Vanessa Minnillo celebrates bachelorette party in Las Vegas

TV host Vanessa Minnillo celebrated her bachelorette party at LAVO nightclub in Las Vegas with eight girlfriends Friday night, and gave some insight into how planning the upcoming summer wedding to singer Nick Lachey has gone.

"It's a breeze! Nick and I are so on the same page and it's so easy with every decision we've made. We've gone through the process and been so even-keeled and so on the same page with every decision. For us, we've made decisions and it's said and done."

While inside LAVO, the girls sipped champagne and her friends surprised a laughing Minnillo with a lap dance from a little person, who had earlier jumped out of a giant cake singing tunes by Lachey's late-90s pop group, 98*. On Saturday afternoon, the group lounged poolside at the Marquee Dayclub.

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Christine Bleakley shows off engagement ring!

Arriving back in London from a US vacation in L.A. and Las Vegas with footballer Frank Lampard, TV presenter Christine Bleakley smiled for photographers as she showed off her huge GBP120,000 ring - which she has called a bit too big!

Lampard, a striker with the English national team and Chelsea in the English Premiere League, reportedly spent almost three months planning a the romantic two-week getaway and proposal - though Bleakley told her cohorts on breakfast show Daybreak that the moment was "not very fancy. It was very personal, very private actually, and we were just having a gorgeous lunch by the beach [in Los Angeles] and he simply popped the question. It was completely out of the blue.

"Halfway through the lovey-dovey bit, I realized what he was about to do so I started to cry for about ten minutes and then he pulled out the ring and said, 'Will you marry me?' And that was it."

Though the couple haven't set a date for the wedding, Bleakley says she'd like a small and private wedding in her hometown of Newtownards in Northern Ireland.

It's also been reported that the couple have already been turning down splashy magazine deals to showcase their wedding photos, wishing instead just to share the day with loved ones.

A source told the Sunday Mirror today, "Christine can't wait to get married and Frank has said whatever she wants is fine by him. Money obviously isn't a problem and Frank wants everything to be perfect for Christine. It isn't going to be some tacky celebrity wedding. This is a day purely about them and for their families and close friends."

This will be the first marriage for both, though Lampard was once engaged to Spanish model Elen Rives, with whom he has daughters Luna, 4, and Isla, 3.

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Jesse James and Kat Von D planning summer wedding

Amid rumours that the pair have split, tattooed reality TV stars Jesse James and Kat Von D have announced that couldn't be further from the truth, and that plans are moving forward for a summer wedding.

"We're still going strong. Things are completely good with us," said James, adding that the pair are set to wed this summer on the one year anniversary of the day they started dating. Added James, "That day can't come soon enough. Everything is on track. I am absolutely more in love today than I was a year ago. She's the one for me."

Though the exact date was not revealed, the couple took their romance public last year over Labour Day weekend, so it looks like the pair will be married before his three children - daughters Chandler, 16, and Sunny, 7, and son Jesse, Jr., 14, return to school.

The PDA-friendly pair have known each other for years, but connected after James finalized his divorce from actress Sandra Bullock, who left him amidst revelations that he had cheated with multiple women, and while the couple were in the process of adopting son Louis Bardo, now 18 months, whom Bullock eventually adopted on her own.

The couple commutes regularly between Los Angeles, where she owns and operates the LA Ink tattoo parlour, and Austin, where James moved with his children following his divorce. Chandler and Jesse are his children with first wife Karla, with whom he shares parenting duties, while Sunny is his daughter with former adult film star Janine Lindemulder, whose drug problems have led her to relinquish custody to the West Coast Choppers owner.

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Dave Annable and Odette Yustman will be married by the end of the year

Brothers & Sisters star Dave Annable will be married to actress Odette Yustman before the end of the year, the actress tells Us Magazine. She also reveals that she's already found her dress.

"I have my dress. Its a beautiful Monique Lhuillier and it was the first dress I tried on," she says. "As for the rest, we're keeping everything hush hush, but it's coming. I'll be married by the end of the year."

Her comment that, "I don't think we'll get married on a beach. It'll just be a big party, low-key -- somewhere outside, probably," sounds like the wedding - likely extravagant to satisfy large families - isn't set in stone just yet, but could also be a tactic to throw the media off their scent.

The couple, who will both be walking down the aisle for the first time, were engaged in February.

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Aussie actress Kate Richie planning small, intimate wedding

Australian actress Kate Richie and her former rugby league fiance Stuart Webb are planning to wed in a small, intimate ceremony later this year, and Richie spoke about her preparations in a recent issue of Aussie mag Woman's Day.

“I’d like to think I will be a bride who, at the end of the night, can say she’s spoken to everyone individually. I think that will be the advantage of it being small and intimate,” says Richie, modelling gowns for the magazine. She was recently spotted in Sydney shopping for a dress with her sister, Rebekah, and is keeping the basic wedding details - when, where, how - to herself, but calls the day her "dream wedding."

Says Richie, who has been working hard to tone up for her wedding day, "We’re concentrating on it being the day we want it to be.”

The couple were engaged on a European holiday together last September. It will be the first marriage for both.

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Brit soap star's dramatic real-life romance leads to engagement announcement

EastEnders soap star Sid Owen sleeps in a separate bed than his longtime girlfriend, 26-year-old Polly Parsons, but that didn't stop the pair from secretly getting engaged six months ago. Nor did it stop them from postponing a planned September ceremony after a two-month split earlier this year.

Owen, 38, who is also a former British pop star, proposed to Parsons while on holiday in Barbados six months ago. Owen and Parsons tell OK! about the romantic proposal.

"There was a raft out at sea which we'd swim out to," says Owen. "I didn't have a ring so I got this guy on the beach to make one out of beads in the reggae colours, as I love my reggae, and I put that in my back pocket and we swam out there and I proposed."

"It was really romantic," says Parsons.

'Romantic' does little to describe how this happy couple spend their nights - apart, in separate bedrooms. Then again, Parsons reasoning for sleeping alone may have a lot to do with why they're so blissfully happy these days.

"He snores like a rhino," she says. "After we went traveling I had to be honest with him about it," says Polly, 'and he said he liked having his own bed anyway so it was perfect. I'll stay in Sid's bed watching TV cuddling. If I fall asleep in his room I soon hear him snoring and get up anyway and go into my room. People think it's weird but it works for us."

The couple were originally planning to wed in September but split when the pressure of pulling together the big day became too much for Parsons. "We had about a thousand people coming! It would have been about everyone else - now we've had time apart, we know what's important. It just started to get out of hand and it scared me."

During their time apart, Owen took off for a detox centre in Thailand, but the couple say they spoke daily in order to get their relationship back on track. As for where and when the couple will finally wed, the couple tells OK! they plan to take their time and will wed "maybe next year."

But they'll have to compromise - Owen wants a wedding at his 600-year-old farmhouse in France, but Polly wants to return to Barbados.

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Ali & Roberto would love to elope

Echoing the sentiments of many newly-engaged and overwhelmed couples, Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky and her fiance, Roberto Martinez, would be happy to elope if it wouldn't disappoint their relatives.

“I think we would do just that,” Fedotowsky told People last week. “Obviously we want to share it with our family, so we’re not going to do that. But it’s so funny — I’ve even caught myself saying, ‘This is my husband Roberto.’ I always thought it would be funny to even think or say that, but if anything, I feel like it’s hard for me not to say it.”

Fedotowsky added, “Planning a wedding is a lot, and we don’t want to go through all the motions. We just want to be married. We’re just excited for that. We’re like, ‘Let’s be married — right now!’"

Fedotowsky and Martinez are currently trying to put together a spring 2011 wedding ceremony, and Fedotowsky is leaning toward wearing Monique Lhuillier on her wedding day.

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Katy Perry & Russell Brand top wedding to crash, says Press Association

A recent poll by the UK Press Association found that 26 per cent of Brits would like to attend the wedding of Russell Brand and Katy Perry, beating our Prince William and Kate Middleton (13 per cent) and even Brad and Angelina. Other British celebrity couples fared less well - only three per cent of respondents are interested in attending the wedding of footballer Frank Lampard and TV host Christine Bleakley.

Some rumours have suggested that the wedding of Brand, 34, and 25-year-old Perry may have already taken place, though the singer has said it will take place later this year - even though she says she has no time to plan it. One thing is for certain - Perry won't be wearing latex.

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Ali Fedotowsky "leaning toward" Monique Lhuillier to design wedding gown

For her upcoming wedding to Roberto Martinez, Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky is considering designers for her wedding dress, but is leaning towards Monique Lhuillier, a celebrity fave.

"I like her. I like the flowiness of her dresses," Fedotowsky told Us Magazine at an event last evening. The San Francisco native, 25, also recently shared her plans for the music at her wedding with People.

But other than that, Fedotowsky says planning every detail has been "almost overwhelming."

No date has been set, but the couple are looking at some time in the spring. She tells Us, "We've had so many people being like 'oh, we'll do a new song for you!' and 'we'll give you this, we'll give you that', and we're so appreciative. We have to sit back and go through everything and figure it out. It's going to happen!"

The couple recently moved into an apartment together in San Diego, and Fedotowsky says they won't fall prey to the Bachelor curse. "We don't even think of it like 'are we going to make it a month? Are we going to make it six months?'" she said. "When we're talking about doing things, we're like 'babe, we have the rest of our lives, that can wait, we can do that later, we have our whole lives.' We're going to make it!"

Source: US WEEKLY

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Jesse Csincsak & Ann Lueders talk wedding with People

Getting married on August 28th in Las Vegas, Bachelor/ette alums Jesse Csincsak and Ann Lueders recently shared some of the details with People.

The night before the ceremony, the couple will throw a rehearsal barbeque poolside at their venue - Vegas' Rumor Hotel. Chef Vic Vegas will prepare a "fun, simple menu for people that like to eat. Nothing fancy or outrageous," Csincsak says.

The rehearsal dinner menu includes: a Peruvian purple potato salad, tortellini pasta pesto salad and an arugula, strawberry and Gorgonzola salad to start. From the barbeque, guests will be served corn on the cob and Jalapeño corn muffins.

Vegetarians beware, the entrees are all about meat: shredded BBQ short ribs, Jamaican jerked honey chicken, Italian sausages with peppers and onions, and Guinness braised bratwurst sausages with sauerkraut.

A dessert of strawberry Twinkie shortcake will finish the rehearsal dinner, but none of it is scaring off Lueders, currently four months pregnant with a wedding gown to fit into in a matter of days.

"The dress is still the same one I originally picked out," she says, "and then it's just a matter of making sure we don't have to let it out much at all. I'm not really showing very much – so I have my fingers crossed just making sure the dress still fits because I really haven't gained too much weight. I think I've gained four pounds, total."

If you'll excuse us, please, we're suddenly very hungry...

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Michael Buble wearing male engagement ring

Canadian pop singer Michael Buble announced recently he will marry his girlfriend Luisana Lopilato next year in her native Argentina, and now he's been spotted getting into one of Lopilato's family traditions - a male engagement ring.

While on tour last week, Buble explained on stage, "The boy also wears the ring in Argentina. That's what she tells me, anyway."

The couple met at a concert afterparty in Buenos Aires in 2008, and she inspired the song "Haven't Met You Yet" off his most recent album - and then starred in the video. The couple plan to split their time between his native Vancouver and Buenos Aires, where he recently purchased a home.

Buble's ex, British actress Emily Blunt, married The Office star John Krasinski on July 10th in Como, Italy.

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Bachelorette Ali picks her wedding music

Engaged to Roberto Martinez on the finale of The Bachelorette this month, Ali Fedotowsky tells People that she's already set her plans for the music at her anticipated spring wedding.

“I want it to be simple: one person, one instrument and that’s it,” she says. “I think absolutely a violinist for that. My favorite music is like Jack Johnson, Schuyler Fisk … people who sit down with a guitar and sing. That’s what I want at our wedding — that rawness."

She also plans to celebrate Martinez' Latin heritage with the song "Bendita tu luz" by Mana, which he played for Fedotowsky on their first visit to their hideaway house before they were allowed to come out as a couple as the show aired. She also has plans to dance:

“Our wedding will be a lot of dancing and celebrating. A live band, and absolutely salsa dancing. Every kind of dancing! I’m actually envisioning Roberto and I making up a dance — a funny, quirky dance that people are going to laugh at.”

Martinez proposed on the season finale of The Bachelorette with a $50,000 Asscher-cut diamond engagement ring by Neil Lane. This will be the first marriage for both.

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Katy Perry won't wear a latex wedding dress

Katy Perry and Russell Brand are said to be tying the knot before the end of the year, but the pair have done their best to keep many of the details private.

However, perry felt the need to set the record straight on one rumour in particular in a recent interview with People. "I'm definitely not going to get married in latex! When I wear latex onstage, I sweat. I could wring out those dresses – and I don't want to do that at my wedding."

Perry and Brand were engaged over the New Year's break in Jaipur, India - the trip was his Christmas gift to the singer. This will be the first marriage for the "I Kissed A Girl" preacher's daughter and the formerly drug and sex-addicted British comedian.

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Jesse Csincsak's proposal nearly ruined by future father-in-law

Former Bachelorette contestant Jesse Csincsak, a snowboarder who received the final rose and was engaged to former show star DeAnna Pappas , was able to surprise current fiancee Ann Leuders with a romantic proposal August 6th - but that was no thanks to her father!

"When I first asked for Ann's hand in marriage, her dad didn't realize that Ann wasn't supposed to know," Csincsak tells People.com. "He went inside the house and Ann and her mom were just chatting and he goes, 'So Jesse just asked me a very interesting question. He asked me if he could marry you.' And she goes, 'DAD! You're not supposed to tell me that!' He didn't do it on purpose, he was just trying to be the happy-go-lucky dad."

The day of the proposal, Csincsak pulled out an engagement ring on the shore of an island in Lake Erie, and after accepting Leuders told him, "I wish I knew this was coming. I would have run a brush through my hair!"

The couple will wed before the end of August at the Rumor Hotel in Las Vegas.

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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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Actress Sara Rue loses 50 lbs. for wedding

Actress Sara Rue, who was just announced at the new host of reality show Shedding Before the Wedding, has revealed she has lost 50 lbs. as a spokeswoman for Jenny Craig as she prepares for her own spring 2011 wedding to fiance Kevin Price, going from a size 14 to a size 6.

In fact, on a recent shopping trip to the Vera Wang bridal showroom, her hard work paid off. "The woman zipped it up and she had to clamp it in the back because it was too big. It was just a great feeling."

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Wedding bells for Geri Halliwell?

Following a short-lived engagement to Italian businessman Fabrizio Politi in early 2009, Spice Girl Geri Halliwell began dating wealthy aristocrat Henry Beckwith in April, and now British tabs are reporting that the couple are planning to wed.

Spotted at St. John Parish Church in Hampstead, London, with longtime friend Kenny Goss (George Michael's long-term partner, in spite of Michael's need to have sex with strange men in park bushes), Halliwell reportedly met with the church vicar for an hour, after which she and Goss headed straight to boutique tailor Thom Sweeney.

The source tailing the pair asked, "Who should we be congratulating on the wedding?" Goss immediately pointed at Halliwell before catching himself and saying: "Erm, I mean both of us."

"Geri was giggling, and seemed really excited," the source added. "She wouldn't say what they were doing, but Kenny let the cat out the bag."

This would be Halliwell's first marriage. She has a daughter, 3-year-old Bluebell, from a relationship with screenwriter Sacha Gervasi.

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Carmelo Anthony and LaLa Vasquez set wedding date

In a recent appearance on The Wendy Williams show, MTV VJ LaLa Vasquez announced that she is finally set to wed her longtime fiance, Denver Nuggets NBA star Carmelo Anthony.

“I’m getting married this summer and I wanted to come here and tell everybody that,” she said, and when Williams asked if some of Vasquez' famous friends - Kim Kardashian and Solange Knowles among them - would be bridesmaids, she admitted, "I haven't decided. But they will be in it in some capacity."

Vasquez expects the guest list to be around 250-300 people, and the ceremony, being put together by celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss, will be in Vasquez' home state of New York. Of the large guest list, Vasquez said, “Everybody’s been waiting for [the wedding] for so long, we may as well invite everybody to come hang out.”

The couple have been engaged since before the birth of their son Kiyan, born in March 2007.

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Derek Jeter's secret wedding plans blown?

So much for keeping things off the radar - New York Yankees superstar shortstop, Derek Jeter, and his actress girlfriend, Minka Kelly, have never even come out and admitted they're a couple. They rarely get photographed together and have never confirmed reports of an August engagement, but it's the worst kept secret in the colliding worlds of major league sports and their Hollywood love lives.

Add their reported wedding date and venue to the list of poorly-kept secrets, and by now the couple may have already tried to make alternate wedding arrangements in order to keep their privacy.

A New York Post reporter got down and dirty recently, posing as a bride-to-be attempting to book a wedding at Oheka Castle - the location of Kevin Jonas' wedding one month ago - in Huntington, New York for November 5, 2010.

The castle - the second-largest private residence in the United States - has hosted lavish parties for royalty, politicians, and celebs for close to 100 years, and is equipped to hold one wedding per day. Showing her a print-out of the castle's wedding schedule, Oheka's sales manager denied her request, stating that the hotel was completely booked that weekend, and Jeter's name was clearly visible.

The reporter asked if the venue would be willing to ask the booked weeding to move for a price, and the sales manager laughed and said their clients were usually so wealthy it wasn't an issue.

"I guess if it were Derek Jeter getting married, he really wouldn't care about my money," the reporter suggested, but the sales manager was quick on his feet.

"Oh, that's not Derek Jeter," he said. "We wouldn't use his real name if it were. When the Jonas brother got married here last month, we used a different name."

Source: NEW YORK POST

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Robbie Williams wants Valentine's Day wedding?

The rumours don't stop coming. Following the rumour that rapper Jay-Z would like to plan pop singer Robbie Williams' upcoming wedding to actress Ayda Field (which is itself still just a rumour), comes reports that the couple will marry on Valentine's Day next month.

A source close to Williams told Britain's Daily Star that, "Robbie doesn't want to have a long, drawn-out engagement. When he gets something in his head, there's no stopping him. He's asked all his friends and family to keep the entire week free leading up to February 14, so they can have a week-long celebration before Valentine's Day. He has asked best friend Jonathan Wilkes to be best man and it's likely Take That will perform."

Robbie is said to have booked two potential venues in Santa Barbara, California for the wedding, and is planning week-long celebrations with family and friends. The celebrity guest list is expected to include Robbie's former Take That bandmates Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Jason Orange.

Source: DAILY STAR

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