Archive for February, 2010
Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie are engaged
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie
Hilary Duff, 22, and her hockey-player beau are going to tie the knot, UsMagazine.com is reporting.
Ottawa Senators right wing Mike Comrie, 29, popped the question during a vacation in Maui this week, according to E! News.
He sure know how to give good gifts: Shortly after they began dating in 2007, says Us, Comrie surprised Duff with a Mercedes-Benz G-class SUV as an early 20th birthday gift.
“He’s a great guy,” Hilary told Us last year. “We just laugh our heads off, which I need in my life.”
Financing for Weddings
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Scott Almeida
Wedding Payment Plan Founder: Scott Almeida
A wedding is one of the most important days of your life. It can also be one of the most expensive, running $28,000 on average, according to some estimates. For those who don’t have that much, there’s a new company out of Norwell, Mass., that could help: Wedding Payment Plan will finance your wedding.
Scott Almeida, 35, says he got the idea from watching a family friend succeed at financing orthodontia and Lasik eye and cosmetic surgery. “My first thought wasn’t weddings; it was funerals,” he laughs. “But weddings are a lot more fun.” He wrote up a business plan as a nighttime MBA student at Babson College and began raising money from family and friends. He also tapped $100,000 from an account that he and nine former classmates had set up to back whoever came up with the best startup idea.
In 2007, he left his day job as a venture capitalist to work full-time on Wedding Payment Plan. The average loan runs about $10,000 with a fixed 9.9% interest rate paid back over five years. The company hasn’t yet financed 500 weddings, but in the last year applications have jumped 333%. Almeida is raising $500,000 to go national and says the lending venture could turn profitable as early as mid-2009.
Carrie Prejean Is Engaged
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Carrie Prejean and Kyle Boller
FROM E! Online
The St. Louis Rams aren’t playing in today’s Super Bowl, but that didn’t stop their quarterback from scoring big-time.
Scandal-laden beauty queen Carrie Prejean has gotten engaged to NFL stud Kyle Boller, E! News has learned exclusively. A source says that the two decided to make their whirlwind romance official Saturday in Prejean’s hometown of San Diego—where the Rams QB also has a house and spends time during the off-season.
The ex-Miss California, 22, began dating the 28-year-old U.C. Berkeley alum last July in the midst of her controversial rise to fame, which included anti-same-sex marriage lobbying, alleged sex tapes and a much-talked-about showdown with Larry King.
Prejean may have been stripped of her previous title, but here’s hoping she has better luck with the next—wife!
Isla Fisher set to marry?
Sunday, February 7th, 2010FROM Monsters and Critics
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher
Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen are seemingly set to marry this month.
The couple have reportedly sent out party invites asking guests to keep February 26 free, however, the notices do not contain any further information.
It is believed Sacha, 38, and 34-year-old Isla – who have been together for eight years and have a two-year-old daughter, Olive, together – have booked several possible venues in the UK in a bid to keep the actual location of the ceremony secret.
A source told The Mail on Sunday newspaper: “Sacha and Isla are throwing a party. They have asked everyone to come in fancy dress. They haven’t told anyone it’s a wedding but that’s what we all suspect.”
However, a spokesperson for the ‘Bruno’ actor claims the pair have no plans to marry anytime in the near future.
The possible wedding date coincides with the Jewish festival of Purim an important annual religious festival for followers of Judaism like Sacha.
Purim commemorates the deliverance of Jewish people living in Babylonia in 6th century BCE from a Persian Empire plot to murder them.
It is celebrated according to the Hebrew calendar on the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Adar, which this year falls on February 28, although the festival begins at sunset on February 27.
Australian actress Isla has converted to Judaism in order to marry Sacha and admitted last year she was happy with her decision.
The ‘Wedding Crashers’ star – who has been given the Hebrew name Ayala or ‘Doe’ – said: “I love religions and find them fascinating and I find Judaism very beautiful. It has enriched my life enormously.”
The Details of Kristen Bell’s Engagement Ring
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 
FROM Peoplestylewatch.com
Kristen Bell may have been totally stylish on the Grammy Awards red carpet last night in her Etro dress and Jimmy Choo heels, but it was her jewelry that grabbed all the attention — her new engagement ring, in fact!
Bell’s rep confirmed to PEOPLE that she got engaged to longtime boyfriend Dax Shepard over the holidays, and she took her Neil Lane-designed ring out for a spin last night.
The gorgeous ring is a fancy-colored emerald cut diamond that is over 3 carats, set in platinum with small white diamond accents. And we can only imagine what a gorgeous wedding gown this red carpet favorite will pick out! –reporting by Elizabeth Leonard
Russell Brand and Katy Perry’s Wedding to Be Clothing Optional
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Katy Perry and Russell Brand
FROM Peoplestylewatch.com
By Tim Nudd and Alexis Chiu
Russell Brand has absolutely no secrets to divulge about his upcoming wedding to Katy Perry. Well, maybe he can share a minor detail about the dress code.
“We are going to do the wedding naked! All the families will be naked!” Brand joked to PEOPLE at Sunday’s 2010 Grammy Awards.
He’s kidding. “We’re still deciding what to do,” he says. “There’s no juicy details yet.”
But actually, a naked ceremony is one of the less quirky visions Brand has had for the wedding day.
“All my dream weddings don’t make sense,” he says. That’s probably because his dreams – the literal, nighttime kind – can be a bit hallucinatory.
“The vicar will start melting,” he says. “The people in the front row will turn into people from my school. And then everyone will only say the word ‘potato.’ ”
But in all seriousness, Brand, 34 – who recently threw an engagement party in Beverly Hills with his fiancée, 25 – says life is firing on all cylinders.
“I’m getting married to a beautiful woman,” he says. “I’m enjoying my work.”
What could be better? “Nothing,” he says.”
