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Jenna Bush and Henry Hagar were married on Saturday at the Bush family ranch in Crawford, Texas. The wedding was a small family affair, with just over 200 guests in attendance. The party started on Friday night with a rehearsal dinner for 100. After dinner, the whole wedding party, including the President, walked through town, escorted by the Belton High School Marching Band, to a post-rehearsal party.

The couple said their vows at an outdoor chapel, under the sprawling Texas sky. Jenna's twin sister Barbara was maid of honor, while Hagar's brother Jack served as best man. The wedding party also included a "house party" consisting of 14 bridesmaids and 14 ushers. The bridesmaids wore seven different styles of dresses, all knee-length and each in the colors of Texas wildflowers.

Bush, 26, and Hagar, who turned 30 on Friday, met in 2004, during the President's reelection campaign; Hagar, who graduated from Wake Forest University, worked as an aide to former Presidential advisor Karl Rove.

We at AisleDash wish the Hagars all the best, and are just waiting for more photos from the wedding (we REALLY want to see those bridesmaid dresses).


Kate Moss is busy getting ready for her impending nuptials to her rocker fiance Jamie Hince. They are slated to get married this September in a power station, and the supermodel is apparently trying to shape up.

She has joined pal Sadie Frost in a detox this spring, giving up her favorite fried foods and agreeing to cut back on the booze. Plus, she has incorporated yoga into her routine in an effort to tone up her slight frame.

While this is all fine and well, we're actually a little more excited about some other news -- she's getting to work on her wedding dress, and girlfriend is going gothic. She is said to be working with a designer friend (Who, you ask? We don't know yet!) on a full-skirted gown "either in purple or black" with "vintage rock 'n' roll charms as the trimming." We cannot wait to see what Miss Moss wears, and how else she incorporates this rock 'n' roll/gothic theme!

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Kate MossRockin' the short shortsThe groom?Casual KateImagine the dress ...

Fashion follows Hollywood. When Lindsay Lohan started trotting around Tinseltown in leggings, suddenly everyone started copying this style, much to the dismay of everyone's favorite fashion critics, and retailers across America struggled to keep an adequate spandex stock. Thankfully, it's not just the ridiculous trends that catch on -- when Ben Affleck gave Jennifer Lopez a 6-ct pink diamond engagement ring, there was a rush on pink diamonds (until the rest of the world realized that they were not movie stars and couldn't actually afford them). So then there was a rush on pink cubic zirconia.

The Bennifer engagement ring really sparked a big trend in Hollywood, and the rest of the world followed. Starlets no longer settled for traditional ring styles like round solitaires in Tiffany settings. Those rings are classic and glamorous indeed, but not unique enough to make a splash on the red carpet. Now we're seeing celebs with every color diamond in the spectrum, like JLo's pink rock, Heidi Klum's huge canary diamond, and Carmen Electra's black diamond ring, to name a few. In addition to the colored diamond trend, solitaires have gone the way of the dinosaur as celebs opt instead for much busier rings with lots of accent stones, and maybe even a non-diamond center stone, like the pink sapphire Nicole Richie received from ex-fiance DJ AM.

Stella McCartney has confidence, that's for sure. When talking to People magazine about Scarlett Johansson's recent engagement to Ryan Reynolds, she said, "I'm definitely doing her wedding dress. She doesn't know it yet."

Okay, it might not be confidence -- it might be a sense of humor. The designer, who designed Madonna's dress for her wedding to Guy Ritchie in 2000, went on to describe what she imagined for Scarlett: "You know, some kind of didgy, black thing. Latex! Latex for Scarlett!"

While we're pretty sure there won't be any latex involved in the dress (though we're sure many of her fans would love to see it happen), we're dying to know what she chooses to wear. She's made several questionable dress choices for the red carpet in the last few years, so it'll be interesting to see whether she's learned from these mistakes or simply continues to feel invincible.

According to Hollyscoop, Pete and Ashlee have already sent out their invitations and plan to be wed on May 16. What? We haven't gotten ours yet!

Maybe it's because they want to get married before Ashlee starts to look pregnant (because, according to the same source that informed Hollyscoop about the invites, Ashlee absolutely is expecting), or because she wants to beat her sister down the aisle. Or, perhaps they're hoping to continue with some publicity as Ashlee's newest album fails to make the level of sales her previous albums did.

Of course, it could just be that they're so much in love that they can't wait another month to be husband and wife. But, that's a lot less interesting.

Christina Aguilera's engagement ring from hubby Jordan Bratman is a real work of art. The five-carat total weight ring features a large round brilliant diamond in a tall bezel setting with four channel set diamonds on either side and elaborate engraving on the band. This ring is a real callback to the style of the 20's, and Christina has shown us many times that she is a fan of vintage style.

Is a ring like this practical for the new mom? Well, the bezel setting will protect her baby from scratches from the diamond's edge, but it would be a nightmare to clean this ring between diaper changes, with all its tiny crannies from the artful carving on the sides. We hope Christina leaves this ring in its box at home, and only brings it out on the red carpet, where it belongs.


Prince Charles presented his bride, Camilla Parker Bowles, with this heirloom diamond ring from Queen Elizabeth herself. This ring was made for royalty. Emerald cut diamonds like this one -- an eight-carat stunner -- are typically much more expensive than other cuts. That's because the relatively few facets allow a view straight to the inside of the stone -- whereas multiple facets can hide or minimize inclusions in a diamond, nearly everything inside this stone is visible to the naked eye. To be suitable for a royal ring, this stone would have to have extremely high clarity.

Flanked by tapered baguettes on each side, the Prince's bride's ring would retail for about $250,000. Factor in its royal history, and the gem is priceless.


Heidi Klum is another celebrity who loves a little color in her diamonds. Her engagement ring from husband Seal is a fancy yellow cushion cut diamond set in a thin band of small yellow pavé set diamonds. The center stone is estimated to be about 10 carats, and the value of the ring is more than $150,000.

The elongated cut nicely complements Heidi's long, slender fingers. Cushion cuts can be oval, like this one, or more of a rounded square shape, but we think this cut was a perfect choice for Ms. Klum's finger and style.


While many celebrities like to wear their extreme wealth on their fingers, Marcia Cross opts for understated elegance. Her one-carat round brilliant diamond solitaire is set in a classic Tiffany setting without any bells and whistles.

The Desperate Housewives star and real-life mom shows her sensible side with this ring. When you have young children, large rings can be dangerous, and get dirty in a hurry. Without lots of tiny accent stones or engraving, this ring is easy to clean and goes with anything on the red carpet.


Jennifer Lopez' 6-carat pink diamond engagement ring from Ben Affleck may not still be on her finger, but it's still one of the most famous diamonds in Hollywood. She may sing "My love don't cost a thing," but this radiant-cut rock with white diamond accents on either side allegedly set Ben back a cool $1.2 million.

It's one of the most copied rings in the world, with CZ imitations selling like hotcakes during the couple's doomed engagement. Still, this pink diamond is truly one of a kind.



It seems that everything about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' relationship has been completely over-the-top, and the bling is no exception. When Tom proposed to Katie atop the Eiffel Tower in June 2005, he gave her this five-carat oval-shaped diamond set in platinum and rose gold, surrounded by smaller diamonds in a pavé setting. The rose gold, which has a shiny rust color, is not used often in jewelry and gives this ring a unique look (as if a five-carat diamond is not unique!). Nearly as wide as Katie's slender finger, this weighty gem sits high and constantly flops to the side of her finger due to its massive size.

Jason Biggs, who you probably remember as the guy who, uh, really liked apple pie in the American Pie movies, got married last week in a totally private ceremony at Los Angeles' City Hall. Not even the couple's family was invited in order to completely minimize the stress of getting married.

The 30-year-old actor and his wife, actress Jenny Mollen, 27, have been together for nine months. They met on the set of My Best Friend's Girl, a Kate Hudson movie that's due out in September.

No report on whether they opted for wedding cake or pie to celebrate.


There's been a lot of wedding ring talk surrounding Jay-Z and Beyonce. Folks are excited about Beyonce's huge rock, but they're equally interested in Jay-Z's lack of bling. Is there trouble in paradise already? What's going on?

Well, as it turns out, the story isn't all that exciting. Jay-Z simply doesn't want to wear one, saying he's happy with the ring tattooed on his finger.



As long as they're happy with that arrangement, no problem. But it made us wonder -- how would you feel if your significant other refused to wear his/her wedding ring in public? Would you question motive, or simply chalk it up to personal preference?

How would you feel if your spouse refused to wear a wedding ring in public?

We aren't the least bit ashamed to admit that we ABSOLUTELY didn't see this one coming -- Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon eloped and are married! Reportedly, a source close to the couple confirmed the marriage to Latina.com.

Mariah and Nick got hitched yesterday, in an "impulsive" small island wedding, attended by just a few of their close friends, including rapper and Mariah BFF, DaBrat.

We reported just a couple of days ago that the couple might be engaged, but we weren't holding our breath since Nick's five month engagement to Victoria's Secret model Selina Ebanks went belly-up not too long ago. In fact, there are rumors that Mariah's engagement ring was actually the same one Nick used to propose to Selina, in which case we're giving this relationship about a minute before they opt for an equally impulsive divorce. If that's not the case, we'll give it an hour. Though, maybe they're happy and all of this isn't quite as crazy as we think it is ...
According to a recent interview with fashion designer Vera Wang, the most expensive wedding dress she's ever created is never going to be worn. In her recent chat with Michael Eisner on CNBC, Wang said she designed an 18-tiered couture fabric wedding gown for Jennifer Lopez when she was engaged to Ben Affleck.

We all know how that ended.

"It was really, probably far and away, the most expensive and time-consuming to sew," Vera Wang said of the dress. She didn't mention what became of the dress -- we hope she didn't get rid of it. Maybe one day we'll see the dress on an auction block somewhere, where we're sure it'll fetch a handsome price -- not just because of its materials, but also its history.

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