Krista K. engaged
Remember what Funfare was hinting at a few issues ago about Krista Kleiner preparing an “important announcement”? She held back from doing it during her show (that doubled as her album launch) in Kuala Lumpur with Craig David and Taboo (of Black Eyed Peas).
Last June 15 at Il Cielo, a famous restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, Krista finally made that announcement during her birthday party — her engagement to Patrick Grove, who is (as Krista described him in a letter to Funfare) “a Singaporean/Australian Internet and a new media entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of numerous successful business companies on the stock exchange.”
Il Cielo is the same venue of parties hosted by A-listers like Selena Gomez and the Kardashians.
“The bar area of the
restaurant used to be a parlor,” said Krista, “the same parlor where Marilyn Monroe first appeared as blonde.”
Krista flew to her home in California to personally announce their engagement to the delight of their very close friends and relatives. Dr. Brian Kleiner, Krista’s dad, made a short speech to share some information about Patrick and his funny experiences with him when Patrick invited him and Mrs. Kleiner for lunch purposely to ask their permission to marry Krista.
Patrick gave a speech, expressing his thanks to the Kleiner family for making him feel like one of their own, funny jokes of how he fell in love with Krista, and promising to always do all that he could to keep Krista happy.
In return, Krista gave the last speech of the evening sharing her overwhelming feelings of happiness that Patrick came into her life and being able to share this special announcement with her loved ones and friends since childhood.
“Aside from the formal dinner Saturday night,” related Krista in a separate letter to Funfare, “we rented a sixstorey mansion in Bel Air on the famous Muholland Drive for the weekend for close friends to stay with us from Orange County (my hometown).
“After the dinner event, close friends or 40 people all got in a party bus that took them to the Drai’s Hollywood nightclub at the W Hotel of Hollywood. There, we enjoyed two cabana tables and celebrated the night away.”
Krista didn’t say where and when the wedding would be.
Will her immediate exboyfriend Jay-R be invited
to be a secondary sponsor (for cord, maybe)?