Manolo for the Brides

Need some inspiration to blow away the Tuesday blahs? As if the rolling hills in the background of this outdoor wedding space were not enough, this bride and groom pair was married in a unique and fascinating open air wooden chapel. The couple said their vows in the bride’s parents’ backyard, and it was the bride’s brother who built the structure complete with pretty windows and doors and a striking yellow altar.

The chandelier is one of the details that really make this ceremony space a success. And how about that amazing dresser? The whole color scheme is so pretty and rustic without being too country.

The chapel looks like it was open enough to retain an outdoor wedding feel while also giving wedding guests the impression of being in a cozy, private, and intimate space. It’s the best of both worlds!

(Images: Green Wedding Shoes; Photographer: Stephanie Fay)

Notable people have a way of influencing fashion, even wedding fashion, which tends to move from trend to trend at a glacial pace. And it just happens that Ivanka Trump wore *gasp* sleeves at her wedding to New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner. Sure, they were rather short sleeves. And they were sheer sleeves. But the fact that Trump’s Vera Wang wedding gown had sleeves at all can give us hope for the future of wedding fashion, I think.

Isn’t she gorgeous? Would that I had looked a fifth as lovely on my wedding day!

Do note that Trump’s famous mother Ivana also wore sleeves at the reception following her 2008 wedding to Italian model-actor Rossano Rubicondi, though I would not not NOT! suggest that you look to her as an icon of good taste.

Pass the Pepto!

Thanks to the fabulous Toni for the tip! / Image via / PopSugar has more pics, yum

You may not know this, but I’m a huge My Name Is Earl fan. At the risk of stepping into TMI territory, I’ll confess that the show basically carried me through all of my infant daughter’s nursing troubles. I’d put reruns on in the middle of the night, and struggling to feed my baby didn’t seem too too bad. It’s odd, but now that the show wasn’t picked up for a fifth season, I almost feel like I’m missing part of my parenting arsenal.

Baring my life as I just did was mainly a way of leading into a post about how My Name Is Earl star Jaime Pressly married entertainment lawyer Simran Singh this past Saturday at a 6 p.m. ceremony on the Dick Clark estate on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Pressly wore an ivory silk Jenny Packham gown lushly embellished with over 800,000 Swarovski crystals, glass beads, and sequins, while Singh wore a tuxedo from Hugo Boss. According to JustJared, she walked down the aisle to the Etta James classic “At Last.”

At the reception, Pressly changed into a ’40s-inspired open-back cocktail dress, also designed by Packham, and the couple danced their first dance was to Adele’s “To Make You Feel My Love.”

I wish them all the best, of course, and hope that Pressly has found what she described in this quote in her new husband:

“I’d like to be with somebody who isn’t afraid to take care of me – whether they have the same financial means as me or not,” Pressly told Redbook in March. “What’s important is that they realize there are other ways of taking care of me that have [nothing] to do with money. Like cooking me dinner or going to the grocery store or picking up after yourself.”

*In case you aren’t a My Name Is Earl fan, note that the title of this post is a play on one of the character Joy’s typical greetings.

I’m feeling a little political today, but it turns out that tying weddings and U.S. politics together isn’t easy. Sure, pregnant Bristol Palin is engaged to a self-described redneck, but like they say on the Internet, pics or it didn’t happen. And there are no pics yet, because it hasn’t happened. Nuts. I did find pictures of both the Obama wedding and McCain’s wedding (to Cindy, Not Carol).

The deets: Michelle and Barack’s wedding ceremony was performed by the now infamous Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1992.

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I’m not one to cry at weddings, and I’m especially not one to cry at the mere mention of a wedding, but I’ll tell you truly that I did tear up just a little when I saw this photograph.

Forget the fact that it’s such a damn fine photo — lucky celebrities, looking gorgeous 95% of the time — and think about how far things had to advance for us to even be seeing it. Yes, we still have a quite ways to go before gay couples can enjoy all of the advantages of legal matrimony, but pics like this are a testament to the fact that things are moving forward.

Now, for the deets. The 20- person affair took place on the grounds of de Rossi and DeGeneres’ Beverly Hills home. Both brides wore designs by Zac Posen…de Rossi in a beautiful cream and pink halterneck gown, and DeGeneres in a cream ensemble of vest, shirt, and pants. The happy couple sat on pillows while exchanging rings created by Neil Lane before they sat down to an all-vegan meal followed by a vegan red velvet cake.

I wish both of them all of the happiness the world has to offer!

Now that the California Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry, actor George Takei (best known as Sulu from original Star Trek and Hiro’s father on the hit series Heroes) has announced plans to marry his partner of twenty-one years, Brad Altman.

The couple, who met while working out in a running club, will marry on September 14, in the Democracy Forum at the Japanese National Museum in Los Angeles.

Altman proposed to Takei in the couple’s kitchen the day after the decision was handed down. Altman went down on one knee. Takei was eating a sandwich at the time. This was a surprise, since Takei was planning on doing the proposing. It’s also not the last surprise Altman had in store.

When they announced the engagement, a reporter asked what the grooms would wear for the ceremony. Altman said both would wear white tuxedoes, which seemed to catch Takei a bit off-guard. His response?

“Well, now that you’ve announced it on the air, I guess it’s settled.”

Ceremony details released thus far include the fact that Takei’s Star Trek alumni friends Walter Koenig (Chekov) and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) will both be in the wedding party and Leonard Nimoy (Spock) will be in attendance. William Shatner (Captain Kirk), however, is not invited.

George, Brad, I know it’s probably been said far too many times already, but this long-time Trekkie just has to say it: Live Long and Prosper!