Tiger & Elin - a look back

With the announcement today that Tiger Woods' divorce from Swedish former nanny Elin Nordegren is final, let's look back to the pair in a much happier time - their October 5, 2004 wedding at the Sandy Lane Resort in St. James, Barbados. The rumoured cost of the event, with the relaxed couple enjoying an extended break at the resort both before and after the ceremony (Woods rented every room in the hotel for seven days), was $1.5 million.

Among the 120 guests at the ultra-private ceremony (to this day, an official wedding photo has never been leaked) were celebrity heavyweights Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and Bill Gates. Four tents were set up on the resort grounds for the ceremony, and the vows were taken under a pagoda decorated with hundreds of imported black magic roses. The ceremony was officiated by a local Anglican priest.

Woods wore a beige suit, and Nordegren wore an off-white sleeveless scoop-neck gown with horizontal ribbon detail.

Guests dined on champagne and caviar, and blackened Scottish salmon at the reception held in the resort's banquet room, while entertainment included a performance by Hootie & the Blowfish and a fireworks display.

Over American Thanksgiving weekend last year, Woods' was busted (and beaten with his own clubs) by Nordegren when she learned of his unbelievably long trail of infidelities with call girls all over the world. Friends have been saying the couple was headed for divorce ever since, though neither had said the word themselves. Some legal experts claim that Nordegren, who did sign a prenup but had it renegotiated after the scandal, could walk away with up to $100 million in a divorce settlement.

Source: CELEBRITY BRIDE GUIDE

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More on Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer's Malibu wedding!

Married Saturday night in Malibu, True Blood stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer said their vows and partied at the reception in view of the paparrazzi - we've already seen some grainy photos from the ceremony, and now this grainy photo from the reception of the ocean-loving Moyer in a pair of swim trunks, running and jumping into the water in front of the Malibu beach house across the street from the villa where the ceremony was held.

Neil Lane has also shared with People a high-res photo of Paquin's wedding necklace, a 50-carat vintage-inspired diamond stunner set in darkened metal.

Paquin's brother-in-law Russel Norman told the New Zealand Herald that the wedding was "really, really beautiful. It was great. Somehow they've managed to stay real in the middle of this unreal world. It was quite sweet."

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Dating in the Dark host weds country singer

The premise behind Dating in the Dark is simple - stick fairly shallow,m gorgeous folk in a dark room with a potential unattractive suitor and watch them squirm about the possibility of finding a love match with a 'lesser specimen,' then try to get them to look past appearances and decide whether or not the emotional connection is enough to overlook the physical.

Host Rossi Morreale doesn't say whether the show makes him as cynical about love as the rest of us, but he has revealed that he loves his beautiful blonde - Kacey Coppola of twin sister country duo Kate and Kacey.

The couple were married in a barefoot beach ceremony Saturday, August 7th at the Grande Antigua Resort & Spa in St. John's in front of 60 guests. The wedding was co-officiated by Morreale's childhood pastor and an Antiguan marriage officer, and Kacey's sisters Kara and Kate served as Matron of Honor and Twin of Honor, respectively (Kacey served as Maid of Honor for Kate's Colorado wedding last year.)

This is the first marriage for Morreale and Coppola, who met on the set of Can You Duet in 2008 and were engaged in Playa del Carmen.

Source: CELEBRITY BRIDE GUIDE

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Real Housewives' Vicki Gunvalson renews wedding vows

Having admitted on camera during the last season of The Real Housewives of Orange County that "my love tank is empty," reality TV star Vicki Gunvalson renewed her vows to hubby Donn Gunvalson last July in the Turks & Caicos.

The couple, who first wed in 1994, worked on their marriage with counselling, went back to church together, and took long walks together at night. She explains to Life & Style, "We both wanted to get back on track and start making each other feel important again."

While vacationing at the Grace Bay Resort in Providenciales, the couple decided to reaffirm their union with a vow renewal on the beach. The ceremony was featured in a recent episode of the Bravo reality show.

Source: LIFE & STYLE

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