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Escorted by her father, the bride wore a white satin strapless mermaid style gown. She carried a bouquet of pink hydrangeas. The maid of honor was the bride's sister, Kalynn Lewis, of Martinsburg. The maid of honor and bridesmaids wore a fuchsia halter-style knee length dress carrying hydrangea bouquets. Bridesmaids were cousin of the bride, Raychelle Lewis, of Martinsburg; friends of the bride, Jaime Solenberger, of Winchester, Va., Jackie Solenberger, of Winchester, Bailey Rider, of Lynchburg, Va., and Emily Tiegs, of Berkeley Springs. Flower girl was Kiersten Gardner, cousin of the bride, who wore a white satin dress and threw fuchsia rose petals.
The groom wore a khaki suit. Best man was Brandon Hoy, of Sharpsburg, Md., friend of the groom. Groomsmen were Tyler Lewis, of Martinsburg, Larry Kerns, of Inwood, Michael Schreckengost, of Charles Town, and brothers of the groom, Joseph and Jared Michael. The ushers were Collin and Carter Lewis, brothers of the bride and Tyler and Drew Dopson, godbrothers of the bride. All wore khaki suits with fuchsia vest and ties. The ring bearer was Santo Michael, cousin of the groom.
The photography was done by Brandon S. Warren, of Inwood.
Flowers were beautifully created by Flowers Unlimited, of Martinsburg.
The wedding reception was held at the Purple Iris, of Martinsburg. Music provided by DJ Rick Rohn.
The wedding cake was a small one-tiered cake with the initials of the bride and groom along with cupcakes designed in the shape of a floral arrangement of bright colors of pink and green, both were made by Jodee Arndt, of Martinsburg.
The bride graduated from Liberty University in May with a degree in elementary education.
The groom is studying Mining Engineering at West Virginia University and plans to graduate in May 2014.
The couple enjoyed a honeymoon to Jamaica and now resides in Morgantown.
The daughter of a four-star general who can trace her family’s military service to the Civil War, Holly endured long separations from her husband during his repeated deployments overseas. To many Army couples, she and Petraeus represented a role-model marriage.
During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Holly emerged as one of the country’s most visible advocates for military families. Her own son, Stephen, served in Afghanistan.
In the close-knit world of military family advocacy organizations, she is considered a fierce lobbyist with serious credibility on Capitol Hill. AsSearch our wedding photo gallery for thousands of the best Junior Bridesmaid Dresses pictures. the assistant director for the Obama administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, she monitors and investigates consumer complaints from U.S. service members.
You can't miss the Kardashians when their circus rolls into town. Everything about the clan — from Kim's absurdly proportioned derriere to their bodyguards — is over-hyped, over-sized and more than a little over the top.
Travelling with 47 hangers-on (security, assistants, advisers and a make-up and hair team), Kim and Kourtney swept into Heathrow on Wednesday. Sister Khloe arrived on Friday. The objective of the invasion was to flog as many cheap cocktail dresses as possible from the 'Kardashian Kollection' they have 'designed' for Dorothy Perkins.
And boy, did they roll up their sleeves and throw themselves into it.
The Kardashian sisters Khloe, Kim and Kourtney (left to right) modelling their new 'Kardashian Kollection' clothing line for Dorothy Perkins. The siblings created over 100 pieces for the brand
There were numerous interviews, a VIP party, nightclub appearances and a raid on Hamleys. Everywhere they went, the sisters were dropped off and picked up in matching, chauffeured Rolls-Royces.
The Kardashian-mania climaxed with hysterical scenes at the Westfield shopping centre in London's Shepherds Bush on Saturday. Up to 10,000 fans — mostly young women — had descended there in the hope of meeting their idols.
Several hundred slept in the centre's car park overnight, and some required medical attention in the crush to see the sisters. Police shut the mall briefly to manage the crowds.
Khloe, 28, who is on her first visit to London, wore a 75 leather-look trench coat from their collection, and a fixed smile.
After meeting and greeting 500 fans, the sisters were released into another area to conduct yet more media interviews.
The five-day London blitzkrieg has sealed their reputation for being — how can I put this kindly — somewhat short of intellectual giants. Despite more than 50 interviews with print, radio and TV outlets, not a single statement of any interest was uttered.
However, it was clear from the scale and intensity of the crowds following them around that — for a certain demographic, at least — they are the biggest stars on the planet.
Indeed, by the end of the Kardashian Kavalcade, the Dorothy Perkins website had sold out of the outfits the ladies sported.
The Kardashian family — including the girls' parents Kris and Bruce — rose to fame in 2007 when a sex tape Kim had made with her then boyfriend, singer Ray J, four years earlier was leaked online.
The resulting furore led to a reality TV show called Keeping Up With The Kardashians, which has been running for five years and has made Kim, Kourtney and Khloe the most recognisable sisters on the planet.
They are famous for their womanly figures — depending on your opinion, Kim is the hottest woman on the planet or has a rear like a badly stuffed parachute — and for taking hunger for publicity to astonishing new depths.Search our wedding photo gallery for thousands of the best Junior Bridesmaid Dresses pictures.
Kourtney allowed the Keeping Up With cameras to film the birth of her second child Penelope, and Kim sold the pictures of her wedding to 6ft9in basketball ace Kris Humphries for 1million to People magazine. A mere 72 days later she filed for divorce.
Many people (including the groom) think she got married only for the publicity. But this spotlight-soaked life has been lucrative.
Over the past five years the sisters have grown rich thanks to the show and endorsements of everything you can imagine: cupcakes, diet pills, jewellery, jeans, perfume, make-up and a range of clothes for American department store Sears.
Now comes their clothes range in good old Dotty Ps.
That the women have pulling power can't be denied. On Wednesday, 200 girls were camped outside London's Dorchester hotel awaiting their arrival. Over the weekend, that swelled to 500.
Khloe, who is a presenter on American X Factor, tweeted: 'OMG wow I just checked into the hotel and I had no idea how many amazing people would be outside!!! Hi London Town!!! Hugs.'
The trio and their entourage occupied most of the five-star hotel, including the Harlequin Suite (9,318 a night) and Terrace Suite (7,518 a night).
From the instant they crossed the threshold of The Dorchester, Sir Philip Green, whose company owns Dorothy Perkins, served as their avuncular guide.
He sat in on their interviews and inveigled himself into their photo call on Wednesday with all the subtlety of a brick passing through a window.
On this trip, the sisters have been repeatedly asked three questions: whose style do they admire; are there any British guys they find cute; and what do they think of London?
We learned that their style hero — though you might not suspect it from the riot of leopard-print, sequins and gold they are flogging — is the effortlessly understated Kate Middleton. 'She is super-chic and stylish,' gushed Kim.
Despite this generous endorsement, there was no sign of the girls' lunch with the Duchess of Cambridge — which Kim had said was her ultimate London objective.
Each day has involved multiple outfit changes to show off the Kollection to its best advantage.
On ITV's Lorraine on Friday, Kim, 33, modelled one of the Dorothy Perkins dresses over a distractingly deep cleavage.
Within a few hours her red dress had sold out online in size eight; by Saturday there were only size 14s and 16s left.
So carried away was Kim by the success, she managed to misspell the brand 'Dorthey Perkins' in a Tweet, and told her followers the range would be stocked in a country called 'Isreal'.
Kourtney, meanwhile, visited Hamleys with her children and her partner Scott Disick, a male model, where she tried to pay for her purchases in dollars. They later took a spin on the London Eye before having a Japanese meal at Zuma in Knightsbridge.
At every outing, the Kardashians loyally wore some piece or other from their range.
At a VIP launch at London nightclub Aqua on Thursday night, Kim wore a 45 black sequin dress from the Kollection. By Saturday night it had sold out online.
Embarrassingly for the brand, no one famous showed up, aside from the sisters themselves and Kim's rap-star boyfriend Kanye West.
They had to make do with sharing the sashimi canapes and white-chocolate lollipops with a smattering of this year's X Factor contestants.
For dinner at the Michelin-starred restaurant Hakkasan, Kim wore a suction-tight, too-short, 100 per cent polyester black dress.
On Saturday, she wore another intestine-crushing black dress (polyester again) from the Kollection — but all eyes were on her 792 Balmain gold-buckle belt.
Sadly for her many fans, the belt is not available at Dorothy Perkins.
Indeed, though the Kollection is firmly High Street,Read Wedding Dress Shops reviews and store ratings you buy online. Kim's own tastes are anything but.
She arrived in town wearing a 3,863 Versace leather trench coat teamed with 1,436 thigh-high boots by Tom Ford and 489 Rick Owen sunglasses.
She was also pictured in a fur coat, to wails of outrage from animal rights group PETA.
As far as Sir Philip is concerned, though, the ladies can do no wrong.
He told a reporter from Women's Wear Daily: 'I have been seriously impressed with the way these girls work. They are smart and savvy, and know how to build a brand.'
He confirms he has committed to 'a couple of seasons' of the Kardashian Kollection, and has plans to launch their interiors collection in BHS.
After that, he says:, 'I've got an idea, a big idea. It's going to blow the roof.' Which — given how big the Kardashian Khaos is already — sounds ominous indeed.
Usually, I'm grateful when a TV comedy series eschews the use of a laugh track,We have wedding dresses made in china wholesale with color and halter bridal gowns at low online prices. but in the case of the new TBS show "Wedding Band," I suspect they couldn't even get the dang machine to laugh.
The new series, premiering Saturday night, is an hour long, while most sitcoms, of course, are 30 minutes. Here's betting you won't need three minutes to reach for the remote.
The show is about a wedding band, which offers lots of comedic possibilities, all of which go entirely unrealized in the three episodes sent to critics as punishment. ... I'm sorry: I meant, "for review."
The band members are all familiar types: lead singer Tommy (Brian Austin Green, "Beverly Hills 90210") is a commitment-shy womanizer; Peter Cambor ("NCIS: Los Angeles") is Eddie, a married guy with kids, a regular job and dreams of rekindling his lost youth; Barry (Derek Miller, "Secret Girlfriend") is a Jack Black-like drummer who sees arena shows in the band's future; and Stevie (Harold Perrineau, "Lost") is a veteran session musician who's played with greats and is now in a Seattle wedding band.
Because wedding bands have to adapt to all kinds of ceremonies, you'd think executive producer Mike Tollin ("Arli$$") and writers Josh Lobis and Darin Moiselle ("South Park") would be able to milk laughs from, say, the guys playing a fantasy-fiction-themed wedding where everyone speaks Elvish and dresses in weird costumes, favoring horns and pointy ears as must-have accessories.
The pilot episode has the band playing at the wedding of the one woman who dumped Tommy before he could head for the door, and the failed jokes involve an accidentally deflated breast implant.
What the show needs is a comedy implant. The show isn't funny, but worse, it's not interesting. The characters are dull, the performances off the mark at virtually every level, and the writing is flatter than a deflated implant.
The sooner this thing gets annulled, the better.
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Before she knew it, Charlene Esposto-Scheibler was belting out an aria in the middle of a bridal shop.
There was something about being a bride that made her want to sing. She's got the voice for it. The 28-year-old Hamiltonian is a trained soprano. She was gown shopping for her September nuptials at a Woodbridge boutique.
“My mom, being the Sicilian mother that she is, is bragging about my singing abilities, so the next thing you know - in my wedding gown - I'm singing Ava Maria and the whole store, and stores next to them are coming in to see what's going on,” Esposto-Scheibler said.
That performance landed Esposto-Scheibler a cameo in TLC's new reality show Bada-Bling Brides.
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The shop owner, Leah D'Agostino, suggested a few brides to TLC. Esposto-Scheibler was the one she remembered. “They're from the same town with us in Sicily, and there you go, you've got an instant family,” she said.
Esposto-Scheibler had to go through an audition. TLC liked what they saw and heard. Then she returned to the shop to film her first fitting for the show.
“It was funny because I was originally supposed to be there to find my gown and the owner was showing me my dress... of course I was clearly in love with it and she took it out right away and said, 'Try this one on,” she said. “I'm used to being on the stage and acting through things but I thought, 'How can I act through this? This is my dress! How can I pretend that I don't want this one. This is mine!"”
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“I'm so excited to have people inspired by my voice, it's so humbling,” she said. “It's a beautiful experience. I look forward to it every time it happens.”
All Esposto-Scheibler knows about TLC's Thursday night show is she'll have a short appearance and there will be a clip of her singing. She'll watch at home with her new husband and her mom.
Although Billy Ray Cyrus appears to think otherwise, Miley Cyrus is planning to marry "Hunger Games" star Liam Hemsworth only once.
The 19-year-old clarifies in an interview on "Ellen" Thursday that she's not having multiple weddings, as her dad recently hinted to Us Weekly. Perhaps that was wishful thinking on Billy Ray's part, as he joked that he was angling to get a movie role or three out of this Hemsworth-Cyrus union.
"Liam asked if he could have my daughter's hand in marriage, and I said yes if I could be in his brother [Chris Hemsworth]'s next movie," Billy Ray told Us Weekly. "Now, they are going to have three weddings, so I'm thinking one movie with Chris, then we got the sequel to Liam's new movie coming out. They have got three weddings, that has to be three movies for me."
Unfortunately for Billy Ray's blockbuster dreams, Miley said she's planning no such thing.
"There's some rumor going around that I'm having 47 weddings, I'm not. I'm having one wedding, that's my day, and whatever I want on that day it'll be about me and that moment, that look of love," she told Ellen.
And while she doesn't know when her wedding will be, she does know exactly what she's aiming for: perfection.
"I'm so focused on my record, that I don't want to kind of be in between touring and trying to plan all that. ... It's a lot of weird detail. I don't want to be doing too much and be crazy and forget about the moment of it all," the 19-year-old said. "That moment of when he first gets to see me in my dress, and everything all together - it has to be perfect, it has to be like the soundtrack in like a movie."
A wedding day, she continued, is "the one day where that movie crap is real, that romance. I've been to probably 10, 20 weddings, and I've seen that real look five, six times. It's rare that people just stop to really look the person in the eye and know that this is your life together."
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Staring her 30th birthday in the face, pink slip from her Los Angeles-based online magazine in hand, Marisa Lynch went to drown her sorrows in a showing of the end-all, be-all of 365-day-adventure journeys: Julie & Julia.
By the time she walked out of the theater, Marisa was inspired to use the sewing skills she inherited from her mom, a home economics teacher, to turn secondhand fashion rejects into stunning runway knock-offs. Plus, because it was the height of the Recession and she was newly "funemployed," Marisa decided she was going to do it all for less than $1 a day,Gorgeous Vintage Wedding Dresses gowns are a modern and elegant alternative to strapless. and her blog New Dress a Day was born.
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Marisa's passion is sharing her love for "crafternoons" and creative "zhuzhing" of thrift store finds with fashion-hungry (yet broke) ladies everywhere with the publication of her new book, New Dress a Day: The Ultimate DIY Guide to Creating Fashion Dos from Thrift-Store Don'ts (Ballantine, 2012).
As promised in our inaugural DIY Boston post, we're kicking off the first of our DIY Boston Nights workshops this weekend with a book signing and crafter reception for Marisa!
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What's the first project you remember making/crafting?
First project was a sweatshirt in 7th grade home ec. I chose teal, obviously, because it was 1992. That was the first project with a sewing machine!
Most successful project? Biggest fail?
Most successful project ? hmm, I'd say any of the pieces that I've done for other people. I just did a wedding veil for a girlfriend who got hitched and she was beyond moved. Things like that are the most successful to me ? she was happy, so I was happy! Biggest fail ? I think that some projects I love more than others, but none I'd say was a total fail!
What do you DIY the most?
I love muumuus. I think I was Homer Simpson in a former life.
Favorite/least favorite tools/materials?
Obsessed with Fray Check and glue guns!! Is it weird that I love the smell of hot glue?
Has a project outcome ever surprised you?
YES! I just finished a piece that I wore to a wedding that I dyed. I wasn't sure how the color was going to turn out and it ended up being a subtle shade of blue and absolutely stunning!
What's the best advice you've ever received?
As long as you feel good in what you're wearing, that's all that matters!
What's your top tip for first-timers?
I know it might be scary to cut a garment that is in perfectly fine condition, but start with baby steps and go crazy Edward Scissorhands-ing an old t shirt or rag before you begin on a piece you're super excited about.
Anything you DIY now that you never thought you would?
I've been starting to do a ton of home pieces! Not that I didn't think I would, but starting to carve out time outside of garments has been awesome!
What won't you ever DIY/when do you call in the experts?
Ooh, that would have to be anything that cost a fortune or something like a pair of excellent pants or a blazer that needs perfection tailoring. For those pieces, I will drop them off to a real, pattern-experted, professional tailor.
"When I'm not making stuff, I'm..."
Watching copious amounts of television. Obsessed with Breaking Bad, Homeland, and Revenge! And cooking ? I have a monthly cooking club with girlfriends, so I love to go hog wild with epicurious recipes!
Have you ever lived in Boston?
I've never lived in Boston, however I applied to Boston College (and got in!!) and some of my best friends are Emerson, BC, and Northeastern grads. Straight up love for the Pats, even though I'm a Jets fan tried and true. What...Tom Brady is a babe?!?!
AT 9 p.m. Friday, the Eastern Bloc, a popular gay bar in the East Village, was ready for business. The Beastie Boys' “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)” blared, and the room was bathed in a red glow.
“The power's on, the ice machine is going, we threw out all the bad fruit,” said Matt Nasser, the bartender. “We're cutting fresh ones and the alcohol didn't go bad.”
But not a single customer was yet in sight. Most still seemed to be at home, recovering from Hurricane Sandy by cleaning out their refrigerators and reflexively turning on every light switch and testing every household appliance, just to reassure themselves that power had really returned to Lower Manhattan.
That would soon change. For four sleepy nights, the bars, restaurants and A-list spots that make downtown Manhattan a party capital went dark. So when the lights flickered back early Friday evening in the East Village, SoHo, Chelsea and elsewhere, bars were open practically within seconds, with patrons partying at the (aptly named) Electric Room at the Dream Downtown hotel past 3 a.m.
They were mindful, of course, that many in the region were still without power, or even homeless, but there was a need to get back as fast as possible to their old routines.
Diners trickled back to their favorite restaurants, TriBeCa and Chelsea residents swapped tales about what it had been like to live in the foreign land of the Upper East Side or Brooklyn, and a wedding went off without a hitch, even though the bridal party didn't know for sure until Saturday morning where the reception for 300 would take place that afternoon.
Around 10:30 p.m., the veteran party promoter Erich Conrad was having a drink with friends at the Bowery Hotel. He stayed there all week in the dark because at least it had cold water, which was more than he could say for his apartment. And as he told it, he'd had a blast.
“It was very 'Downton Abbey,' ” Mr. Conrad said. “We were kind of sad when the lights went on. It was really nice to be here with people. It was beautiful, and the staff was so nice.”
Matt Misbin, 22, who was sitting at Calliope, a neighborhood restaurant, agreed. “It was a democratizing experience,” he said. “Because no one had power.”
The meatpacking district, which suffered extensive flooding, was devoid of the outer-borough visitors who swarm its cobblestone streets on weekend nights. Most establishments were closed, but life was returning to the Dream Downtown just north on West 16th Street near Ninth Avenue.
By 11 p.m., a small crowd was gathering at the Electric Room, a popular underground club that decided at the last minute to hold a Sandy recovery party. “With the name, it was just too good — the irony,” said Nur Khan, who runs the club.
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By early morning, a lively crowd had converged, ready to shake off the previous week, even as basic provisions like food were hard to come by. “I had to ask my roommate if I could have our last can of chicken and bean soup before I came tonight,” DJ Elle Dee said.
The mood picked up Saturday night. After power was restored to the West Village and the rest of Manhattan, and residents had time to put their apartments in order, night life came roaring back.
Over at the corner of Kenmare and Elizabeth Streets, a parking garage was transformed into a “Power-On” party, hosted by the owners of the Smile and Tacombi.
Downtown artists, models in short boots and fashion insiders hiked up three flights of concrete stairs and took over an entire floor of the garage, which had been decorated with a disco ball and dry ice. Chicken, pork and corn tacos were dished out of a VW bus. Vodka and fruity flavors of Red Bull, mezcal shots and beer were served. Everything was free, but the point of the party was to raise money. Donations were taken for storm relief efforts.
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And life went on, if not resiliently, then with a new lens. Carlos Quirarte, another owner of the Smile, had trained for Sunday's canceled marathon.
“Some of us guys are going to do a run tomorrow anyway, maybe a 20-miler,” Mr. Quirarte said on Saturday. “After that, we're going to the Rockaways to help out.”
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The US reality TV star, currently dating Kanye West, is curvier than most A-list celebs and famed for her volumptuous bottom, so she must know too well the pressure to dress to suit your shape.
Kim recently admitted she'd put on 15 - 20lb after letting herself go dating Kanye West.
'I'm hoping to slim down a little bit, and I'm not afraid to say it,' says Kim. 'I think everyone goes up and down in whatever that comfortable love relationship phase is where you like to eat out, but now it's time to get it together again.'
And her sister Khloe has recently admitted she finds the struggle to look good tough too.
She says: 'It isn't easy. My weight fluctuates, like any normal girl, and I have times when I feel insecure. Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be.'
So come on Kim and co, think about everyone else who isn't a perfect size 10!
We love the figure-hugging lace evening dress, printed blazers, purple body-con dresses and super-sexy lingerie - wouldn't it be nice if size 18+ could wear it as well?
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