Hilary Duff's OK! cover

Married this past Saturday at a Mediterranean villa in Santa Barbara, California, singer/actress Hilary Duff is featured on the cover of this week's OK! with her new hubby, Edmonton Oilers forward Mike Comrie.

Teasing the article, OK! promises photos of the cake, the flowers, and all the details on Duff's Vera Wang gown. Before leaving Monday for a honeymoon at an undisclosed location, Duff told OK!, “It feels wonderful [to be married]. It hasn’t fully sunk in yet!”

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FIRST PHOTO: Hilary Duff & Mike Comrie

Singer/actress Hilary Duff and NHLer Mike Comrie were married yesterday at a 1920s Mediterranean villa called La Quinta in Santa Barbara, California, and here's the first shot of the mermaid-style Vera Wang gown and candlelit aisle. Looking forward to more!

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What we've been missing

We admit it, we've been gone for too long, and some high profile celeb weddings, engagements, and break ups have proven that to us. Just a few:

Actors Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green were married in Hawaii June 24th, with only his son Kassius there to witness - and the photographer who showed the world this gorgeous wedding portrait:
And on July 11th, Green's ex-girlfriend, General Hospital star Vanessa Marcil (Kassius' mom), married CSI:NY star Carmine Giovinazzo.

We also missed the weddings of celluloid supercouple Jim and Pam of The Office. Jenna Fischer married Lee Kirk on July 3rd - Survivor's Jeff Probst officiated! - with many costars there to witness, but not her TV husband John Krasinski. Only because one week later, Krasinski married British actress Emily Blunt in Como, Italy at the home of their friend George Clooney.

Just a month after announcing their engagement, on July 22nd Australian model Miranda Kerr and British actor Orlando Bloom were married. Friends now seem to be confirming that the couple is expecting their first child - making Miranda Kerr also highly susceptible to whatever in the water is making every Victoria's Secret model get pregnant.

Spanish actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz were married in early July in The Bahamas, and Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart eloped at the Governor's mansion in Santa Fe, New Mexico June 15th. Alanis Morissette married rapper Mario "Souleye" Treadway May 22nd at their L.A. home - and just this week announced they're expecting their first child in December.
British actress Gemma Arterton, who starred as a Bond Girl in Casino Royale and opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in The Prince of Persia, married boyfriend Stefano Catelli on a Spanish hilltop in Zuheros, Andalucia June 5th. She compared her wedding dress to a scene in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet where the female protagonist is wrapped up in a sheet, saying "She looks so gorgeous! My wedding dress is kind of like that." Catelli proposed last year at the Download Music Festival in Derby, UK.

Funny stars Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher married in Paris in front of just six guests on Valentine's Day. Their second child is due this summer and will join sister Olive, 2.

R&B singer Alicia Keys, five months pregnant, married rapper Swizz Beatz on the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean July 31st. Rapper T.I. got out of jail and married his longtime girlfriend and the mother of two of his kids, Tameka Cottle, in a Miami courthouse July 30th. And Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets married former MTV personality LaLa Vasquez in New York City on July 10th - it proved to be a fairly popular day - Anthony and Vasquez, Krasinski and Blunt, Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher, and Martin Lawrence and girlfriend Shamicka Hill we're all married today.

Glee star Jane Lynch married girlfriend Dr. Lara Embry on May 28th in Massachusetts - where same-sex marriage is legal, with Embry's 8-year-old daughter there to witness.

Piers Morgan, British journalist and judge on reality shows including America's Got Talent, was married to girlfriend Celia Walden in the UK on June 24th, with a who's who of celeb friends from across the pond in attendance - but not his good friend Simon Cowell, who recently gave up his serial bachelorhood to announce his intent to wed American Idol make-up artist Mezghan Hussainy. Actress Mena Suvari married music producer Simone Sestito in Vatican City on June 26th, wearing a strapless dress by Stacey Bendet of alice + olivia despite previously expressing a desire to cover her tattoos with a gown with plenty of fabric.

Both stars of the CW's Supernatural got married! Jared Padalecki to Genevieve Cortese February 27th, and Jensen Ackles to Danneel Harris of One Tree Hill May 15th.

Among the newly engaged celebs are Ugly Betty star America Ferreira to longtime boyfriend Ryan Piers Williams, Linda Hogan (Hulk's ex) to her 21-year-old boyfriend Charlie Hill, Sister, Sister star Tamera Mowry got engaged to Fox News' Adam Housely on vacation in Italy (for the second time - they were previously engaged but broke it off, reportedly due to the fact that Tamera's twin sister Tia is no fan of her future brother-in-law), and country singers Kellie Pickler and Miranda Lambert were both engaged this spring - Pickler to boyfriend Kyle Jacobs, who proposed on the beach June 15th, and Lambert to fellow country musician Blake Shelton.

The very day teen mom Bristol Palin and ex-boyfriend Levi Johnson announced they were back together and engaged, she discovered he might have gotten another girl pregnant when they weren't together and they split - again. Also ending their engagements: former Bachelorette couple Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski, most recent Bachelor couple Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi, and Brit Kelly Osbourne and model boyfriend Luke Worrall. Just days after announcing the end of the engagement over rumoured allegations of Worrall's cheating, Osbourne's dog died. Guess she's got the Jessica Simpson curse. And finally, actors Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson called off their 18-month engagement, with distance being blamed for the split - she's based in L.A., he in Toronto.
Getting a little further into the relationship, actors Jonathon Schaech and Jana Kramer were married July 4th - but filed for divorce this week.
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Update: Hilary Duff, Mike Comrie get married

Getting engaged in Hawaii, in clear view of the paparazzi, Hilary Duff has been tight lipped about her wedding plans to NHL star Mike Comrie. In February, Comrie proposed in the room of their hotel after more than two years together.

And on Saturday, August 7th in front of 100 guests, the couple were married in an 8 p.m. ceremony at a Mediterranean villa in Santa Barbara, California, and they spent their first night as husband and wife at the San Ysidro Ranch nearby - the location which had been hotly tipped as the wedding venue.

"Mike held his arm around Hilary for most of the romantic, candlelit ceremony, and they both looked extremely happy," and eyewitness told People.com. According to OK Magazine, which exclusively reported the wedding, Duff was wearing a mermaid-style Vera Wang gown and was walked down the aisle by her mother, Susan, dressed in Badgely Mischka. Duff's older sister, actress Haylie, was maid of honour alongside four other bridesmaids.

To prepare for the big day Comrie, centre for the Edmonton Oilers, reportedly celebrated his bachelor party this week, and Duff had stepped it up to daily workouts with celeb trainer Harvey Pasternak - currently also working with Jennifer Hudson and Megan Fox. She had also been spotted last week running last-minute errands like most brides.

It feels like hockey players are a little in vogue right now - Carrie Underwood married Mike Fisher of the Ottawa Senators last month, and country singer Kellie Pickler was in a relationship with Nashville Predators right-winger Jordin Tootoo. Duff met her hockey hubby while on a private plane to an event in Idaho. He told Hockey Night in Canada last year, "We were all on the same plane and it was kind of, I guess, maybe a bit of a fluke. She calls it ironic. No I'm kidding! It [was] one of those things where we were all in a group … we spent the weekend all hanging out."

It didn't take long for Duff and her family to fall for Comrie, with Duff once saying of him, "I've never met anyone who can say a bad word about him. He's generous, caring and sunny. We just laugh our heads off."

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LA Kings' defenseman shares wedding photos

Back on Saturday, July 11, 2009, Los Angeles Kings' defenseman Sean O'Donnell made good use of the offseason to marry his girlfriend, Laura Marie Buka. The classic vintage-themed wedding took place at Fort Street Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan in front of family and friends including some of O'Donnell's present and former NHL teammates - Rob Blake, Drew Doughty, and Luc Robitaille. A reception followed in nearby Dearborn at the Henry Ford Museum.

“For my family to see me so happy and in love with a wonderful man was the highlight,” said Buka. “We’re best friends, and celebrating our day with all our closest friends and family meant the world to me.”

Buka wore a strapless Renee Strauss gown and a floor-length veil she made herself, while the bridesmaids were outfitted in gowns from David's Bridal.

At the reception, the guests dined at candlelit tables under crystal chandeliers, and watched the newlyweds share their first dance to "Let It Be Me" by Taylor Mills and Joe Brocato in a room at the Henry Ford Museum originally built to teach Ford employees the techniques of ballroom dance.

The couple, who got tattoos on their ring fingers with each other's names to celebrate their engagement, honeymooned in Greece and Italy.

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Carrie Underwood: Fiance's a better wedding planner than he thought!

In an interview with Ottawa sports radio station Team 1200, the official radio station of her future hubby, Mike Fisher's, Ottawa Senators NHL hockey team, country singer Carrie Underwood dished on some of her wedding planning since getting engaged on December 20th.

Talking to host Steve Warne, Underwood said of Fisher, "He jumps in, and he always says he doesn't. He's like, 'Oh, I don't care. Just whatever you want!'...But then I go and ask him, 'What do you think about this?' and he'll go 'Oh, no,' and he'll weigh in. I think he's going to be more involved than he initially thought he wanted to be, which is good. I need help."

And though they've begun to plan the big day, Underwood said there was "no date" set. "Our schedules don't provide us too much time to get married and have time to really enjoy being married," she explained. "We're trying to really work it out and move some stuff around."

Her new personal trainer, Ottawa-based Tony Greco, is "kicking my butt," she revealed. "I need it. Especially with a tour coming up and a wedding to look good for."

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Carrie Underwood gushes about her "fiance for Christmas!"

In a blog post just after the holidays, Carrie Underwood told fans on her official website about her holidays - lots of good eats, cozy socks, and she said, "I think you all know what Santa left under the tree for me this year...a fiance! Woo hoo! Little Ace [Underwood's dog] is finally going to have a dad! We all couldn't be happier!!!"

Underwood announced their engagement to Ottawa Senators' hockey forward Mike Fisher on December 21st, then debuted the ring at Fisher's NHL home game that night. No wedding plans have been announced for the couple, who were introduced in October 2008 through mutual friends. This is the first marriage for both.

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Bling Shot: Carrie Underwood!

Spotted cheering on the Ottawa Senators at their home arena, Scotiabank Place, on Monday night, country singer Carrie Underwood gave the world their first glimpse at the diamond engagement ring she recieved on Sunday, when her boyfriend, Senators forward Mike Fisher, proposed at his home.

The ring, designed by jeweler Johnathon Arndt, is a flawless yellow diamond, Arndt said in a statement congratulating the newly-engaged couple, adding, "This ring is a symbol of love from Mike Fisher to Carrie Underwood."

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Carrie Underwood gets engaged to hockey player beau!

Country superstar Carrie Underwood got an early Christmas present over the weekend - an engagement ring from forward Mike Fisher of the NHL's Ottawa Senators!

In a statement to People, Underwood's rep said, "I'm happy to confirm that Carrie Underwood is engaged to Mike Fisher, and the couple couldn't be happier. No wedding date has been set at this time."

Fisher himself confirmed the news to the Toronto Star today, saying, "It's true. We're both obviously excited and very happy."

Reportedly Fisher, 29, proposed to Underwood, 26, at his Ottawa-area home on Sunday afternoon, then texted the news to family and friends once she accepted.

Underwood and Fisher, who have kept their relationship largely out of the public eye, have been together for about a year. Though Underwood has regularly been spotted in the stands at Ottawa Senators home and away games, the pair has never appeared together at an official public event.

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