Why are people taking wedding photos in the middle of natural disasters? Is this becoming a new photo fad? Last week we had Josh Newton's photos in the middle of a raging fire in Oregon. Today we got Colleen Niska's photoshot with a tornado as the backdrop.
Dearly beloved, wedding season is upon us. But while spring brings brides something old and something new, it also brings them incredibly hideous wedding gowns.
Queen Bey couldn't make it to the wedding (what were you doing, Bey? Is running the #Beygency a full-time job?), but she took to Instagram to bless Kim and Kanye's union. Commenters on her page are not pleased with her absence. Thus ends today's Kimye wedding coverage.
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Well, everyone who called that last night was just a rehearsal was correct. Your weekend has been made and you can now pat yourself on the back! For the rest of us who were hoping that the Wests would get married twice (COME ON! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GLORIOUS) there are Instagram photos of last night's looks and even a…
More pictures from the possible nuptial of the future (current?) Mr. and Mrs. West have surfaced. Among them are shots of guests en route, guests arriving, and a very special photo of the sky from Kim with the caption "little angels are blessing us." Also: Lana Del Rey is rehearsing! Could she be swaying in place on…
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Angelina Jolie insists she will marry Brad Pitt… Eventually.
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Welcome back! Wednesdays belong to Midweek Madness, in which Callie Beusman and I "read" the celebrity weeklies so that you don't "have" to. This week: Ben Affleck's gambling problem means his marriage is in crisis; Kate Middleton is "officially" having another kid (someday); and so much Kim Kardashian wedding stuff,…
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After announcing her engagement in May, host Savannah Guthrie took to the Today show Monday to reveal she'd gotten secretly married over the weekend and is four months pregnant. Whoa!
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Here's a nuptial scenario to give you nightmares: a Brooklyn bride is suing her wedding videographer, claiming he used a bunch of tacky special effects including an applause track. I guess not everyone wants to feel like a network sitcom star on her special day?
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We'd heard rumors that Kim Kardashian wouldn't do another televised wedding: This time her love is real, see, and not a spectacle. But as it turns out, Her nuptials to Kanye West will indeed be filmed for E! As if the network or the family would have it any other way.
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Welcome back to Midweek Madness! Every Wednesday, Callie Beusman heads to the newsstand down the street and we "read" the celebrity tabloids so you don't "have" to. This week: Demi Moore's new boyfriend is younger than her daughter's boyfriend; Nicole Richie is throwing up to stay skinny; and Beyoncé is just not…
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Great news if you're looking to plan the trendiest wedding of all time: The Knot has just released a list of "top trends" for the year. And apparently, 90s nostalgia is going to unleash a flood of—brace yourselves, ladies—crop-top wedding dresses.
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Weddings, at this point, are a weird saggy layer cake of traditions and cultural expectations. Some of them are charming and nostalgic, some of them are grossly antiquated and some of them are just plain dumb. But probably the strangest part of the whole planning experience is something relatively new: the fanatical…
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The morning talk show ratings war is still on and in order to win, Good Morning America has made it their mission to win the hearts of Americans by dominating the weird proposal market. Monday's Veteran's Day-inspired entry: getting a member of the Coast Guard to propose to his girlfriend via a performance by Jason…
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Avril Lavigne is still promoting her new self-titled album, which meant that Friday afternoon she went on Katie to talk about her grown-up sound and – most importantly – her endlessly fascinating relationship with Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger.
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An interesting thing is happening in the retail world: as the population of Indians living in the United States grows, and the number of Indian weddings has grown with it, the need for the right clothing for those weddings has reached a new high. Sensing an opportunity, a bunch of sari-rental websites have cropped…
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Kelly Clarkson is getting married/got married/is married! That much is sort of clear, from her recent single "Tie It Up" which is all about how great marriage is, as well as her appearance on The View Wednesday that she showed up for dressed as a bride.
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In today's Tweet Beat, Stoya's bringing back an old trend, Donald Trump continues to dole out his sage, unasked-for advice and Matt Lauer is in love.
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Signs of real social progress are often very subtle. They ought to be, by nature, since real progress is really a process of normalization. When same-sex marriage doesn’t merit the “same-sex” modifier, for instance, in most mainstream news publications, it’s a signal that most members of our society think beyond the…
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Probably the most theme-appropriate news of the extended Labor Day weekend is that Seth Meyers, former (sniff) Weekend Update desk jockey and future host of NBC's Late Night, married his longtime girlfriend, human rights lawyer Alexi Ashe, in an "intimate ceremony" on Martha's Vineyard. It doesn't get much more Labor…
