The Most Memorable TV Wedding of All-Time: Prince Charles & Lady Diana - INSIDE TV Names the Top 10.NEW YORK -- In honor of the June wedding season, INSIDE TV, the magazine for women who love television, has named its Top Ten Greatest TV Weddings of All-Time with the No.1 spot going to the lavish July 29, 1981 wedding of PRINCE CHARLES and LADY DIANA SPENCER at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. More than 750 million television viewers worldwide were transfixed by the ceremony, where a 20-year-old Lady Diana arrived in a glass coach wearing an ivory-silk gown with a 25-foot train and 10,000 pearls, while her Prince wore his regal naval commander uniform. Two other TV weddings in 1981 made INSIDE TV's "Most Memorable" list: LUKE and LAURA Laura, subject of the love poems of Petrarch. She is thought to be Laura de Noves (1308?–1348), wife of Hugo de Sade, but this has not been proved. Laura Petrarch’s perpetual, unattainable love. [Ital. Lit. (No. 2) of daytime soap smash "General Hospital," with 30 million viewers tuning in making it the highest-rated hour in daytime drama history, and MORK & MINDY (No. 9), the lovable alien who wed his bride and then honeymooned on his home planet, Ork. Here's the complete list from the June 6 issue of INSIDE TV, on newsstands June 2: 10. TINY TIM & MISS VICKI (December 17, 1969): Famed ukulele ukulele (y kəlā`lē), Hawaiian musical instrument developed from the Portuguese guitar. It has a fretted fingerboard and four strings that are plucked or strummed. player and falsetto falsetto (fôlsĕt`tō) [Ital.,=diminutive of false], high-pitched, unnatural tones above the normal register of the male voice, produced, according to some theories, by the vibration of only the edges of the larynx. singer Tiny Tim tiptoed down the aisle with Miss Vicki (29 years his junior) surrounded by ten thousand tulips in America's first televised wedding. More than 45 million viewers stayed up past midnight to catch the wacky marriage live on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson, where the couple toasted the nuptials with milk instead of champagne. They divorced in 1977 after having a daughter, Tulip. Tiny Tim died in 1996. 9. MORK & MINDY ((October 15, 1981): Intergalactic in·ter·ga·lac·tic adj. Being or occurring between galaxies: intergalactic space. in sparks flew when Mork (Robin Williams) and Mindy (Pam Dawber) decided to get hitched despite Mindy's disapproving dad and a rule on Mork's home planet, Ork, outlawing marriage. They had a son, Mearth from Earth, who aged backwards like his dad -- and stayed together until the end, proving that true love can transcend galaxies. 8. RHODA & JOE (October 28, 1974): Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper) finally found the man of her dreams in divorced Joe Gerard (David Groh) after a string of dating disasters. More than 60 million viewers watched the bride take the subway to the ceremony on "Rhoda," then the second-highest rated hour of any TV show behind the birth of little Ricky on "I Love Lucy I Love Lucy is a television situation comedy, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, also featuring Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on CBS (181 episodes, including the "lost" Christmas episode and original ." Sadly, Rhoda and Joe divorced two years later. 7. ROB & AMBER (April 16, 2005): Amber Brkich's dreams came true when she said "I do" to fellow reality co-star Rob Mariano at sunset on a beach. The spectacular affair at the Atlantis on Paradise Island, Bahamas - organized by star wedding planner Colin Cowie -- was filmed in secret last month for the two-hour CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. special, which aired on May 24. The two swapped vows surrounded by shells to remind them of their "Survivor" days, and are still in honeymoon heaven. 6. MONICA MONICA Cardiology A WHO initiative–Multinational Monitoring of Trends & Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease–which evaluated the effects of various factors on mortality in Pts MIs & CHANDLER (May 17, 2001): Clutching a bouquet of red roses, Monica Geller (Courteney Cox) floated down the aisle to an awaiting Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry), who was wearing a matching rose. With millions of "Friends" fans glued to their sets, the wedding wrapped Season 7 with a mystery over whether Monica or Rachel was pregnant. The Bings eventually moved to the suburbs after becoming parents of twins. 5. TRISTA TRISTA Trojan Intermediate Support Activity & RYAN (December 6, 2003): Wearing a satin Badgley Mischka gown, "Bachelorette" Trista Rehn descended down a lighted stone staircase before marrying Ryan Sutter in a lavish $1 million ceremony festooned in her favorite color -- pink. The opulent outdoor nuptials aired live on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. from the Lodge at Rancho Mirage, California Rancho Mirage is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 13,249 at the 2000 census, but the seasonal (part-time) population can exceed 20,000. , where their vows were nearly drowned out by paparazzi pa·pa·raz·zo n. pl. pa·pa·raz·zi A freelance photographer who doggedly pursues celebrities to take candid pictures for sale to magazines and newspapers. helicopters. They're still living happily ever after The term happily ever after is used in association with many works of children’s fiction and romantic fiction. It describes a happy ending, often a cliché in which all the good characters have emerged victorious and all the evil characters have been punished. . 4. DR. MIKE & SULLY (May 20, 1995): Studly studly - Impressive; powerful. Said of code and designs which exhibit both complexity and a virtuoso flair. Has connotations similar to hairy but is more positive in tone. Often in the emphatic "most studly" or as noun-form "studliness". "Smail 3.0's configuration parser is most studly." Byron Sully (Joe Lando) slipped a ring on the finger of Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) during their Colorado Springs frontier wedding, making her Dr. Quinn, Married Woman. Mike's self-righteous mother and two sisters arrived from Boston before the wedding with dresses in tow, hoping they would replace what the doc had in mind. The couple is still married -- it must be Dr. Quinn's healing touch. 3. CAROL & MIKE (September 26, 1969): "The Brady Bunch" officially became one big, happy family when Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widower with three sons, married Carol (Florence Henderson), a widow with three daughters. During the ceremony, the boys' dog, Tiger, knocked over the wedding cake, which ended up all over the groom's suit. The newlyweds, feeling guilty, even invited the kids on their honeymoon. Even though the couple lived a harried life with six kids (and Alice, their maid), their idyllic marriage stayed intact. 2. LUKE & LAURA (November 16, 1981): "General Hospital" star-crossed lovers Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) and Laura Webber (Genie Francis) was America's royal couple, and soap fans nationwide skipped work and school to witness their wedding day. In the highest-rated hour in soap history, 30 million viewers tuned in to watch the daytime supercouple finally tie the knot. Sadly, they divorced after 20 years. 1. CHARLES & DIANA (July 29, 1981): It was the fairytale wedding of the century when Lady Diana Spencer arrived in a glass coach to marry her Prince Charles. More than 750 million people worldwide were mesmerized by the lavish ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, officiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the main leader of the Church of England and by convention is also recognised as head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The current archbishop is Rowan Williams. . Diana wore an ivory-silk gown, and mixed up Charles' long family name during the vows. They divorced in 1996 and Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Last month Charles married longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles. |
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