up. But it isn’t all bad: Monica and Chandler -- who marry during season seven -- first hook up at the disastrous wedding.


2. Izzie and Alex on Grey's Anatomy (2009)
Played by Katherine Heigl and Justin Chambers
Nothing says "wedding" like creepy dead fiance hallucinations and brain tumors, right? Well, that's how it went for Izzie and Alex's bittersweet nuptials on Grey's Anatomy. After finding out Izzie has an incurable tumor (hence the hallucinations), Meredith gives her wedding dress to Izzie and explains that Izzie was always supposed to be the bride. The quickie wedding includes touching vows from Alex -- "Today, I become a man, a husband" -- but then it's back to the hospital for Izzie, where she shaves her head, and we all try not to cry.


3. Pam and Jim on The Office (2009)
Played by Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski
From the silly-but-cute proposal at a rest stop where Jim says he just "can't wait," to their secret nuptials at Niagara Falls, the will-they-or-won't-they couple is a comedy series favorite. The fact that the two return for a more traditional church ceremony, only to have their coworkers steal the spotlight by dancing down the aisle in homage to the viral YouTube video of Chris Brown's “Forever” song, is just icing on the cake.


4. Lily and Marshall on How I Met Your Mother (2007)
Played by Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel
If you've ever felt like you weren't in control of planning the wedding day, this is the episode for you. Everything that can go wrong does for Lily and Marshall. From the flowers showing up in the middle of the ceremony to a last-minute bad haircut, the couple seems doomed. Despite this, they still find a way to have a perfect (private and improvised) ceremony.


5. Donna and David on Beverly Hills, 90210 (2000)
Played by Tori Spelling and Brian Austin Green
Before they each went on to marry their separate hotties in real life (hello, future Mr. Megan Fox!), these two tied the knot together on TV. After 10 years of hookups, breakups, high school and college, Donna and David finally exchange "I dos" in a beautifully traditional ceremony.


6. Kevin and Scotty on Brothers and Sisters (2008)
Played by Matthew Rhys and Luke Macfarlane
Hailed by some critics as a "groundbreaking" wedding, Kevin and Scotty's nuptials weren't just loving and sweet -- they also marked one of the few times prime time has held a same-sex wedding with main characters. While Scotty's parents are far from supportive, his father does offer the cuff links that he wore at his own wedding. At the end of season two, the couple is happily married.


7. Daphne and Niles on Frasier (2002)
Played by Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce
After years of watching Niles pine over British lass Daphne, Frasier ultimately -- accidentally – betrays his brother’s feelings in season seven. The two end up eloping in an incredibly romantic way, but then pretend they never did in order to appease their families. When the second wedding takes place, enough hilarity ensues that you'll be quite happy they got one all to themselves first.


8. Kelly and Zack on Saved by the Bell (1994)
Played by Tiffani Thiessen and Mark-Paul Gosselaar
It was the only possible way this quintessential '90s series could end: with a Vegas wedding. Since Kelly's parents can't foot the bill and Zack's parents think the couple is too young to get hitched, the crew heads out to Las Vegas for a truly memorable wedding weekend. The episode -- which includes run-ins with escorts and a car chase -- originally aired as a two-hour TV movie. But what most people remember these days are A.C. Slater's fateful parting words: "It's the end of an era."


9. Charlotte and Harry on Sex and the City (2003)
Played by Kristin Davis and Evan Handler
While all of the Sex and the City weddings were pretty, we like this one best, in part because of the long, winding road that gets the couple to the altar. With Harry and Charlotte, it's a true case of "opposites attract," since Harry has just about every trait Charlotte claims to be repulsed by, and Charlotte isn't Jewish -- a must for Harry. In time, the two come around (and Charlotte converts), and they have a seemingly doomed wedding, which includes Charlotte spilling wine on herself, Harry being unable to smash the ceremonial glass and Harry's best man giving a bad drunken toast.


Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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Top 5 Steps to Planning Your Dream Wedding

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by Tori Spelling

 

In our new show, sTORIbook Weddings, Dean and I prove that when planning a wedding, it's not just about having the know-how (my specialty), it's also about having a "ready-for-anything" attitude when it comes to the day-of (that's where Dean comes in).

 

Though it might seem overwhelming, you've gotta start somewhere. So for someone who's newly engaged (yay! congrats!), here are the top five steps every bride-to-be should get going on right now.

 

1. Make an Announcement

Once you've stopped drooling over your ring (which can take a few days, I know), it's time to get down to business. In the excitement of the moment, you may have already called your parents and close friends to tell them the great news, but now it's time to tell everyone else.

 

That doesn't mean you have to make a formal press announcement a la Kate Middleton and Prince William, but you may want to put a smaller announcement in your local newspaper. You can also send out a customized postcard with a cute couple photo on the front, or even send an e-card. Try to send your e-card (or order your postcards) within the first week of getting engaged -- you don't want it to seem like old news.

 

2. Throw an Engagement Party

The first of several wedding parties you will throw is your engagement party! I love this one because there aren’t many "rules" about what it has to look like. Backyard BBQ? Wine and dessert at your favorite bar? Formal sit-down dinner? Any of those options can work perfectly, depending on your personal taste.

 

As a party planner, my job is to find out who my clients are on the inside -- and then make sure their personalities show through in every part of the event. So ask yourself, what are some things you love to do as a couple? And then plan your party around that.

 

3. Dream It and Plan Your Guest List

You've probably already started buying magazines, checking websites and dreaming about your dress. But before you get to any of those details, think about the overall feel of your wedding. Is it a small group of 50 close friends and family members on a private beach in California? Or is it 300 people in New York's Plaza Hotel ballroom?

 

Remember, the wedding should really reflect you and your fiance’s vision. Even Kate Middleton and Prince William, who are bound by some traditions, have taken a lot of steps to make sure their wedding still feels like their own. The two have said they really wanted an intimate reception, so while the ceremony may have over 2,000 people, the evening dinner may only include about 250. (And if they can trim their guest list, so can you!)

 

4. Pick a Date and a Venue

Now it's time to put your dream into action. You may want to pick a wedding month if you have a dream venue in mind, and then find out what dates it’s available. Start your venue search at least a year in advance, so it’s sure to have your wedding date open.

 

You'll want to bring a checklist of questions with you to each venue and make sure you ask about things like catering, music, decor and how long you'll ultimately have for setting up and then packing up after the wedding (really helpful info for your wedding planner too!).

 

5. Find Your Dress

As you probably know, chicness is my weakness, so picking the dress has got to be one of the most fun parts of the whole event. For our vow renewal last year, I wore a short white minidress by Marchesa, perfect for the intimate setting. (Just imagine what Kate Middleton will step out of her car in next week for her walk down the aisle! A large ball gown, or something more fitted? And will she change into a new dress for the reception? I can't wait to find out!)

 

Your dress sets the tone for the day, so whether it's over-the-top luxe or understated and classically elegant, make sure it reflects both your personality and the vibe of the wedding day.

 







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