Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres wore a white vest and pants while actress Portia de Rossi was decked out in a lacy dress, as the lesbian couple wed at their Los Angeles home this past weekend in a ceremony caught on camera by People magazine.
While the Saturday ceremony was a closely guarded affair, People posted details and images on its Web site.
Candles and flowers surrounded DeGeneres and de Rossi as they wed. They sat on floor pillows with Wayne Dyer, the author of books on spiritualism and self-help, who officiated the ceremony.
“She’s officially off the market,” DeGeneres told People of her new spouse. “No one else gets her. And now she’ll cook and clean for me.”
Just how much de Rossi will be expected to cook remains in doubt, given that People reports the couple has a personal chef named David Silberkleit, who prepared an all-vegan meal for the wedding.
DeGeneres hosts daytime talk show, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” and De Rossi has starred in the television shows “Arrested Development” and “Ally McBeal.” The couple started dating in 2004.
The wedding of DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, was one of the most highly anticipated same-sex weddings since the California Supreme Court in May overturned a state ban on those unions.
A ballot measure before the state’s voters in November threatens to override the court’s decision. Gay and lesbian groups, dismayed at the prospect of losing a hard-won right, have expressed hope that happy same-sex couples getting married will help convince voters to support the unions.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis)
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I say You stay in your bedroom and I’ll stay in mine.What two consenting adults do is none of anybodies business.The ones that cry the loudest about whats right and wrong,generally have their own skeletons.Do not judge another,unless thee be judge or something close to that.I say be happy,love long.My husband and I have been blessed to be together over 27 years.I wish the same for all couples no matter what their sexes.
- Posted by Priscilla RiveraI AM SOOOO HAPPY FOR ELLEN ..THERE COULD NOT BE A NICER HUMAN BEING IN THIS WORLD THAN HER ..SHE’S ALWAYS THE FIRST ONE TO GO OUT OF HER WAY TO HELP OTHERS ..SO GLAD SHE’S HAPPY .. SHE FOUND THE LOVE OF HER LIFE -AND SHE IS HAPPY THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS
- Posted by LAURIEHow does a lesbian couple decide who wears the pants and who wears the dress? Are they both each other’s “Wife”?
- Posted by Susan WestonHeterosexual?
There’s so many things that are missing in people’s interpretations of the Bible. Look at it this way if you are a Christian: what was his point in our life? Who’s word are you taking –Moses’ or another prophet or Jesus’ actions and/or teaching? Who stated the whole thing about homosexual being doomed? Not Jesus.
Just remember the point he was trying to make with the Samaritans and don’t take another prophet’s word OVER Jesus himself and you might understand the point that I am making here.
As Jesus said, we have no right to pass judgment on others –we only have the right and requirement to love others.
- Posted by CoreyTypical, expected response from someone like David.
Does anyone else agree that the people who demand understanding and compassion and tolerance are they themselves the most intolerant and unyielding and compasionless of them all?
Delia is entitled to his/her feelings. I’ve found the my gay friends not only think they are right, they KNOW they are right. And if you don’t agree with them (this is America right?) you are against them.
I don’t care one way or another whether anyone gets married (aren’t there more important issues like AIDS, war in Iraq and health insurance?) When the Gay community respects my beliefs and feeling (even if you don’t agree with them!), I will respect theirs. It’s that simple.
- Posted by Martyabout he comment by DAVID I think that you are close minded and need to open up and move on.
- Posted by NikkiA heterosexual marriage at its basic element produces life, same sex marriages cannot. The opposite of life is death and therefore these types of relationships by their inability to produce life, bring death. This is also why society should protect the institution of marriage between a man and a women and relegate its benefits to only these types of unions. Life produces benefits to society that non-life producing unions cannot. Therefore they should be protected and given certain rights that same sex unions should not. On an individual basis, they can be productive and a vital part of our society, but to class them within the same class as life giving marriages is insanity.
- Posted by Johni think this is awesome, good for them, they deserve happiness.
- Posted by MisticalI feel your sarcasm David…I just don’t think it’s the best way to persuade someone who is clearly open to the idea of acceptance - even if she hasn’t quite gotten there yet. Good for you Delia for being willing to go as far as you have. Hopefully, with time, you’ll see that we’re all just people who need food, shelter, companionship and all the other necessities of life. Some of us just need these things in different forms than others. Oh…and before I forget the topic of the story…congratulations to Ellen and Portia. May your lives together bring you as much happiness as you’ve shared with all of us - and more!
- Posted by MeTPHow small-minded of people in this day and age to think
- Posted by Lizanyone should take away the rights of gay and lesbian couples to marry. Why should the fact that any two people in love want to marry make you uncomfortable. As for David’s comments - there is nothing ungodly or ugly about people wanting to love and take care of each other, your comments are what sound hateful.
Congratulations to the wonderful couple! How lucky that they found such love in each other. How great for all of us that they are willing to be so open and public with their relationship. Best wishes to them and to all the newly-married same-gender couples. They deserve the happiness and joy, just as every couple does. Thanks, Ellen for your courage.
- Posted by BarbWhat gives you the right to decide if others can be happy or not? Talk about being ungodly. If they are happy let them be, just cause it is not for you does not mean that it is not for them. And further more my guess would be that you are all jelous because Portia De Rossi is beautiful. Good luck to them and I hope they live happily ever after. PS I am a married (to a man) mother of 2 so I am not homosexual.
- Posted by sadieWhy should’t gay couples be able to get the same right as a STRIGHT couple. We can say I do and not really mean it just like the hertosexual. What is the divorce right in the hertosexual would these days…40-50%says USA Today..
- Posted by justoutmomAm I the only one disturbed by the headline on this story? It seems to imply that in same-sex relationships that one partner must assume the masculine role and the other the feminine. It’s this kind of mistaken thinking that makes people uncomfortable with same-sex marriages.
- Posted by Rickfolks,FEAR GOD,Do not ruin your life.Oneday You have to give account all your deeds.God loves you.Trust on HIM.
- Posted by joythajoytha
WHO CARES BEYOND DeGENERES AND Her BFF?
- Posted by code warriorpeople are people, everyone has different beliefs and no one, I mean no one is more right than the other. Two happy people were married because they love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together. As soon as our country realizes that, the better. Oh, which god were you referring to in the phrase “ungodly”, is it not more “godly” to wish people happiness instead of judging them? Isn’t there only one (aka “God”)that is suppose to do the judging at the end of time?
- Posted by FeatherWell I don’t think I’m now comfortable with heterosexual couples being married, It’s still kind of weird in a way, ah Delia?
It’s just not right, rather un-godly and most definately an ugly prospect.
- Posted by DAVIDI don’t know if I’m totally comfy with the idea of two girls or two guys being married. It’s still kind of weird in a way. I guess I’ve been okay with civil unions. Maybe over time I, and everyone else, will accept gay and lesbian marriages and be happy for them.
- Posted by DeliaCongratulations to the happy couple. It will be interesting to see if a lesbian celebrity marriage has more longevity than a heterosexual celebrity marriage. Something tells me that a marriage is a marriage regardless of the sexes of the betrothed.
- Posted by Marla