in style interview with Brian and Leighanne

Source: BSGirlsOnlineForever Yahoo Group
Date: 27 Januray 2002

Leighanne & Brian's Wedding on In Style Magazine's Show It looks like just another video shoot, but for Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell, it was the chance meeting of a lifetime.

Brian: We were out in Los Angeles shooting a video for a single that was coming out and there was a pile of headshots for some ladies that were going to be in the video, so I started thumbing through them, and the last one I came to was Leighanne. And I thought 'wow, she's pretty I have to remember her name'. She came over to me, she bumped into me and she said "Hello, my name is Leighanne" and I said "I know".

To his fans around the world Brian Littrell needs no introduction, the Backstreet Boys have sold over 63 million records in just 3 years, but when fate brought Brian together with actress Leighanne Wallace, both of their lives would change forever.

Leighanne: All I saw were like miles of girls, crazy, screaming, crying, people crushing each other and falling, they would be screaming and they'd pass out.

At first the couple kept their romance a secret, but there was no hiding the feelings Brian had for his new found love.

Brian: If I could make someone to be perfect, it would be Leighanne, she just knocked me off my feet.

Finally, after squeezing moments together between sold out tours, platinum records and every kind of award show, Brian and Leighanne found time to be alone.

Brian: I got down on my knee, and I had the ring box in my hand, and I said that she meant the world to me, and she does, and I've waited my whole life to find someone like her, because she's my match.

Brian proposed with a stunning four karat engagement ring with two white dimond trillions flanking in square cut canary stone.

Brian: I have always been fascinated by diamonds and stones and the class of jewelry.

Leighanne: Lucky for me.

A few months later the couples friends and family recieved an unusual invitation in the mail.

Brian: 'Once upon a time not so long ago, in a land that peaches grow to ripe perfection, lived a beautiful golden haired maiden named Leighanne.'

Leighanne: The wedding had to be a fairy tale wedding, it needed to be a ball, a galla.

Brian: We wanted every couple who came to the wedding to feel like they were getting married all over again.

On the morning of the wedding, New York hair stylist, Allan White, began work to give Leighanne the look of a princess.

Leighanne: It took four hours and I guess six hair pieces and we got the fairy tale hair. I mean, I gave him a picture and he bettered the picture.

And to go with the fairy tale hair, came a Vera Wang dress in the grand style of a 18th century ball gown.

Leighanne: The dress takes 30 minutes to get into, it stands by itself in the corner, you literally step into the dress then it zips and then you tie the corset.

Brian: When I heard the first musical note and the organ started playing I was like "gulp" this is really happening.

In the majestic setting of the Peach Tree Christian Church in Atlanta in front of 300 hundred of their friends and family, Brian and Leighanne proclaimed their love for each other in a poignant religious ceremony.

Brian: Church has always been a big part of my life and when I met Leighanne, we started to go to church together, because I feel, and I know she does is that that's the strength that can help you get through a lot of life's ups and downs. I personally couldn't wait till we got to the end and Pastor Collins says "Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you, Mr. and Mrs. Brian Thomas Littrell" and I was like "hu hu hu".

Leighanne: All I could think of was to get down that aisle and enjoy all the time, all the preperation and experience, all the love and let people see the love between us.

Brian: It was like all the preasure was gone and let the good times begin.

Although the couple decided against video cameras, the photographs from the reception at Atlanta's Four Season Hotel captured the joy of everyone that was there.

Leighanne: The cake was absolutely magnificent, the gold pieces were 24 karot gold and everything on the cake was edible.

As well as their wedding cake, the couple also had a unique grooms cake shaped as a humidor with edible cirgars. Most of the guests were fooled.

Leighanne: They thought they were cigars and they were sneaking the cigars and were like "are these savanah's or something?"

Brian: Then they realized later when they grabbed them in their pocket that they were mushy.

And among the list of suspects included all four of Brian's partners in the Backstreet Boys.

Brian: The guys showed up and showed their support and I was very thankful for that.

But the group didn't stay spectators for long.

Brian: Kevin of course, cames over to me and says 'do you mind if we get on stage'. You know, we're all hams we love attention, so my brother, who was my best man, and Kevin, my cousin, got up on stage and they were singing.

The imrpomptu performance included "Brickhouse" by the Commadors and "Celebration" by Cool and the Gang.

Leighanne: We had to yank them off the stage, by the way.

But for Leighanne her fairy tale wedding had one more surprise. As her new husband serenaded her, with a ballad he had written specifically for the occasion.

Brian: I wrote it especially for her, it was especially for that
moment. Like I put myself in that situation. Like everything is said
and done. How would I feel at that moment?

You Are

Beautiful you are
Compassionate is she
You have made me what I am
She's all I hope to be
The world, it lies in you
For filling all my dreams
She is my dream come true
and in just two words, my destiny
cause you are everything
everything, my heart could ever imagine
everything you are

Brian: Don't cry baby

Thanx to BABYGIRL from BSGirlsOnlineForever

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