Pratts not official

Spencer Pratt refused to make marriage to Heidi Montag official in a civil ceremony aired in the final minutes of the season finale of The Hills. After hearing comments from Montag's mother Darlene Egelhoff and his sister Stephanie, Pratt decided it was best not to go through with the quickie marriage and instead give Montag the big wedding she was really after.

Pratt and Montag eloped in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Nov. 19 but the marriage was purely ceremonial and was not legal. However, the couple decided they would make it legal at a civil union once they returned home.

Egelhoff has been upset about the elopement ever since she knew it happened. She even questioned whether Pratt may have drugged her daughter. "I know you manipulated and plotted this whole wedding. It's too fast, too much. You know she had dreams of a bigger wedding. I can't let you go to the courthouse and make this wedding legal," Egelhoff told Pratt.

Stephanie Pratt agreed with Egelhoff saying to Spencer, "You can't do this. She's going to regret this. I think this is wrong."

So as the ceremony unfolded, Montag said what she needed to say, "I, Heidi, take thee Spencer to be my lawfully wedded husband for better or for worse for as long as we both shall live." But Pratt didn't go through with his end of the bargain and told Montag "I just want to give you the wedding of your dreams that you have been talking about for three years. I'll deal with it. It's worth it to be with you the rest of my life."

Now that a real wedding ceremony is in the works (again!) for the couple, everyone seems to be more pleased about the union. Montag intends to have her sister Holly and Spencer's sister Stephanie as bridesmaids.

And what about Egelhoff? "We're on a better path," Pratt claims, according to UsWeekly. "Over Thanksgiving my mom made a gingerbread house that said Pratt's on the door and had Heidi and Spencer's Pictures," Montag's sister Holly told Us. "It was adorable." But, joked Pratt, "I was afraid her mom poisoned it!"

Here's hoping this happy couple works things out.

Holly Woods