10 Best Weddings Ever! Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey's Made-for-TV Matrimony

Our countdown to Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries' wedding special continues with another of our favorite unions

By Lia Haberman Sep 28, 2011 7:50 PMTags
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Our countdown to Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries wedding special continues as we celebrate the 10 best celebrity unions ever.

Next on our list is Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey's reality TV romance...

When: Oct. 26, 2002

Where: Riverbend Church in Austin, Texas

On the List: Family, friends and Nick's 98 Degrees bandmates, who performed a song Nick wrote for Jessica called "My Everything."

Can't Top This: It was a picture-perfect wedding for 250 of their nearest and dearest, coordinated by event planner to the stars Mindy Weiss. And after pledging their "I dos," the blushing bride and groom invited the rest of the world to join them at the altar.

Jessica and Nick had achieved decent pop level fame on their own, but allowing MTV to capture their marriage for Newlyweds gave the couple a whole new level of notoriety. He played the straight guy to her lovable ditz, whether she was trying to figure out the origins of Chicken of the Sea or buffalo wings.

And all was peachy until their love crashed, burned and proceeded to curse so many future reality TV relationships that boasted a camera-hungry couple, including Jon and Kate Gosselin, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro, Shanna Moakler and Travis Baker, and Linda and Hulk Hogan.

But love is blind and bills need to be paid, so Nick gave the cameras another shot this year when he allowed TLC to document his recent island wedding to Vanessa Minnillo.

Good luck kids, you're gonna need it!