In Style Weddings, Spring 2001

What’s Hot: A Cappella Music: Perhaps no music is more apropos for a wedding than a cappella, which, in Latin, means “in the style of the chapel.” A cappella singers serenaded Pete Sampras and Bridgette Wilson at their nuptials; others are asking the unaccompanied vocalists to harmonize everything from Motown to ballads. “It’s hot because it’s unexpected,” says event planner Debbie Geller, who hired a four-man group to sing the recessional for Brendan Fraser and Afton Smith. “It changes a wedding’s energy.”

Signature Style: For some, signing a guest book is about as exciting as endorsing a check. That’s why creative couples are making the activity more memorable. At her event Jennie Garth had guests take Polaroids of themselves, sign them and mount them on paper that was later bound into a scrapbook (they got the idea from planner Jeffrey Best; his own guest book is at left). Another idea is to have guests write good wishes in a coffee-table book of your honeymoon destination. More enduring: Event producer Randie Pellegrini suggests having loved ones carve names on a silver tray with an engraving pen.