at 21:43 on December 8, 2007, EST.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO, Fla. - Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough is single no more. He wed his longtime girlfriend Leigh Boniello on Saturday in his hometown, the band's lawyer confirmed.

Fellow Backstreet Boys bandmates were in attendance as Dorough, 34, married Boniello at St. James Cathedral in a traditional Catholic ceremony, People and OK! magazine reported on their websites.

"The wedding took place as planned and all went well," lawyer Jason Turner said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Dorough, also known as Howie D, proposed to his girlfriend of six years last New Year's.

"She wasn't expecting it, and I was quite nervous - more nervous about proposing to her in front of 40 family and friends than about performing in front of 40,000 people onstage," Dorough told People earlier this year.


©The Canadian Press, 2007

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