Her recent engagement is already old news, but Drew Barrymore is still aglow, especially when talking about fiancé Will Kopelman.

“I didn’t want to go to this little party, and my friend dragged me there and I met him,” the Big Miracle star tells Anderson Cooper on Friday’s Anderson. Though their initial meeting was several years ago, it wasn’t until 2011 that “things got serious.”

Now, after what Barrymore calls a romantic proposal, the two are in the midst of wedding planning — and all the fun that comes with it. “The thing that I think we’re the most excited about is … this will be such a nice year to do wonderful things together,” she says. “We like to spend time with our friends anyway, so on the auspices of this kind of a celebration, even more heightened and wonderful. What a great adventure.”

In the meantime, Barrymore also gets to show off her ring, a 4-carat sparkler from Graff Diamonds. “It’s beautiful,” she says. “[Kopelman] picked it out and he’s just got lovely taste, and it’s really fancy. I’m sort of like funky, eclectic girl so I feel like this is very fancy and I’m trying to like, you know, feel comfortable with it.”

She also needs to remind herself to stay comfortable with the planning process. “The worst thing you can do is like stress about things, and I totally fall prey to stress and lose my own advice every once in a while,” she admits. “We’ll just have a wedding, we’ll get married, it will be very calm.” Check out the clip below for more, and catch Anderson Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. EST.

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When Chrissy Teigen‘s longtime beau John Legend popped the question over the holidays, the Sports Illustrated model wasn’t only surprised by the proposal, but by the ring, as well.

“It’s none of my doing at all,” she tells InStyle.com of the stunning sparkler. “All I know is that it’s a cushion cut, and I had never even heard of that before.”

The couple announced their engagement on Dec. 27 — Legend proposed while they were vacationing in the Maldives — and already, Teigen has been perusing magazines for dress ideas, even though she hasn’t yet set a date.

“I’m obsessed with dresses and it’s so hard to stop,” she shares. So any standouts yet? “I really love something about Monique Lhuillier. I think she’s so romantic and light and beautiful. I want to look like myself coming down the aisle, and I feel like Monique embodies what I want.”

However, don’t expect to see Teigen shopping at Kleinfeld anytime soon. As she says, “I don’t want to find [a dress] tomorrow and then have to wait a year.” Tell us: How many months before your wedding did you buy your dress?

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The dresses Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli sent down the runway in Paris Wednesday were fit for a high-fashion bride: feminine florals ruled, there were lacey accents galore and more than half of the ladylike frocks were white. With a little finessing, a veil and a bouquet, we could easily see some of the haute couture gowns walking down an aisle.

Though she wasn’t there, we do wonder: was Anne Hathaway paying attention? The bride-to-be is quite close to Valentino, who, while retired, still has influence in the fashion world, and even spoke out about her potential wedding gown recently. “I would do my best creation for her,” he told PEOPLE in December. “She’s a lovely person. She wears the clothes very, very well. So I would do something special … but I cannot say exactly which type of dress.”

The final look of the show, seen at left, was particularly bridal, with a flowing skirt, airy sleeves and floral detail. “It should be interesting,” Hathaway’s stylist Rachel Zoe told PEOPLE of helping her client find a dress. “She’s so young and such a romantic. It will be a fashion ‘moment’ whatever she decides.”

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When Hillary Scott started planning the details of her wedding to now-husband Chris Tyrrell, she immediately turned to one of the best names in the bridal gown business: Vera Wang. The Lady Antebellum singer approached the designer about a custom dress, and what resulted was a one-of-a-kind creation that left the bride aglow.

“Hillary was joyous, over the moon,” Wang tells PEOPLE. “And [she was] actually very enchanted with the thought of a hand-pieced, hand-engineered lace mermaid wedding gown.” In fact, the strapless dress featured all-over lace underlay, a layered tulle skirt with horsehair banding and a hand-cut corded lace applique with hand-applied crystal-and-pearl beading.

Courtesy Vera Wang

“While the dress was very tailored, the lace work was extremely feminine,” Wang explains.

Scott finished her look with an embroidered, cathedral-length mantilla veil with hand-cut Chantilly lace applique. “[She was] a contemporary vision of a traditional bride,” Wang says proudly.

Scott and Tyrrell tied the knot in upstate New York on Saturday, surrounded by family and close friends. Soon after the nuptials, the couple posted a video to Lady Antebellum’s official website, announcing their status as husband and wife. “We’re so excited to be starting our life together,” Scott says, “and we just had to let you in on the exciting news.” Tell us: What do you think of Scott’s gown?

–Kate Hogan

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Considering Drew Barrymore‘s new fiancé Will Kopelman is an art consultant, it’s no surprise that the actress’ brand-new engagement ring is truly, well, a work of art.

The ring features a colorless radiant-cut diamond — which weighs in at just under 4 carats — situated on a diamond-covered band. The stunning sparkler was designed by Graff Diamonds, though “[Kopelman] picked it out,” a source tells PEOPLE.

Kopelman and Barrymore have been linked romantically since February of last year. The couple got engaged in Sun Valley, Idaho, while vacationing over the holidays.

This will be the third walk down the aisle for Barrymore, who was married to Tom Green in 2001 and to Jeremy Thomas briefly in 1994. Tell us: What do you think of Barrymore’s ring?

–Kate Hogan, with reporting by Liz McNeil

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We knew the gown Carolina Herrera created specifically for the Breaking Dawn wedding took six months to design and that it left Robert Pattinson floored, but in the new issue of Town & Country Weddings, the designer reveals Kristen Stewart‘s very personal reaction.

“We did three fittings. When she initially put on the dress and looked over her shoulder into the mirror, she was very moved,” Herrera tells the mag, on stands Wednesday. “In that moment she was not an actress or a character in a film but instead a bride, and a happy one at that.”

The dress seen in the sketch (left) is what the designer calls a “union between Stephenie [Meyer's] description in the book and the Herrera bridal aesthetic” — something she has been perfecting for 25 years.

“I took into consideration the character of Bella and Kristen’s portrayal of her, and what this fantasy character would choose to wear for the most important day of her life,” she explains of the masterpiece, which retails for $35,000. “It’s made of a crepe satin with two inserts on the front and beautiful silk thread topstitching. The neckline is a slight V, just enough to see the collarbones. The back is oval-shaped, with a Chantilly lace border veiled in tulle. It’s very romantic, and when all the details come together, it creates a vision specific to Bella’s style and personality.”

Courtesy Town & Country

–Justine Harman

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Some stylish stories for your Tuesday afternoon …

–Lauren Conrad resolves to organize her closet once monthly in 2012 [LaurenConrad.com]

–Spanish shoppers lined up in their underwear to score free clothes at a mall in Madrid. Brr! [Jezebel]

–Aretha Franklin’s wedding dress designer short list includes Donna Karan, Valentino and Vera Wang [PEOPLE]

–Tommy Hilfiger’s daughter, Ally, is nominated for a Fashion Group International ‘Rising Star’ award [WWD]

–Beauty brands are inking deals with British athletes in anticipation of the summer Olympics [Racked]

What a pair — and what a pear! LeBron James proposed to longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson on New Year’s Eve, and over the weekend, the lucky lady flashed her brand-new bling: a pear-shaped diamond flanked by two glimmering baguettes.

James — whose salary will top $16 million this season — popped the question during a celebratory dinner at SL nightclub at the Shelborne hotel in South Beach. The couple’s children, LeBron Jr., 7, and Bryce, 4, were on hand to celebrate with mom and dad, too.

“It was so sweet to watch,” a rep for Remy Martin V, who hosted the dinner, tells PEOPLE. “Everyone is extremely happy.”

The party, co-hosted by Heat teammate Dwyane Wade and his girlfriend Gabrielle Union, was also a belated birthday celebration for James, who turned 27 the day before. Heat star Chris Bosh (who tied the knot lavishly in July) and Queen Latifah were also on the guest list of 60 friends and family members.

“A person like myself always needs a great sidekick and a person you can rely on no matter the circumstances. And she’s that,” James told Harper’s Bazaar of Brinson in 2010. “She’s got my back, and I love her for that.”

–Kate Hogan, with reporting by Linda Marx

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Rock this way! Steven Tyler proposed to girlfriend Erin Brady during a holiday vacation in Hawaii, giving her a mighty fine Christmas present: a sparkler by jeweler Loree Rodkin.

A spokesperson for Rodkin says the bauble is totally unique. “It’s one of a kind, like all of her pieces,” the rep tells PEOPLE. “Steven has been a client of Loree’s for many years, and often wears rings by her, as well as other jewelry.”

According to Rodkin, the proposal was a surprise. “He was working, so I picked stones, built settings, showed him choices and sent him pictures on his phone,” she tells PEOPLE. “He asked for guidance but the choice was his. Having made jewelry for both Erin and Steven made it an effortless process, as I know their taste.”

Brady’s ring is a 5-carat, brilliant-cut diamond, which sits on a micro pave diamond-and-platinum band. The bride-to-be flashed the jewel while walking through the airport with her beau earlier this week.

Tyler has been dating Brady for five years. His last marriage, to clothing designer Teresa Barrick, ended in 2006. He was married to Cyrinda Foxe, an ex-Warhol model, from 1978 to 1987.

–Reporting by Kevin O’Donnell

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Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean and new wife, model Rochelle DeAnna Karidis, stepped out as newlyweds — and showed off their wedding rings — at a Guns ‘n’ Roses concert in Los Angeles Wednesday.

The couple even wore coordinating nail adornment, with McLean, 33, sporting black polish with a red heart on his ring finger, and Karidis wearing red polish with a black heart on hers.

As for their matching wedding bands, Karidis’s is black with diamonds and McLean’s is red with a single diamond.

It’s a fitting color scheme for McLean and Karidis, who wed in a goth-themed ceremony on Dec. 17 at the Beverly Hills Hotel after McLean proposed onstage at the Hard Rock Hotel’s nightclub Las Vegas in January 2010.

–Liz Raftery

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Britney Spears may be a pop-star diva to the rest of the world, but to beau Jason Trawick, “she’s his everyday princess,” says celebrity jeweler Neil Lane, who designed Spears’s dazzling engagement ring to befit Trawick’s vision of the singer’s down-home regality. “Jason is a romantic and when I asked him to tell me about Britney and what the ring would represent to them so I could find inspiration, his response was always the same — she is his princess!”

With that theme in mind, Lane tells PEOPLE he designed from scratch a tiara-motif sparkler with a round, perfect white diamond in a handmade platinum setting that “looks like a mini crown,” the celebrated jeweler says. He also added 90 small round diamonds around the eternity band. “Jason didn’t want an over-the-top ring with a giant stone,” he adds.

Over the last month, Lane and Trawick clocked phone and email minutes as they collaborated while Trawick was traveling with Spears on her global tour. “Texts came from all over the world, from Abu Dhabi, Mexico and I don’t know where else!” says Lane.

But when Trawick stopped into Lane’s Los Angeles store to pick up the ring — less than one week before the proposal! — they both knew the hard work and scheming had paid off. “Oh my god, he loved it,” Lane shares, adding that he could tell Trawick had pre-proposal jitters. “The guy was so excited and nervous. At the end of the day, even with all the fame, he’s still a normal guy who was about to propose to the woman he loves.”

That said, Lane believes this couple is in it for the long haul. “He’s deeply in love with her. Britney is his princess and he is her knight in shining armor,” he says. “Jason’s protective of her. He adores her. Every good fairytale needs a princess, and now Britney has a ring fit for a princess!”

–Elizabeth Leonard

Courtesy Neil Lane

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Since getting engaged to longtime love Adam Shulman in November, Anne Hathaway has been pretty good at keeping her gorgeous engagement ring out of the spotlight. But at the premiere of The Iron Lady in New York on Tuesday, the actress’s sparkler nearly stole the show — and we finally got a decent look at the goods.

Hathaway’s emerald-cut ring, set on a thin diamond-studded band, was designed in part by Kwiat jewelers, whose diamonds are certified conflict-free. “Adam did work with us to design a ring that he knew Anne would love,” owner Greg Kwiat told PEOPLE at the time of the engagement. “He had a very strong vision for what he knew Anne would love.”

Shulman’s expertise was probably welcomed by Kwiat; as it turns out, the part-time actor is also a jewelry designer. In conjunction with business partner Heidi Nahser Fink, Shulman owns James Banks Designs, a small company that offers  handcrafted light bulb pendants and whimsical butterfly necklaces. Tell us: Do you love Hathaway’s engagement ring?

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–Reporting by Catherine Kast and Stephen M. Silverman

Will Anne Hathaway wear a Valentino gown on her wedding day? The young star of The Devil Wears Prada is notoriously close with designer Valentino Garavani, so while she called in sick to the opening-night party of his Virtual Museum in New York on Wednesday night, that didn’t stop other guests from speculating on what she might wear when she weds fiancé Adam Shulman.

Stylist Rachel Zoe, who’s worked with Hathaway for nearly seven years, indicated that choosing a wedding dress designer might be difficult for the actress. “But it should be interesting,” she continued. “She’s so young and such a romantic. It will be a fashion ‘moment’ whatever she decides.”

When asked about aesthetic, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman said she wasn’t sure she’d go for a Princess Bride moment if asked to create the gown. “I’d have to talk to Annie and see what she would like,” she said, because according to Chapman, it’s all about what the bride wants. “They all come up with very different ideas, and that’s what’s wonderful about designing a wedding dress,” she shared. “Everyone has a different opinion. I’d listen to my bride.”

But if, in fact, Hathaway asked Valentino to design her wedding dress, what would he do? “I am so happy for Anne. And I would do my best creation for her,” he shared. “She’s a lovely person. She wears the clothes very, very well. So I would do something special … but I cannot say exactly which type of dress.”

Valentino fan Claire Danes, joined at the bash by husband Hugh Dancy, chose not to discuss gowns (she married two years ago in Narciso Rodriguez), but instead, offered a little first-person advice to the bride-to-be. “Take a sleeping pill the night before the wedding,” she suggested strongly. “Because I could not sleep. Nobody can sleep. You’re so ‘adrenalized.’ So get a little help.

–Jeffrey Slonim

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On Sunday night at the Trevor Project’s “Trevor Live at the Hollywood Palladium,” a fit and glowing Ricki Lake was ready to talk about her wedding plans — or at least the most important detail. “I may have found a dress,” the actress and former Dancing with the Stars finalist admitted to PEOPLE. “I have someone who has been looking for me. It’s vintage.”

As for the inspiration behind the gown, set to arrive at her house Monday, Lake said, “I wanted something simple, on the bias, and flattering. It’s got a lot of detail. It’s very pretty. I’m not going to say any more yet because I haven’t even seen it firsthand, I’ve just seen a picture!” She previously said she was waiting until Dancing was over to try on dresses, and lost a significant amount of weight while competing on the series.

Lake, who announced her engagement to Christian Evans in August, said the couple needs some time alone to get into the wedding planning. “We are just starting to talk about it. Next weekend we’re going away together and we’re going to try to start figuring out what we’re doing,” she revealed. “Then we’re going to Paris on holiday for two weeks and then we’ll start planning. But it’s going to be soon.” It might even be a destination wedding, Lake shared.

But regardless of location, Lake is excited to make her nuptials her own. “We’re going to be very non-traditional in every way,” she said. “We’re going to do something that is right for us and not what everyone else does. It’s going to be a unique experience.”

And while Lake said she is “excited” to try on the dress, she is “mostly excited to marry that guy,” she joked, gesturing to Evans, whom she stayed close to throughout the event.

Also at the star-studded gala, where Lady Gaga was honored with the Trevor Hero Award for her work against bullying, were Amy Adams, Dianna Agron, Christina Applegate, Will Arnett and wife Amy Poehler, Mary J. Blige, Miley Cyrus, Josh Duhamel and wife Fergie, Zac Efron, Julianne Hough, Rashida Jones, Queen Latifah, Jane Lynch, Zoe Saldana and many others. The Trevor Project, founded in 1998, is an organization dedicated to providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.

–Vanessa Diaz

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Twilight fans can’t marry Edward Cullen, unfortunately, but they can look like Bella Swan when walking down the aisle. Designer Carolina Herrera recently announced that the dress she created for the Breaking Dawn wedding will be reproduced, and according to instyle.com, it’ll be available at her New York, Los Angeles, Bal Harbour and Dallas boutiques.

It won’t be so easy to get the gown, though; Herrera plans to make every crepe satin and French Chantilly lace dress by hand, so they’ll each come with a hefty price tag of $35,000.

Not that it’s an unreasonable price, though; Herrera, who’s made wedding gowns for celebs like Christina Hendricks and regularly clothes Renée Zellweger, spent six months creating the Breaking Dawn gown. “It had to be magical,” she said at the film’s premiere. I still have all the sketches and everything because it was so special.”

If you want that magic without the bank-breaking price, check out Alfred Angelo’s replica — the $799 gown looks similar to the dress Kristen Stewart wears in the wedding, and features the same cut-out back and lace embellishments. Tell us: Would you wear Bella Swan’s wedding gown?

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Reviews of the film are in, but how about reviews of the wedding dress? So far, not much has been said about the much-anticipated Breaking Dawn wedding gown, but designer Carolina Herrera certainly hopes fans love it.

“I worked on that dress for like six months going back and forth,” she told E! on Monday night at the film’s Los Angeles premiere. “I still have all the sketches and everything because it was so special.”

Herrera partnered with Twilight author Stephanie Meyer to design the gown, staying true to her description. “I think she did a fantastic job, and I respected what she wanted,” Herrera added to FabSugar at the premiere. The designer met with Kristen Stewart for fittings — “I think she’s fabulous,” she said — and really thought about the otherworldly subject matter as she sketched.

“You had to really take into consideration the whole story, which was this innocent girl with the first true love of her life,” the designer, who’s created wedding gowns for Christina Hendricks and several other stars, explained. “It had to be magical.” Tell us: Have you seen Breaking Dawn? Did you love the gown?

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When your future father-in-law is Ralph Lauren, you know your wedding dress is going to be pretty spectacular. But to newlywed Lauren Bush Lauren, getting to watch the design process unfold was almost as great as the gown itself.

“Any experience of a girl picking out her wedding dress is amazing,” she says in the December issue of Vogue. “But I have to say it was really special to work with [husband David Lauren's] dad, to see him in action with his team.” (Ralph also designed daughter Dylan’s dress for her June nuptials; she shared her photos in Vogue, as well.)

FEED founder Lauren exchanged ideas with Ralph casually before their first official design meeting at his studio in June. “I walked in, and there were these beautiful illustrations of the looks we’d discussed with my face on them,” she recalls. “It was like a dream come true.”

The result? A dress Lauren says “isn’t Victorian exactly. I wanted something modern as well, so there is the high-necked collar and puffed shoulders with the large open back.” The top layer of the dress was made of tulle in antique ivory; nearly 100 craftspeople spent more than 3,000 hours hand-embroidering the tulle with motifs of flowers and Renaissance-era scroll designs in ivory silk and metallic thread, Swarovski Elements crystals and off-white pearl beads.

Since the wedding took place in a 200-year-old barn on Ralph’s Double RL Ranch in Colorado, Lauren paired her gown with cowboy boots, and dressed her bridesmaids in white linen blouses, vests, vintage prairie skirts and cowboy boots, too. “They looked like Little House on the Prairie,” she says.

Lauren’s boots and dress served as her something new, her headpiece something old and a friend’s Victorian earrings something borrowed. As for her something blue? The bride says, laughing, “I wore blue socks.” Read more about the couple’s rustic nuptials on vogue.com.

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Her 2008 wedding to now-husband Jay-Z was a closely guarded secret, but Beyoncé is revealing a glimpse of the big day — a two-second glimpse — in her new video for the emotional single “I Was Here.”

Toward the end of the four-and-a-half-minute clip, which appears on vevo.com, the singer shares brief front and back shots of her flowing white wedding dress, which has never been seen publicly. The exaggerated sweetheart gown appears to have an elaborate fitted back with layers of fine fabric and a long train.

The rest of the video features major moments in Beyoncé’s life: meeting luminaries such as Nelson Mandela, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson and Oprah Winfrey; performing as a youngster and later as a member of Destiny’s Child; joining Jay-Z on stage in concert; and revealing her baby bump at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. She sings, “I wanna say I lived each day until I die,” and from the looks of this video, so far, she definitely has.

Courtesy Vevo

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We’re just days away from seeing the much-hyped Breaking Dawn Part I wedding scene, and a few Twilight cast members are letting bare-bones details slip.

“Rob [Pattinson] looked like a stud,” Kellan Lutz tells InStyle.com. “And Kristen Stewart is just stunning. She really made everyone turn heads. She looked so beautiful.”

According to Pattinson, Stewart did turn heads — and for good reason. “I’d seen her in the wedding dress, but pretty much everyone in the cast hadn’t seen her,” he told Ann Curry Thursday during a chat on Today. “So when she’s walking down the aisle and everyone turns around to her, it’s genuine curiosity because there was so much secrecy about it.”

For his part, Pattinson was a bit confused by the secrecy. “It’s a white dress,” he joked. “But it’s beautiful, it’s an incredible dress. She looks amazing.”

Participating in an on-screen wedding gave the actor new appreciation for real-life nuptials, too. “Watching Kristen … she had to take all the nerves, all the heavy lifting in the scene,” he said. “You suddenly realize that the role of a man, the role of a groom in a wedding, is that of a prop.” Tell us: Are you excited for the Twilight wedding?

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