The last I heard, the December issue of Martha Stewart Weddings should probably be coming out in early to mid-November. Which means that we probably have a month more to wait to see Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ wedding photos, which were given (sold?) exclusively to that magazine and no other. Blake’s wedding was planned by Martha Stewart’s wedding planners/organizers, and the whole thing is some kind of brilliant cross-promotional move, I guess. What I think is particularly funny, though, is that until the magazine comes out, Blake’s wedding planners and her wedding gown designers (the talentless women of Marchesa) keep talking about Blake’s wedding to People Mag and Us Weekly. Everything keeps getting built up, higher and higher, so that everyone will be inevitably disappointed when the magazine comes out and the whole thing is revealed as some kind of budget, faux-country affair. Because that’s what it sounds like:

The setting, the dress, the decorations – Blake Lively knew exactly what she wanted, in intimate detail, for her wedding last month to Ryan Reynolds.

“She had pages and pages of pictures. She knew everything that she wanted from the very beginning to the very end,” wedding planner Tara Guérard told PEOPLE Monday at the Martha Stewart Weddings Bridal Fashion Week party in New York.

“The problem was she had 250 photos, and she wanted all those elements in her wedding,” Guérard added.

The results, though, were stunning. “[From] simple, elegant flowers to comfortable seating, she wanted the wedding to be very family and friend-oriented, very private,” Guérard said. “It was in a barn, and it was really fun to take this rustic barn element and dress it up inside. It was really lovely, lots of candles, just like she has at home. … She wanted it to feel just like she was at home.”

It was a “charming, charming wedding,” added Martha Stewart, who was among the attendees at the Mt. Pleasant, S.C., nuptials. “Real people, real love. Just really nice [and] personal, which I think is what a wedding must and should be.”

Stewart said her favorite part of the wedding involved the couple’s dogs, but was coy about what role they played. Guérard likewise was reluctant to give details, but revealed: “I did do some flowers for the dogs.”

Darcy Miller, editorial director at Martha Stewart Weddings, which is preparing a photo package from the wedding for its December issue, said the scene in the barn was unbelievably romantic.

“You just looked around the room, and all the candles were glowing, and they just looked so happy,” she said. “You know, I was with them yesterday, and I said to them, ‘I have a never seen a bride and a groom sit at a table so long and just look at each other and talk to each other.’ … Everyone there was just so happy for them.”

Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig, the Marchesa co-founders who designed Lively’s wedding dress, said it was a joy to work with the bride.

“Blake is incredibly stylish, and she really knew what she wanted,” Craig said. “It was very much how we do a lot of brides. We started with a lot of sketches, and we sit down and talk through the sketches until we came to the final dress … She just wanted to be romantic and beautiful.”

[From People]

Oh, hell. Baxter Reynolds and Penny Lively were involved in the wedding?! Damn. Now I’m looking forward to seeing those dog photos. I bet Penny was a mess! She’s such a little thing. She probably ripped her flowers off. But I bet Baxter was a good puppy and kept his flowers on. Unless Ryan arranged a special dog-tuxedo for him. Oh, God.

Seriously, though… you know Blake’s dress is going to be an ice-skater, faux-toga’d disaster. It’s MARCHESA, how could it not be? As for all of the emphasis on “rustic” and “barn-y” – it could go either way. Maybe it was really pretty. Or maybe it felt like a beautifully lit episode of Hee-Haw. It depends on whether or not there were actual bales of hay. Oh, and “The problem was she had 250 photos, and she wanted all those elements in her wedding”?? Let me guess – Blake had a binder full of images she had been collecting over the years because she had dreamed of her perfect wedding for so long because that’s all women ever dream of, the perfect wedding? No disrespect to those of you who are like that – I’m just not that kind of woman, so I guess I find it slightly bizarre. Different strokes, etc.

PS… You know what hasn’t occurred to me before now? Will Blake change her name, professionally and privately? Is she Blake Reynolds now? That seems like the kind of thing she would do.

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