The more I hear about this story, the sicker it gets. Dadager Joe Simpson just can’t stop meddling with his daughters’ relationships, and now that football star Tony Romo has broken it off with older daughter Jessica, he still can’t mind his own business. With younger daughter Ashlee getting married to emo poster boy Pete Wentz this weekend, Papa Joe is imploring Romo to show up to the wedding. But is it because he has his daughter’s best interest at heart, or is he hoping that if Tony shows, the media might actually give a crap about this stupid wedding?

Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson may be done, but her dad still wants the quarterback to “support the family” at Ashlee’s weekend wedding.

“Joe has called Tony and asked him to come to show support for the wedding,” a source tells Usmagzine.com.

It’s unclear if Romo accepted Joe’s request, but he’s scheduled to fly into L.A. over the weekend.

Romo wasn’t present at a bachelor party Joe threw for Pete and a few of his pals at Mr. Chow’s on Thursday night. E! reports a steady supply of beer and wine was brought to their table. After the celebration, Joe picked up the $1,000 tab!

(Back at Ashlee’s parents’ Encino, California, home, Jessica and mom Tina threw a bachelorette party for Ashlee that E! reports was a “mellow affair.” About a dozen of Ashlee’s closest family members and friends attended the backyard event, decorated with balloons.)

Ashlee (who is pregnant) and her fiancé Pete Wentz are tying the knot on Saturday. Big white tents were being set up at her parents’ home on Thursday. For more exclusive wedding details, click here.

“Proper invites have not been sent out but instead guests have been given a save the date notice,” a source told Us.

The rehearsal dinner – described by the source as “an intimate affair” for “family and close friends only” – will take place on Friday.

[From Us Weekly]

Oh, sure - like the Simpson family EVER hosts a party for family only. I’m convinced that Jessica, Ashlee and their parents would probably cease to exist of they stopped being photographed and interviewed. Papa Joe has orchestrated both of these “relationships” for his desperate fame whore daughters, and you can bet he will orchestrate their break-ups as well. If I were Tony Romo, I would change my name and start playing for the Canadian Football League.

E! Online (who continues to spam our comments through the crappy Cashmere agency) has an exclusive about Ashley Simpson’s bachelorette party ahead of her unanticipated Saturday wedding to rocker Pete Wentz.

The party was thrown by Ashlee’s sister, recently-single Jessica Simpson, and their mom, Tina, and was held at her parents’ home in Encino, California last night. Tents and balloons were set up outside for guests and the party lasted from the “early evening” until before midnight. It’s described as “mellow” so I guess we can assume there were no stripping firemen. Maybe they went crazy and exchanged lingerie and ate from a penis-shaped cake.

Pete Wentz and his future father in law, Joe Simpson, had dinner at Mr. Chow last night with some of Wentz’s friends. They had a lot of beer and wine, and Joe picked up the $1,000 tab. Hopefully Wentz went out with his buddies later for a little fun without papa Joe.

Pete was sporting a sparse-looking moustache that continued down the sides of his chin. He deflected questions about whether Ashlee was pregnant by saying “all I can think about is this moustache.”

Jessica Simpson has got to feel down about her sister’s wedding. She’ll probably be going solo after a public breakup, but seems to have planted a story that “she will never forgive [Tony]” and “they are over for good” if he doesn’t go as her date. There are stories in OK! Magazine and US Weekly which sound like they’ve been planted by Jessica’s rep. Both say that the breakup is confirmed by “insiders”, but that they have split up in the past and might get back together again. It sounds to me like Jessica is trying to save face and still holding hope that it’s not over.

Update: That outing at Mr. Chow with his father in law was Pete Wentz’s bachelor party, according to People. The poor guy.

Ashlee Simpson is shown on 5/2/08 outside of Riverside studios, thanks to WENN.

Here’s the video of Ellen telling her studio audience that she’s getting married. She joked “I’ll tell you who the lucky guy is soon.”

She got choked up, and said “If I’m this emotional now just saying it, I can’t imagine how that’s [getting married] going to be. It’s something that we’ve wanted to do, that we’ve wanted to be legal, and we’re just very very excited.”

Ellen’s partner Portia de Rossi is shown in the audience smiling and clapping. She looks like she’s crying a little too.

Ellen made the announcement yesterday after California made same sex marriage legal. The episode in which she broke the news to her studio audience airs today.

It did occur to me that they should get a prenup, which is a smart move for even the most stable couples. Ellen’s net worth is estimated at around $65 million. She has been with Portia since December, 2004.

Yesterday California’s supreme court overturned the ban on sex sex marriage, which makes it the second state after Massachusetts to allow same sex partners full marriage rights. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would uphold the decision by his state’s Supreme Court, having twice vetoed past bills by the Legislature legalizing same-sex marriage. His reasoning for rejecting the bills was a referendum in 2000 which banned gay marriage and was approved by 60% of California voters. Now Schwarzenegger says that he respects the court’s decision and will not overturn this ruling.

Same sex couples should be able to marry in a month or so, according to the Associated Press. Conservatives want to block the measure with an amedment to the state Constitution barring same-sex marriage, but Schwarzenegger has already stated that he would not support it and will abide by the court’s ruling.

Ellen Degeneres, 50, announced that she would marry her same sex partner of three and a half years, Australian actress Portia de Rossi, 35, as a result of the legalization of same sex marriage in their state. She is said to have told her studio audience in an episode to air today that they will make their union legal.

Both People and US Weekly quote Ellen’s interview with the Advocate, in which she called Portia her “perfect fit,” and said “She’s taught me lessons about myself, and I feel like I’ve taught her. We’ve both changed and grown, and we just feel like, ‘Oh, ok, this is completion.’”

Congratulations to Ellen and Portia and best wishes for a lifetime of happiness together.

Ellen and Portia are shown at the GLAAD media awards on 4/26/08, thanks to WENN.

Crazy Papa Joe Simpson must be dancing with glee at youngest daughter Ashlee’s supposed upcoming nuptials. Why, you ask? Because he’s filled with joy that his daughter has found the love of her life? Because he’s relieved that the possibly-maybe-who-knows knocked-up singer is at least being made a decent woman? We think it’s most likely because he’s supposedly demanding seven figures from whatever mag wants to cover Ashlee’s nuptials. That’s right, it’s all about the numbers.

How much would you pay to attend Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson’s “secret” wedding? We hear a seven-figure sum is being offered for exclusive coverage of this Saturday’s hush-hush nuptials.

The hastily planned wedding is coming just two months after the couple announced their engagement, doing little to quash rumors of Simpson’s pregnancy. And the event itself is so classified that even invited guests don’t have all the details. Friends and family received cryptic Evites (classy!) telling them to book hotel rooms in the L.A. area, and that they’ll be picked up by private cars. One warning: Cell phones and cameras are strictly forbidden.

We hear that Simpson has chosen a Vera Wang gown (hopefully with an Empire waist!), while Wentz and his groomsmen will don Dolce & Gabbana tuxes. Meanwhile, Ashlee’s big sis, Jessica, is said to be hosting a rehearsal dinner at her house Friday night.

While this might seem like another Hollywood romance unlikely to last, a pal of the couple says their co-dependence will stand the test of time. “Ashlee is so needy - she just hangs all over Pete,” says our mole. “But he loves it. He’s always had a thing for vulnerable girls. In a weird way, they complete each other. I can’t imagine one would ever leave the other.” Ain’t love grand!

[From Rush & Molloy]

What says love more than a big payout to your dadager and an evite? Look, Simpson family, this isn’t helping your reputation any. Evites are for a last-minute bar hopping when you’re bored at work and have nothing better to do than design some asinine invitation with a pig theme. I don’t care where you’re from or how you work it, it’s not for your wedding. Especially if you’re going to be wearing a Vera Wang gown and the men will be in Dolce & Gabbana. At least spend the $30 and drop by your local Target. I’m sure you can figure out how to work your printer within a couple of hours.

Never put it past Joe Simpson to milk his children’s happiness for all it’s worth. At this point he should just be glad there’s a man willing to deal with a Simpson woman for longer than 15 minutes. I hope he’s offering Pete Wentz some kind of dowry or something. It should really be a “Thanks for agree to put up with me for the next 35 years until the sweet release of death finds me.” That’s almost as inspirational as an evite.

Here’s Ashlee arriving at the Riverside Studios and signing autographs on May 2nd. Header of Ashlee and Pete at the Bravo Supershow 2008 at Arena Nurnberg on May 3rd. Images thanks to WENN.

Rumors were flying around the interweb last week that Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson were going to get married this past weekend. I would have found it deliciously ironic if the pair wed on Mother’s Day, considering all the rumors of her possible impending pregnancy. But supposedly the gossip was off by a week, and now they’re supposed to get married this weekend.

Despite their coy efforts to keep it a secret, In Touch can confirm that Ashee [sic] Simpson and Pete Wentz will tie the knot on May 17. “It’s going to be a small, intimate gathering,” an insider says. On May 8, at a performance for troops at California’s Camp Pendleton, Jessica Simpson announced that she will be her little sister’s maid of honor.

In Touch was the first to break the story of Pete and Ashlee’s engagement, after Pete popped the question in Colorado. Then the couple announced it on friendsorenemies.com: “Yes, we are thrilled to share that we are happily engaged. Thank you for all of your support and well-wishes — it means the world to us.” And although Ashlee remains mum about a possible pregnancy, insiders insist that she’s expecting. “They’re keeping it quiet because they want to get married first,” another insider reveals.

[From In Touch]

I’m 99% pretty sure Ashlee is doing all of this to get free publicity for her new album. I’m guessing she’ll be in a constant state of “getting married this coming weekend” for at least another six months. If she’s rumored to be pregnant for another year or so, I’m going to find her and snap her CD in half over her head. I’m sooooo on to you Ashlee Simpson.

I have two unarguable reasons for this belief. Number one: she is Joe Simpson’s daughter, and therefore biologically commanded to try to abuse the media for free press. Number two: who in the world could commit to spend the rest of their life with Pete Wentz? Do you really want to give birth to babies that come with their own eyeliner? Even as a Simpson girl, I should think the answer is no.

Despite my bitchery, Ashlee and Pete may really be getting married this weekend. Us Weekly is all over the story as well.

Note by Celebitchy: Jenna Bush got married last weekend, and I think papa Joe Simpson made the executive decision to postpone his daughter’s nuptials for a time when they wouldn’t be overshadowed by the marriage of a sitting duck president.

The last time we reported this story, we checked on the sales figures for Ashlee’s new album, Bittersweet World, which has about a quarter of the sales of her last CD. It debuted as number 4 on the Billboard 200 and has since sunk all the way down to 31. A wedding isn’t goind to do much for her waning popularity. She’ll have to wait until she has that maybe-baby and lands the cover of a magazine. At least it will earn her some cash.

Ashlee is shown in the header on 5/7/08 outside her hotel in NY. She is shown with Pete Wentz below in Paris the day before, 5/6/08. Thanks to Splash.

The White House has released official photos of Jenna Bush’s wedding ceremony and reception. She looks beautiful and her special day seems like a perfect mix of elegant touches with a down home celebration. Jenna, 26, and her new husband, Henry Hager, 30, are thought to be heading off to a European honeymoon. The new couple will return home to a two bedroom townhouse in Baltimore, Maryland. Jenna has a job as a schoolteacher in Washington, DC, and Henry will work for an energy company in Maryland. Best wishes to the new couple.

We posted full details of their wedding ceremony and reception earlier today.

All photos thanks to WhiteHouse.gov. Jenna and Henry are shown with their parents including Mr. and Mrs. John Hager, and with the reverend who officiated their ceremony, Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston’s Windsor Village United Methodist Church.

Update: The photos have been released of Jenna’s special day and it looks incredible.

There was a very good editorial by Diane Roberts on NPR today about how Jenna missed a chance at a wedding that would have been as close to a royal occasion as is possible in America. Roberts cited some Presidents’ daughters who chose to have White House weddings that were attended by the press and followed closely by millions of Americans. If Jenna would have had that type of wedding it might have provided her lame duck President father a brief blip in his terrible ratings, but it also would have made her a target.

As it is, we only have one old pre-released photo of Henry and Jenna and the details about their wedding. They chose to go the Beyoncé and Jay-Z route and haven’t even released a wedding portrait yet. (Update: Here’s a link to the photos of Jenna’s wedding)

Here are some details from People and an NPR story.

• A rehearsal dinner was hosted by Hager’s parents for around 100 people in Salado, Texas on Friday, and all the wedding guests were invited.
  

• The wedding and reception were outdoors.
  

• Jenna wore “an embroidered organza Oscar de la Renta gown” that’s described as simple and elegant. She did not wear a veil.
  

• Her twin sister Barbara was the maid of honor and wore a de la Renta dress that was cut low in the back and was “moonstone blue shimmer with a silver sash.”
  

• There were 14 other attendants in her “house” party, which sounds less formal than a standard wedding party.
  

• The men wore suits, not tuxes, with Henry in a dark blue suit and powder blue tie. His brother was his best man.
  

• He had 14 ushers in his party also. They are said to have walked the women to their seats but not to have been involved in the ceremony.
  

• The bride and groom stood at a special beige limestone cross made for them of the same stone used on the ranch home on the estate.
  

• The wedding was officiated by Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston.
  

• Wedding singer Tyrone Smith or “Super T” and his 10-piece band provided the music for the reception. He is described by People as “a favorite at Southern frat parties.”
  

• The first dance was “Lovin’ in My Baby’s Eyes” by Taj Mahal, and the father-daughter dance was “You Are So Beautiful.”
  

• Jenna and Henry are thought to be honeymooning in Europe. They will live in a two bedroom, two bath house on Baltimore’s south side. Jenna will return to her job teaching at a public school in Washington, DC and Henry has a position with energy company Constellation Energy. He will graduate with his MBA from the University of Virginia next month.

[Many bulleted details nearly word for word from NPR report.]

Other weddings of sitting presidents’ daughters
NPR reminds us that the most extravagant White House wedding in recent history was President Nixon’s daughter Tricia’s live wedding broadcast from the Rose Garden. Tricia Nixon married liberal Harvard law student Edward Finch Cox on June 12, 1971, when the Vietnam War was still in full force. Cox was featured on the cover of Life Magazine twice after her wedding, which Life called “akin to American royalty.”

In contrast, Dorothy Bush, Jenna’s aunt, got married in a super secret ceremony in 1992 at Camp David when Jenna’s grandfather was President.

An aid to President HW Bush explains in part why Jenna chose a more low-key event: “If they’d have gone on TV, the wedding would have been shown all over the world and Jenna Bush would have been an international celebrity — and she would have been a target. They’re preparing the transition to private life and they’re not particularly interested in seeing Jenna Bush become a huge celebrity.”

You understand why they didn’t have a wedding at the White House and it seems like a wise decision for them. The whole world would have made fun of Jenna instead of her dad for once.

Best wishes to Jenna and Henry for a normal family life. They’re a very cute couple and they seem to be off to a good start, all things considered.

Here’s Tricia Nixon and President Nixon at her 1971 wedding in the Rose Garden, the only wedding held there in history.

See People Magazine’s latest edition for the tattoo photos
When you hear that Nick and Mariah got each other’s names tattooed on their body as a symbol of their undying six weeks of love, you assume that they’re small to medium tattoos of the type that are regrettable but easily lasered off or covered over after an inevitable break up. Johnny Depp had his “Winona Forever shoulder tattoo altered to read “Wino Forever” and Angelina Jolie had her “Billy Bob” tattoo removed and replaced with the coordinates of her children’s birthplaces.

The disparity between Nick Cannon’s tattoo for Mariah Carey and Mariah’s “Mrs. Cannon” tattoo is huge, though. Hers is easily covered up and is hard to see. She has a small butterfly at the base of her spine with “Mrs. Cannon” in script as the center line of the butterfly. It’s nearly impossible to see and you can’t tell that the center of the butterfly is actual writing unless you’re right up close.

Nick Cannon has “Mariah” tattooed across his entire upper back in giant half-cursive writing with a mirror image of the tattoo beneath it like a reflection. That is going to be super painful to remove. What’s more is that these two got the tattoos right after they met each other, because Mariah told People it had been a “few weeks” since they had the tattoos done and they’ve only been together for six weeks. Scary Spice and Eddie Murphy also got tattoos for each other almost immediately, and look how that worked out for them:

On how they connected immediately while collaborating on “Bye Bye” video

Nick: From the first time we sat down to discuss the video… we connected. We had so much in common spiritually, and we laugh at the same things. I didn’t have to put on my Mac Daddy suave mode. I was able to be myself with her. We are both eternally 12 years old.

Mariah [laughing] We were having a [sic] such a good time on the shoot.

Nick: I brought her little pieces of candy. I’d write little third-grade notes instead of being over-the-top.

Mariah: He wrote a note, “Will you be my girlfriend?” with boxes for yes or no. In the video, we’re boyfriend and girlfriend. It seemed very natural.

[From People Magazine, print edition, May 19, 2008]

On if their friends were surprised by the marriage, and about their tattoos

Mariah: Some were, but some weren’t. One thing [few people] knew was we got tattoos a few weeks earlier. So anyone who saw my [Mrs. Cannon] tattoo wasn’t surprised.

Nick: To me rings are special and exciting, but tattoos mean more than anything. They’re forever and ever. They professed our love.

Mariah: And they hurt!

Nick: A lot.

[From People Magazine, print edition, May 19, 2008]

How Nick Proposed with a Ring Pop, filmed it, then did another take for the cameras

On April 25 Cannon took Carey to the roof of her NYC apartment to see the Empire State Building, lit pink and lavender to honor her album E=MC². As he often did, he gave her a Ring Pop - candy shaped like a big jewel. But inside the wrapper was a 17-carat pink-diamond ring… Her reaction? “He had ribbons around it, so I said ‘I think mine’s broke,” says Care. When he drpoped to one knee, “she ran away and got all shy,” he says. Finally, she said yes - twice. Cannon, who filmed it all, proposed again to get a perfect take, this time on a helicopter. “That,” says Carey, “was beautiful.”

[From People Magazine, print edition, May 19, 2008]

So Nick says they both act 12, that he sent her candy with little notes on it, and that he even proposed with candy. And he taped the proposal twice so I assume it will be on television at some point after someone pays a hefty sum for it. They marked their names on each other like a junior high student writes on a notebook cover, and then topped it off by having an impulsive wedding. Mariah wasn’t stupid though and she seems to have hedged her bets. Reports say she did get a prenuptial agreement. Now that I know her tattoo for Nick is tiny and hard to decipher she seems to have thought this through much more than I previously gave her credit for.

Here’s a clip from Oprah with some of the photos that are now in People. It’s pretty funny.

Thanks to Huffington Post for the video. You can see more wedding photos in the latest edition of People Magazine.

Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey were predictably photographed outside the Waverly Inn in NY last night. The Waverly is the Ivy of the East Coast, and celebrities go there to get their picture taken and be noticed. The newlyweds showed off their matching over-the-top diamond studded wedding bands. Nick and Mariah were also dressed similarly, with Nick in a suit and Mariah wearing a matching button-front tailored dress with pockets. US Weekly notes that they were at the Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People event also that evening.

The National Enquirer has details of their wedding reception and ceremony, which included 40 guests Mariah flew down to the Bahamas, a cake she had made in NY which she personally brought with her, and white roses and pink bows decorating her Bahamian estate. A walkway was built down to the beach for the ceremony.

Before jetting off to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, where she owns a spectacular, $5-million, 3-acre compound called “Sea Lilly,” the singer bought five “itsy-bitsy bikinis” from Beach Bunny Swimwear that look like lingerie, an insider told the Enquirer.

The happy couple hired two Gulfstream private jets to fly 40 of their closest pals - including rapper Da Brat - down to the island the day before the ceremony.

“Mariah was in a really happy mood, and she and her guests were popping open bottles of Dom Perignon champagne on the runway as soon as they got off the airplane,” says an eyewitness…

Mariah had her cake made in New York and was so concerned about it arriving in one piece, insiders say she kept it in the seat next to her during the flight!

While guests were transported to local hotels… Mariah and Nick immediately set of to get a wedding license…

By the time they had arrived [at Mariah’s estate] cars had been rented, dozens of brightly blooming tropical plants had been planted and a wooden walkway had been erected to the beach for the sunset ceremony.

“It was really beautiful - they had lined up the chairs upstairs so that guests could see down onto the beach, where the wedding would be held, and there were white roses and pink lace bows everywhere. The whole house looked like a wedding cake!” said another insider…

Later, guests dined on lobster flown in live in a tank of water on a commercial jet from Fort Lauderdale, FL, while dozens of white roses decorated the interior of her house.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, May 19, 2008]

Best of luck to them, but if these two last longer than 9 months I will be surprised. You really need to know someone for more than a few weeks before you rush into marriage. You hear those stories about old married couples who met and married haven’t spent a day apart in 50 years but I think those are the very few exceptions. When two celebrities are involved the odds are definitely stacked against them.

Look at how Mariah is eating up the attention as usual while Nick looks kind of dazed and unsure. They’re not on the same page at all.

Thanks to Splash News for these photos.