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wedding

I thought I was attractive when I shot My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. – Nia Vardalos

On my wedding day. I didnt want a natural, blushing-bride look – I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath. – Sophie Ellis Bextor

My family is almost exactly like the one in Monsoon Wedding. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people. – Mira Nair

My wedding was at home, so I didnt really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz. – Georgina Chapman

I didnt finish my dress until about three days before my wedding – I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didnt dissuade me from wearing it. – Georgina Chapman

Im a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now, if I could, Id be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful. – Busy Philipps

Id been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, Oh God, if this is all I do, Ill never be able to live with myself. – Idina Menzel

I dont think its possible to have a wedding without it being stressful! – Debra Messing

I dont follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event. – Ron Ben-Israel

I dont want a huge wedding. I dont want it to be some huge spectacle. – Kristin Cavallari

Jody Hill, who I created Eastbound And Down and Fist Foot Way with, was my best man at my wedding. – Danny McBride

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: Do I want this fork or that fork? But in the end people arent going to remember what napkin holder you choose. – Lara Stone

That to me was the most poignant part of Dianas wedding as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did – and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great. – Bruce Oldfield

As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of peoples lives. Whether its a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people. – Rob Bell

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense. – Jon Secada

Thats What She Said is not Hollywoods standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up girl women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up. – Carrie Preston

I got my first big paycheck for My Best Friends Wedding. This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesnt happen like that anymore, but this was in the 90s. It was the golden age! – Carrie Preston

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams wedding. – Denise Van Outen

We all went to Kelseys wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each others house. A group of us got together over at Kelseys and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyones idea of a good time, but we had a good time. – David Hyde Pierce

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyers office above the coffee shop where wed been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, By the time you get this, Daddy, Ill already be Mrs. Blaise! – Bharati Mukherjee