Nights And Weekends Blog

Over the weekend, obnoxious D-list comedian Kathy Griffin performed a real, live, no-foolin’ wedding ceremony for a clearly unstable couple in New York.  According to this article, the “10-minute service … ranged from telling raunchy jokes to having the bride recite the reception menu.”  All I can say is that if your marriage is built on Kathy Griffin, you’re in serious trouble.

 While I’m at it, what is it with people and ill-conceived weddings?  Over the weekend, I was at a hockey game, and during the first intermission, a bright light on the other side of the ice caught my eye.  In front of the bright light was a woman in a white dress and a man in black pants and a white hockey jersey (which, I noticed, wasn’t even the home team’s jersey).  I successfully concluded that a couple was getting married there, just off the ice, during the intermission of a hockey game, with rock music and some kind of crazy givewaway going on in the background.  Classy.  Later, the woman (in white dress and a black sash to match her new husband’s jersey) and the man (in the opposing team’s jersey — apparently, they couldn’t afford to fly out to Edmonton to get married just outside *his* team’s ice) appeared on the arena’s screens to participate in a contest to win a T-shirt and a Chipotle burrito.  She didn’t win — but they gave her the burrito anyway as a wedding gift.  Now there’s a touching wedding day, don’t you think? 

In other wedding news, Sienna Miller and Hugh Grant’s hygenically-challenged flatmate from Notting Hill are planning a low-key wedding sometime later this year.  Hopefully, the groom will wear pants.

Finally, in today’s pregnancy watch, congratulations to Matt Damon and wife, Luciana, who have announced that they’ll add another little one to their family later this year.  And I think congratulations are in order for Lisa Marie Presley, who begrudgingly announced her pregnancy over the weekend — just to make people stop calling her “fat.”