AJ McLean Kevin Richardson meet up at Katsuya for A.J's bachelor party

A.J. McLean and his former Backstreet Boys bandmate Kevin Richardson meet up at Katsuya in Hollywood for A.J's bachelor party.

A.J. McLean (right) and his former Backstreet Boys bandmate Kevin Richardson pose with fans (Picture 4) as they meet up at Katsuya in Hollywood for A.J's early bachelor party. A.J. is set to marry Rochelle Deanna Karadis - the woman whom he credits for helping him beat his addiction problems - in December.  

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Bachelor Party tonight for AJ McLean

AJ will have his bachelor party tonight as Jojo Wright shared on Twitter.
He's also invited.

Original message: 'Wish me luck, going to AJ McLean's @skulleeroz bachelor party tonight. If I don't survive, been nice knowing y'allz!'

[JoJoWright]

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AJ McLean and Rochelle Karidis - Gift Registry at Bloomingdale's

There's a gift registry @ Bloomingdale's for Rochelle Karidis and Alexander (aj) Mclean, Event date: 17.12.2011

Items are sorted by Casual Cina, Stemware, Barware, Crystal Giftware, Silver and Metal Giftware, Housewares Accessories, Electrics, Cookware, Bakeware, Cutlery, Table Linens, Fashion Bedding, Blankets, Towels, Bath Accessories and Luggage

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Celebrity Wedding Planner Talking About AJ McLean's upcoming wedding

Celebrity Wedding Planner Mindy Weiss on Who’s Tying the Knot Next!

Mindy Weiss is the go-to celebrity wedding planner, having planned nuptials for Katy Perry and Russell Brand, Fergie and Josh Duhamel, Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale, and countless others. Next up on her list? Backstreet Boy AJ McLean and fiancée Rochelle Deanna Karidis’ wedding in December.

“I’m most looking forward to that because it’s going to be quite unique,” Mindy tells OK!. “They have a Goth kind of theme going on and I’m going to take that and make it elegant. The challenge is on and I just adore them!”


Now Mindy’s giving people the chance to win a celebrity-worthy event designed by her with her RewriteYour Day Campaign, which launched Wednesday and gives 15 people suffering chronic migraines the opportunity to win an event re-created by Mindy.

“I have three kids and I spoke to one patient who missed their kid’s birthday party — I just can’t imagine that,” Mindy says. “Tell their story to us and then myself along with healthy women and the headache foundation will choose 15 winners where we will go to their city and recreate their day.”

As for Mindy’s favorite celebrity wedding she’s worked on, it’s hard for her to choose.

“I love them all,” she says. “The one I see the most is Heidi and Seal because they renew their vows every year so I’m able to do so many weddings for her! Katy Perry and Russell Brand in India was my biggest challenge and one of the most beautiful.”

For more information on Rewrite Your Day Campaign go to: http://rewriteyourday.mychronicmigraine.com/

[source: OK! Magazine]

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Hollywood's favourite photographer and THOSE Lohan photos - AJ's wedding mentioned

'Some people get it, some think it's a cry for help': Tyler Shields lifts the lid on being young Hollywood's favourite photographer and THOSE Lohan photos

 Hollywood's hottest photographer: Mail Online speaks exclusively to Tyler Shields, the man behind these racy images of Lindsay Lohan

‘You can’t really hire me. You can’t shoot with me unless you know someone who knows me.’ Tyler Shields is sitting in his home, which doubles as his studio, a bungalow with boarded-up windows in the heart of Hollywood.


He is the hottest photographer around - his walls are plastered with photographs of his shoots with Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere and half of the Glee and Twilight casts - yet he is remarkably anti-industry.


‘Maybe five per cent of my shoots are set up through managers and agents,’ he says. ‘It’s really like, this person is a friend of this person… I met Jenna (Ushkowitz, star of Glee) through Emma Roberts, and Dianna (Agron, also of Glee) through Jenna.

‘I live in my own little universe, people come into it. Emma said to me the other day, “I come over here and it’s like a little family.” I meet them the same way I meet any of my friends.’

‘I’m kind of reclusive. Nine times out of ten, when the parties are happening I’m shooting. Usually what happens is if I do go out to a party, someone will be like, “What are you doing after? Let’s go shoot. Let’s go to Malibu.” That’s how the late night beach mission with Jenna happened.’


Ushkowitz, who plays glee-clubber Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee, shed her schoolgirl image for a racy shoot earlier in the year which saw her don thigh-high boots, a whip and wading into the ocean in the pitch black night.


This is Shields’ speciality, raising eyebrows with his provocative shoots with starlets whose handlers work overtime to maintain a squeaky clean image.


‘No one has ever come to me and said “I want to rebel, I want to be cool,”’ says the 29-year-old. ‘They’re actors. Jenna and I went to the ocean in the middle of the night, she got bashed into rocks for about an hour in the pitch black, and loved it.


‘People have an idea of what celebrities are like. But they want to be a part of it, they want to go on road trips out to the middle of nowhere and do something artistic.’

In 2009 Shields was arrested in Georgia with the young castmembers of The Vampire Diaries for disorderly conduct during a photoshoot which saw them dangling from a bridge. The photographer posted $3000 bail for the group and the charges were eventually dismissed.


Shields, from Jacksonville, Florida, has no formal training in photography. ‘I started out directing music videos. I took this one photo which became huge on the internet, and then someone asked me to take their photograph, then another person.’


His first professional shoot was with actor Ben Foster. ‘It was the first shoot I ever did, and I said to him, “I want you to jump off this roof for me.” He looked at it, he looked back at me and he said, “Let me tie my shoes.” I’ll never forget that moment. It could have gone horribly wrong. He put the photo in his house and people went nuts for it.

His most famous subject is of course Lindsay Lohan, who he was introduced to through her Machete co-star Electra Avellan. ‘We started tweeting each other and then shot together,’ he says,  ‘then we shot the Inferno pictures,’ (Lohan’s ill-fated film about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace, which she was eventually let go from.)


Shields’ shoots with Lohan tend to make headlines, usually for their use of guns, knives and blood. ‘I have so many unreleased shoots of her,’ he says. Now she just calls up and says, “Let’s go shoot.”


‘The Lindsay in the pictures is the artist. That’s the Lindsay who is working, shooting something. Actors who are on hiatus come to me and say “I want to get it out, I want to be creative.” And that’s an outlet to them. 


'I said to (Lohan) a while ago, "I got a tunnel. We need a big dress. And an umbrella." And she said "I got the dress".'
Lohan’s work with Shields started to emerge in the midst of her very public legal and personal battles.


‘I think she looks at it like, “You guys want to know how I’m doing? Here it is. I’m fine.” I think if I was in the situation where people were always talking about my wellbeing, I’d do the same thing. The blood portraits are like turning it on it’s head. When those pictures came out, some people got it, others said, “Oh no, this is a cry for help!”

‘I don’t think my portraits of Lindsay covered in blood and holding knives and guns have hurt the public perception of her. People see an image like that and it’s shocking to them. But she did the movie Machete and she had a gun in the poster for that, no big deal, it’s a movie poster. But this is art, some people are like ‘Holy s***,’ but its no big deal. Some people just don’t get it.

Blood is a recurring theme in Shields’ portfolio. ‘It started with (St Trinian’s actress) Juno Temple. She said she wanted to do something with blood. Then everybody started asking and it became a sort of thing. I thought, “I’m going to take this as far as I can.”’


Is it just for shock value? ‘To me, blood isn’t shocking,’ he says. ‘It’s interesting the effect it has on people. Blood has a story. If you see blood on a wall, you see it and you think, “something’s happened.” We use fake blood on the shoots though… most of the time.’


Not for his infamous blood painting though, which saw himself, and others including Jenna Ushkowitz donate their own. ‘It was a weird time,’ he admits. ‘I had a fridge full of blood and we were in the middle of building the coffin we used for one of the Lohan shoots. People would come over and say, “Are you a vampire?”’

Another headline-grabbing stunt of Shields was when he shot a party-goer with a gun in the middle of a star-studded launch party for his photographs in early 2010. It was part of a performance piece, and the 'victim' was unharmed, but the incident was no less shocking to the witnesses.

When asked for an explanation, he is very matter of fact. ‘Well, there are three things I’ve always wanted to do: Object at a wedding, marry two people, as in officiate the ceremony, and shoot someone.

‘I’m marrying someone later in the year, (Not just anyone - A.J McLean from The Backstreet Boys), and the shooting thing, I thought “this is the perfect opportunity.”

‘People had really intense reactions. Some people loved it, other people say, “too much.” He recalls a man approaching him recently and berating him over the stunt. ‘I thought if I can make someone so angry, still, a year and a half after the fact… you know, not everyone’s going to be on board when you shoot a guy, but even when they’re not on board, they’re still on board… they reacted.’


Tyler is bringing his controversial brand of art to the UK next month for a collaboration with London-based artist Maximilian Wiedemann.

The exhibit, which launches on October 13, will showcase individual works by each artist and collaborative pieces. ‘We’re doing a lot of the collaborative stuff over skype,’ Shields reveals. ‘We’re making art over Skype. The first piece we did together we did over email, we’d never met.


The photographer will be fitting in shoots with some of London’s brightest talent during his stopover. On his wish list? ‘Keira Knightley and Kaya Scodelario from Skins,’ he says.


Of the opening party? ‘I just hope I’m not in jail by the end of the night,’ he says. ‘It’s going to be wild. Wear comfortable shoes.’

For more of Tyler's work, visit TylerShields.com and to learn about the London exhibit visit Imitatemodern.com

[source: dailymail.co.uk]

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Guess Who Is Planning On Having The "Craziest Celebrity Wedding" Ever???

That would be … A.J. Mclean!

So, you all should know by now that the Backstreet Boys' resident bad boy, A.J. Mclean, is tying the knot this winter to his longtime girlfriend Rochelle Deanna Karidis. What you might not have known is that it's going to be one of the sickest, "craziest" celebrity wedding. Here to talk all about it is the wedding's minster - Tyler Shields!

Yeppers! The famed celebrity photographer revealed that as a close friend of A.J.'s, he will be presiding over the ceremony as the minster on December 17. He's dubbing it the "I Do Or Die wedding," and adds that it's going to be the HIGHlight of the year! He explains:

“I’m much more nervous about being the minister than when I’m taking photographs of young Hollywood. But I can promise people there will be plenty of surprises and it will be one of the craziest celebrity weddings ever. A.J. is a friend of mine and I’m really pleased for them both and thrilled to be a part of their big day.” 

Sounds like a blast! Now we want to go!
Send us an invite A.J.! We want it that way! We want to see you marry the one! Show us the meaning of being lonely in love!

[source: perez hilton]

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A.J. Mclean And Rochelle Deanna Karidis To Have ‘Craziest’ Celebrity Wedding Ever

Celebrity photographer Tyler Shields has told RadarOnline.com that the wedding of Backstreet Boy A.J. Mclean and girlfriend Rochelle Deanna Karidis will be one of the craziest celebrity weddings ever.

Shields - who is a close friend of Mclean’s – will preside as the minister at the December 17, ceremony that has been dubbed the “I Do Or Die wedding” between the pair.

Shields told Radar Online.com: “I’m much more nervous about being the minister than when I’m taking photographs of young Hollywood.

“But I can promise people there will be plenty of surprises and it will be one of the craziest celebrity weddings ever.

“A.J. is a friend of mine and I’m really pleased for them both and thrilled to be a part of their big day.”
The couple is still busy planning the event which will include plenty of big name stars.

Millionaire performer McLean has credited long-time girlfriend Karidis as the person who helped him beat his drug addiction.
Mclean previously wrote on his Twitter account: “I really miss and love @rochelle_deanna you are my whole world and I cannot wait to spend my life with you. W out u here I am lost!”

The couple previously postponed their wedding date after A.J. checked into rehab earlier this year.
The singer proposed to Karidis while he was celebrating his 32nd birthday in a Las Vegas nightclub – but they have now sent out notices to family and friends to keep their new December date free.

The happy couple is going for a Moulin Rouge themed wedding and it’s understood they will be serenaded by his fellow Backstreet Boys members Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and former band-mate Kevin Richardson.
Both Karidis and Mclean are understood to want to hear the band’s fans favorite hit Wants It That Way as their first dance song.

Check out Tyler with lovebirds A.J. And Rochelle.

[source: radaronline]

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AJ McLean Is Getting Married This December

He's done play'n games, y'all!

Our fav bad boy BSB member A.J. McLean is set to marry in December after postponing his wedding following his stint in rehab earlier this year.

The boy singer proposed to his gf Rochelle Deanna Karidis on his 32nd birthday (so sweet) in Vegas at The Hard Rock Hotel's Wasted Space Nightclub (meh) last year.

The hitch was suppose to happen in May… but AJ sought treatment "for personal reasons" in January and checked into a rehab centre for a month.

The wedding was reportedly put on hold, but McLean and Karidis have now sent out 'Save the Date' notices to friends and family, asking them to keep December 17 free for the knot-tying!

We're sure the winter shin-dig will be larger than life! LOL.

[source: perez hilton]

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Tyler Shields: I Do or Die

Well it looks like I am finally going to marry someone sadly I am not getting married happily I am going to perform the ceremony for my good friend AJ and his wonderful bride to be Rochelle if you are invited to this wedding make sure you go I promise it will be the best wedding ever and the most fun… This will be my first time marrying people but I am thinking it could be something nice to ad to my job titles!

Would you come to this wedding?
Would you let me marry you and your loved one?


[source: Tyler Shields]

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AJ talking about wedding preparations

AJ of the Backstreet Boys doesn't take care of his wedding preparations
 
There is no professional job which is more complex than to be a “wedding planner ”, AJ McLean - member of the Backstreet Boys - makes sure .
Although he doesn't devote himself to that, the ringleader of the team who's preparing his wedding with Rochelle Deanna Karidis is the big hero for the singer and ballet dancer.

“When I realized everything what to do charm my profession is not so complicated as I believed. I prefer not to say his name, however, acknowledge their work and I congratulate you because I would go crazy. Choosing flowers, the right colors, tables and chairs like the one for the bride and the groom, pleasing moms, dads, guests. It seems very complex and worthy of welcome, "AJ said in an interview. 

Last year, the companion of Howie, Brian and Nick proposed to his girl and wanted to marry in May, but because of all the preparations that lies ahead, they've changed the date to the end of the year.
“I am a very happy man, we are doing a tour, I do what I like. I have always liked my profession to the maximum, I enjoy it hundred percent.

I am very happy for being with the woman that I love and she loves me and also, I am very much grateful to the life to be able being sober, recovered, clear, to enjoy every moment”. 

The most rebellious guy of theBackstreet Boys has been in rehabilitation for drugs and alcohol for three times in the last ten years, and now he says that he feels the whole intention of improving and of not relapsing.
His band, as a whole with New Kids on the Block, are releasing their album NKOTBSB in three weeks, which contains the successful hits from both bands and remixes of shared successes.

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[la.eonline.com]

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AJ McLean on Upcoming Wedding: “I Am Actually a Groomzilla!”

Backstreet Boy AJ McLean is getting ready to tie the knot with fiancée Rochelle Deanna Karidis and admits exclusively to OK! that he is turning into a “groomzilla!”


“I am kind of the groomzilla actually. I am letting my fiancée deal with school and I am taking on the added pressure, but we are really good teammates so we are helping each other out,”  the 32-year-old gushed to OK! at the 2nd Annual Get Lucky for Lupus event in L.A.


AJ could not be more excited for his upcoming wedding on May 14, especially with the help of celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss.

“When it comes to the flower arrangements, the food, the entertainment, she wants me to do it so I have been meeting with our wedding planner, who is the most amazing wedding planner in the world, Mindy Weiss. So her and her whole team are making it so easy for us,”  AJ explained on Wednesday.

The Florida native even gave OK! a sneak peek at what to expect on the big day.
“I’ll tell you that my fiancée is wearing a black dress, I am wearing a white suit, the theme is Moulin Rouge. I have got some other friends of mine who may perform and do our first dance.”

But why Rochelle?
“It just clicked.  We had been dating for about a year and a half and I proposed to her on my birthday in January and I just knew.  There was this moment when you just know. This is it. I am done searching the world.”

AJ is already thinking about the future and having babies!
“We’d like to be married for a couple of years, enjoy it, and then get in lots and lots of practice. But, I am going to have a girl, I know it! Brian [Littrell] has a boy, Howie[Dorough] has a boy, and I can guarantee you mine will be a girl.”

[OKmagazine]

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