Weddings

Stand down, secret-wedding watchers: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are still only engaged, not married. A jewelry swap by Jolie for the purposes of a U.N. humanitarian trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday had some imaginations churning. Us Weekly, which has apparently been watching Jolie's left hand very carefully, first called attention to a gold band that replaced Angie's massive sparkler during the trip to meet with survivors of sexual violence. Jolie had first touched down in Rwanda on Sunday.

Jesse James has done it again: He's gotten married for the fourth time, this time to drag racer Alexis DeJoria. Dude really likes being married. The two were married Sunday, according to People , which reports the ceremony took place at her father's Malibu home. They got engaged last November. PHOTOS: Celebrity splits of 2013 John Paul DeJoria, DeJoria's dad, is a co-founder of Paul Mitchell hair-care products and the Patron Spirits Company, the mag said.

Anyone who's ever planned a wedding, or even thought about planning one, knows a good portion of the budget goes to the dress. Lace, taffeta, beading -- it's all expensive. Ever wondered how something a little cheaper would fare as a dress material? How about toilet paper? Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com launched its ninth annual Cheap Chic Weddings Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest, sponsored by Charmin, on Tuesday. If you can make a beautiful wedding dress out of toilet paper, you could win $2,000 toward the dress of your dreams or make your masterpiece the star of a wedding.  Last year's grand prize winner Susan Brennan created a playfully sophisticated dress called Bohemian Cupcake . To make your dress, use some Charmin Toilet Paper, tape, glue and or needle and thread.

Ian McKellen is gearing up to officiate the wedding of "X-Men" costar and friend Patrick Stewart. In other words, Magneto's marrying Professor X. On the British talk show "The Jonathan Ross Show," the 73-year-old film, stage and TV actor announced that he'd be performing the marriage ceremony for Stewart, 72, and his fiancee, jazz singer Sunny Ozell, 35. "I'm going to marry Patrick," "The Hobbit" actor said after the host listed out his...

It's been less than 24 hours since Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici went public as a couple, and it doesn't seem like the newly engaged pair will be drifting from the spotlight anytime soon. First, ABC announced early Tuesday morning that Sean would be joining the cast of "Dancing with the Stars," which starts airing in less than a week. Then -- as part of their nonstop media tour -- Sean and his lovely lady jumped on a call with journalists to discuss their wedding, which will be televised later this year.

The bride was Mexican. The groom was Iranian. Vanessa Domenech of Best Dream Weddings brought in mariachis and belly dancers. The Woodland Hills wedding planner has done Latin weddings and Filipino weddings. She'd like to try her hand at Chinese ones. And although she's planned Sikh nuptials, she has yet to do Hindu - which is why she signed up for "Indian Weddings 101. " CITY BEAT: More stories from the city Knowledge of white dresses and waltzes may be all you need in some places.

Just the name Neil LaBute can be a litmus test - garnering knowing smiles, dismissive eye rolls or even cursing. The filmmaker and playwright, who frequently shines a light into the darker corners of the male psyche, certainly gets a response out of audiences and critics; his work on stage and screen has been called misogynistic and even misanthropic. LaBute burst onto the film scene in 1997 by adapting his own "In the Company of Men," and in 2003 he adapted his play "The Shape of Things" with the stage cast including Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz.

Things are going pretty well for Miami Heat superstar LeBron James. James has led the Heat to 16 wins in a row and the reigning NBA most valuable player will soon marry his high school sweetheart, Savannah Brinson. TMZ obtained a copy of the couple's "save the date" card, which they recently sent out to family and friends. Looks like the couple will wed in San Diego during the weekend of Friday, Sept. 13, through Sunday, Sept. 15. The "Save the Date" they sent out features a cartoon of LeBron, Savannah and their two children each dressed in wedding attire, on a plane to a beachy destination.

It's time to batten the hatches, cover our ears, shut off the radio, toss out half the mail. In other words, it's campaign-ad season, a time to protect yourself from a barrage of lies, damn lies and, worse, misleading half-truths. But I needed the traffic report the other day, and in an unguarded moment switched on the radio. And before I could find out why it would be faster to walk to work than drive (have you noticed they almost never tell you anyway?), there was a strange ad spot by the supremely well-funded Coalition for School Reform -- the group that received $1 million from New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg alone to back candidates who, to put it simplistically, oppose the teachers union in the three races for the Los Angeles Unified School Board.

Matt Damon is reportedly getting married again - to his wife and mother of his children, Luciana Barroso. Seems their discreet city hall ceremony back in December 2005, while official, wasn't the stuff of their dreams. Now, more than seven years and three daughters later, they're planning a destination wedding to be held in April, according to the New York Post. "They had a really low-key wedding in Manhattan," a source told the Post's Page Six , "so now they want to do something bigger.