Truly Wedding Blog

Google co-founder and billionaire Larry Page married his girlfriend Lucy Southworth this past Saturday. The couple held their ceremony on a tiny Caribbean island owned by Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Group. Branson also served as Larry’s best man.

The bride is currently studying for a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford – the same university that Larry attended for his doctorate before he decided to drop out and pay 100% attention to Google.

600 guests were flown on private planes to the ceremony on Branson’s Necker Island. Celebrity guests included the likes of Bono, Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Deep. It was rumored that all the guest signed confidentialty agreements about the day’s events.

Can you imagine how posh this wedding must have been??

Congrats to the happy couple!

Singer Kanye West has been engaged for awhile, but plans to tie the knot by the end of this year. Though the original plan wasn’t for West and his fiancée Alexis Phifer to be wed this month, everything changed upon the rapper’s mother’s untimely death.

Donda West underwent routine plastic surgery in mid-November, which tragically resulted in her death. Mrs. West’s last wish, however, was for her son to settle down. Kanye and his bride-to-be plan to do just that.

A friend of the family says of Kanye, “His mother’s sudden death brought into focus just how short life really is. Kanye doesn’t want to wait any longer to make Alexis his wife. He believes that this is what his mom would want him to do.”

Fortunately, Donda made her feelings about Phifer known before she passed on calling Phifer “a very outstanding young woman,” and adding, “I can’t think of one negative thing I would say about her—even in private.”

No details regarding West’s December-set wedding have been released to date. In spite of the sad events surrounding their big day, we hope Kanye and his soon-to-be bride enjoy their wedding and holiday season. Cheers!

It’s confirmed! Jennifer Love Hewitt is engaged; something it seems she’s been looking forward to for quite some time. According to a recent article, Hewitt confirmed her engagement exclusively with Us Weekly this past Wednesday before getting away from it all on a Hawaiian vacation with her beau.

Hewitt and her new fiancé, Ross McCall haven’t released any additional information regarding their upcoming wedding, but it’s sure to be a fairy-tale event. The couple first started dating early in 2006 after they met on the set of Hewitt’s show, The Ghost Whisperer, and they have been inseparable ever since.

Hewitt was thinking about marriage as far back as May of this year, when she reportedly visited a psychic to make sure McCall was ‘the one.’ The Ghost Whisperer star was “thrilled” when the medium said he was.

I’m sure we’ll hear plenty more about this happy couple as they begin to plan their dream wedding. Until their big day, though, let’s hope they’re enjoying their love-filled engagement!

(Photo credit: www.jenniferfan.org)

While you’re racing around town investigating venues and gasping at price tags, you might occasionally wish you could just have the wedding in your own living room. That is, if you had a really nice living room – maybe with some colonial columns and a butler. One of the perks of being president of the United States, in addition to the staff of thousands, is a really nice set-up for events. Too bad you have to spend most of your time ruling the free world. But running for president so you can stop haggling with groundskeepers over the dahlias is not the most time efficient strategy. And, as it happens, only one sitting president has ever been married in the White House.

Grover Cleveland was a confirmed bachelor with a pronounced walrus mustache and a crush on a woman 27 years his junior. But having “Commander in Chief” on your business cards really woos the ladies, so Cleveland got the girl. He married his lovely young ward, Frances Folsom, at the White House in 1886.

When the media learned that Frances was Cleveland’s intended, she became a target for the ever-persistent muckrakers. Cleveland took great mustachioed glee in banning journalists from the wedding, an elegant affair featuring festoons of flowers and John Philip Sousa leading the Marine Band. Only family, close friends, and cabinet officers were invited – and none gave the panting reporters any juicy tidbits for publication. In a final taunt, Cleveland sent two wedding guests from the ceremony in the presidential carriage. As the media dashed off frantically behind the galloping horses, he and Frances left the White House at their leisure for a honeymoon.

Frances, Cleveland, and his mustache lived happily-ever-after.

Grey’s Anatomy’s beautiful Katherine Heigl recently announced her upcoming wedding date to singer/musician Josh Kelley. The adorable couple will get married in a winter wedding on December 23rd on Katherine’s secluded ranch in Utah.

I’m sure the wedding will be beautiful and I can’t wait to see all the pictures. Though Heigl is enjoying preparing for her real life wedding to the man of her dreams, one of her upcoming characters isn’t so lucky. Or is she?

In “27 Dresses”, Heigl stars as Jane, a young woman who has served as a bridesmaid 27 times. Jane is now having a hard time dealing with the idea of being her sister’s Maid of Honor as her sibling prepares to marry the man that Jane is secretly in love with.

I can’t wait to see how the movie turns out as well!

The film will be released in theaters beginning January 11, 2008.

When Tony Parker and Eva Longoria were married in July, Tony decided to have their wedding date (in roman numerals) tattooed around his finger like a wedding band.

Though the couple did exchange wedding rings and wear them often, Tony figured since he has to take his band off while playing basketball for the San Antonio Spurs, that it would be a nice gesture to get the tattoo. This way, he’d never be without his ring … even when he was without his ring.

Eva followed suit and reportedly had her wrist tattooed with their wedding date as well. The Parkers aren’t the first celebrity couple to do this and certainly won’t be the last. Angelina and Brad exchanged tattoos as well.

But celebrities aren’t the only ones adding the permanent symbol to their ring fingers. Many doctors, mechanics and machine workers, who can’t wear their rings regularly at work, are also getting tattooed wedding bands.

What do you think about this trend? Is it an impressive statement of love and commitment? Or just a weird fad?

Personally, if my husband or I couldn’t wear our rings all the time for some reason, I think I’d consider it. How about you?

Leave your comments here and let us know.

In a secret ceremony this past weekend, Superman Returns star Brandon Routh married his girlfriend of almost 4 years, Courtney Ford. The ceremony took place on Saturday, at the El Capitan Ranch in Santa Barbara and was kept “hush hush,” according to the original article.

Routh and Ford met when the Superman star was working at the Hollywood bowling alley Lucky Strike as a bartender. The couple happened to become acquainted when Ford’s brother had his wedding rehearsal dinner party at the alley, and the rest is history.

Earlier this year, Routh said regarding his fiancée, “Courtney is my own personal kryptonite. She brings me to my knees.” The couple had been engaged for a little over a year (Routh proposed in August 2006), and they only invited their closest family and friends to attend the private wedding ceremony.

From all of us at Truly Wedding, we wish the happy couple a long, loving future together!

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes celebrated their one year anniversary on Sunday. The couple were married on Saturday, November 18, 2006 in a lavish wedding in Italy.

Though you may think that Tom can be a little eccentric (or just plain weird), they are a very cute couple. People Magazine put together a video compilation about their first year of marriage, which is enjoyable to watch.

You can view it here!

Happy Anniversary TomKat!

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Beautiful American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee is reportedly now engaged to actor Nick Cokas.

The 23-year-old McPhee has been showing off her ring as of late and, according to People, she’s just thrilled with her engagement. The cute couple have been dating for a little over a year. They met in 2005 while performing in a L.A. theatre production.

After Coka took her to San Francisco for the Idol audition, the relationship developed. The 42-year-old Cokas is 19 years her senior, but they seem to be a very happy couple.

To me, age doesn’t matter. I’m actually much older than my husband and we are extremely happy. As long as you love and respect each other, differences in age, race, religion and everything else take a back seat.

Congrats to Katharine and Nick! I look forward to hearing about their wedding planning!

Photo credit: katharinemcphee.com

Recently, Star Magazine (yes, I know it’s a gossip rag) reported that Nicole Richie was seen purchasing wedding attire for her two little dogs for her upcoming wedding to boyfriend Joel Madden.

Nicole purchased a tuxedo for her Shih Tzu, Honeychild, and a bridesmaid dress for her Pomeranian, Foxxy Cleopatra.

Though you might be thinking that Nicole is just a crazy celebrity, many people are actually getting their pets involved in their wedding ceremonies.

Moochie & Co. is one of many retailers that are now offering pet fashions and accessories. At Moochie & Co. you can order wedding gowns, tuxedos and even wedding cakes for your furry friends. Whether you are inviting pets to your wedding, or you are throwing them a wedding of their own, you can find the attire at Moochie & Co.

The doggie wedding wear can be purchased at 10 mall-based Moochie & Co. stores throughout Ohio and Michigan, as well as online at moochieandco.com.

Moochie & Co. also offers a pet gift registry in response to customer requests to help them celebrate and organize pet-related events!

Though it’s very cute to see the dogs all dressed up, I’m not sure that I’d want my labs coming to my wedding!