Hollywood beauty Hillary Duff and Mike Comrie are now officially husband and wife.
The 22-year-old actress and the Canadian hockey player married on Saturday during an intimate ceremony in Santa Barbara, California, reported OK magazine.
Dressed in a white mermaid gown by Vera Wang, the Lizzie McGuire star said “I do” to the 29-year-old, in front of hundred of their closest family and friends.
Duff was escorted down the aisle by her mother Susan while sister Haylie and four friends were bridesmaids. The couple, who began dating in 2007, first met on a trip when they both visited a resort in Idaho.
Comrie proposed during a Hawaiian getaway in February this year, a move that came as a pleasant surprise to both Duff and her family. “I’ve never met anyone who can say a bad word about him. He’s generous, caring and sunny. We just laugh our heads off,” Duff had said about her husband-to-be in an interview.
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jazz singer Lincoln dies at 80
New York: Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln, whose six-decade career included acting and composing, and who participated in the US civil rights movement, died in New York on Saturday at age 80, the New York Times reported, citing her brother.
The Chicago-born Lincoln, who was often said to have been strongly influenced by famed jazz singer Billie Holiday, began her singing career in the mid-1950s with Abbey Lincoln’s Affair...A Story of a Girl in Love and performed until shortly before her death.
She also appeared in several films, including For Love of Ivy opposite Sidney Poitier in 1968, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe, and The Girl Can’t Help It, a 1956 Jayne Mansfield vehicle about rock ‘n’ roll in which Lincoln sang.
During the 1960s, she was married to jazz musician Max Roach, and became a strong advocate in the civil rights campaigns of the era.
—Reuters