How we'd style Jennifer Aniston's wedding

Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux

Jennifer Aniston says she's not in any rush to get married because she already feels married to Justin Theroux. That doesn't mean we can't envision how her wedding should look. We enlisted the help of celebrity wedding planner and style expert Colin Cowie to help us create our fantasy Jennifer Aniston wedding.

Jennifer's style is timeless yet chic, so I would love to see her in a lace-top strapless white gown. I also envision a vintage-inspired platinum wedding band with delicate engravings and diamonds. A thick hammered or woven men's wedding band set in platinum would perfectly complement Justin's daily uniform of jeans, boots and leather jackets. Since platinum lasts forever, Jennifer and Justin can pass along their rings as heirlooms to their children.

I love the idea of a romantic setting for Jennifer's wedding to Justin,?as we all know her as the sweetheart next door. As Jen is a California girl, an outdoor affair with lots of purples and violets, with accents of white, would suit her perfectly and create a romantic setting. Tons of sterling and lilac and pink roses would create a beautiful garden feeling. Nothing too fussy for Jennifer?—?just tasteful and down-to-earth.

Food and drink should be simple and elegant. The wedding should begin with bite-size appetizers of shrimp, vegetables, cheeses and tiny slices of filet mignon, passed on trays. I would then design a fabulous sit-down dinner with a fish and a lovely lamb dish and plenty of fresh vegetables and vegan options.

How do you choose a favor for guests at Jennifer and Justin's wedding? The guests are sure to already have everything! So I would suggest sending everyone home with a fabulous box of treats — a piece of the wedding cake and some of the delicious goodies from a dessert bar. Macaroons are the new favorite dessert, and I would offer an assortment of interesting flavors like chocolate and pistachio from La Maison du Pain.

I'd create a beautiful arbor at the start of the aisle. Before the ceremony begins, guests could be invited to write down best wishes for the couple that can be attached to the arbor. The bride and groom will walk through the "ribbon of wishes" and will have them as a memento of their special day.

How would you style Jennifer Aniston's wedding to Justin Theroux? Sound off below!

Respected around the world as an arbiter of style, Colin Cowie has been at the forefront of event and wedding planning for the past 25 years, creating trends and raising the bar for creating the ultimate experience for guests. Cowie is a designer for lifestyle products sold on HSN and an author of eight best-selling books, and he is now at the helm of a new digital venture that is revolutionizing the online wedding-planning industry. ColinCowieWeddings.com launched in October 2011 and is quickly becoming the most compelling place online to reach the modern wedding-bound couple. Engaging the engaged with a dynamic, fresh look; exclusive original content; and a proprietary social network, Cowie combines his expertise as one of the world's foremost authorities on wedding planning and lifestyle with state-of-the-art technology to assist the modern digital couple in planning the most stylish day of their lives.

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Is marriage officially out of style?

A new report from the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University says that fewer of us are walking down the aisle.

It seems like I get a new wedding invitation every time I walk to the mailbox. I mean, come on: How do all of these distant cousins and random friends from high school get my address? I haven't talked to these people in ages.

Maybe I'm just bitter because of my whole "eternally single" status, but it turns out that I'm actually not the only single adult woman left in the world. A new study by the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University found that the marriage rate is on a serious decline.

"Marriage is no longer compulsory," study researcher Susan Brown said in a statement. "It's just one of an array of options. Increasingly, many couples choose to cohabit and still others prefer to remain single."

According to the report, there are about 31 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women in the United States. In comparison, that number was 90.2 in 1950. Researchers also found that the average age of first marriage in the U.S. is now almost 27 and that only 47 percent of all women are married, down from 65 percent in 1950.

Not surprisingly, the divorce rate is going up.

"The divorce rate remains high in the U.S., and individuals today are less likely to remarry than they were in the past," Brown said.

About 15 percent of women are separated or divorced, compared with less than 1 percent of women in 1920.

According to NCFMR, only 26 percent of black women are married. Asian women have the highest rate of marriage at 56 percent.

Interestingly, the number of married, college-age women hasn't changed much in the past 50 years. What has changed, however, is the number of married women without a high school diploma. According to NCFMR, 60 percent of women with a bachelor's degree are married, compared with 30 percent of those who never graduated high school.

What did the study not tell us? How many women who have wedding boards on Pinterest are actually planning a wedding. Please tell me I'm not the only single woman who has one of these!

Are you a woman who's planning to stay single? Sound off below on your reasons why!

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