Archive for the ‘Fairy Tale Wedding’ Category
Carrie Underwood Already Has Her Wedding Look Planned Out
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Carrie Underwood
FROM TotalBeauty.com
Sounds like a great idea to us! However, Carrie Underwood added that her hockey-playing beau, Mike Fisher of the Ottawa Senators, will be helping her work out the rest of the wedding details.
Underwood told the news source that Fisher was at first apathetic towards planning the big day, but lately he has become more invested in the decisions.
“He’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t care. Just whatever you want!’ “Underwood said. “But then I go and ask him, ‘What do you think about this?’ and he’ll go ‘Oh, no,’ and he’ll weigh in.”
We’re glad that Fisher is stepping up to the plate, because the blonde bombshell seems to be one busy lady! It was recently announced that the singer will be performing in the Michael Jackson Tribute at this year’s Grammy Awards.
Fergie & Josh Duhamel renew wedding vows
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Fergie & Josh Duhamel wedding
From ChinaDaily.com
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Almost a year after their wedding, Fergie and Josh Duhamel have renewed their vows, according to Us Weekly.
The couple reportedly embarked to Santa Barbara, Calif., for the private ceremony, held with only the two stars and a minister on Wednesday evening.
“It was a total surprise for Fergie,” a source told the mag.
A source close to the couple described the scene, held at the Bacara Resort & Spa, as “really romantic, great views of the Pacific, sunset ceremony.”
Following the 15-minute ceremony, the two shared a private dinner at the resort’s Miro restaurant, exiting before the dinner crowd arrived to head back to LA.
The two wed in Malibu one year ago, on January 10, 2009.
Last year, just months after their marriage, the pair battled tabloid rumors of Josh’s infidelity, which they both denied.
Disney Fairy Tale Wedding for $198K
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Disney is offering a wedding custom designed for Sam’s Club members at Walt Disney World Resort. As part of the package, you will receive celebrity wedding planner David Tutera, a “once-in-a-lifetime” Magic Kingdom ceremony, reception, photographer/videographer and four nights’ deluxe accommodations at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
It can all be yours for the price of $198,000. One wedding package is available for 50 guests.
Your package for two includes:
- A Two (2) Day Planning Session with dedicated Disney’s Fairy Tale Wedding Wedding Planner and a meeting with David Tutera for the Bride and Groom
- Four (4) nights deluxe accommodations at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa for the Bride and Groom, to be used during the wedding event
- Four (4) days Royal Treatment with Disney’s Special Activity Host/Hostess for 8 hours per day, to be used during the Wedding event
- Transportation for the Bride and Groom and Wedding Guests the day of the Wedding for the Ceremony and Reception
- Photography and Videography package for the Wedding Ceremony and Reception from Disney Fine Art Photography
- Save-the-Date and Wedding Invitations
- Custom-designed Ceremony, Dinner Reception and Dessert Party for 50 Guests to include floral, décor, entertainment and menus
Ceremony Details:
- Once-in-a-lifetime wedding ceremony inside Magic Kingdom® Park during park hours with Cinderella Castle as your backdrop
- Everything begins at Swan Boat Landing where draped chiffon, flowers and ribbons create a lovely space. In this charming spot within the Magic Kingdom® Park, with Cinderella Castle as your backdrop, your ceremony is staged.
- Draped chiffon fabric and flower balls grace your ceremony space while swaged chiffon and flower balls adorn the railings. More chiffon and garlands wrap the poles, finishing off the look.
- An alter piece or unity arrangement adorns the ceremony area and topiaries grace either side of the water railing
- Chiavari chairs, decorated with flower balls and trailing ribbons await your Guests. -A “Just Married” sign and flower garland hangs from the back of the landeau coach marketing this momentous occasion
Reception Details:
- Custom-designed dinner reception in a secret location, surrounded by Disney magic
- Set in the mysterious backstage area of Magic Kingdom® Park, your reception will delight and amaze your family and friends. Here, everyone enjoys dinner surrounded by Disney’s magical Parade Floats. Then, to cap it all off, you experience a private viewing of Wishes Nighttime Spectacular!
- The Bride and Groom arrive on a float adorned with parade dancers
- The dancers perform a parade-style musical number created just for the Bride and Groom
- A delicious dinner is prepared by our award-winning Disney Chefs is served backstage at the Magic Kingdom® Park Parade Float Area
- Following dinner, Guests will dance the night away among the Parade Floats
- From the Parade Float Garage, the Bride and Groom, along with their Guests, will be able to step outside to see “Wishes” Fireworks Spectacular from this backstage vantage point!
The wedding package is available, beginning November 18 exclusively for Sam’s Club members.
Prince William could marry long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Prince William and Kate Middleton
There is new speculation that Prince William could marry long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton in 2012 – same year as the summer Olympics in London and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
The Mail on Sunday has been told that a royal wedding in 2012 is now being talked about at Buckingham Palace.
The Prince, who turns 30 in 2012, completes his RAF training in September next year. He has dated Miss Middleton for six years.
“William is in no hurry to be married, so there is every chance it could be 2012 and the fact that it is now being talked about at the Palace between a select few means the ball is now rolling,” the Mail on Sunday quotes a royal aide as saying.
“The Olympics is not being taken into account although obviously there wouldn’t be a clash. As far as the Queen is concerned, she wants her Jubilee kept away from the Olympics.”
A spokesman for Clarence House declined to comment on the report.
Choosing Your Wedding Colors
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Choosing wedding colors to add romance to your special day.
Invitations are another aspect to consider. When your guests receive their invitations, it is their first clue as to what kind of wedding they’ll be attending. Think about graphic elements you’ll be using on your invitations. For instance, if you’re planning on having a tree printed on the cards, will you want a pink background, or ivory?
Seasonal Colors
Next you’ll want to think about which season you’re getting married. Spring suggests soft, gentle colors. Planning a summer wedding? Try bright, bold colors. Fall weddings are the perfect time to embrace harvest hues, and winter weddings are beautiful when centered around rich reds, silver, deep blues and burgundy. Another direction to go when choosing your wedding colors is to consider the meanings behind individual colors:
Red represents beauty, strength, passion, celebration and luck.
Light blue in your wedding suggests health, happiness, patience and creativity.
Yellow symbolizes intellect, friendship and cooperation.
Green is the color of fertility, nature, peace and harmony.
Pink is the hue of love and friendship.
Orange stimulates, creates energy and is the color or knowledge.
Purple represents royalty, mystery, spirituality and growth.
White reflects peace, protection, purity and fairness.
Written by: WeddingDNA
Wedding fit for a prince as Amy and Brian book Leitrim castle
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
By Anita Guidera – Irish Independent
A FAIRYTALE wedding venue with old world elegance and that all-important privacy is what celebrity couple Amy Huberman and Brian O’Driscoll can expect from a Co Leitrim castle next summer.
Management at the 19th century Lough Rynn Castle confirmed last night that the couple had booked the historic venue for their wedding bash on “a date in July”.
But General Manager, Kieran Reidy dismissed as “inaccurate” reports that the 42-bedroomed hotel had been block booked for five days by the rugby star and ‘The Clinic’ actress and novelist.
“I can confirm that the couple have booked their wedding for a date in July, which I am not prepared to disclose, but no one has talked to us about a five-day event,” he said last night.
Exclusivity
Lough Rynn Castle
The bride-to-be has described the location as fantastic.
“We’re just about making it our own. It’s a fantastic location with private grounds and we can run amok. Brian has a big family so it will be a big wedding, but not monstrous,” she said.
The meticulously-restored castle, the ancestral home of the Clements family and the notorious Lord Leitrim, has been a popular wedding venue since opening three years ago, but Mr Reidy said that the O’Driscoll and Huberman wedding was their highest profile event to date.
“What we can offer is exclusivity. They are a very private couple and they were looking for an intimate wedding with family and friends,” he said.
He added that their choice of Lough Rynn was a great vote of confidence in the hotel and in County Leitrim.
Its location, close to the village of Mohill, and on 300 acres of grounds surrounded on three sides by water and the original estate walls, will afford the couple maximum privacy. Inside, the wedding party will be able to enjoy many of the original castle features, with huge fireplaces and wood paneled rooms adding to the old-world feel. The bridal suite is given particular attention with an emphasis on detail, said Mr Reidy. Special extras include a unique fireworks display in the castle grounds, carriage hire and a personalised ice sculpture.
The couple who have planned their nuptials to coincide with the return of Brian and his Irish teammates from their last international match of the summer in Australia on June 26, have rubbished suggestions that they will be selling their wedding pictures to a glossy magazine.
“We’re not doing any selling of photos or anything like that. It’ll be our own day,” said Huberman.
The couple got engaged last March after the actress celebrated her 30th birthday.
5 fun movies with a honeymoon theme
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Suzie Rodriguez – Examiner.com
Mention honeymoon travel, and almost everybody starts thinking about tropical islands, romantic cities, luxury cruises, national parks gifted with nature’s wonders, and all the world’s other fabulous destinations.Right?
So tell me why it’s nearly impossible to find a honeymoon movie that takes place in a gorgeous locale. Most of the time the destination isn’t even identifiable. Not to mention you wouldn’t want to spend your honeymoon or any other moments of your life around some of the deranged characters (ax murderers, for instance) found in many of these films.
The Internet Movie Database lists more than 200 movies about honeymoons. Here are a few highlights of the good, the bad, and the downright horrible:
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992): A comedy with James Caan, Nicolas Cage, and Sarah Jessica Parker. Honeymoon Locale: Las Vegas. Very funny, with lots of comedic twists and turns—who can forget the Flying Elvises? Caan, Cage, and Parker are all at their considerable comedic best. Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Definitely one of the better honeymoon movies to be found.
Once upon a Honeymoon (1942): A war-time drama/romance with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers. Honeymoon Locale: Europe. Grant is a radio correspondent in 1938 Europe, when he meets and falls in love with Rogers—who is married to an Austrian Baron (who, unknown to her, is a Nazi spy). Grant tries to expose the Baron, and complications ensue. These two superstars from the past are something to watch.
What Happens in Vegas… (2008): A comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz. Honeymoon Locale: Las Vegas. Two strangers vacationing in Vegas get drunk and wake up married—and totally disliking each other. A judge refuses a quickie annulment, ruling that they live together for 6 months before splitting the huge jackpot they won the night before (which precipitated their big drunk to begin with)…and the plot, such as it is, thickens. As one reviewer put it, “…the filmmakers assume everyone in the audience has both attention deficit disorder and dementia.”
The Honeymoon Killers (1970): A thriller starring Tony Lo Bianco and Shirley Stoler. Honeymoon Locale: Various seedy spots in the USA. When a womanizing con man and a no-nonsense nurse fall in love, they travel across the country as brother and sister. Their goal: to swindle and kill, in increasingly bloody fashion, the lonely women he marries. Based on the 1940s real-life “Lonely Hearts Murders,” the black-and-white film has a gritty reality and deserves a wider audience. New Wave French film director Francois Truffaut supposedly called this his favorite American film.
Haunted Honeymoon (1986): A comedy-thriller starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, and Dom Deluise. Honeymoon locale: Who knows? A genius of a comedy trio! Wilder & Radner are caught in his aunt’s big, spooky house out in the country with lots of wacky/scary people—and a werewolf on the loose. Wilder also directed.
Ivanka Trump Weds Jared Kushner
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Ivanka M. Trump, the daughter of Ivana M. Trump of Palm Beach, Fla., and Donald J. Trump of New York, is to be married Sunday to Jared Kushner, a son of Seryl Kushner and Charles B. Kushner of Livingston, N.J. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein is to officiate at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
The bride, 27, will continue to use her name professionally. She works in New York as the executive vice president for development and acquisitions at the Trump Organization, her father’s real estate company. She is also a principal in a jewelry company, the Ivanka Trump Collection, and is a host of “The Celebrity Apprentice” on NBC. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
The bride’s mother founded two companies in New York: Ivana Inc., which handles her speaking engagements, books and other commercial ventures; and Ivana Haute Couture, which sells jewelry, perfumes and cosmetics on television.
The bridegroom, 28, is the publisher of The New York Observer. He graduated from Harvard and received a law degree and an M.B.A. from New York University. The bridegroom is also a principal in the Kushner Companies in New York, which owns and manages commercial buildings and apartments in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The bridegroom’s father, who is a founder of his family’s real estate business, stepped down as the company’s chairman in 2004, owing to his legal problems, and has since resumed his title.
STARS ARE EXPENSIVE WEDDING SINGERS
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
(Reuters Life!) – Want to blow your guests away with the music at your wedding? Hire the Rolling Stones who are bound to make a big impression on your family and friends — as well as on your bank manager.
The veteran British band has topped a list of the 12 most expensive music acts to perform at weddings that was compiled by Britain’s Living TV. They charge about US$8 million to perform but only agree to private shows if they are already on tour.
Here is the list of the world’s 12 most expensive wedding acts as compiled by Living TV, a unit of Virgin Media Television. Reuters has not endorsed this list.
1. Rolling Stones
2. Elton John is the second most expensive, charging over $2 million for private performances although all earnings from his private concerts go to his charity, the Elton John AIDS Foundation
2. Australian popster Kylie Minogue also charges about $2 million
3. U.S. singer Christine Aguilera charges up to $2 million
4. British pop star George Michael charges almost $2 million
5. George Michael: $2 million
6. Amy Winehouse: $1.5 million
7. Paul McCartney: $1.5 million
8. Leona Lewis: $1.5 million list
9. Jennifer Lopez: $1.5 million
10. Barry Manilow: $1 million
11. Rod Stewart: $1 million
12. Duran Duran: $1 million
Bit of ‘Pixie’ dust helps create a fairytale love story
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Bill Selig and Sarah Lefton let the good times roll during the shtick portion of their reception.
by Stacey Palevsky – Jweekly.com
Some might say Sarah Lefton and Bill Selig met by accident.
Others might call it fate.
For years, Sarah had looked for her beshert at parties, classes, mixers and synagogue programs. She also tried JDate. But no one she met was quite right.
Then, one Friday in March 2006, after going to the Mission Minyan and a Shabbat dinner, on a whim she decided to stop at a friend’s house for dessert. And that’s where she met Bill.
They clicked immediately. They went out to a sushi restaurant on their first date. Bill casually mentioned to Sarah he had tickets that night to an acoustic show by Frank Black (of the Pixies) at Café du Nord — if she wanted to go.
“When I squealed and said, ‘Oh my God, yes!’ he knew it was going be a good date,” Sarah said.
Sixteen months later, Sarah was in Israel for a conference. Bill surprised her there, and proposed while they were on a sailboat in the Red Sea off the coast of Eilat.
In February 2008, they wed in an egalitarian Jewish ceremony at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco.
“Part of the appeal of getting married where we did is of course that it’s upstairs from Café du Nord,” Sarah said.
Bill is a stage director and actor. Sarah created the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy T-shirt line and currently produces
G-dcast, an Internet cartoon series based on the parsha of the week.
The couple lives in San Francisco.
Something old: Instead of tossing the bouquet at the end of the night to a gaggle of embarrassed single women, Sarah presented it to the couple with the longest marriage — her great aunt and uncle Sophie and Ralph, who have been married for more than 60 years.
Something new: In recognition of the couple’s many LGBT friends at the wedding who could not legally marry, “We interrupted the traditional chuppah ceremony to pour out a glass of wine onto the floor to ‘lessen our joy’ — Pesach style,” Sarah said.
The gesture was “received with tears and appreciation, and was extremely important to us.”
Bill and Sarah encourage other marrying couples to consider adding such a gesture as a public recognition of legal injustice.
Something borrowed: The couple decided to save money by not hiring a band, and instead borrowed music from friends and relatives.
“Our friend Jim, an ethnomusicologist, provided an amazing sampling of simcha dancing music,” Sarah said. Another friend, Evan, taught the guests to sing “our favorite niggun” as Bill and Sarah walked down the aisle.
Something Jew(ish): Both Bill and Sarah wanted to immerse in a mikvah before their wedding day, but neither felt that a traditional mikvah was the answer.
So they decided to visit the waters of the “wild and freezing” Pacific Ocean at Baker Beach. Sarah went under starlight the night before the wedding and Bill went early in the morning on their wedding day.
Both brought their best friends to supervise.
“It was both meaningful and exhilarating,” Sarah said.
