Nick Lachey: Why I'm Marrying Vanessa Minnillo on TV
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Lights, camera, "I do!"
When Nick Lachey swaps vows with girlfriend of four years Vanessa Minnillo later this year, he'll do so in front of TV cameras, but the groom-to-be says the decision to share their big day with the masses didn't come easily.
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"We kind of wrestled with that for a while, for obvious reasons," Lachey told reporters Saturday during his bachelor party at TAO in Las Vegas. "Having done reality TV in the past, I didn't necessarily want to jump right back into it without having thought it through to great length, and we did."
One of the key reasons Lachey, 37, was OK with the cameras? They won't be there for long.
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"It's a one-off special; a chance to kind of have a great experience and a great moment in our lives documented on TV, and also for us, to have a great wedding video at the end of it," Lachey says of their TLC wedding special, to be broadcast shortly after the couple swaps vows.
Lachey famously allowed reality cameras to document his first wedding -- and the honeymoon phase -- with Jessica Simpson. Lachey and Simpson, 30, were married from 2002 to 2006; much of their marriage was captured in the MTV reality show Newlyweds.
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But Minnillo, 30, best not get used to the cameras. Her hubby-to-be says that while he's happy to have them around now, he'll be just as happy to see them go.
"I would never want to put ourselves through a reality show again," Lachey confirmed. "This is a different process: There's a beginning, an end, and then it's over, it's done."
In the meantime, Lachey cautions fans not to expect a wedding to rival Prince William and Duchess Kate's.
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"It's going to be an intimate [ceremony]. It's not going to be a big, blown-out, 400-person ceremony in Central Park or anything like that," says the singer. "[Our wedding is] for us, for the people in our lives who are close to us and mean a lot to us. That's the way we wanted it, and I'm happy we're able to do it that way."
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25What exactly has this guy done and why does anyone care? Who is that chick other than his girlfriend? Sorry but I don't see how or why EITHER of them is getting any media attention. WHO CARES? The only reason he's marrying her on TV is because that's as close to a TV gig as he can get!
definately, i like Nick & wishes him & Vanessa all the best..
Hahaha, I so totally agree with Christine Tyler. Funniest thing ever.
Oh someone posted this Link on a Fake Vanessa Minnillo Facebook page, funny how i've met her before and she has said "she does not have a Facebook or a Myspace" they're even posing as Nick's sister in law Lea and Brother Drew. I know their Real FB pages! Just Facebook Search Lea dellecave and the profile with the little girls back is the real lea and she has her Husband added. Fake Vanessa: facebook/vanessajoyminnillo Anyone who wants a good laugh add her and it will make your day.
Oh someone posted this Link on a Fake Vanessa Minnillo Facebook page, funny how i've met her before and she has said "she does not have a Facebook or a Myspace" they're even posing as Nick's sister in law Lea and Brother Drew. I know their Real FB pages! Just Facebook Search Lea dellecave and the profile with the little girls back is the real lea and she has her Husband added. Fake Vanessa: facebookcom/vanessajoyminnillo Anyone who wants a good laugh add her and it will make your day.
Oh someone posted this Link on a Fake Vanessa Minnillo Facebook page, funny how i've met her before and she has said "she does not have a Facebook or a Myspace" they're even posing as Nick's sister in law Lea and Brother Drew. I know their Real FB pages! Just Facebook Search Lea dellecave and the profile with the little girls back is the real lea and she has her Husband added. Fake Vanessa: facebookcom/vanessajoyminnillo Anyone who wants a good laugh add her and it will make your day.
the last i heard about Nick Lachey was back in 2006. I honestly think he's broadcasting his wedding on Television because he and Vanessa need the money. They aren't well known. No i am not saying that out of hate i love nick and his music and vanessa seem's like a nice lady but come on? a person with half a brain could even figure that out.
vanessa minnillo looks a lot older than 30. i thought she was the same age as nick or older.
hes a dork and shes really hard face for a 30 year old,,hasnt he learned anything from hes other marriage,,hate these terds
Smug-faced, ugly, arrogant attention wh0res--that's why they're marrying on TV. They're so desperate and pathetic to hold on to their 15 minutes that should've expired a long time ago.
Intimate my @$$. Have fun for those tuning in to give them ratings and money...as if they don't have any...whatever....
why would anyone wants a camara in their face when they wed (intimate means we r both break and need the money)
seriously how can he call it "intimate" and say "its just for us and those close to us" when its televised?
they need money member nick did't get much from jess this chick has non either what she was hosting a show before she meet him on the set of his first post jess video and hold on to him for dear life ok look respect jess for her business savy hope it lasts anyway
I'm sorry, but if you have respect for your relationship, you don't trot it out in public for everyone to gawk at. And how arrogant to think that he and his girlfriend are famous enough for anyone to even care about watching this.
Nick Lachey: Why I'm marrying Vanessa Minnillo on TV = because we need money
can you say cry for relevancy if it didn't work last time it ain't going to this time. why don't they just elope in vegas it's cheaper oh yeah I forgot neither of them are that smart
I call BS. Nick and Jessica's wedding was televised and these two want the same. Problem is: who cares about these two? Not many people based on the coverage they get.
she is just a jessica wannabe, has to have her life and be like her, including having the same tv wedding, such a copy cat...i guess some people are not creative. i will be too busy cleaning the bathroom when this is on.
I will Def. Watch. When is it?