Actress Delays Wedding Until After US Presidential Election

Actress Scarlett Johansson has announced that she has postponed her wedding to Ryan Reynolds until after the US presidential election has taken place. Johansson, 23, who most recently starred in the film The Other Boleyn Girl, will marry on November 22.

Johannson said that she is delaying her wedding because her twin brother Hunter is working on candidate Barack Obama’s campaign. Her fiance, Ryan, is also working on Obama’s campaign and Johansson has decided that planning the wedding in the middle of the presidential campaign is too taxing.

Johansson will marry in a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony in New York City. Reynolds, 32, is a Canadian-born actor and has been seen in a number of television programmes and films. His most visible role was as George Lutz in the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror. He was previously engaged to singer Alanis Morrisette and was also romantically linked with Rachael Leigh Cook. This will be the first marriage for both.

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Gavin Newsom And Actress Jennifer Siebel Tie The Knot

Gavin Newsome, the controversial mayor of San Francisco, California and a candidate in California’s gubernatorial election, has married actress Jennifer Siebel in a private ceremony at Siebel’s family ranch in Montana. Newsom gained notoriety for performing gay weddings in San Francisco, a move that sparked a firestorm of controversy and led to a recent California State Supreme Court ruling that authorized homosexual marriage in the state.

Newsom and Siebel have been dating since October 2006. The couple welcomed about 250 guests to the Siebel family ranch in Bitterroot, Montana. The bride wore a strapless full-length wedding gown. The groom wore a tan-coloured suit. This is the first wedding for Siebel who has appeared in several television programmes and films, including Life, Rent, Numb3ers, and Something’s Gotta Give. She has also finished production on three films slated for release later this year. This is the first marriage for Siebel, 34. Mr. Newsom, 40, was married previously to legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoil. The couple divorced in early 2006. The Newsoms plan to honeymoon in Africa.

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Couple Renews Wedding Vows On 75th Anniversary

Mamerta and Sabas Cabale renewed their wedding vows in a big way at St. Aidan’s Church in Rooty hill this week. The couple, who eloped when Mamerta was just 14 years old, staged a traditional wedding with a white gown and tuxedos. The 90-year old bride and her 102 year-old husband have 10 children and moved to Australia ten years ago from their native home in the Philippines.

Sabas Cabale was a chauffeur when he eloped with Mamerta, who lived in a convent at the time, but Mamerta never forgot her dream of a beautiful white church wedding. Guests from Europe, the United States and the Philippines traveled to Rooty Hill for Mamerta and Sabas’ big day, but the couple won’t be celebrating a honeymoon for lack of money.

The Cabales did note that the Pope was in Australia and invited him to attend their wedding. Unfortunately for Mamerta and Sabas, the Pope was unable to attend.

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Lucky Date 08 08 08

According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, China registered 314,224 marriages on Friday, August 8, a single-day record for weddings in that country. In Beijing alone, 15,646 couples married. That’s 23 times as many marriages on a typical day in China’s capital city. Beijing’s previous one-day record was 4,452 marriages.

Officials at the Ministry of Civil Affairs asked local authorities around the country to take on extra staff, put in extra hours and open additional offices to meet the highly anticipated demand. Some registry offices opened just after the stroke of midnight and worked around the clock to marry waiting couples. Officials said that this marks the first time that such an accommodation has been made to meet the demands of couples seeking to be married.

Couples from around the world used the unusual date to marry. Registry offices and courthouses reported an unusually high number of weddings, in some places as many as five to six times the normal volume.

Weddings weren’t the only things taking place on the lucky date: hospitals in China reported a higher-than-normal number of births, as couples chose to have their babies by Caesarean section to take advantage of the calendar. In the months leading up to August 8, which the government chose for the opening ceremonies for the Olympics, 3,500 babies were named Aoyun, the Chinese word for Olympics, and an additional 5,000 babies were named for the five Olympic mascots: Huanhuan, Nini, Beibei, Jingjing and Yingying.

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Jamie Lynn Spears Reportedly Planning Wedding In Late 2008

American actress Jamie Lynn Spears is planning a late Autumn wedding. The wedding will likely take place at Ms. Spears 3-acre property in Liberty, Mississippi. Spears, 17, turned heads late last year by announcing that she was pregnant. The actress, known best for her starring role as a squeaky-clean high school girl on the cable channel Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101 programme, gave birth to a baby girl earlier this summer. Following Spears’ announcement, Nickelodeon elected to air the last season of Zoey 101, which had already completed production, and which Nickelodeon had already said it did not plan to renew.

Spears, the younger sister of singer-actress Britney Spears, elected to leave Hollywood and raise her baby out of the public eye. Ms. Spears will marry the baby’s father and her long-time boyfriend Casey Aldridge, 19, whom she met at a church in Kentwood, Louisiana.

A wedding date has not yet been announced but the event is expected to be a low-key, traditional affair with only family and friends present. According to reports published in OK! Magazine, the venue Spears chose to announce her pregnancy, sister Britney will serve as Jamie Lynn’s maid of honor and sister-in-law Ashlee will serve as a bridesmaid. This will be the first marriage for Spears and Aldridge.

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Actress Uma Thurman Engaged

Actress Uma Thurman, whose on-screen credits include Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Gattaca, Dangerous Liaisons, The Avengers and My Super Ex-Girlfriend, is engaged to Swiss financier Arpad Busson. The pair met in 2007 in Milan and began dating immediately. This will be the third marriage for Thurman, who was previously married to actors Ethan Hawke and Gary Oldman. Busson has never been married, but has two children with Australian model Elle McPherson. He has also been linked romantically to actress Farah Fawcett.

Busson, 45, presented Thurman, 38, with an 8-carat diamond ring in June at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebration. No date for the wedding has been announced. The couple have celebrated their engagement with parties in New York, Saint-Tropez and London. They also traveled to Corsica for a private vacation. Ms. Thurman, who lives in New York City has not indicated where she and Mr. Busson will live. Busson owns homes in London and in the Bahamas.

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Microsoft Wants To Be A Part Of Your Big Day

Microsoft organised a staged wedding event in Toronto, Canada to demonstrate the technologies that couples can use to enhance their Big Day. Microsoft wants to promote the use of its technology products in wedding planning, organisation and execution.

Microsoft’s “wedding guests” were guided through software and online tools that can help them create invitations, organise photographs, build customised Web sites, and create DVDs. Attendees also signed an electronic guest book on a tablet PC that converted their signatures to text.

The company stressed that the everyday technologies built by Microsoft allow people to customise their weddings to suit their tastes. Microsoft also showed off software that would enable brides to create customised reception menus, seating charts, place cards and design reception hall layouts.

The “wired wedding” event wasn’t limited to media creation. The company also demonstrated the Zune MP3 player, which makes its debut in Canada this month, and suggests that couples can use technologies like the Zune, which can hold customised playlists, to replace DJs at the reception.

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UK Couple Gives New Meaning To Destination Wedding

Simone and Ryan Feeney were wed in a Las Vegas wedding chapel just two days after Ryan popped the question and seven weeks after the couple began dating. To be fair, they’ve worked together for two years at British Standards, but the bride was surprised not only by the proposal, but also by the wedding itself. The prospective groom presented his bride-to-be with a ring on the plane as they flew to Las Vegas, and fellow passengers cheered when Simone said “yes!”

Not wanting to leave their family and friends out of the festivities, the couple planned to marry again in front of family and friends, with just one problem: Ryan’s family is in Turkey, Simone’s mother lives in Melbourne, her father in Florida and all of their friends are in Milton Keynes.

After talking it over, they’ve decided that they’ll simply take their wedding show on the road. The couple has five weddings planned for 2008 in front of family and friends all over the world. Two of the five events have already taken place, with another three on the schedule. The bride will wear a different dress for each event.

After the first wedding in Las Vegas, the pair went to Turkey to celebrate with Ryan’s mother, who organised a wedding in front of 60 guests. Next on the list is a wedding for the couple’s friends in Milton Keynes. The couple is searching for an outdoor venue and when one is located, they’ll marry again there.

In September, the couple will travel to Florida to wed in a beach ceremony and barbeque reception organised by the bride’s father. Finally, a trip to Melbourne and a ceremony organised by the bride’s mother, complete with five bridesmaids, relatives and a reception rounds out the wedding tour.

The bride says that they’ll enjoy a honeymoon after the last wedding in December, quipping that after all of those weddings, they’ll need a vacation.

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Olivia Newton-John Weds In Private Ceremony

Actress Olivia Newton-John has married American herbal health expert and millionaire John Easterling in a private ceremony in Peru. The couple also shared a legal wedding ceremony on a Florida beach on June 30, and a reception for guests and well-wishers in California on July 4. The couple began dating about a year ago, although they have known each other for about fifteen years.

Few details of the Peruvian ceremony have been provided to the press, except to confirm that it was in Incan spiritual ceremony that took place on June 21. The couple sold the rights to their wedding coverage to the UK publication Hello! for an undisclosed sum. Guests of Newton-John and Easterling were invited to a barbecue under the ruse that it was to celebrate the Fourth of July, the American independence holiday. Upon arrival, guests were told that they were celebrating the couple’s wedding. Newton-John’s publicist did shoot down rumours that the couple had a second ceremony performed at the barbecue, saying the couple was not married at that gathering.

Newton-John was divorced from actor Matt Lattanzi in 1995 and was at the center of a tragedy in 2005, when her boyfriend, Patrick McDermott, disappeared under mysterious circumstances from a boat off the California coast. This is also the second wedding for Easterling, who is the CEO of the Amazon Herb Company.

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Mena Suvari Engaged To Simone Sestito

American actress Mena Suvari, who appeared in the film American Beauty, is engaged to music producer Simone Sestito. Sestito reportedly popped the question while the pair were on holiday in Jamaica.

Suvari is happy to take her time planning the wedding and has not yet set a date. This will be her second marriage. She was married to 46-year-old cinematographer Robert Brinkman in 2000. The couple divorced in 2005 and had no children.

Suvari and Sestito have been together since last September, having met at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Suvari will next appear in a cinematic adaptation of Garden of Eden, by Ernest Hemingway. Sestito is a music producer and concert promoter. This will be his first marriage.

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Missing Dog Crashes Wedding

Beau, a Newfoundland-Rottweiller mix, disappeared from a kennel in Rochester, New Hampshire in the US, while his owners were away. Beau had been spotted a few times while on the run, but was never located by Bonnie O’Shea, the owner of the kennel from which Beau had escaped.

Seventeen days after disappearing, Beau turned up in the unlikeliest of spots, a wedding being held in town. The dog was welcomed at the outdoor reception and was a hit with the guests. He dutifully posed for pictures and entertained the guests while waiting for his owners to retrieve him. And just how did his owners know he was at the wedding? Bonnie O’Shea, the kennel owner who had searched high and low for the dog, was tending the bar at the reception when Beau strolled in, apparently little worse for the wear from his time on the run.

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Heavy Rains Cant Keep Pair From Saying I Do

Curtis White and Daniele Ritter, from Winterset, Iowa in the US planned to marry on June 18, but Mother Nature stepped in with a change of plans. Heavy rains in Iowa flooded much of the area, and the governor activated the 365th Maintenance Company to assist with flood operations. White, who works on a farm and also is a reservist in the National Guard, was activated as part of the company and was sent to Columbus Junction, Iowa on June 14.

Ritter wasn’t to be deterred from having her big day. She contacted the Mayor’s office in Columbus Junction, and explained the situation. The Mayor’s office sprang into action and located White. The city located a dry spot for the wedding and provided flowers, a wedding cake, punch and a local singer.

A National Guard chaplain performed the ceremony and Columbus Junction Mayor Dan Wilson gave away the bride. Members of White’s unit and about one hundred local residents, family members and friends turned out for the event. The couple will have to postpone their honeymoon until the floodwaters subside and White is deactivated.

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Leah Wood Weds Jack Macdonald In London

The wedding of model and singer Leah Wood to Jack Macdonald was more noted for its celebrity guest list than for its celebrity couple. Wood, 29, is the elder daughter of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. The wedding was a traditional ceremony held at Southwark Cathedral in London. The bride wore a traditional white gown and veil and was escorted down the aisle by her father. The groom wore a black suit and white tie.

Guests included Mick Jagger, L’Wren Scott, Keith Richards, Jerry Hall, Jade Jagger, Kate Moss, Jamie Hince, Jimmy White, Tracey Emin, Alice Dellal, Lisa Fischer, Paul O’Grady and Cilla Black.

Ms. Wood is a model and singer, and recently finished a course of study at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Mr. Macdonald is a television producer in London. The pair have been together for eleven years. Mr. Macdonald proposed to Ms. Wood last year on a family holiday in Kenya. The couple share a home in London.

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Creative Bride Nets Wedding Sponsorship From Dr Pepper

Kelli Gray and Karl Gau are trying to plan a wedding. The 23-year-olds also have a 1-year-old child and make a combined salary that’s just a few thousand dollars higher than the USD$27,000 average cost for a US wedding. Gray, a hairdresser from Virginia Beach, Virginia, had planned a wedding that would cost just $7,000, but had little leftover cash to save for her big day. One of Gray’s bridesmaid’s suggested that Gray auction off a spot in her wedding to the highest bidder on eBay.

That’s just what Gray did. When the bidding was done, the winner was “Nick” who turned out not to be Nick at all, but a representative for the owners of the Dr. Pepper and Snapple Beverage Companies, based in Plano, Texas. “Nick” promptly upped the company’s $5,700 winning bid to $10,000 and said that the company would sponsor an online contest to see who should fill Gray’s open bridesmaid spot, even hinting that they might plant a surprise celebrity in the role.

Gray is thrilled with the outcome. With the extra money, she and Gau can take a honeymoon after the big festivities.

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World Heavyweight Vows To Stand On His Wedding Day

Manuel Uribe, who at 1,235 pounds, holds the world record for human weight, is aiming for another record: the world’s largest weight loss. The Mexican-born mechanic has already lost 560 pounds and is hoping to lose enough to allow him to stand on his wedding day.

Uribe drew worldwide attention when he made a desperate plea for help in January 2006. At that time, he had been bedridden for five years. Although he is still confined to his bed, he has been on a high-protein diet and does arm exercises, which have helped him lose 45 percent of his body weight. His goal is to pare down to 250 pounds.

Uribe is engaged to a hairdresser whom he met four years ago. Claudia Solis, Mr. Uribe’s fiancée, says she looks forward to the day when Manuel can stand on his own. Uribe has a television and a computer in his room, which he uses to update his Web site. Uribe says he has always had problems with his weight, and that they were exacerbated by a junk food-laden diet he went on when he lived in the US. A poorly performed liposuction procedure has also left Mr. Uribe with large tumors on both legs.

The couple has not set a date for their wedding, but Mr. Uribe is hoping the couple can marry this year.

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Gay Marriage Front And Center In The UK And USA

Dr. Martin Dudley, vicar at St. Bartholomew the Great in London has reportedly officiated at a gay marriage between two male Anglican priests. The ceremony, which was similar to the Anglican wedding rite in the Book of Common Prayer, also featured an exchange of rings and confetti.

The Bishop of London has asked for an investigation of the event, and said that neither the Diocese of London nor the Church of England offers public blessings for civil partnerships. One of the men has returned to his New Zealand home, and the other plans to move to New Zealand shortly. The Rt. Rev. David Moxon, the Bishop of Waikato, NZ, issued a joint statement with one of the men involved saying that the priest had resigned his clergy license upon arrival in New Zealand.

More than 300 bishops in the Church of England are meeting in the Holy Land this week as part of a regular decennial meeting. The subject of gay marriage within the Church of England is expected to spark heated debate, as it did in 2005 when the Episcopal Church in the US, which is nominally part of the Anglican Communion, ordained an openly gay bishop. No policy decisions are expected to emerge from the meeting.

Gay marriage takes center stage in California this week because the State Supreme Court there struck down a law that narrowly defined marriage as an agreement between one man and one woman. In the ruling, the State Supreme Court indicated that June 17 would be the first day in which gay couples could take advantage of the state’s decision to recognise gay marriage. In response, officials in conservative Kern and Butte Counties in California say they will stop performing civil ceremonies altogether until further notice. The counties will issue gender-neutral marriage licenses, as required by state law.

Massachusetts is the only other state in the US to recognise gay marriage. Connecticut offers gay civil unions, and New York State says it will not authorise gay marriages but will recognise those performed in other states where gay marriage is legal. Gay marriages are also recognised in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, and Spain.

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California Nonagenarians Tie The Knot

A California couple, both 95, tied the knot in Camarillo last week in front of 200 guests. Bernice Jenkins and Wallis Richard knew each other casually, but began dating after they had both moved into Leisure Village, a retirement community in town.

Richard proposed marriage on their first date, but Jenkins turned him down. He persisted and over the next 18 months won Bernice’s heart. She changed her mind about Richard’s wedding proposal after she celebrated her 95th birthday in February.

The bride was escorted down the aisle by her two sons, and the groom’s two sons acted as his groomsmen. The ceremony was officiated by Richard’s daughter and her husband, both Baptist preachers. The couple entertained family and friends at a reception, which was planned by both the couple and their children.

The bride and groom will take a three-day honeymoon in an undisclosed location, and then it’s back to Leisure Village. The couple will retain both of their homes and alternate the time spent in each place. They have no prenuptial agreement but plan to keep their finances separate.

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Greg Norman And Chris Evert Reportedly Planning A Million Dollar Wedding

Greg Norman and Chris Evert will reportedly wed in a $1M wedding in the Bahamas in late June. The wedding will be held at the One and Only Ocean Club Hotel, recently featured in the latest James Bond remake of Casino Royale. For the wedding, Norman and Evert have reportedly booked the entire hotel.

The pair will entertain as many as 400 guests, including former US presidents George Bush, Sr. and Bill Clinton. Lleyton Hewitt and Bec Cartwright are also on the A-list.

The couple announced their engagement last December. Evert married tennis star John Lloyd in 1979. They divorced in 1987. In 1988, Evert married Olympic skier, Andy Mill. They divorced in 2006, after 18 years of marriage and have three sons.

Norman has purchased the former home of Randolph Hearst in Florida, a 52-room seaside mansion in Palm Beach and is expected to make his home with Evert there. Ms. Evert currently runs an exclusive professional tennis coaching business and lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

Norman, who recently entered a $250 million divorce settlement with his first wife Laura, was married for 26 years.

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Jessica Alba Planning A Second Wedding

Actress Jessica Alba, who married Warren Cash in a secret civil ceremony last week, is reportedly planning a larger ceremony for friends and family, according to Alba’s brother. The couple wed at the Beverly Hills courthouse on May 19, just minutes after applying for a marriage license. The couple invited no family members or other guests to the event, which caught Alba’s family by surprise.

According to Alba’s brother, Josh, the couple plan to hold a larger ceremony for their families and friends at a later date. Alba, who is pregnant with the couple’s first child, had previously indicated that they would wait until after the baby was born to marry. The pair first announced their engagement last December. Alba is best known for her work in the television programme Dark Angel, The Fantastic Four series, Good Luck Chuck and The Ten, will also appear two summer movies: Meet Bill and The Love Guru. Mr. Cash served as a director’s assistant on the most recent Fantastic Four film.

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Rooney-McLoughlin Guests To Release Butterflies At Wedding

Media reports say that UK footballer Wayne Rooney and his soon-to-be wife Colleen McLoughlin plan to have their guests release butterflies from handmade wooden boxes at the site of their wedding. The wedding has a butterfly theme and will take place at the site of a former Benedictine monastery built in 1381.

The couple will marry in a civil ceremony in Cheshire a week prior to the Italian nuptials because the monastery they’ve chosen is not recognised as a Catholic wedding venue. The civil ceremony will ensure that the pair have a legal marriage. McLoughlin and Rooney will have their civil marriage convalidated by a Catholic priest at the monastery site.

The monastery, which sits on a hill between Portofino and Santa Margherita, was also the site of Rod Stewart’s most recent wedding. Guests of the McLoughlin-Rooney wedding will be treated to a pre-wedding dinner the evening before the ceremony. The reception will be held on a luxury yacht. The multi-day celebration will also include a stop at the La Cervara national monument. The wedding is believed to be scheduled for June 14. It is the first marriage for both.

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Charlie Sheen Marries For The Third Time

Actor Charlie Sheen, 42, married his fiancée, Brooke Mueller on May 30. The pair have been engaged since last summer. Ms. Mueller, 30, a real estate investor, married in a private ceremony in front of about sixty guests at a Los Angeles estate.

The bride wore a Reem Arca gown at the low-key ceremony. Sheen is the son of actor Martin Sheen and the brother of actor Emilio Estevez. He is currently seen in the television comedy Two and A Half Men, but has also appeared in more than sixty Hollywood movies and television programmes.

Sheen’s parents, Martin and Janet, and brother Emilio, attended the wedding, along with his children Sam and Lola from his stormy marriage to Denise Richards. Other guests included Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart, who introduced the couple about two years ago.

This is the first marriage for Ms. Mueller, and the third for Mr. Sheen. Prior to his marriage to Ms. Richards, which ended in divorce in 2006, Mr. Sheen was also married briefly to model Donna Peele. The couple divorced about six months into the marriage.

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Bridesmaid Stops Runaway Limousine

A Todd County, Minnesota couple and their wedding party received the scare of a lifetime while in the back of the couple’s wedding car. The driver of the couple’s limousine had what would prove to be a fatal heart attack while driving the wedding party to the couple’s pre-wedding celebration on Friday, May 23.

An observant bridesmaid in the back of the limousine realised that the driver was stricken and crawled through the car to reach the driver. She was able to take over at the wheel and bring the wedding car to a stop without injury. The other passengers, including the rest of the wedding party, the bride and groom were uninjured.

The party determined that the driver was having a heart attack and summoned the police and an ambulance for assistance. Members of the wedding party performed CPR on the driver at the side of the road as they waited for medical help to arrive. Although the driver was taken to hospital for further treatment, he died later that night.

There was no word on whether the wedding party made it to their original destination.

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Prince Joachim of Denmark Marries Marie Cavallier

Prince Joachim of Denmark married Marie Cavallier in an evening ceremony on May 24 at the Møgeltønder Church in southwestern Jutland. Cavallier, who hails from France, was escorted down the aisle by her father, Allain. The Cavalliers met Prince Joachim and his two sons, Nikolai and Felix, at the altar. Joachim is fourth in line to the Danish throne, the oldest monarchy in Europe.

The bride, 32, wore a white Arasa Morelli Calais lace-and-tulle dress with a 10-foot train inspired by 19th century designs. Upon her marriage, she was given the title of Princess, and will be known as Princess Marie of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat. Marie became a Danish citizen and converted to the Lutheran Evangelical Church from Roman Catholicism to marry the Prince.

Members of the royal families of Denmark, Sweden and Norway attended the ceremony, including Queen Margarethe and Prince Hendrik, Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon. Actor Roger Moore was also an invited guest. After the ceremony, guests of the royal couple enjoyed a dinner reception at Schackenbørg Castle. The dinner menu included fjord shrimps, turbot with scallops and beef tenderloin. Guests were also treated to the couple’s octagonal, eight-tiered wedding, decorated with small marzipan crowns, French lilies and blown-sugar birds.

This is the first marriage for the former Ms. Cavallier. Prince Joachim was previously married to Princess Alexandra, now the Countess of Frederiksbørg. The couple will make their residence at Schackenbørg Castle, where Prince Joachim has lived since 1993.

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Australian Idol Winner Says I Do

Guy Sebastian, the winner of the first season of Australian Idol, wed his fiancée, Jules Egan in a weekend ceremony at the Cardinal Ceretti Memorial Chapel in Sydney. Among the 200 guests in attendance were former contestants Shannon Noll and Dean Geyer. Other guests included Jennifer Hawkins and Jake Wall.

The bride wore a cream-coloured one-shouldered gown from Master/slave. The groom wore a brown suit. The couple welcomed their guests at a reception at Luna Park. Mr. Sebastian is well known for his successful bid on the first season of Australian Idol, and has recorded several successful albums since his victory in 2003.

Mr. Sebastian, originally from Mayalasia, emigrated to Adelaide as a child. He and Ms. Egan dated for eight years and became engaged late last year. This is the first marriage for both.

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Ashlee Simpson And Pete Wentz Tie The Knot

American singer Ashlee Simpson wed her fiancé Pete Wentz of the band the Fall Out Boys, in a weekend wedding ceremony. Simpson and Wentz announced their engagement last month, but kept their wedding date a secret. The wedding took place at the Encino, California home of Simpson’s parents.

Ashlee’s sister, Jessica Simpson was escorted to the wedding by Tony Romo, a quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys American football team. The bride wore an ivory lace wedding gown designed by Monique Lhuillier and diamond jewellery designed by William Noble. Joe Simpson, the bride’s father and a former Baptist minister, performed the ceremony. Wentz’s English bulldog, Hemingway, reportedly served as the ring bearer.

The reception, which was attended by about 150 guests, was held under a series of tents decorated with Black Beauty roses in an Alice in Wonderland theme. The wedding and reception were planned by celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss. Among the guests were Nicole Ritchie and new husband Joel Madden, and actor Donald Faison and CaCee Cobb.

Simpson and Wentz are reportedly expecting a child, but the pair have steadfastly denied the pregnancy rumours. This is the first marriage for Simpson, 23 and Wentz, 28.

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Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly Marry At Windsor Castle

Peter Phillips, eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II married his Canadian fiancée Autumn Kelly in a private ceremony at Windsor Castle on May 17. Mr. Phillips is eleventh in line to succeed the throne and holds no royal titles. He is the eldest son of Anne, the Princess Royal and her former husband Mark Phillips. To preserve his claim to the throne, Kelly renounced her Roman Catholic faith and joined the Church of England prior to the wedding.

The bride wore a traditional white dress designed by Sassi Holford, a tiara borrowed from the Princess Royal, and was escorted down the aisle by her father, Brian Kelly. About 300 guests were invited to the wedding, which was attended by the Queen and Prince Philip, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, Prince Harry and his girlfriend Chelsy Davy. Prince William was not in attendance as he had previously committed to a wedding in South Africa, but Kate Middleton served as his official representative for the affair.

Phillips and Kelly met when the pair worked at the Montreal Grand Prix. Initially, Phillips did not disclose to Kelly that he was a member of the Royal family. She discovered his identity while watching a programme about Prince William.

Mr. Phillips works for the Bank of Scotland. Ms. Kelly works as a personal assistant to Sir Michael Parkinson. The pair did not immediately announce their honeymoon plans but will continue to reside in London.

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