My Honky-Tonk Hubby

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Renee Zellweger wasn't the first A-list star sent into a swoon by a guy in cowboy boots when she wed country singer Kenny Chesney last week. Maybe this time the marriage will outlast the boots.

PARTICIPANTS IN AND DURATION OF MARRIAGE

Zellweger and Chesney, seven days so far

Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett, 21 months

HER COUNTRY ROOTS

(Zellweger) Katy, Texas

(Roberts) Smyrna, Ga.

THEIR HOLLYWOOD HOOKUP

(Zellweger and Chesney) Met at NBC's tsunami-relief telethon in January

(Roberts and Lovett) Met filming The Player in 1991

COURTSHIP DURATION

(Zellweger and Chesney) Four months

(Roberts and Lovett) One month

SIGN IT WAS SERIOUS

Zellweger delivered her country boy's traditional onstage margarita

Lovett made onstage dedications to "Fiona," his pretty woman's middle name

HIS PROPHETIC SONG

(Chesney) You Had Me from Hello

(Lovett) She's Leaving Me Because She Really Wants To