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Alec Baldwin married Hilaria Thomas on Saturday, sent invites via text message

Posted: 30 Jun 2012 06:15 PM PDT

Alec Baldwin, 54, married his much younger (and mysteriously so) girlfriend, Hilaria Thomas, on Saturday at NYC’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral after a three-month engagement. Here are some photos from outside the church, and Alec totally kept his cool in front of photographers — unlike earlier this month when he allowed his inner rage monster to take over while attacking an NYDN photographer. There was also a little incident last week in which Alec mouthed off and threatened another photog, but while he said some offensive things to the guy, he didn’t completely fly off the handle. So … progress. And at his wedding, Alec seemed to completely behave himself, which might be because he wants to still claim that his yoga instructor woman is a calming influence. Perhaps that’s a bit rude of me to joke about, but I still find it Hilarious (get it?) that Hilaria the yoga instructor would marry such an anger-filled man. Namaste.

Anyway, Alec and Hilaria were very hush hush about their impending nuptuals like nearly any celebrity (or in this case, half-celebrity) couple. The New York Post learned that Alec went a bit overboard by withholding reception details until yesterday and then sending them via text message. Oddly enough, this is Alec’s first marriage in the eyes of the Catholic Church since he and Kim Basinger were married on a Hampton’s beach instead of inside an actual brick-and-mortar church. Here’s a photo of Hilaria arriving at St. Patricks in a grey t-shirt and jean/booty shorts as well as the details from People:

Only three months after announcing their engagement, Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas have tied the knot.

The 30 Rock star, 54, and yoga instructor, who is at least 25 years his junior, wed on Saturday at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York, a friend of the couple’s confirms to PEOPLE.

The bride — who’ll now take Baldwin’s name — wore a silk magnolia trumpet Amsale gown with cap sleeves and a keyhole back neckline accented with crystal buttons.

Amsale also dressed Hilaria’s mother and Baldwin’s daughter Ireland. Baldwin had a tuxedo by Tom Ford.

Friend Matthew Hiltzik tells PEOPLE: “Hilaria Thomas and Alec Baldwin were married this evening at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York City with family and friends sharing in the joy of the occasion.”

The Rev. George Deas performed the ceremony, which was conducted in English with readings in Spanish (the bride grew up mostly in Spain), and guests included Baldwin’s costar Tina Fey and his brothers Stephen and Billy Baldwin.

Also attending were Woody Allen and wife Soon Yi, Mariska Hargitay, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.

The reception was set to take place in NYU’s Kimmel Center.

In the days leading up to the nuptials, the bride took to Twitter to share her excitement. “Being a bride is stressful…. ayyyyyyy,” she Tweeted Tuesday.

And it seems the planning went on up until the big day. “If I buy one bride magazine, which should it be?” she Tweeted Wednesday. And on Friday, she thanked the exercise program Physique57 for “making me bride ready, physically and mentally!”

Baldwin, who began dating Thomas last summer, has said that she is “very important” to him.

[From People]

Congrats to Alec and Hilaria! I hope they have a long and healthy marriage, and I hope Alec learns to chill out a little bit. Here’s a photo of Alec’s brother, Stephen, outside the church. He’s the one who tipped off the post about the text message invites. Brothers are good like that.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

Did Katie Holmes divorce Tom Cruise to take Suri away from Scientology? (update)

Posted: 30 Jun 2012 09:04 AM PDT

I think we were all (at least) a little surprised by yesterday afternoon’s breaking news of Katie Holmes filing for divorce from her husband of five years, Tom Cruise. The news came right in the midst of our story about the increasing distance between the couple, and while it’s been very obvious for quite awhile that Katie was unhappy — she was virtually telegraphing a chronic state of disillusionment and depression — it’s rather shocking that she made such a huge move in filing for divorce and going for full legal custody (as well as primary residential custody) of Suri. She also strategically planned for this to all go down while Tom was on extended trip out of the country (in Iceland shooting Oblivion). Go Katie.

As for Tom himself, he’s probably still shellshocked at being served with divorce papers. He has released a very short statement to People indicating that he is “deeply saddened.” Tom also turns 50-years-old next week, and even though he was planning on working through his birthday with no real break to see his family, this news is sure to rock his figurative world. So here is a post with some updates since yesterday, and if anything else breaks today, I’ll post more updates below.

To start off, here’s an interesting look back at Katie and Tom’s 2006 wedding day with some photos of Katie (with Suri) looking very panicked in the window of the Italian castle where she and Tom exchanged whacked-out Scientology vows. If it tells you anything at all, Tom’s best man was the current head of the CO$, David Miscavige:

So what went wrong? At the time of their marriage, Katie had already revealed that she had harbored dreams of marrying Tom since she was a young girl. I think that very little (even the mysterious distressed state revealed in these photos) could have kept her from the altar because she was very much in love with a fantasy. Let’s face it — the Tom Cruise of Risky Business, Cocktail, and Jerry Maguire was pretty damn hot, and it wasn’t really until Tom’s epic display of 2005 craziness that most of the world realized what a freak he really was. At that point, Katie was already in too deep to see the signs before agreeing to become the Bride of Xenu. Now TMZ has spoken to some inside sources who claim that Katie’s breaking point with the marriage was Scientology:

Katie Holmes filed for divorce primarily over Tom Cruise’s fierce ties to Scientology, fearing that Tom would drag Suri deep into the church … sources connected with the couple tell TMZ.

Our sources say … Katie has never been fully committed to Scientology, even though she has had ties with the church. We’re told the couple had been arguing over Suri — that she’s now of the age where Scientology becomes a significant part of her life.

Sources familiar with the split tell us Katie is filing for sole legal custody — as we first reported — specifically because she does not want Tom to control decisions relating to religion.

Sources have told us that the divorce is NOT about money — we’re told Katie doesn’t need Tom’s money … because she has plenty of it … and will be well taken care of under the terms of the prenup.

[From TMZ]

TMZ also links to Tom’s notorious Scientology promotion video from 2008. Indeed, Katie has evidently been watching the slow crumbling of the cult (including but not limited to former members’ tales of torture) over the past five years along with the rest of us. Last year, we wrote about how Suri was on the brink of a demanding Scientology upbringing, and Katie’s move for full custody is obviously geared towards getting Suri away from this “church” and avoiding what happened to Nicole Kidman in terms of alienation from her own children. The Village Voice’s Running Scared blog has a great piece on how children are audited within the cult. It’s scary stuff to say the very least, and I’m so damn proud that Katie has made the move to extricate Suri from that farce of a religion.

On a more selfish note on my behalf, I can’t wait until Tom starts dating again after this divorce blows over (and I anticipate that it will take many months). Certainly, the crop of actresses willing to date him won’t be very large considering what the internet has uncovered about Scientology in the past five years. Kaiser thinks Jennifer Love Hewitt will still go there, and I think that Julianne Hough would have been a willing candidate if she wasn’t already tied to Mormonism. Rest assured that Tom hates to be single, and he (or David Miscavige) will eventually find someone for him to spend time with, but maybe he’ll at least be smart enough to stay away from couch jumping next time around.

Here’s a look back at the infancy of the Cruise-Holmes marriage. This photo of Tom dancing is so … painful.

UPDATE: Radar is reporting that Katie prepared for the divorce by secretly renting a NYC apartment for her and Suri to move into once the news dropped yesterday. Hopefully, they won’t be bringing any of their old CO$ spies/servants along with them.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

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