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SAN DIEGO - Supermodel Niki Taylor and NASCAR driver Burney Lamar have tied the knot, Taylor's spokeswoman confirmed Friday.
The couple were married Wednesday before 60 guests at the Grande Colonial Hotel in the La Jolla area of San Diego, publicist Lesley Burbridge-Bates told The Associated Press. The bride wore a Vera Wang Couture dress.
Taylor lives in Nashville, Tenn., where she owns a clothing boutique.
The wedding ceremony was officiated by Pastor Rob Taylor of Calvary Chapel Brentwood, where the couple attends church.
Taylor, 31, and Lamar, 26, met at a charity event in January, Burbridge-Bates said.
"I looked at Burney and said to myself, `This is the guy I'm going to marry,'" Taylor told Us Weekly magazine, which first reported the news on its Web site Thursday night.
It is the first marriage for Lamar and the second for Taylor, who has 11-year-old twin boys, Jake and Hunter Martinez, from her previous marriage to former football player Matt Martinez.
Mon Jan 29, 2:21 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Niki Taylor filed a federal slander lawsuit against E! Entertainment for alleged intentional infliction of emotional distress with its profile of the model in the new series "Blvd. of Broken Dreams." The U.S. District Court suit, filed Friday, also alleged fraud, breach of contract and invasion of privacy claiming E! Entertainment representatives falsely claimed the show would focus on Taylor's current life.
The cable network allegedly told Taylor and manager Lou Taylor, no relation, the show would feature current professional endeavors, including her signature fragrance, clothing line, upcoming cosmetics line and charitable foundation, the suit said. Instead, the suit said, defendants E! Entertainment Television Inc., E! Networks Productions Inc. and a producer focused on Taylor's past hardships and characterized her as a celebrity "who risked everything ... and lost."
The E! synopsis of the show on its Web site describes "Blvd. of Broken Dreams" as, "In a place between heaven and Hollywood, dreams turn tragic and fame goes sour fast."
"My life is far from a 'boulevard of broken dreams,'" Taylor said in a statement.
Last week's premiere episode of "Blvd. of Broken Dreams" was repeatedly shown on the cable network despite demands from Taylor's lawyers that it be pulled from the lineup, Taylor attorney Caroline H. Mankey said.
"They neglected their journalistic obligations to report truthfully and accurately; they violated express promises they made to the plaintiff, supermodel Niki Tay 1/4lor; and they demonstrated a reprehensible disregard for the substantial harm their actions would cause to Ms. Taylor," the complaint said.
Telephone voicemail and e-mail messages to E! Entertainment spokeswoman Sarah Goldstein weren't immediately returned.
Taylor and race car driver Burney Lamar married on Dec. 27 at the Grande Colonial Hotel in the La Jolla area of San Diego. Taylor, 31, and Lamar, 26, met at a charity event in January 2006, her publicist Lesley Burbridge-Bates said. They live in Nashville.
It was the first marriage for Lamar and the second for Taylor, who has 11-year-old twin boys, Jake and Hunter Martinez, from her previous marriage to former football player Matt Martinez.