Assuming everything went according to plan, Jann Wenner's son Alex walked down the aisle with his longtime girlfriend this Saturday while you spent the entire weekend draping yourself over the air-conditioning.
ROLLING Stone editor Jann Wenner's eldest son, Alex Wenner, will marry his longtime girlfriend, Emily, today at the Villa des Amis on Scuttlehole Road in Bridgehampton - with no financial help from his media-mogul dad. Insiders say Alex is "paying for the small wedding himself." The rehearsal dinner was held last night at the East Hampton house of Alex's mother, Jane Wenner. We're told Alex, who was said to have a spotty attendance record at NYU, is a computer genius.
And we can't help but admire Alex's staunch refusal to accept any favors (financial or otherwise) from his father. (You know, kind of like Ben Wasserstein, only the opposite!) Meanwhile, we're not entirely sure why the bride's family didn't foot the bill, but presumably they figured having Jann Wenner as an in-law was already payment enough.
As we write this, we’re looking out the window and salivating over the picture perfect weather outside, currently being wasted on lazy, unemployed persons and pretentious NYU students. And so, for your sanity and ours, we’ve decided to kick off a glorious new feature called “Comment of the Day,” to provide a transient glimmer of entertainment for all you working stiffs who would much rather be downing margaritas poolside on the Jersey Shore (while fending off advances from married, guidos named Tony) than slaving away in your cubicles.
Today’s “Comment of the Day” comes to us from Jezebel, and it pertains to the borderline offensive tips (from one happily married Py Kim Conant) on how to meet your future husband at a wedding by adhering to a few simple rules, such as 'Pretend you're having a good time,' 'It's okay to be a bit tipsy at the reception and a little flamboyant while dancing' and 'Leave the bra at home so as to show off your sexy, jiggly breasts.'
But will commenters appreciate Conant's witticisms as gospel or shun them as the crazy ramblings of a 1950's housewife.
Thoughts, reflections and the COTD, after the jump.
Did you read last week's New York Times Sunday's Style section? Of course you did! And, knowing you as we do, you paid particular notice to the Wedding/Celebration section, particularly to the announcement of Ikeolu Gbadegesin and Oreoluwa Adetunji Adeyemi's nuptials, where you especially noticed the part describing Gbadegesin's academic honors.
If not, let us refresh your memory.
Ms. Gbadegesin, 29, was, until May, a senior international lawyer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a government agency that provides grants to poor countries. She will begin working next month as an associate in the London office of the New York law firm White & Case. She received bachelor’s and law degrees from Harvard and graduated magna cum laude from both schools.
Ah, another high-performing Harvard law school graduate finds love, or so it seems. 'But wait!' warns a tipster. Gbadegesin's academic achievements might not be quite as impressive as they appear.
Thanks, as always to the New York Times, for offering us a glimpse (however brief) of a world in which separate his and hers master bedroom wings are standard fare, ungrateful children resent their parents for audaciously buying them expensive Williamsburg lofts and material assets are generally disposed of almost as quickly as they are accrued.
Today's lesson: How to tastefully ruin that day-old couture wedding gown
After like six months of that atrocious "It's Your Wedding Day" song, and all of these ridiculous contests and what not that the Today show is hosting, the Today show wedding finally (finally!) took place. Of course we missed it … we're sure it aired when we were watching NY1, but who cares. It's over. It's finally, finally over.
If you missed it to, MSNBC has the video online. Right now the blushing bride Molly and her groom, Jason, are standing around, looking miserable and cold, while a celeb photographer takes their photos in Central Park. We can't help but already dread May, when they start this freakin' process all over again. We just hope, for the sake of everyone's mental health, that they pick a new song.
Today Throws a Wedding [MSNBC]
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Please join us in wishing a Happy Big Fat Gay Wedding to uber-flack Stephen Huvane and his new husband artist Steven Janssen. (Yes, that's two Stephens, for those keeping track.) If you non-celebrity media types don't immediately recognize Huvane's name, this should help you: He was the publicist just threatening Today with yanking clients like Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kirsten Dunst after the NBC show invited Us Weekly's Janice Min for an Ann Curry gabfest about Aniston's supposed (confirmed!) engagement to Vince Vaughn. You know, the story where Aniston – in the utmost unlikelihood for a celeb – went to such lengths as going directly to People to deny the story.
Yeah, that Stephen Huvane (the man also behind Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's prank publicity wedding and part of the fighting force trying to keep Jennifer Aniston's topless weed smoking photos out of the public eye). On Saturday he invited about sixty guests — who were instructed to show up at Demi and Ashton's Beverly Hills home. But that was just a security tactic; the real wedding took place down the street at the home of Stephen's brother Kevin (as in the CAA agent behind Aniston, Jake Gyllenhall, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman).
As you can tell from this clusterfuck of interconnected Hollywood smarm, the guest list read like an Oscar after-party: Aniston (there with a girlfriend), Dunst, Demi and Ashton, etc.
"It was a chance for both the families to come together and to show them they were in a committed relationship," we hear from one of the guests. While there was no live band, three open bars kept guests liquored up. Though perhaps too liquored up? Some were wondering how Huvane could be getting married when he's been spotted with at least three guys in the past year alone. Ouch.
So where are all the photos from such a star studded event? Well, the photo agencies decided to take a pass. Not enough value in aerial shots of the festivities, as it's hard to zoom in on Kirsten Dunst' nostrils from up there.
Spring is in the air, people. Despite Jared Paul Stern dominating every other inch of black and white print, a few people managed to go through with their planned nuptials last week.
Campbell Brown and Richard Johnson were both married this weekend — though, unfortch, not to each other.
Brown, the weekend co-anchor on the Today show tied the knot with Dan Senor, "a Republican strategist and Fox News analyst," last weekend, and their dreamy story was the subject of yesterday's New York Times Weddings section.
And an obviously gleeful Johnson married Sessa von Richthofen on a yacht Friday night, among a who's who guest list. (Seriously, doesn't he look thrilled?) Though the details of their relationship were covered ad nauseum by the Times, it was the Daily News who shed publicity on the figures they are attempting to destroy with every breath.
These two really lucked out with the wedding gifts this year. Brown received a huge dis from the Today show when she was passed over for Meredith Vieira, and Johson got linked to one of the biggest scandals in New York Post history.
Mazel tov, medialites!
Campbell Brown and Dan Senor [Lois Smith Brady, New York Times]
Page Six editor makes own gossip at chic nups [Angela Mosconi and William Sherman]
It's the mag we've been waiting for all year — the New York Weddings Issue! With 1,074 ways to dream your perfect Charlotte York style wedding, summer just isn't summer without it. (Plus, we hear it was totally put together by Adam Moss' assistant Denise Penny, which is a pretty hot job for an EA.)
New York Weddings is the only bridal magazine edited with a sophisticated, urban sensibility. Discover the best bridal sample sales, how to get in shape for your wedding day, and valuable tips to save both time and money.
With all the hype over AMI's total annihilation, we almost missed this truly special arrival into our city. We recommend putting on your padding and helmets now — especially if you live on the east side in the 30's.
Because if the rush to the newsstands to grab the last living copies of Celebrity Living, Shape en Espanol, and MPH weren't enough to send the flocks of blonde 28-year-olds to the kiosks, the bridal focused NY will definitely add another level to contact magazine browsing.
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