The celebrity weddings keep rolling in, and celebrity brides are pulling out all the stops. They’ve had some major celebration footsteps to follow, after all, with Prince William’s Royal Wedding earlier this year in England and Prince Albert’s nuptials recently in Monaco! Certified wedding and event planners are likely to have brides following the details of every celebrity celebration so they know what The Next Big Thing is in the wedding industry. Here are some of our favorite celebrity wedding details of the past few months.

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Sara Rue: Every bride knows how hard it can be for her and her fiance to choose a wedding-cake flavor. That’s why we love the route Sara Rue took at her May wedding: She had three cakes! “I’ll be having one of each,” Rue told PEOPLE of the three wedding cakes planned for the nuptials, including a red velvet and a pumpkin caramel confection. How fun is that?

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz: While we love a big, beautiful wedding as much as the next planner we also love sweet, intimate events. Not many details are known about the Craig-Weisz nuptials, but the idea of saying “I Do” in front of only your children and officiant strikes us as super-sweet.

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Dylan Lauren: When your dad is famed fashion designer Ralph Lauren there’s no question who is going to design your wedding gown! “I wanted to just give her something that she’d really treasure, give her something that would be really amazing, and I wanted her to feel fantastic,” Lauren told Oprah, according to People. And of course Dylan, the owner of Dylan’s Candy Bar stores, put her own touch on the dessert bar!

America Ferrera: We’ve all fallen in love with America as we’ve watched her grow up on television and movies so it’s so sweet to see her fall in love and have the wedding of her dreams in real life! America married her fiance on a Monday, and our favorite detail? Her dress and styling. How gorgeous is she?

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Niecy Nash: If you’re a TLC fan you already know all about Niecy’s wedding because of her show, Niecy Nash’s Wedding Bash. If not, however, you might not know that Niecy took a moment to sit down with each of her attendants before the wedding. She tells Essence.com, “I had a little time with each one of my bridesmaids… they just kept coming to my room, one by one, and we had conversations about our friendships, and what kind of woman they think I am and I was just like, ‘Oh my God!’ I was so overwhelmed that women I hold in such high esteem thought so highly of me. I definitely had to lay down for a little while and put ice on my eyes because I was so emotional.” This has to be one of the sweetest wedding moments we’ve ever heard about, don’t you agree?

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Prince Albert and Charlene Wittstock: This wedding, a calm, religious ceremony, took place in a palace courtyard because of the large guest list. We loved all of the traditional details, down to Albert’s cream-colored summer uniform of the palace guards. But our favorite parts? The couple exchanged vows in French, which the bride religiously practiced before her big day. And second? The couple rode to their reception in a Lexus hybrid - showing their green side! We wonder if they had a Green Wedding Planner working behind the scenes…

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One week from today, Prince William and Kate Middleton will walk down the aisle. What does that mean for the wedding industry in America? If you’re a member of the industry you know that the answer is a lot. Kate’s choices, from flowers to gown to transportation, are without a doubt going to influence brides across America, whether they watch the Royal Wedding or not. Celebrity weddings set trends without even trying. Floral and fashion designers will be paying close attention to color and fabric choices. Certified wedding and event designers will be watching closely for every little detail. And many of you are awaiting the wedding with bated breath, as the results of Lovegevity’s Wedding Planning Institute Royal Wedding Survey show.

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While the American public at large may not be as interested in the upcoming nuptials, 78 percent of LWPI members say they have been following plans for the Royal Wedding, while 71 percent are planning to actually watch it. And goodness knows opportunities to watch it will abound, with every network sending correspondents to cover what should really be called Royal Wedding Week!

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When it comes to the details, 65 percent of you think the Royal Wedding will be a mixture of timeless and modern traditions. A bit more than half of respondents, 55 percent, do not think the Royal Couple will write their own vows. And 69 percent think the Royal Wedding will be at least as grand as the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. That’s saying a lot because if like us you’ve been rewatching that grand wedding over and over it’s clear that even 30 years ago a Royal Wedding was a true fairytale affair. Will Kate top Diana? Will she keep things more simple? Does she really have a choice? We’ll find out in just a few days.

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While the details have been kept mostly secret there has been an abundance of ways to keep up with what’s happening as the wedding date gets closer. We wanted to know how LWPI members are keeping up with the plans. A few of you, 29 percent, are following on television; 8 percent are turning to magazines; 41 percent are checking out a combination of sources; and a whopping 95 percent of you are looking to the Internet. It’s clear that wedding and event planners, and other members of the wedding industry, consider the Internet the best place to turn for up-to-the-minute wedding news.

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And while the wedding will be a glorious affair, we’re sure, we also know that the media will quickly turn its attention to any notion of turmoil. And 80 percent of LWPI members agree. They believe it will take less than a year before the media starts to report marital mismatch.

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All of this information points to one thing: This wedding is a big deal in the wedding industry. Just as we’re still talking about Lady Diana’s wedding all these years later we’re sure to be discussing Kate’s choices as the years go on. Interested in sharing your opinions? The LWPI Royal Wedding Survey is still available online, and we’d love to know what you think! Stop by and give us your opinions today.

Every bride dreams of being a princess on her wedding day, and every certified wedding and event coordinator is intent on making their brides feel like princesses. But what do you think it’s like to actually plan the wedding of a soon-to-be-princess? The Royal Wedding is just weeks away, and we can only imagine the work, stress and planning that have been involved the last few months. Are you curious about the details? Do you plan to watch the whole thing at home? Have you bought any Royal Wedding trinkets? We want to know! Take this quick survey to give us your thoughts.

Here are some of our favorite wedding-related links, finds and stories from the week:

* Talk about going all out for your one true love. Have you seen this amazing projector ring? It “contains a tiny photographic slide paired with a lens. When illuminated by an equally small light source—Jerram says even a candle will work—the couple will have four adorable images of themselves projected wherever they go,” according to gizmodo.com. Sounds like it’s a one-of-a-kind deal, but we think it would be a great inspiration piece for planning a wedding. Think vintage photos, projector reels, old pieces of film as decor….

* An LWPI student recently posted some ideas for a Cinderella-inspired wedding in the student-blog section for the Preston Bailey Design course. We loved her vintage, Audrey Hepburn ideas so when we ran across this Alice in Wonderland themed wedding we were immediately smitten! The decor - including “eat me” and “drink me” labels on the food and drinks are adorable. Check it all out here, on bridesmaid.com.

* Some brides are hard-pressed to get their grooms to take part in filling out the registry, but that’s probably because a lot of men have a hard time getting excited about china, vacuums and pillow shams! That’s where The Man Registry comes in. (Yes; for real.) It’s a place where guy stuff reigns supreme: sports-related home items and memorabilia; gifts for the griller and outdoorsman; and yes, of course there are tools to be had, too. We know a lot of brides like to grill and user power tools, too, but adding them to The Man Registry is a sneaky way to get the groom involved!

* What are the best honeymoon locations on earth? Denise and Mark Duffield-Thomas have the dream job of discovering just such places. The Irish Times held a contest to find a couple willing to act as honeymoon testers, and among 30,000 applicants those two got the job. You can follow their adventures on thehoneymoontesters.com, nicknamed the ultimate couple’s travel blog. Where have they been so far? Jordan, Malta, Ireland and Mauritius just to name a few spots. Some people have all the luck, don’t they? (If you think YOU have the luck apply here to be next year’s testers!)

* We love Green weddings. Weddings are an easy way, some say, to waste resources, but it’s not hard to turn them around and make them much more eco-friendly. In honor of World Sea Turtle Day, which is June 16, “the 237-suite Marquis Los Cabos resort introduces a new Green Wedding Package that includes eco-friendly décor, organic food, local Baja wine selections, Green Turn Down service, and, most excitingly, the opportunity to assist in the release of baby sea turtles.” We know many people who plan to some day help release baby sea turtles, but we’ve never thought of it as a wedding event. It does sound memorable, however, and watching those little babies waddle toward the ocean to begin their new life is a great metaphor for marriage!

* It was a super wedding. Literally. You see, Batman recently married Wonder Woman. The PowerPuff girls stood as the bride’s maids. The best man? Robin, of course. And none other than the Joker served as the officiant. Who needs tradition? Even the guests got in on this theme wedding! (Iron Man was there!) Extra! Extra! Read all about it! (Sorry; we couldn’t help ourselves.)

* We all know that planning a wedding consumes every bit of free time a bride has. (But that’s why brides need you guys - certified wedding and event coordinators - right?!) But did you know that 90 percent of brides to be plan their weddings at work? That’s right, one survey recently found that 9 out of 10 women use company time to plan their big day, but only a third of them think it negatively affects their work performance. Vendors report that lunchtime and Mondays are when they see the most traffic on their websites. Well, we guess that planning your wedding is one way to get over that Monday hump.

* We’re all about planning ahead, and you know that when planning a wedding it’s imperative that vendors and venues are booked well in advance of the big day. But this has to be one bride - if you can even call her that - who is taking the whole organized thing to a new level. You see, she has a venue. Her dream venue. And thus, she has a wedding date. But there’s one big kicker: She has no groom. And now she has a project, Project Husband, in which she’s marketing herself on TV and the Internet to find potential grooms. So far, she’s been on 46 dates. Who needs a dating service? It looks like all a single girl actually needs is a wedding date. “I’m really hopeful,” she said. “I will know in my heart who the right person is as I get closer to the date.“

America has had a love affair with celebrity weddings for years. Consider the popularity of actress Grace Kelly’s fairytale wedding to the Prince of Monaco in 1956. It started with photos of her showing off the 10-plus carat, emerald-cut engagement ring given to her by Prince Rainier, and it continued on to the wedding and eventually the birth of her children. (LIFE has a fabulous gallery of Kelly wedding photos, by the way.) Americans not only love a reason to celebrate, they love a good wedding, and celebrities are able to give that to us and more.

As you all know, Chelsea Clinton was married over the weekend at an exclusive estate in New York. Like many other first daughters, America got to watch Chelsea grow up in the White House, and her wedding plans had been setting the web on fire for almost a year. The weddings of presidents’ daughters are just as fascinating as those of Hollywood celebrities, and many of us eat up the details - especially wedding and event coordinators, who love to pick out the trends and figure out how to emulate them for their clients. Here are a few of the details from the Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding, according the The Associated Press and The Washington Post.

* Several sources reported that the wedding was to be a $3 million affair. Now that the wedding is over, however, guests are saying it was more like “a family affair” and the seven-figure number was unlikely.
* The wedding site was a Beaux Arts riverside estate called Astor Courts, which was sealed off from the public.
* Chelsea wore two gowns. Her first was a Vera Wang strapless gown with a silk organza skirt, a diagonal tulle bodice and an embellished belt. For the reception, Chelsea changed into a silk tulle Grecian gown, also by Wang, that crisscrossed in the back and had a narrow black grosgrain belt.
* The Mother of the Bride, Hillary Clinton, was dressed in a plum-colored Oscar de la Renta gown.
* Chelsea carried a bouquet of all-white flowers.
* There were at least 12 bridesmaids and as many groomsmen.
* The bridesmaids wore wedding gowns dyed a plum color to match the flowers. (The bride reportedly couldn’t find any bridesmaids gowns she liked.)
* The ceremony was officiated by a Methodist minister, for Chelsea, and a Jewish Rabbi, for Mr. Mezvinksy.
* The guests, of which there were about 400, arrived in black tie for the men, and long gowns for the women.
* There were only a few photos of the wedding released (which you can see here), and none of the reception, which kept going until 4 a.m. with an after-party on the tennis courts.
* The couple performed a choreographed dance to the Etta James classic “At Last” during the reception.
* An 18-piece ensemble performed big-band music, and the father-daughter dance was to The Way You Look Tonight.
* The caterer was the St. Regis Hotel in New York, and the food was reported to be: short ribs, Atlantic char, a vegetarian option, and gluten-free rolls. The gluten-intolerant bride also selected a gluten-free cake from La Tulipe.
* The flowers were all roses and hydrangeas, in hues of pink, purple and blue.
* President Clinton gave one toast, guests report, welcoming Marc into his family and thanking him for “evening the playing field.”

All in all it sounds like a traditional wedding that any bride would be lucky to have. It’s obvious from the handout photos that the bride was thrilled with the way things turned out and happy to be a newlywed. We think the simple ceremony and summery color scheme sounds perfect, and the architectural backdrop was fitting for a presidential wedding!

* Could it be true? According to a new Slim Fast study, one in three British brides admitted to choosing overweight friends as bridesmaids so that they would look thinner. We don’t know of anyone who has done something like this, but then again who would admit to it? We’d like to call B.S. on this one, but we all know that true Bridezillas walk among us….

* First it was J. Crew. Then Urban Outfitters got in on the fun. And now it’s Anthropologie’s turn. We have to admit that these gowns are sure to be a hit - just like everything else the Anthropologie brand has debuted. The new bridal collection will be available in Spring 2011, and brides will be able to schedule fittings at local Anthropologie stores. The gowns will retail from $750 to $5000, which means there will be something for most bridal budgets. If you have a bridal client with her heart set on a natural, rustic, ethereal wedding this may be the place for her to find that perfect gown.

* Do you Tweet forever? Sounds strange, but every day there are more couples incorporating technology into their wedding ceremonies. One couple recently incorporated Twitter and Facebook into their wedding, and in fact they used an iPad to help officiate. The groom immediately took out his phone to tweet that he “just got married!” It went on Facebook, too. We have a feeling this is only the beginning…

* This next one isn’t exactly a new trend, but it appears to be gaining momentum. More grooms (and bridal couples overall) are taking dancing lessons ahead of their big day. “I think a lot of it’s due to the shows that you see on television that promote couple dancing,” said Traci LeBlanc, a ballroom dance instructor who offers wedding dance lessons through The Dance Center in Traverse City. Dance lessons are a great way for a stressed-out, engaged couple to spend some time together and unwind. Plus, we all know that dancing is great exercise. This is one trend we’re definitely excited to see grow!

* And finally we know that you guys are just as excited as us to read a true love story. This couple got their happy ending - even though at one point they thought it was never going to happen for them. Ryan Price, an Airborne Ranger in the U.S. Army, lost both of his legs in 2008 after driving over an IED in Afghanistan. It’s a miracle that he survived, doctors say. At first their relationship wasn’t meant to be because who wants to start something with a man leaving for another part of the world? But then Leslie Terry heard that Ryan died, and … well just read it for yourself. What a great story!

So, as always: Tell us your favorite wedding stories of the week, or share the links with us! You never know what you’re going to run across in this industry.

* It was one mother’s dream to see her beautiful daughter walk down the aisle, but terminal cancer would have kept her from seeing this dream come alive if not for the loving support of her community. Bev McKissick, who passed away May 31, was able to watch her daughter Kaitlin get married last June. The wedding was made possible by an “outpouring of community donations”, and the date was moved up to make sure that Mrs. McKissick would be well enough to attend. A wedding is only as special as the people in attendance, and in this case there were a few silent guests - perfect strangers.

* RE-store employee and recent bride Rachel Blair suggests two key rules for DIY brides: Start early and always carry a tape measure. She offers classes at her store in Michigan, and she has developed the Salvage Bride Toolkit. Some people call it thrifting; some people call it wedding planning.

* Trying to plan a multicultural wedding? Expert Marilyn Ambra shares a few tips that every wedding coordinator should keep in his or her back pocket. She gives advice on “navigating those often-turbulent waters” of bi-cultural weddings (and the challenges their families present!)

* A certified wedding and event coordinator must be good at delegating tasks. That’s about the only way we know to successfully pull off a big wedding! But it might be helpful if we could run background checks on our helpers. Okay, sounds harsh, but then again maybe it doesn’t sound harsh when your helper runs away with all the couple’s gift money!

* The Father of the Bride is also lovingly referred to as Mr. Checkbook. Yeah, yeah, we know, that’s an old joke, but it doesn’t really ever get old. Ask any father! How can you make your dad feel special? How about a Father-of-the-Bride registry at Home Depot? Well, it was just a thought….

So, as always: Tell us your favorite wedding stories of the week, or share the links with us! You never know what you’re going to run across in this industry.

* We’ve talked a lot recently about creative weddings and how it’s important for certified wedding and event coordinators to incorporate the couple and their personalities into the wedding details. Well, this is one way to do it! Shrek is a fairytale after all, right? Actually becoming Shrek and Fiona was this couple’s version of a fairytale, anyway.

* While there hasn’t been an actual White House wedding in a long time there are first daughters tying the knot these days. (Jenna Bush, who just celebrated her second anniversary, comes to mind.) Now it’s Chelsea’s turn, and all eyes are on her. While a lot of the details are being kept under wraps there are a few things out there. Here’s a link to give you all the information you want - or all the information you can get at this time.

* There is no denying the allure of Twilight. Women of all ages swoon every time Edward comes on the screen. (Unless you’re Team Jacob, of course.) And now they can have a little piece of Bella - Twilight Engagement Rings have arrived.

* Planning a wedding? (Of course you are you’re professional wedding and event planners!) Well, there’s an app for that! (Well, again, of course there is. Isn’t there an ap for everything these days?) Regardless this ap is something you definitely want to check out if you have a Smartphone. iBride is a personal wedding planner and directory that lets brides (or wedding planners!) plan their wedding on the go.

So, as always: Tell us your favorite wedding stories of the week, or share the links with us! You never know what you’re going to run across in this industry.

* There is so much to love about this article! Yahoo put together a list of 10 Unbelievable Wedding and Marriage Records, which include the longest marriage (86 years!) and the biggest wedding cake (17 feet high!) We don’t know about you, but we can only imagine the stress of planning a wedding with a cake that can feed 59,000 people. It might take a whole crew of certified wedding and event planners for that kind of party!

* Several prospective brides and grooms were unsure where they’d say their vows when the Clio wedding chapel burnt to the ground in Michigan. But thanks to an insurance company and a lot of style the chapel is up and running again - and making a lot of couples happy! They all agree the chapel is more beautiful than ever.

* Tim Tebow, a former Heisman Trophy winner, recently helped two fellow alumni from the University of Florida get engaged. Ian Lis wanted to make the proposal memorable, and what better way than to involve a famous quarterback! We’re sure that bride-to-be Sarah Springer (who obviously said “Yes!”) was thrilled! Check out a video of the proposal.

* This couple has the budget in the can - literally! Andrea Parrish and Pete Geyer got engaged in 2009 and decided to pay for their entire wedding with money they made off recycling 400,000 alumnium cans. As of April they were only about 60,000 cans short of their goal! The wedding, which is planned for July, has a budget of only $3,800. The couple has had a lot of donated cans, and they’ve been interviewed by hundreds of media outlets. Their wedding is sure to be a green, unique one that they’ll never forget!

So there you have it. These are some of our favorite wedding-industry stories this week! As certified wedding and event planners you never know what you might come across! Any stories to share?