Paris Hilton and Bijou Phillips were in attendance but not attendants when handbag designer, kid sister, and sometime actress (“girl on beach” in Wishman) Nicky Hilton, 20, married longtime family friend, money manager, and serial socialite dater Todd Meister, 33, in a Las Vegas wedding chapel very early yesterday morning. The chapel’s co-owner, Shirley Harvey, apparently had no comment, except to say that the couple said they “wanted the best,” but George Maloof, owner of the Palms Hotel and Casino Resort where both Hilton sisters along with Phillips, Nicole Ritchie, Kim Stewart, Lindsay Lohan, Tara Reid, and some guys, including Wilmer Valderrama and Lance Bass, were dining and drinking tequila shots for a girls weekend sponsored by Stuff magazine the night before, had no problem talking. “They were just having a really good time, ” he said, “but I don’t think anybody expected this.” Seriously, though, this was to be expected. Oh, and the chapel lady who had nothing to comment also said that just before midnight someone from the couple’s camp called to reserve the altar and that she kept it open past closing time for them. (combined reports)

Photo of Nicky and Todd at Mr Chow by Patrick McMullan

Freakish twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have bought a house on the west side of LA for $4 million, reports Hot Property in the LA Times. They plan to live there while on breaks from their studies in Manhattan at New York University. The 4,000-square-foot house, built in the ’60s, has four bedrooms, five bathrooms, city-to-ocean views, and a new kitchen. The new kitchen is interesting, in that M-KO has only recently been freed from an anorexia retreat. But more interesting is that there’s only one master bedroom, and it has a steam shower. Will the sisters toss a coin? Or will they. . .? Now that they’re 18 and a bit old to make anymore of those popular kid vids that built their empire beyond $2 billion, they might have to venture into something a bit more. . . vivid.