Thursday December 18, 2008
In the February/March issue of Modern Bride, Bride Wars stars Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson dish about weddings.
Hathaway says her "favorite wedding moment" is when her older brother and his boyfriend got hitched a few years ago.
"At one point, he and his husband were standing up there, and my mom got up to sing," Hathaway recalls. "She was just beaming straight love into them, and everyone felt it, and it was just this really beautiful moment.
"When Mike and Josh booked the place, it was before daylight savings time, and the sun was pretty high up in the sky," she continues. "Now it was at eye level, and it was blinding! Burn-your-retina bright!
"We sent my cousin's boyfriend down to Canal Street [in New York City] with $250 to buy as many sunglasses as he could, and we put them on every other seat. Everybody just put on their sunglasses, and we have some great pictures of that!" she says. "It's all about crisis management, isn't it?"
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As for Hathaway, "I'm not the sort of girl who dreams about her wedding," she admits.
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But lately, she says she's found herself putting together her
"ideal wedding playlist."
"I haven’t thought about the food; I haven't thought about the look; I haven't thought about my dress. I haven't really thought about the guy ... but every once in a while, I'll listen to a song, and I'm like, 'I want that at my wedding!'" she says.
Her must-haves: "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs; "Walken" by Wilco and "You Are the Best Thing" by Ray LaMontagne.
"That's going to be, like, the No. 1 wedding song for the next 25 years -- trust me!" she says.
(Don't play Celine Dion's "All By Myself" or Donna Summers' "Last Dance," she advises.)
Hathaway also urges women not to try to feel perfect in their wedding dress.
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"I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That's a concept I don't find very interesting anymore," she says. "Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that's where some of the pressure comes from.
"Be happy. Be yourself," she says. "The day is about a lot more. But if your lifestyle is not as healthy as it should be, and it's motivation to try something new, maybe that's for the best. I know Kate would advise everyone to take a pole-dancing class."
Hudson also has some advice for the big day.
"No. 1: Make sure you're ready to get married, that you're really sure you want to do this," says the actress, who wed Chris Robinson in 2000 and split six years later.
"And No. 2," she adds, "I would say really good placement of the bar! At a wedding you want to have a good time. Have special cocktails that are really fun for people."
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And remember, Hudson says, girlfriends are always more important than guys.
"We all need girlfriends," she said. "At my sister-in-law's wedding shower, my mom [Goldie Hawn] said, 'I want you guys to look around at each other. At the end of the day, men come and go. Sometimes reality can be difficult, but the girlfriends you are next to allow you to work through the things in your life. Because when trouble happens with boys — which it does — it's your girlfriends who hold you up.'"
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