# Aspiring Wedding Planners, Corporate PR-Types & Smart-Asses - Can You Help Star Jones **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614 "2004-09-29T04:04:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614/1 "2004-09-29T04:04:19Z")
According to an Article Entitled **Bride-Zilla** by (Pulitzer Prize winning reporter?) Orla Healy in The Pulse Section of Monday’s (9/28/04) [New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/style/30875.htm): > [@](#): > > …Star Jones is fast becoming the face of a toxic new phenomenon: the celebrity Bride-zilla…Jones (i)s considering **corporate sponsorship** to finance a wedding day spa (housed in a tent outside St. Bartholomew’s church, natch) (and) has generated howls of disbelief in wedding-planning and celebrity-magazine circles… > > (She’s) requested:[ul][li]6 makeup artists,[_]8 hairstylists,[_]10 mani-pedi stations to staff the bridal spa,[_]the “opportunity,” to fork over $4,500 to be the “event sponsor” or[_]$1,500 to provide product for “Oscar style,” gift bags[/ul]…The proposal that billed Star’s wedding-day spa as “an outstanding product placement opportunity” with “guaranteed press”…The nakedness of the shake-down is astounding…Jones, who has long had a reputation for enjoying the freebies that go with her celeb lifestyle, initially raised eyebrows when she launched a Web site to chronicle every detail of her Nov. 13 nuptials to fiancee‚ Al Reynolds - complete with sponsorship by “vendors” like Continental Airlines[/li] > …Just a thought. Rather than the $10,500 silver tray Star is listed requesting on a Tiffany gift registry, maybe one of her best friends should buy her a copy of “Bride’s Book of Etiquette” instead. I have to admit a couple of things: I’m not all that familiar with Star Jones - nor have I ever attended a celebrity wedding. It’s for that reason I’ve opted to poll you - the denizens of the SDMB - and ask for your help in compiling a list of _wedding sponsorship ideas_ that I can compile & forward off to the future Mrs. Reynolds. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614/2 "2004-09-29T04:08:04Z")
Is she the one from “The View?” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614/3 "2004-09-29T10:32:06Z")
Yep. Doesn’t seem to do much else, though. [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0429274/](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0429274/) What’s “The View,” anyway? And will the sponsors get reimbursed when the couple divorces next year? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614/4 "2004-09-29T10:33:53Z")
Anyway, you wanted sponsors. Jiffy-lube should buy space on the bride’s back. Enzyte and Rogaine can split the groom. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614/5 "2004-09-29T10:38:31Z")
I’ll contribute to the Hefty bag that they should shove over her head. Who wants to chip in for the twist tie necklace for her? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614/6 "2004-09-29T14:25:17Z")
Just so you know, this sponsorship thing is not an original idea. I read awhile back about a non-celebrity couple that put the names/ads of local businesses in their wedding program in exchange for stuff they could use for/at the wedding - food, flowers, printing, etc. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614/7 "2004-09-29T19:52:13Z")
At least Payless better be providing the Dyeables (tm?) for free. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614/8 "2004-09-29T20:01:15Z")
Jon Stewart, I believe (or perhaps Conan O’Brien – I Tivo them both. I just _love_ Tivo) reported that Jones wanted hair stylists to pay HER $1500 for the privilege of doing her hair. For the money, the hair stylist would get publicity. Can you believe the tackiness of this woman? ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspiring-wedding-planners-corporate-pr-types-smart-asses-can-you-help-star-jones/266614/9 "2004-09-29T22:19:41Z")
Oh Star, Star, Star, all this hype to marry a man who’d rather be marrying her brother. You aren’t Liza, my darling Star sweetie. Rein it in. Um, uh, suffice to say that I have no sponsorship ideas for Ms. Jones and Mr. Reynolds. I do know the names of some good therapists, though.