Jenna: A Bush Everyone Can Smile AboutEven though we were initially mad she didn’t get married at the White House, Jenna and Henry’s wedding pictures put a smile on our face.
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David Lauren Not Invited to Jenna Bush’s WeddingLauren Bush’s family would like her to take boyfriend David Lauren back to the Boyfriend Store and exchange him for something a little less old and a little more Christian.
Is Mariah Carey Already Married to Nick Cannon?That’s what ‘Latina’ is reporting. At first, we didn’t believe it, but then we got mad at ourselves for even trying to think about it rationally.
Union Rat Invades Gramercy Park, Emerges VictoriousAfter two weeks of unsightly picketing and the (even more unwelcome) presence of a giant inflatable union rat in genteel Gramercy Park, Local 6 of Unite Here and the Players Club reached an agreement Friday afternoon. It reinstates sixteen union members from the club’s restaurant and bar operations who were fired as a cost-cutting measure. John Turchiano, a union spokesman, said the terminated union members return to work today with back pay. “They got everything they wanted, and now we will sit down with management and try out to work out any financial difficulty now that they’re abiding by an arbiter’s ruling,” he said, referring to an arbiter’s January 15 ruling ordering the Players Club to reinstate the terminated employees with back pay.
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‘New York Weddings’ Wants You to Relive Your Happiest DayHey there, happily married readers. This is a post that’s just for you. Bitter singletons, don’t bother continuing to read. For once, we’re not pandering in your direction. Okay? Cool. Now, you couples: We know that since your wedding, you’ve maybe caught yourself now and then remembering back to that joyous day, with a fond smile on your face. Wow, you think to yourself in those quiet, personal moments. Why the hell did I only get that one day? How come, since then, there hasn’t been a time when everyone devoted all of their attention to you? After all, that was the only time anyone oohed and aahed over a Website full of pictures of just you and your spouse. And lately, nobody has been getting up onstage to read drunken speeches about how pretty you are and how many tequila shots you kept down on your bachelorette party. What the hell? Being married is the hard part. Being engaged was cake.
Here at New York, we have some comfort to offer. We’re looking to shoot and poll married couples (the only restriction is that they be New Yorkers, and we’d love a range of ages) for story in our Weddings issue. We want to (wait for it) hear all about your wedding! We can do the polls via e-mail or in person at the shoot (and, of course, all answers or quotes that may be a little too honest can be kept anonymous!). We’ll probably do the photo shoot in mid-January.
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Ellen Pompeo Weds at City Hall, Cheers Up Knicks FansGrey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo got married, shotgunNew York style! The smoky actress secretly tied the knot with her longtime beau Chris Ivery in City Hall on Friday. Despite the fact that both of their hometowns are in the Boston area, the pair opted for a simple ceremony witnessed by Mayor Bloomberg himself. “They are over the moon,” Pompeo’s spokeswoman, Jennifer Allen, told the Boston Globe. Last month Pompeo told People that she hadn’t started planning, despite the fact that she’d been engaged to Ivery for over a year, so this may have been a spur-of-the-moment thing. While they were here, the newlyweds snagged courtside seats at Sunday’s Knicks game. How cute! At least there was one functional relationship down there that fans could root for.
‘Grey’s’ Pompeo quietly ties knot in Big Apple [Boston Globe]