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A smiling Cerys Matthew admitted she was “excited” by her jungle pals’ wedding plans for her and former EastEnders star Marc Bannerman.

Anna Ryder Richardson and Christopher Biggins came out with their plan for her nuptials to the former star of EastEnders star Bannerman as they sat around the camp fire.

Cerys replied: “Don’t, can you imagine? I can’t let myself think that. I know it’s just so exciting.”

Then, miming she was putting something to one side, Cerys added: “I almost have to go like this for a minute.

“Just concentrate on this, but have that smiling in the back of my head.”

Cerys, who admitted last night how “exciting” it would be to think of marrying Marc Bannerman, has insisted she will never get married again, despite her fellow campers making plans for the wedding

Pantomime dame Biggins said: “Can we come to the wedding? We have already got our hats haven’t we?”

Ryder Richardson, who last night became the sixth person to be voted off the jungle celebrity show, added: “We planned the gifts last night, the venue, the food… honeymoon’s already booked.”

Remembering Bannerman’s ex-girlfriend, she then warned: “We mustn’t do this because his… might be watching.”

The former Catatonia singer was recently divorced from the father of her two children, American music producer Seth Riddle.

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It may sound like the shopping list for a party at Hugh Hefner’s place, but they are the essentials for a suburban Sydney wedding so flamboyant it has gone viral on the internet.

Pictures of Kosta and Yanna Elsefes’ big day have been circulating by email with some unflattering commentary about the couple’s nuptial tastes, The Sunday Telegraph reports.

But it doesn’t bother Yanna, who said she had wanted a wedding that reflected her interests.

Her choices included three stretch Hummers, a red carpet off the street and down the aisle, hot pink and black wedding cake, and a $9000 wedding dress inspired by the Guns N’ Roses ballad November Rain.

On the side were seven bridesmaids, dressed in low-cut black cocktail dresses; seven groomsmen, in black overcoats and pink suspenders and a seafood spread for 220 people. The cost: $70,000.

“Everyone that walked in said, ‘Yep, this is Yanna!”’ the 25-year-old said.

“I’ve seen a few comments with people saying things like ’slapper’ and whatever but, you know, it was my wedding. That’s how I wanted it and I loved it.”

One of the main themes was wrestling. The self-professed wrestling fan organised twin pyrotechnic blasts for the newlyweds’ arrival at the reception at Dockside, Darling Harbour.

“We love WWE - I’m a massive fan - so we had the bridal party walk in to different wrestling themes like (wrestlers) The Big Show and Batista,” Yanna said.

The Kogarah couple spared no expense.

“I was booking the Hummers and then we decided we needed three,” she said. “I called the guy and he told me there was a hot pink one but it was in Melbourne so we paid $5000 to have it shipped to Sydney.”

And that dress with its detachable train for when the dance floor beckoned?

“It was inspired by November Rain,” Yanna said. “I saw (the video clip) when I was little and I always said, ‘That’s the dress I’m having for my wedding.”’

One Astoria couple is hoping that US Weekly and WeddingChannel.com will be able to give them their dream wedding.

Matthew Ossenfort and Jeffrey Denke had been good friends for about two years before becoming a couple about a year ago. Ossenfort said that it wasn’t until he and Denke grew closer as friends that they understood the potential for a relationship. Six months ago, the two got engaged.

Knowing of the engagement, a friend of the couple sent them an e-mail about the second annual Dream Wedding Contest, which is held by US Weekly and WeddingChannel.com.

I think he was probably somewhat joking,” Denke said of the friend’s e-mail.

However, the two decided to fill out the application anyway, even though they were not even sure if it was open to couples of all orientations.

At the beginning of June, Ossenfort and Denke found out that they had been selected as one of 10 finalists.

“I jumped up and down in excitement for the first time in my whole life,” Ossenfort said.

The two are the first same-sex couple to be selected as finalists.

“It’s just nice to know a large company such as US Weekly and WeddingChannel.com are open minded enough [that] it doesn’t matter what our sexual orientation is. It’s wonderful progress and a nice feeling.”

The finalists are now online and the public can vote for who they want to win. Voting will be held through June 18 and the winner will be announced on June 25.

Ossenfort said that the couple loves the idea of getting married at the Cloisters in Manhattan and that they want their wedding to be “an exciting, great big party with all of our friends and family.”

Denke also said that a dream of his is to have Joan Osborne perform at their wedding. He said that she does a cover of the Bob Dylan song “To Make You Feel My Love” that is the couple’s song.

“That’s not an everyday wedding thing,” Denke said.

To read more about Ossenfort and Denke’s story or to vote for them, visit www.usmagazine.com.wedding.

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Stacey Libby said marrying the love of her life is like a fairy tale. But then, the Keene, N.H., woman saw the price tag — so she’s decided to try to get a sponsor, asking for businesses to use eBay to bid on the rights to her day.

A business can bid to pay for all or part of the wedding, and the couple will let them advertise, WMUR reported. However, Libby will pick the colors. And she’s not giving up control over the dress.

Her finance, Jim MacNevin, recently found out about the arrangement, but said he’s not letting anything get in their way this time. The couple’s relationship bloomed in high school, but then they went their separate ways, reuniting online seven years later.

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Enchanted star Amy Adams is determined to keep her upcoming wedding as low-key as possible. She wants to elope with fiance Darren Le Gallo and wed in secret.

The couple became engaged last summer after Le Gallo proposed during a night out in New York.

And although they haven’t set a date for the wedding, Adams, 34, insists she won’t be throwing a star-studded party to celebrate her nuptials.

She says, “After Enchanted the idea of being in a big, white dress is not as exciting as one would think. I have a feeling that one day we will wake up and decide to get married and we’ll just go off and do it. Actually I would like a wedding that was just over. Isn’t that unromantic?

“There is so much emphasis on having the perfect wedding and I think that’s great if it’s something you have fantasized about your whole life, but that’s never been my fantasy.”

An Alton couple is hoping to win a $60,000 wedding of their dreams.

Kim Charlton, 24, and Jeff Dondanville, 25, are vying for Lou Fusz Automotive Network’s Dream Wedding Giveaway, one of 360 couples hoping to win a package that includes $15,000 toward the purchase of a new car at Lou Fusz Automotive and other prizes by sponsoring businesses.

The couple has dated for the past five years and was engaged on Dec. 19, 2008, at the St. Louis Zoo. The couple is planning an Oct. 24 wedding.

Charlton works as a teaching assistant at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and she is finishing her master’s degree in speech communications.

Dondanville is employed as a file clerk for Heyl and Royster Law Firm in Edwardsville and will working on his master’s degree beginning in the fall.

Charlton’s twin sister, Angel Adams, and the maid of honor, said the couple entered the contest hoping to alleviate the wedding costs because they are also preparing for their first child.

“Kim and Jeff are paying for their wedding almost completely on their own,” Adams said. “They are both working full time, attending school as well as preparing to be parents. They’ve been through a lot together and have the biggest hearts of anyone I know and are deserving of this.”

The couple is expecting a daughter, who they plan on naming McKenna, and want to include her in the big day.

Adams said that she and her sister’s father doesn’t have the extra funds to contribute toward the cost of the wedding and their mother is battling terminal cancer so it’s been a somber time. If they were to win it would be a boost for everyone in the family, she said.

Visit www.loufuszgiveaway.com to vote. The voting deadline is May 31.

Send a request for an announcement form, along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope, to Weddings and Engagements Desk, Journal Inquirer, 306 Progress Drive, Box 510, Manchester, CT 06045-0510. The charge is $49 for standard wedding and engagement announcements, with or without photographs. Announcements appear Friday.