Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with.
Copy Quote View & ShareReally, a wedding is the first and biggest party people throw in their lifetime, so there's a lot of challenges and a lot of pressure.
Copy Quote View & ShareKanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to go to my wedding.
Copy Quote View & ShareI found my style in my aunt's attic. She hoarded all her '60s clothes there, along with the tiaras she'd won as a beauty queen, and I'd steal her wedding dress to wear around town.
Copy Quote View & ShareI imagine the time you really want to prove yourself is right before a wedding.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy cooking attracted celebrities. I met Sylvester Stallone. He squeezed my bicep and said: 'I don't usually eat your kind of food, but for you, I ate it.' I haven't got a clue what he'd eaten but he asked me to cook for his wedding feast when he married Jennifer Flavin at Blenheim Palace.
Copy Quote View & ShareI actually love being a little older and doing this wedding thing. At 38, I know what I like and what I don't.
Copy Quote View & ShareAt first, when we got engaged, I asked him if we could just go to Vegas and get married by Elvis, just because I didn't want to deal with planning a wedding.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think the first big thing I did: I sang at my mom's wedding when I was almost 8, so 7... that was my first thing.
Copy Quote View & ShareI first got engaged when I was 19, but I just knew there was more of life out there for me. I called it off six weeks before the wedding. I felt terribly guilty because he was such a nice boy, and I was in love with him. But it was the wrong time.
Copy Quote View & ShareI am still attached to my wedding sari and preserve it with care. There are so many little things I have kept as loving mementos of my father and mother.
Copy Quote View & Share'Devdas' isn't a real film. It isn't in the same genre as Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding,' where the camera's presence is so understated it almost disappears.
Copy Quote View & ShareI spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or wedding bands or disco bands or original bands or playing cabaret for Todd McKenney.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe biggest rivalries I've had were with Eddie Guerrero and The Undertaker. I had long, long feuds with both of these men, and both were groomsmen at my wedding.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy grandmother was sick and I was told that we could not tell her, and that my cousin was gonna have this wedding as an excuse for us to all go and see her. And I think that I was just so frustrated by the situation.
Copy Quote View & ShareNow that I think about it, my 40th birthday was the most anxiety I've ever had, and my wedding was also the second time I've had that much anxiety. So I'm starting to realize that I can't be throwing these big bash parties because I need to own that I get anxiety with a lot of people diverting their attention to me.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt will be a Maharashtrian wedding that will happen in early 2020; I plan to wear a saree for the main rituals. This is what we are looking at right now. But we have to take a call on whether we will go all out or to make it a small family affair.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't want to have a big wedding. I don't crave that ritual of dress fittings, party planning and all eyes being on you.
Copy Quote View & ShareFrom the beginning, I knew I wanted a beach wedding so I'm thankful looking back that this is how everything turned out.
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