Kortney Yarbrough is getting married. I discovered this over the holiday weekend when I scrolled through my DVR list and came across a couple of forgotten episodes of TLC’s “Brides of Beverly Hills.”

First, I want to make it clear straight away that I do NOT watch this show. I love costumes and fancy dresses, and I will admit to watching every episode (and numerous repeats) of “Say Yes to the Dress.” But “Brides of Beverly Hills” isn’t my cup of tea. I set up a season pass for it, and I watched the first couple of episodes, but couldn’t take anymore after that. The show’s star, Renee Strauss, owner of Renee Strauss for the Bride in Beverly Hills is both two-faced (for talking smack about her clientele behind their backs) and a moron (for doing it on camera), and her friend Kevin Lee (an obvious alum of the Bobby Trendy School of Trying Way Too Hard) makes me cringe. Literally. Every time he says the word “FAB-uh-luss!” my shoulders go up, my back hunches over, and my face gets all scrunchy. He is SUCH a tool. And if this show lasts past this season, I will be very surprised. (Especially due to Renee Strauss’ recent financial issues, but you ain’t heard about that from me.)

Anywho, I was about to delete the show when the episode synopsis caught my eye. “Episode: 12 – Kourtney/Mariflor. A former professional football cheerleader comes in to Renee’s salon with her mom and friends in search of the perfect wedding dress.” I had no idea who this “former cheerleader” might be, so yeah, I sat down and watched it. I took one for the team.

I immediately recognized Kortney. How could I not? She’s a total knockout without even trying. Kortney, a cool chick, by all accounts, is an alum of the Long Beach Breaker Girls, Chivas USA ChivaGirls, San Diego Charger Girls, and AVP Dancers (in that order). I don’t know her directly, but I’ve got one degree of separation through several different people.

Kortney was a ChivaGirl for 2 seasons

Kortney was a Charger Girl for 1 season

Kortney was an AVP Dancer for 1 season

Depending on when the show was taped, Kortney is either engaged, or already married, to a pro surfer. This guy, whose name I can’t find anywhere:

Let me just say that I don’t blame Kortney for being on this awful show. This is the first season. She couldn’t have known. In any case, she found her way someway, somehow, to Renee Strauss’ bridal salon, mother and best friend in tow, and she tried on a few gowns, including the blue St. Pucchi creation in the clip below.

It’s a unique dress. It’s an expensive dress ($17,000!!) And I really hope Kortney didn’t buy it. I really hope she took her hard earned money and spent it somewhere else, but I’ll never know. (To date, I still haven’t made it all the way through an episode of this show.)

In any case, best of luck-slash-congratulations to Kortney and her fiancee. I’m sure either was, or will be, a beautiful bride, no matter what dress she chose.

Reported By Lauren Murphy
WKRN
Dec 12, 2011

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
Sunday’s halftime show was one a Titans cheerleader will likely never forget.

While going through their halftime routine during Sunday’s Titans-Saints game at LP Field, the cheerleaders, wearing Christmas outfits and Titans blue Santa hats, were approached by a man dressed as Santa Claus.

Santa walked up to one of the girls, ripped off his beard and hat and got down on one knee and proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend, Janae Kram.

She, of course, said yes.

Watch the video

Kram’s fiance is Ben Graham, a baseball player for the Hagerstown Suns minor league team, an affiliate of the Washington Nationals.

“We both grew up in Missouri in tiny towns right next to each other,” Kram told Nashville’s News 2, adding, “The athletes in surrounding towns tend to know each other and we grew up as nothing but casual friends.”

The couple began dating during Graham’s senior year of college, shortly before he signed with the Washington Nationals.

Kram became a Titans cheerleader that same year.

“We are both living our dreams,” she said.

Reporter Lauren Murphy will interview Kram live on Nashville’s News 2 at 4:30 p.m. on Monday.

The Saints on Sunday went on to defeat the Titans 22-17.

Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Kandi Harris married pro golfer Hunter Mahan back in January in a beautiful ceremony outside of Dallas, TX. Click here for photos from the evening.

FYI: The ceremony and reception were orchestrated by Misty Duncan Events. Misty and Kandi were DCC teammates from 2006-2008.

On Groupon, a Proposal Sealed With a Click
By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
New York Times
January 5, 2011

Dana Burck says she found the deal of a lifetime on Groupon: a wedding proposal.

Ms. Burck, 24 and an avid user of the Chicago-based social buying site, was directed to one of its deal pages early Wednesday morning (about 1 a.m.) by her 25-year-old boyfriend, Greg Hill, with whom she often shops online.

“He kept me up all night, making me drink iced tea with dinner and giving me shoulder rubs to keep me awake,” Ms. Burck said, “and then we went on Groupon, which is something we always do.”

This time, however, Ms. Burck, a cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals, was instructed to pay special attention to the fine print of a featured deal that was labeled “A Surprise for a Dana from a Greg,” and read in part: “Expires Jan. 5, 2011. Nontransferable. Groupon entitled to no less than 15% of your marital bliss.” [Click here to see the groupon]

At first, Ms. Burck was a bit confused. She turned to ask Mr. Hill to explain it all and found him on one knee, engagement ring in one hand and an iPod in the other that played “Lucky” by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat, her favorite song.

“I said yes and started crying, and we just hugged and started to kiss,” Ms. Burck said.

Eventually, Ms. Burck turned back to her computer screen to read the actual proposal that Mr. Hill had posted, which read:

“Dana, I have told you many times that I was the luckiest man ever. Somehow fate brought us, a perfect match, together. Over the past four-and-a-half years, we have traveled around the world, watched more movies than we could possibly count, and spent as little time apart as humanly possible. Through good times and bad, distances between us, and the odds against us, we always made it because of each other. I want the amazing times to continue by spending the rest of my life with you – the sweetest, most beautiful, and smartest woman in the entire world. Will you marry me? — Greg.”

According to Julie Mossler, a spokeswoman for Groupon, Mr. Hill’s proposal was the first of its kind on the site, though other prospective bridegrooms had creatively used the site before, one going as far as buying a trip aboard a hot air balloon for the purpose of popping the question.

“He initially wanted to put a banner ad on the site,” Ms. Mossler said of Mr. Hill. “But we decided to have fun with it and take it to the next level by turning it into a regular deal.”

All of Groupon’s 219,000 subscribers in Cincinnati, where the couple lives, received an e-mail alert with a link to the page. As of Wednesday afternoon, 91 subscribers, including a handful of Groupon employees, sent Ms. Burck and Mr. Hill their well-wishes on the site’s discussion board.

“I just wanted to surprise her the best way I could,” said Mr. Hill, a computer engineer who plans on marrying Ms. Burck next year.

After reading Mr. Hill’s proposal, Ms. Burck clicked on the “buy” button, and the following words popped up on her screen: “Congratulations Dana or Stranger, you are now unofficially obliged to marry Greg!”

Would Ms. Burck have considered a competitive offer?

“I couldn’t get a better deal anywhere, never, never ever,” she said.

Mrs. Cavender
By Brooke Sorenson, veteran Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader
DallasCowboysCheerleaders.com
September 15, 2010

My second group leader and her awesome fiancé are now married! Crystal Trevino is now Crystal Cavender! One of my best friends (and second group leader) got married earlier this month. It was the most beautiful and fun wedding I have ever seen.

It was so special to enjoy their wedding day with them as one of their bridesmaids. Some other bridesmaids were: Kandi Harris, Trisha Trevino, Jordan Baum, and Michelle Keys. The wedding was absolutely beautiful. Crystal and her husband danced the entire night and smiled every second of it. Some of our teammates had a show in the Bahamas so they didn’t make the wedding, but they were able to watch it online.

Before the big day, we had an amazing girl’s weekend in Florida celebrating Crystal and Kandi’s weddings. We went to the beach and enjoyed Crystal’s last weekend as a Trevino! I have included some pictures from our girl’s weekend and the wedding for you to enjoy.

The friendships we make as a DCC are lifelong and so very special. Cheerleading brings all of us so close.

We even prayed before her wedding just like we do before each game. God does amazing things and created such a beautiful marriage.

Crystal and her husband Nate are so happy! It’s so refreshing to see a young excited couple.

Have a blessed day!

Brooke Sorenson

Tiger Woods may be having the worst year ever, but another pro golfer is loving life right now. Hunter Mahon won golf’s Bridgestone Invitational last weekend. I know very little about pro golf, but I gather the Bridgestone is important in those circles.) I’ll be honest, I’ve never heard of this guy before. The reason he’s on my radar is because his fiance is Kandi Harris. Does that name sound familiar? Kandi is a former Dallas Mavericks Dancer (2004-05) and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader (2006-08). Kandi and Hunter have been dating since December. They got engaged in June, and are planning to marry in January 2011. Congrats to the lovebirds!

(Meanwhile, please tell me this guy’s last name is not pronounced “mann,” because “Kandi Mahon”? Good grief. You may want to keep your last name, honey.)

One of the coolest people I’ve met while running this blog is Nets Entertainment Manager Kimberlee Garris. So I’m really thrilled to learn she got married this past Friday. Here’s the announcement from the New York Times:

By Vincent Mallozzi
New York Times

Kimberlee Rose Garris and Terence Michael Minogue were married Friday at Oceancliff, a resort in Newport, R.I. The Rev. Cheryl Cavalconte, an Apostolic Catholic priest, performed the ceremony, with the Rev. Charles C. Cavalconte, her husband, taking part.

The bride, 31, is the entertainment manager for the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association; she oversees the rehearsals and on-court performances of more than 70 dancers, gymnasts and other entertainers. From 2003 to 2005, she performed as a New York Knicks City Dancer. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard.

She is the daughter of Joan Garris of Pompton Plains, N.J., and Ivan Garris of Chesterfield, Va.

The bridegroom, 32, is a creative director for Spike TV, a division of MTV Networks. He manages a team of writers and producers and is responsible for creative and brand marketing for the network. He graduated cum laude from Syracuse University.

He is a son of Catherine and Richard Minogue of Medford, Mass.

The couple met in May 2003, through their respective roommates, at a bar in the East Village.

“He had the bluest eyes I had ever seen,” Ms. Garris recalled. “He also had a passion for travel and a great sense of humor, but we were both seeing other people at the time.”

In late December of that year, Ms. Garris, dressed in a Mrs. Claus outfit, was performing during a Knicks-Celtics game at Madison Square Garden. At halftime, she made her way to an area of the concourse to take part in a charity event and was surprised to see Mr. Minogue standing there.

“I had butterflies in my stomach,” she said. “I was fixated on talking to him.”

Mr. Minogue had felt much the same way and had gone to the Garden hoping to see Ms. Garris more than his beloved Celtics. “I could tell she was sort of mortified to see me because she was in that Mrs. Claus outfit, but she looked adorable,” he said. “I approached cautiously because I had no idea if she had any interest in me.”

They reconnected after the holidays, each bringing the other the same bit of news: they were now unattached.

In early January 2004, they went on their first official date, to a wine bar on the Upper East Side.

“There was just this total chemistry, and I was thinking to myself, ‘This is the guy, I know that this is the guy,’ ” Ms. Garris said.

They began dating steadily, and Mr. Minogue proposed in March 2009, in Washington Square Park. On bended knee, he presented the ring, and she began crying. But the moment was interrupted, Mr. Minogue said, by a man sitting in the park, reeking of alcohol, who began shouting to Ms. Garris, “Say yes, say yes!”

The bridegroom added, “It was one of those classic New York moments. But it was our moment, one we’ll never forget.”

Watch a video of Kim and Terry here.

Congratulations Kim and Terry!

Okay, remember this photo of former Baltimore Ravens Cheerleader Shea? He was at the Redskins Cheerleaders Finals earlier this month and he was there to cheer on his former Ravens teammate Sarita.

Nothing to see here, right? I mean I’d also cheer on Sarita (and Jamilla and Talmesha and Buffy and the Ashleys….you get the idea.)

Eva Ena and Sarita at the end of the 2007 season.

Sarita when she was with the Buffalo Jills.

But actually there is more to it. You see Shea and Sarita are engaged. There’s an engagement party next month, and the wedding will take place this November in Rochester, NY.

Shea’s already retired from Cheerleading so he could focus on law school. He graduates next month. Sarita says she most likely hanging up the poms after this season. It will be her 6th in the NFL: two each with Buffalo, Baltimore and Washington.

An NFL Cheerleader marriage is not completely without precedent. A couple of years ago the Ravens had a husband and wife on the team, but it is pretty rare.

We want to congratulate Sarita and Shea and wish them nothing but happiness and success!