Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi got married on August 16, 2008, reported People.com.
Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi attended the 35th Annual Daytime EMMY Awards at Kodak Theater, Hollywood on July 20, 2008. Ellen and Portia legally married as a couple in Los Angeles on August 16, 2008.
Talk show queen Ellen DeGeneres
and partner Portia de Rossi exchanged wedding vows and walked down the aisle in the couple's Los Angeles.
"Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were married tonight [August 16] in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles," Ellen's rep told the mag.
Ellen DeGeneres, mom Betty DeGeneres and partner Portia de Rossi at 2007 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
People said Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's wedding was held in an intimate ceremony only the 19 family members and friends, including DeGeneres's mom Betty DeGeneres and de Rossi's mother Margaret Rogers, attended.
Ellen DeGeneres 50, and Portia de Rossie, 35, have been dating since December 2004. But not until California's Supreme Court ruled the same-sex/gay marriage is legal in the state on May 14, DeGeneres announced the following day on her talk show she planed to marry with de Rossi, an Australian-born celebrity working in Hollywood.
Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi attended the 35th Annual Daytime EMMY Awards at Kodak Theater, Hollywood on July 20, 2008. A beaming De Rossi proudly shows off her diamond engagement right Ellen gave to her for the paparazzi.
In July Ellen DeGeneres presented Portia de Rossi a Neil Lane-designed, marquise-cut pink diamond ring for their upcoming nuptials. On the 20th of the month, Portia de Rossi proudly showed off the 3-carat diamond ring for the photogs when the pair arrived at the rep carpet of the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
Sources: People & E!online Images credit: PR Photos
Update/Perezhilton.com: A little more details about Portia de Rossi Ellen DeGeneres Wedding:Portia wore a backless, light pink dress and Ellen sported an all white ensemble of pants, button-up shirt and vest.
A witness tells Us Weekly, before the ceremony, "Ellen and Portia came out and posed for pictures with Ellen's mom and their two dogs. They were hugging and kissing, and looked ecstatic. Ellen was helping Portia with the train of her dress, which looked like a Cinderella tutu."
The snitch went on to say E and P "were both laughing," walked "all over the lawn together holding hands and posing."
Oh, cheers for a pair of legal wives!