That Kristen Stewart shows up in the darndest places, be it the red carpet in Cannes, a health food store in Los Feliz or occasionally a particularly terrible vampire movie. This past weekend, she reached new levels of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ by turning up at the Canadian wedding of a couple of women she’d never met before..
Kirsten and Kayleigh Jennings celebrated their wedding Saturday in a backyard in the River Heights area of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The pair met in 2010 when they were both bartending in the Cayman Islands, and have been together ever since. They moved back to Winnipeg (Kirsten is originally from there; Kayleigh is from Oklahoma) in 2012, as the US government did not federally recognize same-sex marriage at the time. They had a small ceremony in a backyard with about 90 guests, and then had a Dixie-land style band lead their friends and family to a reception at Pizzeria Gusto. As luck would have it, the lesbian wedding gods were smiling fondly upon Pizzeria Gusto that day, as they restaurant had been recently utilized to cater an event for JT LeRoy, a movie about the elusive/nonexistent author, currently filming in Winnipeg and starring the one and only Kristen Stewart.
Around 10 PM, the couple were approached with an intriguing proposition. “The owner came up to me, and he said, ‘Hey, is it OK if Kristen Stewart and her girlfriend Stella [Maxwell] come and have a few drinks with you guys?'” explains Kristen Jennings. “…I was like, ‘Yeah, totally! Yeah, no problem. Um, who is that?'”
Kayleigh continues, “I told Kir, ‘Hey, let’s just treat them as random guests. Let’s just treat them with kindness — southern hospitality. Winnipeg hospitality.'” Stewart and Maxwell arrived half an hour later.
While the couple admitted it was a little awkward having complete strangers crash their wedding party, Stewart and Maxwell were polite and fun and didn’t make a spectacle of themselves. They reportedly hung around for about three hours, danced, drank and even requested songs. “We got to be formally introduced before they came in and partied with us. We got a chance to shake her hand and shake Stella’s hand,” Kayleigh offered. “I actually wasn’t as star-struck as I thought I would be.”
“They looked just like two normal girls,” Kirsten explained. “They look a little Hollywood, but if we didn’t know who they were, I don’t know if I would have known. We said ‘Hey, you know. Come on and meet your guests and, you know, don’t segregate yourselves. Come and party… There were only a few people who were star-struck. My Aunt Linda was extremely excited.” Aunt Linda is not alone in this sentiment.
JT LeRoy will tell the story of Savannah Knoop, a woman who pretended to be the infamous but ultimately imaginary author JT LeRoy for six years. Laura Dern will play Laura Albert, the actual author of all of LeRoy’s books. Aunt Linda is extremely excited.
Well…. everything about this story was incredible! hahahahaha, ohh KStew.
i’d like to use Aunt Linda as the excitement barometer moving forward: “market had some fresh blueberries- Aunt Linda was moderately excited.”
I love this more than I have any valid reason to. ?
PERFECTION
I am very aunt Linda for this idea
Absolutely agree! Show of hands if Aunt Linda should be the new offcial excitement barometer for AS!
*Raises both hands!*
ahhh swing and a miss
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Aunt Linda is my new patronus.
This gif is pure gold
Canada is a magical, magical place!
My poor brain kept switching up the i’s and r’s, and I had no idea who was Kristen and who was Kirsten. It was all, “Oh man, two gay Kristens at one wedding, how did anyone keep them straight…(ba dum tss). Wait did Kristen or Kirsten look a little Hollywood? And which one is in a movie? Is one of them on first?” I really need to invest in a new pair of glasses.
I want pictures of KStew doing the chicken dance
Also I hope that afterwards they picked the most expensive item from their wedding registry and sent it to them.
this occurred not ten minutes from my home, cant quite believe it
Same! I feel like I’m not frequenting the right places to meet queer celebs but I mean.. it’s the peg so when does that even happen on the regular hah!
I’ve read it in the local news yesterday and was impatiently waiting for it to make it to Autostraddle. Of course you fulfilled your duty! :D
Yay, Winnipeg! They were sooooooooo close!!!
Yay Winnipeg indeed! :)
I am starting to like the Linda Belcher gifs more than the story. Am I a bad queer?
I think that makes you the ultimate queer.
I thought that only occurred when you take a girl out to IKEA and Home Depot on the same day in your wagon filled with cats and dogs.
i came for the v important story and I stayed for the even more important aunt linda (belcher) gifs (my fave animated character ever “ung ung ung ung”)!! what a delight