January 2009 Gossip Archive (Page 39)
Bryan Spears and Graciella Sanchez: Married!
Britney Spears made it a cozy New Year's Eve with her family - seeing big brother Bryan Spears and Graciella Sanchez tie the knot in a private ceremony.
"It was beautiful," a source close to the family about the eldest Spears sibling's wedding to Graciella Sanchez, 36, the manager of his little sister Jamie Lynn Spears.
The wedding took place in New Orleans, Louisiana.
"It was only close family, very small and intimate."
Bryan Spears, 31, is by far the least-known, most-normal Spears.
While the couple's engagement may have caught many by surprise – they only recently started dating seriously – the two have been acquaintances for years.
In fashion news, the glowing bride looked stunning in her beige-white Carolina Herrera dress, while the handsome Bryan Spears sported a Marc Jacobs suit.
As for the guests, Graciella Sanchez's mom and brother were in attendance.
So was the entire Spears crew, including his sisters Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears; their children Jayden James, Sean Preston and Maddie Briann; Jamie Lynn's fiancé Casey Aldridge; and their parents Jamie and Lynne Spears.
Sarah Palin: Bristol & Levi Workin' Hard!
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin hasn't yet said anything publicly about her four-day-old grandson, Tripp Johnston, but she does want people to know that Tripp's parents – Palin's daughter Bristol and her fiancé Levi Johnston - are hard at work.
"You need to know that both Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time," Palin told People in a phone message Wednesday. "They are certainly not high school dropouts."
The former GOP V.P. candidate said she wanted to be clear about their continuing work toward high school degrees because suggesting otherwise "harms Bristol's reputation and Levi's reputation and their chances for good work opportunities."
Sarah and Todd Palin became proud grandparents when their oldest daughter Bristol Palin gave birth to her first child, Tripp, with Levi Johnston.
Bristol Palin, 18, who gave birth Saturday, is intending to finish her high school degree through correspondence courses. Levi, also 18, has said that he left high school to enroll in an apprenticeship program training him as an electrician.
Sarah Palin said at the time that she hoped Levi would eventually earn his GED, adding that "I respect that Levi is out there working hard."
We recommend that Levi follow the same career path as his mother, Sherry Johnston. Prescription drug dealing is a pretty recession-proof field.
