New York—April 23, 2008—Spring marks the kickoff of wedding season, and with no shortage of celebrity bridal news, 100 Brides.com users logged on to reveal their thoughts about the engagements of Fergie, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jessica Alba and Katherine Heigl. Brides.com is Condé Nast’s premier destination bridal Web site and “Your #1 Source for Weddings.” 

• Along with her rumored pregnancy, Black Eyed Peas star Fergie wants to keep all details about her future wedding to TV star Josh Duhamel a secret, and 64 percent of Brides.com respondents agreed that she should have her privacy. However, 28 percent said that when the bride is as famous as Fergie is, all that attention comes with the territory.

• Just-engaged Jennifer Love Hewitt recently defended her size 2 figure against tabloid name-calling. While 43 percent of Brides.com respondents agreed that they too feel pressure about their weight, 18 percent responded that they don’t feel pressured at all, and 39 percent admitted that they sometimes do but are generally happy with the way they look.

• Jennifer Love Hewitt’s new fiancé, Scottish actor Ross McCall, proposed to her with an antique engagement ring that had been in his family for more than a century. Although 57 percent of Brides.com respondents share Jennifer’s love of wearing a family heirloom, 43 percent of brides-to-be liked the idea of having a ring that was hers and hers alone.
  
• Jessica Alba announced her engagement to boyfriend Cash Warren along with her pregnancy. She said she’ll wait until after she gives birth to get married. Fashionwise, 67 percent of Brides.com respondents said they’d do the same thing, and 33 percent said they’d wear their wedding dress while pregnant. 
  
• Katherine Heigl, of 27 Dresses fame, married musician Josh Kelley on Dec. 22 in Park City, Utah, because she wanted to have a Christmas theme. About 31 percent of Brides.com respondents said they’d choose the same holiday, and New Year’s was the second most popular (29 percent); Halloween was the third most popular wedding-theme choice with 22 percent of the votes, followed by Valentine’s Day (18 percent).
   
• Grey’s Anatomy co-star T.R. Knight served as a “bridesman/groomsman” to Katherine. Some 77 percent of Brides.com respondents said they too would ask a guy to stand by her side if he was her best friend; 23 percent thought that guys should stick to the groomsmen side. 

Brides.com is a premier bridal destination site, with more than 1.2 million unique users every month and 60 percent year-over-year growth in traffic. Brides.com’s dedicated editorial team creates original content, develops interactive tools, cultivates an engaged community and provides an array of beautiful imagery and video to empower the bride throughout her wedding-planning process. Brides.com commands a superior market position by aggregating content from three national magazines—Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride—and 16 local bridal magazines.