Dancing With the Stars Wedding: No First Dance?!

Karina Smirnoff opens up about her and Maksim Chmerkovskiy's wedding plans

By Marc Malkin May 01, 2009 1:52 PMTags
Karina Smirnoff, Maksim Chmerkovskiy Jean Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images

Believer it or not, Dancing With the Stars lovebirds Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy will not be having a first dance at their wedding.

"We're going to do a first song instead," Smirnoff tells us. "Maks is going to sing to me, and I'm gonna do the backup sound. One of my favorite songs is [Frankie Valli's] 'I Can't Take My Eyes Off You.' "

The couple, who got engaged on New Year's Eve when Chmerkovskiy proposed with a Harry Winston ring, plan to say their I-dos in June 2010. Read on to learn about the guest list, their plans to start a family and who Smirnoff would like to see take home this season's disco ball trophy.

The guest list includes all of their fellow professional dancers on DWTS, but that's as much planning as they've had time to do. "We're actually going to go and enjoy Paris for a week," Smirnoff said. "I think that's when we're going to talk most about the wedding."

We have a feeling Lil' Kim will be at the wedding, too. "I love Lil' Kim," Smirnoff said. "She's very, very sweet. She's a great competitor, great performer, very classy and very graceful, so I'm hoping Kim walks away with the trophy."

As for kids, she said, "He wants it now and I'm trying to be smart about it...I'm trying to control the situation."

—Additional reporting by Dahvi Shira