Connect with us

Lifestyle

Those Lucky Coins Paid Off

Published

on

Those Lucky Coins Paid Off

Binge extra Vows columns right here and learn all our marriage ceremony, relationship and divorce protection right here.

Ashleigh Dopp and her girlfriends had been within the pool at their resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and gazing out on the sea when one thing else caught their consideration.

“We eyeballed these guys on the bar within the pool,” Ms. Dopp stated, “so we headed over to the bar.”

Among the many males was Kelly MacDonald, whose group had checked into the Resort Riu Santa Fe days earlier than Ms. Dopp and her 4 girlfriends arrived in November 2016.

Somebody in Mr. MacDonald’s social gathering of seven was carrying a baseball cap with the phrase Toronto on it, prompting Ms. Dopp and her buddies to interrupt the ice by asking if he and his contingent got here from Canada. (They did.)

Advertisement

Ms. Dopp, 38, stood out to Mr. MacDonald, 31, instantly. “There was virtually a halo round her,” he stated. However he at first was too shy to strike up a dialog. “I couldn’t discover something to speak to her about.”

Fortuitously, Ms. Dopp, a local of Buffalo, N.Y., was comfy taking the lead. She requested Mr. MacDonald the query she posed to any potential suitor: “What’s your favourite soccer workforce?”

When Mr. MacDonald, a former highschool hockey goalie, stated that he didn’t have one, Ms. Dopp was relieved. “Oh good,” she recalled telling him. “It’s the Payments, then.”

Added Ms. Dopp, “I instantly informed the ladies I had dibs on him.”

For the subsequent 4 days, the 2 didn’t depart one another’s sides. At one level, Mr. MacDonald bought a Buffalo Payments sombrero from a vendor on the seashore to impress Ms. Dopp, who was in disbelief over the emotions she was creating for a person she had identified for lower than per week.

Advertisement

“It was alleged to be a bit fling,” she stated. “As a substitute there was an immediate connection.”

However when their holidays got here to an in depth, actuality set in. Ms. Dopp was returning to Buffalo, the place she was between jobs on the time, and Mr. MacDonald to Calgary, Alberta, the place he lived and labored as a firefighter with the Rocky View County Hearth Division.

As they exchanged tearful goodbyes in Mexico, “I didn’t know if I used to be ever going to see her once more,” stated Mr. MacDonald, who handed her a Canadian one-dollar coin known as a loonie.

The cash had change into a logo of excellent luck in his nation ever because the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake Metropolis, when a Canadian employee positioned one beneath the ice of the Olympic hockey rink forward of the video games, and each the Canadian ladies’s and males’s hockey groups later gained gold medals.

When he gave the loonie to Ms. Dopp, “I hoped for a similar gold medal luck,” Mr. MacDonald stated.

Advertisement

After returning to their respective international locations, the 2 spoke by cellphone each day. In January 2017, Ms. Dopp visited Mr. MacDonald, and he or she took a number of extra journeys to Canada over the next months. Whereas there, he led her on a hike in Banff Nationwide Park, took her to the honky-tonk restaurant Ranchman’s, which was featured within the film “Cool Runnings” and has since closed, and launched Ms. Dopp to his mother and father.

On each go to, Ms. Dopp additionally acquired a brand new loonie from Mr. MacDonald.

That April, he met her mother and father whereas visiting Buffalo. The month earlier than, Ms. Dopp bought a job with the audio video firm Exertis. Then named Stampede, it had workplaces everywhere in the world, together with in Toronto. After coaching in its Buffalo workplace, she inquired about the potential of working remotely in Canada, which the corporate agreed to.

By November 2017, one yr after they met in Cabo San Lucas, she had relocated to Calgary. The next April, she moved into Mr. MacDonald’s dwelling.

“Geese had been a lot in a row by the entire whole factor,” stated Ms. Dopp. Even once they had been long-distance, the connection by no means felt like work, Mr. MacDonald stated. “It was really easy with us. We agree on every part, by no means combat, and it’s by no means boring along with her.”

Advertisement

In late December 2019, the couple went to New York Metropolis to have fun New Yr’s Eve with some buddies. On the morning of Dec. 28, they had been ice skating at Rockefeller Heart when Mr. MacDonald stunned Ms. Dopp by proposing on the rink. As folks round them started clapping and taking images, their buddies, whom he had tipped off forward of time, confirmed as much as be part of within the celebration.

“All these fortunate loonies I used to be giving her paid off,” Mr. MacDonald stated of Ms. Dopp accepting his proposal.

The next September, Ms. Dopp and Mr. MacDonald moved from his hometown to hers. Ms. Dopp described the method behind the choice as “a gradual development,” including that, within the years that they had been courting, “Kelly visited a bunch and ended up loving Buffalo.”

Mr. MacDonald, who had by no means lived exterior of Calgary, stated that at the beginning, “my mother and father had been apprehensive about medical health insurance and a job” for him in the USA. However they in the end endorsed the transfer, he added, as a result of “they knew how a lot we beloved one another.” And the couple didn’t fully uproot themselves from Calgary: they saved their condominium within the metropolis as a spot to remain once they go to.

Mr. MacDonald, who lately acquired a inexperienced card, plans to take the examination potential firefighters should go to get a job with the Buffalo Hearth Division. Ms. Dopp now works remotely as enterprise improvement consultant for the brewing firm Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis.

Advertisement

Their marriage ceremony, initially deliberate for 2021, was pushed to 2022 due to the pandemic. However all alongside, Ms. Dopp stated the 2 knew they wished to have fun “the place all of it started” in Mexico.

On Jan. 21, they had been married on the workplace of town clerk in Tonawanda, N.Y., and on Jan. 28, they held a second marriage ceremony celebration at Pueblo Bonito Sundown Seashore Golf & Spa resort in Cabo San Lucas.

In Mexico, Matthew Baudo, a buddy of the couple, led a ceremony on the seashore earlier than 65 company, most of whom had been vaccinated. They included Ms. Dopp’s mom and Mr. MacDonald’s mom; their fathers didn’t attend due to considerations about touring and Covid.

Earlier than the ceremony, one among Ms. Dopp’s bridesmaids delivered a bracelet from Mr. MacDonald to the bride, together with a observe that learn, “The primary time we stated goodbye to one another it broke each of our hearts and I informed you, ‘Sometime we’d stroll alongside the streets of gold.’ I don’t actually know what I imply by that however I knew it will be anyplace the place we’d stroll collectively.”

Mr. Baudo, who arrived to the seashore in a gown with a Canadian flag on one sleeve and an American flag on the opposite, stated in his remarks, “I don’t assume anybody right here is stunned that two individuals who passionately like to journey and have enjoyable managed to search out somebody from a distinct nation whereas visiting a rustic that neither had been residents of.”

Advertisement

Afterward, a reception was held on the resort’s Sky Pool Aquabar & Grill restaurant. Company arrived to search out pictures of tequila sunrises in glasses fabricated from Himalayan salt and, throughout a cocktail hour, loved burgers served in wrappers that learn MacDonalds.

“It was really our social gathering in paradise,” Ms. Dopp stated.

Reflecting on their relationship, the bride stated, “Who would have thought a firefighter and hockey goalie from Alberta and a beer rep and die laborious Payments fan from Buffalo would ever make it work with all the percentages and distance between us?”

When Jan. 21, 2022

The place The workplace of town clerk in Tonawanda, N.Y.

Advertisement

In and Out Ms. Dopp and Mr. MacDonald saved their authorized union low-key. Each arrived to town clerk’s workplace in sweatshirts and denims. “It was signal the shape, ‘I do, I do,’” Ms. Dopp stated. “We didn’t wish to make it a factor.”

Fortune Teller When Mr. MacDonald purchased the Buffalo Payments sombrero after they first met, he had the chums she was touring with signal it. One in all them, Natalie Frost, wrote, “Go Payments and see you on the marriage ceremony.” At their celebration in Cabo San Lucas, they purchased a second Payments sombrero and had Ms. Frost, who served as a bridesmaid, signal it once more. “How did you see the long run?” Ms. Dopp recalled asking her.

Continue Reading
Advertisement
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Lifestyle

Here are the winners of the 2025 Golden Globes

Published

on

Here are the winners of the 2025 Golden Globes

Zoe Saldaña accepts the award for best supporting actress in a motion picture at the Golden Globes Sunday night for her role in the film Emilia Pérez.

Sonja Flemming/CBS


hide caption

toggle caption

Advertisement

Sonja Flemming/CBS

Demi Moore, Zoe Saldaña, Kieran Culkin and Adrien Brody all took home awards Sunday night at the 82nd Golden Globes.

Comedian Nikki Glaser hosted the event in Beverly Hills, California.

The queer musical-thriller Emilia Pérez led the night in wins from the film categories, taking home four awards of their ten nominations, including a supporting actress award for Saldaña and the Golden Globe for best motion picture, musical or comedy. The Brutalist ended the night with three awards, including the Golden Globe for best motion picture, drama, and a best actor win for star Adrien Brody. On the television side, FX’s Shōgun took home four awards, winning in every category the show was nominated for, including acting awards for stars Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai and Tadanobu Asano. Hacks and Baby Reindeer also took home two awards apiece.

Advertisement

This year’s ceremony comes after years of Golden Globes turmoil: In 2021, the Los Angeles Times reported that there were no Black members in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which founded the awards in 1944. NBC cancelled the 2022 awards telecast and studios and stars boycotted the ceremony in protest. Longtime Globes producer Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries, a holding company, acquired the awards in 2023. (Dick Clark Productions is owned, in part, by Penske Media Corporation, which publishes a number of outlets including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Rolling Stone.) An expanded voting body of 334 entertainment journalists from around the world now vote on the awards.

Below are 2025 Golden Globes nominees, with winners marked in bold.

Best motion picture, drama
Winner: The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
September 5

Best motion picture, musical or comedy
Winner: Emilia Pérez
Anora
Challengers
A Real Pain
The Substance
Wicked

Best motion picture, animated
Winner: Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Advertisement

Best motion picture, non-English language
Winner: Emilia Pérez
All We Imagine as Light
The Girl With the Needle
I’m Still Here
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Vermiglio

Best director, motion picture
Winner: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Edward Berger, Conclave
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light

Best screenplay, motion picture
Winner: Peter Straughan, Conclave
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Best actress in a motion picture, drama
Winner: Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Angelina Jolie, Maria
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door
Kate Winslet, Lee

Advertisement

Best actor in a motion picture, drama
Winner: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy
Winner: Demi Moore, The Substance
Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Zendaya, Challengers

Demi Moore accepts the award for best actress in a musical or comedy film for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance.

Demi Moore accepts the award for best actress in a musical or comedy film for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance.

Sonja Flemming/CBS


hide caption

Advertisement

toggle caption

Sonja Flemming/CBS

Best actress in a supporting role in any motion picture
Winner: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave

Best actor in a supporting role in any motion picture
Winner: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Yura Borisov, Anora
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

Advertisement

Best actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy
Winner: Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Gabriel LaBelle, Saturday Night
Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Glen Powell, Hit Man

Best original score, motion picture
Winner: Challengers
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
The Wild Robot

Best original song, motion picture
Winner: Emilia Pérez – “El Mal”
The Last Showgirl – “Beautiful That Way”
Challengers – “Compress/Repress”
Better Man – “Forbidden Road”
The Wild Robot — “Kiss the Sky”
Emilia Pérez – “Mi Camino”

Cinematic and box office achievement 
Winner: Wicked
Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Deadpool & Wolverine
Gladiator 2
Inside Out 2
Twisters
The Wild Robot

Wicked director Jon M. Chu accepts the award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

Wicked director Jon M. Chu accepts the Golden Globe award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.

Sonja Flemming/CBS

Advertisement


hide caption

toggle caption

Sonja Flemming/CBS

Advertisement

On the TV side 

Best television series, drama
Winner: Shōgun
The Day of the Jackal
The Diplomat
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Slow Horses
Squid Game

Best television series, musical or comedy
Winner: Hacks
Abbott Elementary
Only Murders in the Building
Nobody Wants This
The Bear
The Gentlemen

Best limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Baby Reindeer
Disclaimer
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
The Penguin
Ripley
True Detective: Night Country

Best actor in a television series, drama
Winner: Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun
Donald Glover, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Eddie Redmayne, The Day of the Jackal
Billy Bob Thornton, Landman

Best actress in a television series, drama
Winner: Anna Sawai, Shōgun
Kathy Bates, Matlock
Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon
Maya Erskine, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Keira Knightley, Black Doves
Keri Russell, The Diplomat

Advertisement

Best actor in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
Kevin Kline, Disclaimer
Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Ewan McGregor, A Gentleman in Moscow
Andrew Scott, Ripley

Best actress in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country
Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer
Cristin Milioti, The Penguin
Sofía Vergara, Griselda
Naomi Watts, Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
Kate Winslet, The Regime

Best actress in a television series, musical or comedy
Winner: Jean Smart, Hacks
Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along

Best actor in a television series, musical or comedy
Winner: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

Best actress in a supporting role in a TV series
Winner: Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks
Dakota Fanning, Ripley
Allison Janney, The Diplomat
Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country

Advertisement

Best actor in a supporting role in a TV series
Winner: Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun
Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Harrison Ford, Shrinking
Jack Lowden, Slow Horses
Diego Luna, La Máquina
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear

Best performance in stand-up comedy on television

Winner: Ali Wong, Single Lady
Jamie Foxx, What Had Happened Was
Nikki Glaser, Someday You’ll Die
Seth Meyers, Dad Man Walking
Adam Sandler, Love You
Ramy Youssef, More Feelings

Continue Reading

Lifestyle

Aubrey Plaza Skips Presenting at Golden Globes After Husband's Death

Published

on

Aubrey Plaza Skips Presenting at Golden Globes After Husband's Death

Continue Reading

Lifestyle

See Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and More at W Magazine’s Golden Globes Party

Published

on

See Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and More at W Magazine’s Golden Globes Party

In the movie “The Substance,” Demi Moore plays an entertainer in her 50s so intent on hanging onto stardom that she signs up to take a potion that will restore her youth, but at a horrific price.

“This is more joyous,” Ms. Moore said of the beautification process leading up to W Magazine’s Golden Globes party held on Saturday evening, the night before the ceremony, in a top floor suite of the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood.

She was decked out in a black and white polka-dot dress from Nina Ricci as she stood in a tented area where the smell of cigarette smoke was surprisingly strong and household-name celebrities and fellow Globe nominees were everywhere.

The party, co-hosted by W’s Magazine’s editor in chief Sara Moonves, and its editor at large, Lynn Hirschberg, was celebrating the magazine’s annual Best Performances issue, and the walls were covered with enlarged photographs of the featured celebrities.

On one side of the room, the real-life Nicole Kidman stood underneath a giant image of the actor Daniel Craig, nominated for a Globe for his role in the movie “Queer.” On the other side, the real-life Mr. Craig, in a pair of tinted glasses, a black shirt and wide trousers, stood beneath a giant image of Ms. Kidman, who was nominated for her part in the film “Babygirl.”

Advertisement

“Not a bad year,” someone said to Ms. Kidman as she made her way through the crowd with her daughter Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban.

“Not a bad year, indeed,” Ms. Kidman said as a DJ played Blondie’s Rapture while Sabrina Carpenter and Cynthia Erivo shimmied by.

Did Ms. Erivo, who is up for a Globe for the film “Wicked,” have an outfit picked out for the next evening?

Of course she did.

“LV,” she said, by which she meant Louis Vuitton. Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director women’s collections at the brand, happened to be out on the terrace, a few yards from Ms. Moore and within spitting distance of Angelina Jolie, a nominee for her performance in the film “Maria,” in which she plays the opera diva Maria Callas.

Advertisement

She seemed to be the only attendee who had a handler stopping photographers from taking pictures of her. But a moratorium on her moratorium took place when Ms. Moonves ambled over to say hello and to politely make it clear that, for history’s sake, the moment would be captured.

Kevin Mazur, a celebrity photographer for Getty Images, raced through the crowd with his camera. The pop stars Charli XCX and Ms. Carpenter huddled together with the model and actress Cara Delevingne.

By 10 p.m., the place was so crowded that the designer Christian Louboutin realized he was going to have to leave the penthouse suite for his room elsewhere in the hotel.

But only for a moment.

“I have to pee!” he said.

Advertisement

“You can get in but you can’t get out,” said Pamela Anderson, who was by the door, hoping to make an exit.

And who could blame her?

After all, Ms. Anderson is featured in the magazine’s issue and is nominated for a Globe for her role in the film “The Last Showgirl.”

Clearly, she had a full weekend ahead of her, although so did the celebrity stylist Law Roach, who seemed to have no interest in leaving.

What was his client Zendaya, nominated for the movie “Challengers,” wearing to the awards the next evening?

Advertisement

“Vuitton,” he said, adding that the jewelry would be Bulgari and that the whole look would be inspired by Joyce Bryant, the glamorous Black singer of the 1940s and ’50s who broke racial barriers in nightclubs.

A few feet away, Eddie Redmayne, nominated for his role in the television series, “The Day of the Jackal,” was hanging out with Andrew Garfield, who is scheduled to present at the Globes.

Colman Domingo, nominated for his part in the movie “Sing Sing,” mingled with Tilda Swinton, nominated for her role in the film “The Room Next Door,” and then headed to the dance floor around the time that DJ Ross One began pumping Shannon’s “Let the Music Play.”

Around 11:30 p.m., the party was still going strong. Waiters paraded around the room with chocolate truffles and French fries.

Kevin Bacon, with his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, was by one of the sofas inside the suite wearing a blazer and a vintage Iron Maiden T-shirt. It was one of only a few outfits not selected by a stylist.

Advertisement

“My son got it for me for Christmas,” he said.

Continue Reading

Trending