David Letterman and his long-time girlfriend Regina Lasko have finally gotten married!  The couple have been together since 1986 and they have one son together:

“They say, ‘Well, why did it take you so long to get married?’ and, of course, the answer honestly is we wanted to make sure we had the prenup just right,” he joked.

The TV host tied the knot at a courthouse in Montana on Thursday and announced the big news at Monday’s taping of CBS’ “Late Show” in Manhattan.

“I had avoided getting married pretty good for, like, 23 years,” he said. “I secretly felt that men who were married admired me – like I was the last of the real gunslingers.”

Letterman, 61, didn’t explain why he decided to bite the bullet, but he noted that when he headed to the courthouse in a pickup truck with Lasko, 49, and their 5-year-old son, Harry, they got stuck in the mud.

“So now we think, ‘Well, somebody’ll come. No, nobody comes along. Nobody comes along – it’s Thursday afternoon, who’s coming along, Zorro?

“So I get out of the truck and I walk 2 miles back to the house into a 50-mile-an-hour wind. It’s not Beverly Hills, it’s Montana, for God’s sake. And the whole way, I’m thinking, ‘See, smart ass, see, see, you try to get married, this is what happens. See, well, you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself….

“So then we get in the car and Harry says, ‘Are we still going into town?’ and I said, ‘Yes, we are,’ and he gets very upset because mom had told him if I wasn’t back in an hour, the deal was off.”

Dave was married once before but was divorced in 1977, and he famously had a long relationship with Merril Markoe, former writer and producer on Late Night.

You know what my first thought was when I heard Dave had gotten married?  “Won’t his mom be thrilled!”

Best wishes to the happy couple!

The world’s two most boringest attention junkies decided that they just weren’t getting the sort of press they thought they deserved lately, so they decided to make their traveling roadshow more of a permanent run and got hitched:

“The minute we said our vows, I couldn’t stop crying,” Montag, 22, tells Us.

At the altar, Pratt, 25, told his bride: “Heidi, from the moment you came into my life, I knew my life would never be the same without you. You are the light in my life like the sun to the earth! Your loving warmth makes me want to be a better person. Being with you, I feel complete. I’m honored to even be able to call you my wife. You are the most amazing, loving and caring woman on this planet. I will love you forever and always.”

Someone who might not be so thrilled? Montag’s mother.

“I called her right before the ceremony, sort of hinted that something that happened, but her reaction was to ask me if we were breaking up! I told her it might be something else, and she said, ‘Well, if you ever plan on getting married just know that your stepdad is really upset that you want your father to walk you down the aisle,’” Montag tells Us.

“She was starting so much drama, it kind of pushed me toward wanting to get married without that,” she adds. “I don’t know when I’ll tell her.”

Giving Exclusive! interviews to Us is her very reason for existing.  Who are they fooling?  Their whole relationship is a media event.  These two are about as real as Heidi’s breasts.  Wonder what they spent their check on?

Heidi couldn’t stop crying after her vows, and I couldn’t stop crying because this is about the most interesting thing that has happened in the celeb world so far today.

Taking bets on when we get the Exclusive Divorce Details?

Anyone of a certain age knows Bob Geldof, either as the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats or as founder and organizer of Band Aid, Live Aid, and Live 8, respectively.  He’s long been a champion of the impoverished and starving in Africa, and funds raised from his various charity works have gone to help the poor in that country (although some would argue that the funds also backed, albeit inadvertently, the Derg military junta in Ethiopia).  Some in the press have taken to calling him “Saint Bob” because of his humanitarian efforts.  Never one to shy away from controversy, he has used his polarizing nature to bring the spotlight to his chosen issues.

But at what price?  His former lover and wife, Paula Yates, left him in 1994 for Michael Hutchence of INXS, who was found hanged in his motel room in 1997.  She herself died of a drug and alcohol overdose in 2000, and Bob (who had full custody of he and Paula’s three daughters together), took custody of Paula and Michael’s daughter, Tiger Lily.  His three daughters with Paula, Fifi, Peaches, and Pixie, have been in and out of the spotlight in varying degrees for various minor and major scrapes.  And now there is news that Peaches, 19, has had a quickie Vegas wedding to a rocker she barely knows:

The 15-minute ceremony last week had only one witness and Peaches is reported to have told her father only two hours beforehand.

Mr Drummey, 23, has remained in the U.S. where his unknown band, Chester French, are rehearsing for a concert.

There is mounting speculation the wedding was a stunt to promote Drummey’s band who are about to release an album and are currently touring America. [...]

Days earlier she is said to have left her previous boyfriend Faris Badwan, singer in the English band The Horrors.

Peaches said in last weekend’s Sunday Times she had a tattoo of a noose and a book dedicated to Badwan, which she explained ’symbolises me being owned by [him], for him to have a rope around me’.

But by last Tuesday she was marrying Drummey – who bears a striking resemblance to her father – at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Vegas.

While news of a rush-rush hush-hush wedding can cause any parent nightmares, it seems this is just the latest adventure in the life of Peaches.

But wait, there’s more…

Girlfriend is going to get whiplash if she keeps turning around this fast.  A few weeks ago, Mariah Carey declared that she would feel “violated” if she became pregnant, but now says that she’d love to have a little bun in the oven:

The Hero singer said: “It’s (having children) part of the whole purpose of getting married.

“I’d just want our children to have the best childhood and upbringing they possibly could.”

The pair expressed their love for one another in the most modern of romantic gestures, by getting tattooed:

Speaking for the first time about their speedy marriage to American magazine People, Mariah revealed she had got a ‘Mrs Cannon’ tattoo before the nuptials, with Nick getting a simple ‘Mariah’ etching.

He proposed to her in a surprisingly fitting manner for her personality…by using a kiddie candy ring (which was actually kind of cute, imo):

Nick proposed to Mariah on April 26 on the roof of her Manhattan apartment as they watched a lighting display on the Empire State Building to celebrate the success of her new album E=MC2.

He surprised Mariah by presenting her with a kids’ ring pop candy ring, which had a £1.25million, 17 carat diamond ring hidden inside the plastic casing.

Nick said: “She ran away and got all shy.”

During a helicopter ride over the city later that night, Nick proposed again and Mariah finally accepted.

And by the way, those rumors that she didn’t have a prenup?  Rubbish, according to her:

Mariah apparently told a mutual pal of ours: “Anyone who thinks we didn’t have a prenup is smoking something!”

Hmm.  Quickie wedding, sudden u-turn on having kids?  I think she’s in the club.

Don’t you just love that “Oh my goodness, how embarrassing to be caught out, let me put my hand with the enormous ring on it up to my face in an attempt to look properly shy” look she’s rocking in the photo?  Nick just looks…shellshocked.  He’s got to learn how to work it like Mimi if he’s gonna roll with her.  She’s gonna go home and beat him with one of her zillions of shoes for screwing up her photo op.

Placing bets on how long this lasts?  Either way, Nick Cannon is set for life.  (I still wonder if she lets him use the Hello Kitty bathroom!)  I hope he gets used to catering to her every whim, however…there’s no way she’d ever let anyone upstage her.

And get this…she done went and got hitched without a prenup, to a man eleven years younger than she is.  Yes, reports are that Mariah and Nick Cannon got married yesterday, and nobody even saw it coming:

Carey married TV actor Nick Cannon at the home she just bought in Eleuthera in the Bahamas, a source close to the singer said.

“They have been smitten with each other for days, weeks,” the friend said. “And she’s always had a crush on him.”

And about that absent prenup thing?  Apparently, they were in too much of a rush to get married to worry about it:

“Everyone is happy to see her happy,” Carey’s friend told The Post. “And it could work out – some people know each other for five years and get divorced. Maybe this is true, instant love.”

Not everyone is so over the moon.

“There was no prenup – there wasn’t time,” said another worried source.

You’d think that someone who has been around the business as long as Mariah has (and with one divorce already under her belt) would know better than to get married without a prenuptial agreement.  If they were able to keep things under wraps so well thus far, then what was the big rush?  I might say it’s the tried-and-true reason that most people rush weddings (that Cannon shot her full of lead, if you get my drift), but everybody knows that she’d feel too “violated” to get pregnant.   And we wouldn’t want to steal the spotlight from Mariah, would we?  Stock up on those Trojans now, Nick!

I don’t care about the age difference thing, but for someone as wealthy as Mariah to marry without a prenup is pretty foolish.  She’s been through this once…she should know that sometimes it isn’t always “true love”.

Well, I hope Nick can learn to sleep in a room where there are twenty humidifiers surrounding the bed.  That is, when he isn’t lining her path with scented candles and a red carpet.  Wonder if she’ll let him use the Hello Kitty bathroom?

Good luck, buddy…you’re gonna need it.

Over the weekend, Giants Super Bowl-winning quarterback Eli Manning done went and got himself married up to his long-time girlfriend Abby McGrew:

Giants quarterback Eli Manning wed his college sweetheart Abby McGrew during a beachfront ceremony at sunset Saturday.

About 60 loved ones flew to Mexico to join Manning and his bride for the intimate ceremony at the One & Only Palmilla, a swank resort along the Sea of Cortez on the Baja Peninsula.

Manning, 27, and McGrew, 24, exchanged vows while standing on a platform in the sand as waves crashed over rocks behind them.

The family was on hand to wish the happy couple well, including Super Bowl-winning brother Peyton, who offered some words of encouragement before the ceremony.

It seems that the whole event was laid-back, enjoyable, and fun for everyone:

Hours before the ceremony, Manning worked out pre-wedding jitters, hitting the gym by 10 a.m., running furiously on the treadmill, lifting weights and doing push-ups for an hour and and a half.

During the rest of the day, the Super Bowl MVP and his bride stood by the old adage that the groom not see the bride the day of the wedding. [...]

Manning’s parents, Archie and Olivia Manning, were overjoyed to see their youngest son get hitched.

Archie gave a heartfelt toast Friday night before a rehearsal dinner in front of the resort’s old Spanish Mission Chapel, getting tears in his eyes as he raised his glass.

Manning and McGrew met when they were students at Ole Miss. He proposed last March during a quiet date in Hoboken.

The couple is famously low-key and kept their wedding plans under wraps until just last week.

Wedding guests remarked all weekend about how relaxed Manning had made the celebration for all of them.

Good for them.  I’m happy for Eli, whom most people wrote off as a QB while he was still trying to find his footing with the Giants.  Say what you will about the Mannings (yeah, people have, and I’m sure more will in response to this post), at least we don’t see photos of them splashed across every newspaper and sports section in the land for all the wrong reasons.  When was the last time you saw either Peyton or Eli in the news for drunk driving, or being busted for drugs, or for beating up their wife/girlfriend?  They seem to have settled down since college (like most people do) and all you hear about now are either their prowess on the football field or their philanthropy works.

And face it…it’s refreshing to see a famous couple who don’t need to get over themselves.  Rumor is the wedding set Eli back about $500,000, which by celeb wedding standards is pretty modest.  And spending the day floating around in the pool with your buddies while your big brother tells embarrassing stories about your youth sounds to me like any good ol’ boy’s wedding, not some stuck-on-himself overinflated-ego jock who believes the world revolves around them just because they can throw a football.  It’s a nice palate cleanser.

Best wishes to the happy couple!