Why They Married Here...

Sweet Hollywood, did we get a healthy dose of red-hot publicity this week, thanks to Green Lantern costars and Left Coast A-listers Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Their surprise wedding over the weekend here at Boone Hall—and the media mania that followed (detailed here on Grit)—put us once again in the media spotlight. But, let's face it, this was a bit of a change of pace. We've had our share of big-screen sirens here, but our coastal city's star power is typically more of the Travel & Leisure's "World's Best..."/Condé Nast/epicureans-on-the-rise ilk. This is straight-up pop culture candy. The kind the whole nation chews on for a bit...

But hey, maybe our aforementioned street cred answers some questions about what brought Blake and Ryan here to tie the knot. And it looks like the editors at People dug up more dirt on just what hooked them, and which local businesses got a visit.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20628910,00.html

Above photo courtesy tvfanatic.com; cover images via insidethegate.com & people.com