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Ellen Gray | 'Bells' role comes easy to KaDee Strickland
Philadelphia Daily News

March 05, 2007

THE WEDDING BELLS. 9 p.m. tomorrow, Channel 29.

KADEE STRICKLAND brings on-the-job experience to her role as a wedding planner in David E. Kelley's new Fox series, 'The Wedding Bells.'

' 'I'm an expert on the subject,' ' Strickland said she told the show's casting director when they first met. ' 'I've been doing this for the past... few months of my life.' '

Married in November to fellow actor Jason Behr ('Roswell'), the 1998 University of the Arts grad, honored last year with the school's Silver Star Alumni Award, said she planned every step of the Ojai, Calif., ceremony in tandem with Behr, who was working on a film in New Zealand and arrived home just five days before they were married.

At one point, that meant flying to New Zealand, said Strickland, whose Georgia accent sounds untouched by the years she spent here.

'I came with all of the ideas. I'd send him e-mails when I'd go to the florist and then we'd shoot the pictures through the Internet and then talk about it,' she said.

'There were hiccups' on the big day, she acknowledged.

'But when you have someone make an invitation that you've designed, and when you do little details yourself - like he and I chose to give favors that we made together, with our hands, so when you took something away that day, our hands had been in it - it's just more special that way,' Strickland said.

'I was very specific about where I wanted to be on that day in terms of where my heart was, and that's exactly where it was. And when I walked down the aisle, the only thing in the world that mattered to me was right there,' she said.

Merged with Jason and Kadee thread.

Closing this one.