We’ve been inundated with details from Jessica Simpson’s weekend wedding, and no surprise, she got this week’s People Magazine cover. People bought her exclusive wedding photos, God knows for how much. My guess? Somewhere in the $300,000 area. And for that price, People got the photos and an exclusive interview. How old-school. Also: thoughts on the dress, now that we’re getting a better look at it? It’s pretty, but it doesn’t seem very wedding-y to me. It’s more of an Oscar dress.
For their romantic July 5 nuptials, Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson focused on one thing.
“It’s all about family for us,” Simpson tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story, in which the newlyweds talk about their favorite wedding memories for the first time – and share 27 exclusive photos.
So for the big day, the bride asked her mom, Tina, and her sister, Ashlee, to be her maids of honor. Johnson’s father, Stephen, stepped in as best man, while Ashlee’s fiancé, Evan Ross, was one of 11 groomsmen. (Simpson had 12 bridesmaids!)
Plus, the pair exchanged traditional vows during a nondenominational ceremony officiated by Simpson’s dad, Joe. But it was their kids – 2-year-old flower girl Maxwell and 1-year-old ring bearer Ace – who stole the show.
“Before I walked out, I kept hearing all the applause, so my kids got standing ovations!” says the proud mom, 33.
By the time Simpson made her entrance, however, a hush fell over the 275 guests gathered at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California, and there were audible gasps as people caught a glimpse of the bride in her stunning Carolina Herrera wedding gown.
“I saw my gorgeous wife coming towards me and she was crying,” says Johnson, 34, who wore a custom charcoal gray John Varvatos tuxedo. “I think my heart was exploding a little bit.”
Simpson felt the same way throughout her wedding day: “It’s so surreal. This has been something we’ve wanted ever since we met.”
That’s cute about the kids. I’ve read that Ashlee’s son was also part of the wedding party, like he walked with Maxi or something. My least favorite part about this whole thing? That Eric didn’t shave his scruffy beard. It looks gross to me. And you know I love a good beard!
Additional Jessica stories… Us Weekly says that Jessica “did a vegan diet for about two weeks leading up to the wedding” so she could fit into the dress. She also “got quite a few B12 shots” and had “sugar dermabrasion on her face.” We’re a long way from Texas, aren’t we? Meanwhile, Page Six tried to tally up the costs of the wedding and the pre-wedding BBQ, all of which easily came in around $2 million it sounds like. As far as celebrity weddings go, I think Jessica’s wedding was probably pretty nice and not all that uptight. Like, I would have loved to be a guest at Jessica’s wedding just for the food alone.
Photos courtesy of People Magazine.
Annoying.
Yeah. Divorce cover will be more interesting.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
The cover makes it look like she’s trying to push away from him.
Does anyone read this rag anymore?
Why bother? It’s all statements from publicists. We have celeb gossip blogs now-way more interesting.
Only in the dentist’s office.
Nope
She’s come a long way since the Nick Lachey People wedding cover, hasn’t she? That time she was a virgin bride and this time her kids were in the ceremony. I wonder at what point People relegates weddings to a box on the side of the cover. Fourth?
Re: comment on dress. She is definitely no virgin bride. When you parade two kids down the aisle, a little restraint on the dress is in order, which she did do! I also think the beard is sloppy looking. She looks great!
I was thinking more embarrassing. What a d-lister move to sell pics from any wedding let alone her second wedding. She’s another person who is famous for humiliating herself. When is this trend going to end?
beautiful
Oh yeah. Much better than a tulle skirt and sweater. Best wishes to them.
I see nothing annoying about it. I was curious to see what she was wearing. That’s a beautiful dress. Her new husband still looks like a scruff.
I think she looks beautiful. If I had to nitpick something it would be her hair. It looks like someone was trying to go for a faux hawk thing on top but the bump part failed and now it just makes her head look long.
And Eric could have cleaned up that beard.
…and washed his hair.
They both have terrible personal hygiene. A match made in farty heaven.
On her reality show with Nick, she admitted she went days without brushing her teeth. I remember when her mom had to come over and do her laundry – there were enough dirty clothes to fill their gigantic foyer. Hopefully Jessica values cleanliness now that she’s a mother.
Mayamae,
I remember when she said she did not like the feeling of clean teeth. I can’t even.
I think the dresses is perfect for a second marriage of a celebrity. At least she didn’t wear white!
I also would like to have been at this wedding weekend.
Mazel, Jessica and Eric.
I am so tired of strapless wedding dresses, but I like that she’s not afraid to respect tradition by not wearing white.
It is just me or is anyone else having trouble finding the actual photos of the dress? Which photos are y’all referring to?
Actually, the tradition used to be that you weren’t supposed to wear white if it was not your first wedding (during which you were still presumably a virgin). Thankfully, that tradition has fallen by the wayside.
Yeah, I’m really tired of the “at least she didn’t wear white” comments. It’s too slut-shamey. It’s 2014. Wth.
I’m not sure who made that claim and when, but actually, white wedding dresses became popular when Queen Victoria married Prince Albert. She wanted to incorporate some lace she cherished into her dress, so she chose white, which was not common. (Prior to, dresses were various colors and many incorporated fur). The trend started because of her and was not related in any way to a bride being a virgin.
Irishserra – I agree. I think the veil represents “purity” not the color of the dress. Of course, nobody’s bound by that anymore, but traditionally, that’s what it meant.
Victoria’s choice of a white dress aside, the Victorian colour for purity is blue so all those advocating for purity tradition, the bride should be wearing blue.
The history of wedding dresses in western culture is fascinating. The current fad of wedding dresses as a concept has only been in play only about 100yrs and that’s being generous. Prior to that, brides wore their best dress in whatever colour to their wedding and if they were rich enough to commission one, they wore it on several designated occasions afterwards. Later they adapted it for everyday use.
Once the fad for white wedding dresses took off, people wore a white version of regular street clothing.
It’s curious that we’ve become more permissive and yet we choose to marry in dresses that evoke the very prudish Victorians even if the dress is strapless. These Victorian style wedding dresses only became popular in the 50s/60s.
@LAK, I’ve read that wearing a white wedding dress was also a sign of prestige, because only the wealthy could afford to buy a dress so impractical and unlikely to be worn again.
mayamae – i would say that applied to all wedding dresses until after the world wars, but yes, once the white wedding dress took off, it became a status symbol for the rich.
Kim K didn’t get that etiquette lesson.
It makes sense that she did not wear a traditional wedding gown. This is her second marriage. She’s marrying the father of her two children. Considering the circumstances, I think the right choice was to go for something non-traditional even though there would have been nothing wrong if she had worn a pure white gown either.
Yes and far fewer bridesmaids. 12 bridesmaids, I hope she paid for the dresses, hair and makeup. I HATE second weddings . . . All I can think about is, we did this once for you already who are we kidding? I realize I’m not the king of the world and cannot actually impose my view on others but it is how I feel!
She’s a bazillionaire, I’m sure she did.
Oh, Andrea… I know exactly what you mean and feel exactly the same! I went to one of my best friend’s wedding 3 years ago. She’d married at 21 for about 18 months, and then was in another relationship for ten years and has a young son. The second marriage lasted 2 years, and she is now planning the third with another guy… I don’t like weddings at the best of times, so I’m going to be out of the country when this one’s on, cuz really, how many bloody cooking/saucepan sets must I buy her?
I don’t care about the white or not, but I don’t find the color of this dress very attractive. It has a grayish-greenish cast to it.
Congratulations to them! 🙂
And the dress is ok for a wedding, I didn’t wear white either, just didn’t like it.
I didn’t wear white for either of my weddings. I look a washed out mess in pure white.
Me too. I wore a champagne colored dress the first wedding and black to my second (in a courthouse)
Annoying
They are both just stunning – he’s very handsome! Meowwww
Just like everything else Jessica Simpson-related, it’s one big tacky ‘meh.’ I’d rather see photos of Fearne Cotton’s wedding; that one at least looked mildly interesting.
Everything is for sale with Simpson, huh?
You can have two maids of honour? I kinda get having your sister as the maid of honour if you’re close, but mum and dad just seems weird.
2 million for a wedding is insane.
The dress is okay, I don’t like her hair but at least she isn’t pouting on the cover.
You can do whatever you want! I had a maid of honor and a matron of honor. I was a ring bearer in my brother’s wedding even though I was a 19 year old female. I have friends who have made their best friends “bridesmen.” Wedding traditions can be fun, but limiting if you stick to them too rigidly. Just do what you want.
@Msw Ita with you. It’s your day. It only happens once in a life time, (some do it more than once) lol. You don’t want to look back one day and regret not doing things the way you wanted it.
I have two sisters who both had weddings. One sister and I were both maid/matron of honor for my other sister’s wedding when they each respectively got married. If that makes any sense. And they will both be my maids or matrons of honor when I get married.
@Spookyspooks – considering her father, who was managing her more lucrative singing & movie career at the time, was the second wheel in her first marriage, with Nick being the 3rd, it makes sense that this time around her mom would be more important since isn’t Tina managing her clothing/design career, which is the money maker these days.
I really like the dress. As a general rule I dislike strapless gowns, but this one works. The color is appropriate and the silhouette is beautiful. As for his facial scruff, well-it’s not to my taste, but if his bride likes it then good for him for not shaving.
The dress is ok, it could have been better. I think she looks stunning and beautiful in that last photo of her on her own.
Why should the dress have to look ”wedding-y ” I wonder? If she wants to wear it let her. This is 2014.
She is beautiful but annoying – especially when we have to hear her talk. Him … meh, he does nothing for me.
I think she looks nice, and she’s harmless. They have two kids so I hope it works out for them.
The pose on the People is kind of strange. She looks almost like she’s pushing him away – you know, like at family parties when that one too-touchy relative insists on kissing and/or hugging you and you just want him to stay away? That kind of thing. Unintentional, I’m sure.
It’s a step up from when McConaughey was picking his wife’s nose on their cover, and huge improvement from when JT was jumping on Biel’s head.
We’re setting the bar really low here, LOL.
Oh, Faye…I spit my coffee!
She is always using that goofy pose , I suppose she thinks it makes her look thinner to pull up her shoulders like that.
True, I think she thinks it looks coy and sexy.
I used to wonder if Jessica was a duck what with those fake lips and her face was permanently glued to the back of her shoulder in the same way a duck sleeps. Every single pose. Hands on hips. Lips out. Face turned 180 to the shoulder.
She is pullling her shoulders up in every pic because she is trying to cover up the fact that she really needs a boob-lift (after 2 kids back to back, who can blame her)
I don’t find her harmless. Anyone who gets famous playing a plastic idiot is harmful to every other woman out there. I think she’s gross.
@Josephine -If we’re evaluating her on the Celebrity Scale, where, let’s say, Kim Kardashian is one end of the spectrum and Angelina Jolie is on the other, yes, she’s harmless. I never saw her show but I presume she acted ditzy. A starlet acting silly is, in the celebrity scheme of things, relatively harmless.
If you’re talking about role models for girls/women and setting an example for them, then you can’t bring People Magazine into the discussion. Or indeed almost any celebrity.
The two things I remember are Jessica wondering why the tuna company was named Chicken of the Sea, and she was confused about buffalo wings, considering buffalos have no wings. It’s been spun the last few years as Jessica “playing” dumb, and that she’s playing the game. I watched her show. She was not playing. Every time she came up with something stupid, Nick would look at her in shock, and she’d just grin and ask, “why, is that dumb?”
I also remember her taking a vase filled with water and dead flowers, and emptying it over a garbage can. She was absolutely shocked that there had been water in the vase with fresh flowers. She wasn’t sure how to clean up the mess, and wasn’t sure where the broom was, or if that was what she should use to clean up. The constant excuse was that Jessica was raised in hotel rooms where she was waited on and catered to, Poor dumb thing just didn’t know how to do anything, but it wasn’t her fault.
Why is she plastic?
The headshot portrait with the veil is beautiful.
Side shot of her is gorgeous. But him…why didn’t someone groom the freakig groom, FFS. He looks like he should be an E! exec trying to get someone on his casting couch. Sleazy.
She did this exact same type of pose with Nick. He would be nuzzling her lovingly while she would look at the camera. Every ‘Newlywed’ cover was the same. One trick pony.
She looks to have a smile-grimace. She’s very pretty, but the pose looks too contrived by the photographer and Jessica looks uncomfortable. The second solo pose is better, but still seems like a cliche shot for a bride magazine. But disclosure: I find candid wedding photos much more beautiful than the traditional portrait. These photos tell me that the photographer wasn’t able to put the couple at ease enough to portray personalities. These look like product shots.
Candid wedding pics are the best. I love when the photographer catches the wedding party looking at each other and/or laughing. It’s also easier to catch the ring bearer and flower girl in a decent mood.
We were fortunate enough to get a lot of those. It was a lesson in how weird I can look when I’m not trying lol.
I’d prefer if she was looking at her husband rather than the camera but I suppose it makes for a better cover.
I quite like the dress and that instagram shot is really nice
I knew it! I knew she would be original and wear a strapless dress. I love that her look can’t be found on the pages of your average bridal magazine. I’m in complete awe, I’ve never seen anything remotely close to her dress. It should be in a museum, it’s so authentic.
Welcome, Jessica’s PR people! lol
I guess your antenna doesn’t ping when you read sarcasm.
No, I left my tinfoil hat on the roof, lol. So I am not receiving signals. But it would have been fun if her PR people actually showed up. I’m kind of disappointed.
The only difference between her wedding dress with Nick and this one is the color. Did she just dye her old one?
12 bridesmaids for a second wedding. Yikes. Overall it sounds kind of low key but that’s just craziness.
I love the dress. And the kids are adorable. They all look great.
Let me say I really like her dress.. and I love her hair. I like that she didn’t do what most brides make the mistake of doing.. some elaborate hair style that doesn’t look like them. Her hair is pulled back and is shows off her face. Jessica is really a very beautiful girl. And I don’t use that word as a throwaway. She is very naturally beautiful.. “All American” kind of way if that makes sense.
I don’t really like the cover pic. She must be standing on a box because he is much more taller than her than in that picture. People’s wedding covers are usually horrible. Too planned and contrived. The covers that are not done by them are much better. You can tell the differences.
That was a big wedding.. I’m a bit surprised since her first one was or seemed smaller..
Congrats to her and Eric. Hope they have a happy life.
Two million for the wedding. Two hundred and seventy-five guests. Carolina Herrera on speed-dial. Kneepads buying the promo shots. Coverage on every possible entertainment show.
Take that, Nick and Vanessa!
I doubt Nick is crying into his pillow every night about Jessica.
Unlike this attention seeker and her unemployed husband they like to stay out of the spotlight.
And I bet they last a lot longer than these two.
Nick and Vanessa had a reality special for their own wedding. There’s a difference between being lowkey and not seeking the spotlight and no one not caring what you do.
I tend to agree with you Jessica. I think that Nick is probably pretty pleased that he no longer has to tolerate Joe Simpson.
I wouldn’t get too excited, Triple Cardinal…the wedding is just this week’s ad to promote the companies that have purchased ad space on Jessica’s personal life. Instead of the weekly instagram photos of her, cleavage, children, and tongue she provides them to promote their goods, they got shots from People photographers of Jessica’s cleavage and children at a wedding ( the tongue at the wedding did not make the cover, but there is probably a photo of it inside this week’s People).
The dress and venue were probably secured for the price of a mention in People, so I doubt she paid money for them.
She’s beautiful and her dress is beautiful but does anyone else think it looks less like a wedding shot and more like a solo shot with a man accessory? I just can’t help but think he’s an accessory that she will grow bored of eventually.
At least she is on the cover with her husband. do you remember Kim K’s 2nd wedding. solo on the cover. right there, Khris H should have known what was up!!!
This. Not that the wedding was the epitome of class, but excluding Kris was so tacky.
I love how their kids are #1 and they made them a big part of the wedding, and it wasn’t just all about them. That’s how it should be (if you have kids and get married) – huge side eye to someone else we discuss here…
I’m surprised it took this long when they have the means to call Mindy Weiss (wedding planner) and get this pulled together in a snap. With that kind of money you can get it done asap! If I’d found out I was pregnant while engaged, I would’ve gotten married pretty quickly, but that’s just me. I wish them the best. Beautiful family.
North West was not even one when Kim & Kanye got married so how much involvement do you think a baby needs to be in a wedding?
She could not play flower girl and walk down the isle.
I read that someone other than Ken Paves did her hair. Anyone have the backstory on that? Did they have a falling out?
They fell out a while back, and it would seem to be for good. Thank goodness, because I cannot stand him.
isn’t he part of Posh’s entourage now? I always think i see him in the background of many of her pictures.
I don’t know when they made up, but there were pictures of him attending the weekend as a guest.
Why would it be annoying? Like all others aren’t? She seems happy. Congrats!
Annoying
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@Charle, the reason the dress should look weddingg-y is because it’s a wedding. We as a society cannot ignore all traditions. To do so will cause utter chaos. In a minute, people will start marring their dogs. Any and everything is not okay.
It all sounds fun and low key, except for 12 bridesmaids and groomsman. That is a HUGE wedding party and there’s nothing laid-back about that many people on a stage! Otherwise, sounds like a good party!
All I know is Eric hit the jackpot with this one.
Ridiculous. He’s a retired NFL player who now sits around smoking pot all day and sponging off his wife. She’s a semi-talented singer who hasn’t recorded any music in quite a few years. IMO these two are only a notch or two higher in the “celebrity” chain than a few other people like Kim K (and her entire family), faux reality couples, spoiled heiresses & children of celebrities who have never done anything worth mentioning on their own.
I wish these two luck and happiness, but seriously, I”m giving the marriage about 2 years – tops.
Really? I had no idea he was a pot head
Here’s the blind gossip link to it. It was solved, so it was definitely Jess & pothead:
http://blindgossip.com/?p=53974
Are we really supposed to get that excited about someone’s second marriage, especially when they’ve lived together for years and have two kids? Sorry, not happening. He needs to get a job.
I always root for the underdog and somewhere between being trashed-talked by John Mayer, booed at football games, and publicly vilified for moderate weight gain, Jessica Simpson ended up on my list. I like that, when she realized she would never be a huge pop or country star, and the reality career had fizzled, she figured out other ways to make gobs of money that didn’t involve Lifetime movies. Her husband seems less ambitious, but that balance could end up being the secret to a successful marriage. I wish her well…
Jessica should not be the only person contributing to the family.
Jessica Simpson is not ambitious, her dad is. Hooked her up with designers and a company that pay to use her name. Definitely the company that owns her label and the designers that make that stuff are paid more than her. She is getting paid well though and she didn’t spend like crazy when she was actually working
I’m with you here. And I hate it when girls play dumb. But this girls was raised to be nothing but beautiful and *talented*. I remember seeing her in an interview and she was dumbfounded that her music wasn’t more successful because she is a really good singer (paraphrasing, but that’s the gist).
I think it must be really difficult to move out of that frame of mind, and learn to be valued for something else. And I know she’s an adult, and should know better, but the same people that raised her that way are still very involved in her personal and work life. I pity her in that sense. And she’s making a good run on being productive, and I can’t bash that. I do wish that she could step out of her ‘dumb blonde schtick, but I also think she is a great example of why we need to compliment girls on effort, athleticism, kindness, independence, leadership, inventiveness and such. Otherwise you get this. And this would be hard to live with.
Did she really need to sell her wedding pics? This girl rakes in millions upon millions from her shoe and clothing line. Come on Jessica, you didn’t need to do this ! Hopefully she gives big to charities.
I don’t know if anyone noticing that every pic she takes including the selfies, she’s looking into the cam while he’s kissing her. It’s so dang annoying. Why doesn’t she just take regular selfie like everyone else minus the fish face?
Looks like she’s pushing him away in the cover pic–what an odd choice of photo to showcase.
She looks great. Good luck to her. The children are adorable.
How old is he?? Already having that much white hair!
35 in september
He used to look a lot younger when he first started dating her. I guess she’s so high maintenance that he sprouted grey. He looks like Jason Trawick -anyone remember him? He was Brtiney Spear’s manager/minder.
If my hubby showed up to our wedding looking like that I’d kill him. For pete’s sake, grab a razor and take a shower!
I’m 33 and just as grey. *sad face*
I think she looks great! I think it is sweet they included their children. Will it be forever? Who the heck knows, certainly not me. It was basically very private the day they had their wedding so I give them their due there. I can’t really find anything bad to say and wish them the best.
it isn’t private if you sell your wedding pictures to People magazine fro $300,000
Twelve bridesmaids on your second marriage just seems silly to me. It’s seems overkill on your first marriage, but I guess that is someone preference, even though it just becomes a spectacle. But the second marriage is just plain silly.
She looks like she’s pushing him away. The cover photo she wanted was her looking into the camera and him kissing her? That says a lot about their relationship, doesn’t it?
She does look quite pretty.
I try to like her but what frustrates me is that when she was younger and skinny she would totally sell it (daisy duke) and then when she gained weight she became upset by the comments. Now that she has lost all the weight again (even skinny then when she was pregnant) she seems to go back to using her body as a selling point http://www.eonline.com/news/555370/jessica-simpson-shows-cleavage-in-sexy-ethereal-look-in-new-fragrance-ad-see-the-pic
All fine but I just don’t want to hear her complain if she gains weight again that it is unfair the amount of attention she is getting, you can’t have it both ways
Why is Jessica’s engagement ring a lot bigger than her wedding ring?
People has a picture that you can enlarge.
While many of you are just blabbing have you gone back and checked those tabloids on all the misinformation about this wedding. From pink dress to numerous so called sources.. What is even funnier is many tabs git set uo by many so called sources on he music that was played and several other things.. Its all quite funny and very well played by Jessica and Eric. Many tabs lookquite foolish right now VERY ..
Just so yiu know people mag has scored 1.7 million views already on one click so yes there is a lot of interest
I love how she says they’ve been waiting for this since they met…….but first let’s have 2 kids and then a couple years later we’ll get married. Yes, it truly sounds like they just couldn’t wait for this day. More like she couldn’t wait to lose all the weight to make the pictures of her wedding money makers.
Does anyone else think her husband kinda looks like her dad?
Eric’s dream came true – he snared a billionaire and will now be comfortable and well taken care of for the rest of his life 🙂
I think they look cute. His beard doesn’t bother me at all. She looks really pretty in the picture with the veil.
That cover shot says so much. Does he work at all?
No, he has not worked since 2007. if you look up his net worth, he’s is only worth $100,000.
One of his hobbies is playing golf.
I give this marriage 3 years tops.
She gets several b-12 shots just because .. Meanwhile in KS, I need them medically to function well and not one pharmacy can get any. Nice to be wealthy & get what you want because you want it.. Not because you need it.
I could have done without this cover of People since Jessica is shown everywhere. I’ve kind of followed her story along. At one time, I felt sorry for her because her relationships just didn’t work for some reason. I liked Nick Lachey, but it is rumored that she cheated on Nick with Adam Levine. Of course, John Mayer was a douche with everyone! But when her boyfriend Tony Romo wouldn’t marry her, then promptly found another girlfriend and married or became engaged to her, that has to hurt a little. But Jessica’s rolling in the dough and is living high right now. But behind closed doors at home, her life could be kind of chaotic, who knows.
I saw the photos in People magazine and the wedding looked absolutely amazing and Jessica stunning.The kids are by far the cutest kids I’ve ever seen and looked so cute in the family photo I could just eat them up.