"A Nice Day for a Posh Wedding" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American television comedy-drama Ugly Betty and the series's 30th episode overall. It was written by Silvio Horta and Marco Pennette, and directed by James Hayman. The episode was originally broadcast on ABC in the United States on November 8, 2007. Ugly Betty centers on Betty Suarez's job at the fashion magazine MODE, and in this episode MODE's creative director Wilhelmina Slater attempts to marry the magazine's publisher Bradford Meade. Victoria Beckham (pictured) guest- stars as herself in the episode, appearing as Wilhelmina's maid of honor who steals attention from the wedding. Vanessa Williams's ex-husband Rick Fox appears as Wilhelmina's bodyguard and lover. Vera Wang makes a cameo appearance, and designed Wilhelmina's wedding dress and Beckham's bridesmaid dress. The episode received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and an NAACP Image Award.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1750:

Tarabai, the former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed to be her grandson, arrested as an impostor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarabai

1963:

During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald (shooting pictured), who assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy theories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald

2015:

A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M after the latter had allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

slimeball: 1. (biology) A round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime- like substance such as mucus. 2. (helminthology, specifically) A mucus-coated lump containing the cercariae (“parasitic larvae”) of a liver fluke (of the phylum Platyhelminthes). 3. (originally US, colloquial, derogatory) A person who is regarded as slimy (that is, sneaky or underhanded) or otherwise undesirable. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slimeball

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The mind has greater power over the emotions and is less subject thereto, in so far as it understands all things as necessary.   --Ethica https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ethics_%28Spinoza_book%29