Any Rascal Flatts Fans?

[NutBrnHair]

Rascal Flatts band member, Jay DeMarcus, is married to a Chi Omega! He married Allison Alderson (Kappa Beta, Rhodes College) who is a former Miss Tennessee, this past May. They met when Allison was starring in the group's video for their #1 hit song, "These Days."

[NutBrnHair]

Wedding Bells Ring For Jay DeMarcus
posted: 5/16/2004

NASHVILLE - (May 15, 2004)- Rascal Flatts member Jay DeMarcus married Allison Alderson this evening, Saturday, May 15 in Nashville, Tenn. The couple met on the video set of "These Days," a #1 hit for the group, in the summer of 2002. Alderson played the female lead in the clip.

Fellow Rascal Flatts band mate and cousin Gary LeVox stood in as Best Man and band mate Joe Don Rooney as a groomsman. There were 7 additional groomsmen, including Cledus T Judd, and 8 bridesmaids. During the ceremony Vince Gill performed "When Love Finds You," Jason Scheff (Chicago) sang "Will You Still Love Me," and "You're Still You" was performed by Michael English.

The bride's dress was a custom made gown by designer Reem Acra with a scooped neckline and beaded illusion sleeves, bodice and back. The skirt was an A-line with beaded train. Her tiara was taken from the Museum Collection from Kleinfeld's of Brooklyn, which was a replica of Princess Grace Kelly's wedding tiara. Alderson's shoes were custom jeweled Manolo Blanik's.

The groom wore a hand made black Italian wool & cashmere sateen tuxedo with Western detail. Silk satin twill trim accented the jacket and pant. The vest and traditional tie were tone on tone ivory silk to
complement the bride. The ensemble was designed and tailor-made by well- known Nashville designers Cindy McGill of "Imagine That" and her son Aaron McGill of "Kick Arse."

The bride's procession music was written by DeMarcus and was performed by a 14-piece orchestra conducted by Bill Baumgart.

The couple walked down the aisle as man and wife on a hand painted runner with a custom signature of the newlywed's intertwined champagne colored initials with Austrian crystals and was lightly dusted with glitter. The runner was designed by Susan Poore of Bridal Art Studio. "They lived happily ever after" was printed at the end of the runner.

LeVox sang "These Days" for the couple while they danced at the reception, which immediately followed the church wedding.

The couple will take a tropical honeymoon and DeMarcus will resume his schedule when the band performs their #1 hit "Mayberry" on the Academy of Country Music Awards, May 26.

[NutBrnHair]

ALLISON ALDERSON & JAY DEMARCUS

MAY 15, 2004

Newlyweds for 170 days!

ABOUT ALLISON

Allison is a former pharmaceutical sales representative with Eli Lilly & Company. While at Eli Lilly & Company, Allison was ranked in the top 10% of the nation, was a part of the Diabetes Care Executive Council and on the National Wall of Fame at Lilly Headquarters in Indianapolis, IN. She is a 1999 cum laude graduate of Rhodes College with a BA in Business Administration. Allison received the Wall Street Journal Award in Finance, which is the highest award in finance among graduating seniors. Allison was crowned Miss Tennessee 1999 and represented her home state in the Miss America pageant and traveled the state of TN as the Governor's Spokesperson for a Safe and Drug Free Tennessee. Allison also won Miss Tennessee USA in 2002. She is the first young woman in pageant history to represent Tennessee in Miss Teen USA, Miss America and the Miss USA pageants.

ABOUT JAY

Jay is originally from Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated from Tree of Life Christian School in 1989. He attended Lee University in Cleveland, TN where he was a piano major. Jay began his music career while at Lee and shortly after, became a member of the Christian music duo, East to West, which recorded seven number one Christian songs. Jay then began working for triple Grammy award winning artist, Michael English, as bass guitarist and producer. Jay was also Chely Wright's band leader for a few years before signing his own record deal with Lyric Street Records with country music group, Rascal Flatts. The Rascal Flatts are the reigning Group of the Year according to the CMA and ACMs, have won Song of the Year at the ACMs, and won a Flameworthy Award for their number one video, These Days. Rascal Flatts have sold over 4 1/2 million records with their first album recently going double platinum and their second album currently platinum.

HOW THEY MET

Allison and Jay met when Allison was cast to star in Rascal Flatts' country music video, These Days, which went to number one on the country video charts. Jay followed Allison around the entire day and finally spilled his salad on her to get her attention!

WHEN THEY GOT ENGAGED

August 9, 2003

HOW IT HAPPENED

Jay flew Allison to NYC and took her to dinner at the Tavern on the Green. After dinner, Jay and Allison went to the fire hydrant she was sitting on when she answered Jay's first phone call to her when she was in New York City with her mother and sister. Jay sat Allison down on the fire hydrant and got on one knee and asked her to spend the rest of her life with him! How romantic!

[xo_kathy]

Originally posted by NutBrnHair

The bride's dress was a custom made gown by designer Reem Acra with a scooped neckline and beaded illusion sleeves, bodice and back. The skirt was an A-line with beaded train. Her tiara was taken from the Museum Collection from Kleinfeld's of Brooklyn, which was a replica of Princess Grace Kelly's wedding tiara. Alderson's shoes were custom jeweled Manolo Blanik's.

NICE...

Hey, at least I have one of the profiles on theknot.com like they do!!!

[Hootie]

Awe, how sweet! I absolutely LOVE Rascal Flatts. They make a beautiful couple - I'm so happy for them.

Rascal Flatts will be performing here in Omaha this month. I wanted to go, but with the holidays approaching I'm unable to get off from work. My sister, on the other hand, has tickets and will probably call me from the concert to sing Mayberry or Melt to me!

::Sigh:: Joe's hot too!

[NutBrnHair]

Did you see that Rascal Flatts won VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR last night at the 38th Annual CMA Awards? Woo Hoo!

(Allison was in the audience & looked beautiful!)

[ealiving]

yes i saw it when they won vocal group of the year! i didn't get to see allison in the audience though. i bet they are one happy couple with that huge accomplishment!

[Hootie]

So Rascal Flatts in playing here in Omaha TONIGHT! On my way home my sister called me from the concert...I couldn't hear a THING! I dunno what song they were singing but she was singing along.
Then an hour later my coworker, Wendy, called. I had told her to call me when "I Melt" came on. I could totally hear them singing that song! I was so excited.

Just had to share! I'm sad that I'm missing it, but excited that people thought enough to call me!

[NutBrnHair]

'I Do' Magazine Features Rascal Flatts Member Jay DeMarcus’ Wedding

Newly created I Do Magazine features Rascal Flatts member Jay DeMarcus and wife Allison on their current cover. The 2005 winter issue explores the May 15, 2004 wedding complete with photos and many details of the event held in Nashville. Fans can learn for the first time the locations of the ceremony and rehearsal dinner- which was held in the Rotunda of the Country Music Hall of Fame- and advise tips on wedding dos and don’ts from the couple.


Copy of the article

[xo_annie]

Rascal Flatts was in Omaha and I missed it?! (I'm in Kearney, NE...a three hour drive that DEFINATELY would've been worth it!)
P.S. Allison is gorgeous! kinda makes me jealous...=)

[NutBrnHair]

Originally posted by xo_annie
Rascal Flatts was in Omaha and I missed it?! (I'm in Kearney, NE...a three hour drive that DEFINATELY would've been worth it!)
P.S. Allison is gorgeous! kinda makes me jealous...=)

Allison is great -- still involved with Chi Omega! (as it should be! )

[NutBrnHair]

CMA AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Airing November 15


SINGLE OF THE YEAR

'Alcohol,' Brad Paisley
'As Good As I Once Was,' Toby Keith
'Baby Girl,' Sugarland
'Bless the Broken Road,' Rascal Flatts
'I May Hate Myself In The Morning,' Lee Ann Womack

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to artist and producer)

'Be Here,' Keith Urban
Produced by Dann Huff/Keith Urban
Capitol Records Nashville

'Feels Like Today,' Rascal Flatts
Produced by Mark Bright/Marty Williams/Rascal Flatts
Lyric Street Records

'Live Like You Were Dying,' Tim McGraw
Produced by Tim McGraw/Byron Gallimore/Darran Smith
Curb Records

'Somewhere Down In Texas,' George Strait
Produced by Tony Brown/George Strait
MCA Nashville

'There's More Where That Came From,' Lee Ann Womack
Produced by Byron Gallimore/Greg Droman
MCA Nashville

VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR

Alison Krauss + Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas
Diamond Rio
Lonestar
Rascal Flatts
Sugarland



Chi Omegas, we'll have to look for Allison in the audience!

[Jill1228]

I lurve Rascal Flatts! They were in Vancouver last week and I was trying to win tickets

[NutBrnHair]

Vote for Rascal Flatts for Entertainer of the Year!


http://www.cbs.com/specials/43acma/vote/

[NutBrnHair]

James Otto Rattles the Charts With a No. 1 Single
After a Decade in Nashville, Singer-Songwriter Finally Has His Day
By Edward Morris

James Otto titled his new album Sunset Man, but he could have just as aptly dubbed it Persistent Man. The album has been nearly five years in the making, during which time Otto saw the careers of his buddies Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson skyrocket. Now it looks like it's finally his turn.

The week it was released, Sunset Man hit the Billboard country albums chart at a resounding No. 2, just 1,400 copies shy of ousting George Strait's Troubadour from the peak. At the same time, Otto's lead single, "Just Got Started Lovin' You," was in the Top 5 and moving up, powered in no small part by a sexy, sweet-talkin' music video. And just Monday (May 5), Otto learned that "Just Got Started Lovin' You" has become his first No. 1 single.

Otto co-wrote nine of the album's 11 songs and co-produced it with the ubiquitous John Rich of Big & Rich and Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts. He admits he didn't approach the project with any particular concept or organizing principle in mind.

...

DeMarcus co-produced three cuts with Otto on Sunset Man. "The way I met Jay was that he started dating my wife's sister," Otto explains. "Amy and I had been together like a year and a half when Alison and Jay met. ... We started becoming friends, and then we started writing songs together. Eventually I asked him to do a demo session with me of a couple of songs that I had found and wanted to cut -- one that I'd written and one that he and I had written. Those tracks ended up being the songs on this record that he produced."

Besides various solo appearances this summer, Otto will also be running the road with Hank Williams Jr. and Lynyrd Skynyrd in the Rowdy Frynds tour and later with Brooks & Dunn and possibly Taylor Swift. But surely the sweetest situation for Otto will occur June 8 when he takes the stage at Nashville's mammoth LP Field to sing for the crowd gathered there for the CMA Music Festival.

"It's really exciting," he says. "I got to watch Big & Rich and Gretchen do the same thing the years their records took off. I was supposed to be on [the smaller] River Stages this year, but they invited me to come over to the big stage and play with the big boys."