Ashlee Simpson and Fall Out Boy guitarist Pete Wentz were married on Saturday in an "Alice in Wonderland" themed wedding. Papa Joe Simpson performed the nondenominational service, which took place about 7 p.m. It's the first hitching for both the 23-year-old bride and her 28-year-old groom, who, sources have told E! News, are expecting their first child. source
We know why Papa Joe performed the wedding. He wanted to make sure Pete Wentz didn't run away from the Ashley Simpson wedding deal. People confirmed that Ashlee Simpson is knocked up and expecting her first child. At Jessica Simpson's wedding to former boy band singer Nick Lachey Papa Joe made sure the Reverend gave the speech about how Jessica Simpson was wearing her white wedding dress because she was an innocent virgin. Poor Papa Joe couldn't give the same speech at Ashlee Simpson's wedding because she's preggers. Don't be sad for the Simpson clan because there are rumors that a sequel to the MTV hit Newlyweds starring Ashlee Simpson and her new husband Pete Wentz is already in the works. Ashlee Simpson has been denying rumors of a Newlyweds spin off series. However, Pete Wentz also denied the couple was having a shotgun wedding because Ashlee Simpson was pregnant. We wonder how long this marriage is going to last? Nick and Jessica announced they were getting divorced shortly after newlyweds went off the air. Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson were married for three years. Our guess is that they'll stay married as long as the checks keep rolling in to them. Jessica Simpson secured several lucrative multi million dollar endorsement deals as a result of her Newlyweds fame as the "dumb blonde" during their short marriage.
Watch Nick and Jessica's Wedding on Newlyweds
In their first months of marriage, they opened their lives to the ever-vigilant cameras of MTV, in the ever-prurient milieu that is reality television, and they did so to promote their pop albums, a strategy that actually worked, but only because it turned them into cartoons -- him the eye-rolling everyman, she the fuckable ditz -- and if they hadn't made that choice, if they hadn't been such eager strivers, so ready to talk about their "farting contests" and their "toe jam" on television, then maybe we'd feel a little less invested in the story. But they invited us to the party. And they can't ask us to go home now. Not when the party has started to heat up.
Lachey and Simpson met at the Hollywood Christmas Parade in December 1998, when he was a member of the boy band 98 Degrees and she was a sweet, Southern, virgin songstress trying to distinguish herself from that other sweet, Southern, virgin songstress. The pair met again a month later at a Teen People party, after which Lachey phoned his mother in Ohio and said, "I've met the woman I am going to marry." source
Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz were married Saturday evening in an intimate ceremony, their spokesperson tells PEOPLE exclusively.
"We're delighted to confirm that Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson were married this evening in front of family and close friends," said the spokesperson.
Simpson, 23, wore an ivory lace wedding gown by Monique Lhuillier accessorized with a diamond necklace and earrings by Neil Lane as she and Wentz, 28, exchanged vows in front of 150 guests at her parents' Los Angeles area home.
Dad Joe Simpson performed the non-denominational ceremony, while sister Jessica served as maid of honor. Wentz's English bulldog, Hemingway, was the ring-bearer. Guests included Jessica's boyfriend, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, as well as actor Donald Faison with girlfriend CaCee Cobb. With the help of wedding planner Mindy Weiss, Simpson got her dream nuptials: The Alice in Wonderland themed reception featured a wedding cake by Sam Godfrey of Perfect Endings with a top hat, tea pot, stop watch and a pot of flowers on top. The elaborate centerpieces of black beauty roses were by Mark's Garden. Guests were served Rose Veuve Clicquot champagne followed by a sit-down dinner and dancing to a deejay.
Simpson, who is pregnant with the couple's first child, and Wentz, the bassist for Fall Out Boy, have been linked since the fall of 2006, when they were spotted kissing at a New York nightclub. They announced their engagement last month.
"He's a cutie," Simpson told PEOPLE last year. "He has an awesome personality and kind of brings out the best of me and I knew that even before we were dating. There was just like an awesome connection we had." source
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