Vera Wang surprised with black-and-white looks, finished with dramatic black opera-length gloves. Oscar de la Renta dipped into the color wheel for a true “something blue,” Reem Acra turned out cocktail minis topped with veiled umbrellas, and Carolina Herrera debuted a sexier kind of wedding-day ensemble (think deep V-front necklines). For inspiration aplenty — and a closer look at what exactly the Spring ’14 bridal forecast means for your own wedding-dress search

Her father Jon Voight, 74, with whom she reconciled after a difficult relationship, told the New York Daily News that he was surprised along with the rest of the world to learn of his daughter’s surgeries, saying that he understood her decision.

“I want the focus to be on the inspiration,” he said.

Though a source confirms that the actress’s private obstetrician-gynecologist visited her on several occasions in January, her schedule – and her kids’ schedules – remained unchanged.

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“Things appeared normal,” a family insider told PEOPLE. “The kids were in school during the day and attending after-school activities as they always do.”

On Feb. 10, the actress was front and center at the 27th Annual American Society of Cinematographers Awards presentation in Los Angeles to give a lifetime achievement award to Dean Semler, her cinematographer for her directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey, smiling and posing for pictures.

No Changes to Her Schedule
On Valentine’s Day, Brad Pitt and Jolie took 4-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne to the National History Museum in Los Angeles, where they were all seen chatting and laughing, according to a museum source.

At this point, as Jolie wrote in her New York Times op-ed piece, she had begun the challenging “nipple delay” procedure that she described as causing “some pain and a lot of bruising.”

Two days after Valentine’s Day, she would have major surgery to remove breast tissue and have fillers inserted. Still, on her trip to the Nzolo refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March to speak with rape survivors, no one in her group had a clue anything was different.

“Normal life for her meant going to the Congo with the foreign secretary, William Hague,” British journalist Cathy Newman, who was also on the trip, wrote on Channel 4′s website. “I had not the slightest inkling of what she was going through. We travelled for hours to various camps for people displaced by war, along horrendously bumpy, volcanic tracks. For a woman recovering from major surgery, I can only imagine how difficult it must have been.”

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Cameron showed a little more skin for today’s session in front of the cameras after she bundled up against the Big Apple rain for filming last week.