Courtney Stodden and her fiancé, Jared Safier, bought married in a “last-minute” wedding ceremony, Us Weekly can completely verify.
The truth star, 30, and the TV producer, 41, tied the knot at Casa de Monte Vista in Palm Springs, California, on Tuesday, December 3, with simply 20 visitors in attendance.
“We deliberate on getting married, and we didn’t have a date. We simply sort of checked out one another, and we’re the identical sort of loopy. We simply checked out one another and we’re similar to, ‘That is the proper time to do it,’” Stodden completely tells Us, noting that the couple started planning the nuptials three weeks in the past once they realized each of their households can be on the town for Thanksgiving.
“It’s the vacations, it’s already hectic and we simply purchased a home collectively, so we’re coping with that. Our household was like, ‘Are you guys loopy?’ and we’re like, ‘Yeah!’ It simply felt like the suitable time,” she explains. “I’m actually a free spirit and I’ve at all times been that method and I don’t suppose that’s going to be going away after the wedding, and so I simply felt prefer it was the suitable time and all of it simply got here collectively.”
Though the small print of the pair’s impromptu wedding ceremony had been sorted out shortly, Stodden didn’t forgo a couple of distinctive touches. For her big day, Stodden wore a $60,000 classic wedding ceremony costume and a hoop that her dad gave her mother when her dad and mom tied the knot. After the ceremony, the newlyweds handled their visitors to a wholly vegan menu, together with a vegan carrot cake.
“I’m feeling excited. I really feel like I’m on a journey of the place I’m imagined to be,” Stodden tells Us, including that Safier “lights up” her life. “All the things that has occurred up so far has led me right here.”
Safier, for his half, couldn’t agree extra. “I’m feeling nice,” he says. “I get to marry my finest pal and the love of my life and I get to do it in entrance of her household and my household, so, very excited.”
Stodden was beforehand married to actor Doug Hutchison from 2011 to 2020. The pair made headlines for his or her Las Vegas nuptials once they had been 16 and 50, respectively. Stodden subsequently moved on with entrepreneur Chris Sheng, to whom she was engaged from 2021 to 2023. After their cut up, Stodden started relationship Safier in August 2023 and introduced their engagement in June.
Stodden remembers assembly Safier for the primary time forward of a undertaking they had been engaged on collectively. After they’d espresso, she warned him to not fall in love together with her.
“He checked out me like I used to be loopy, and he goes, ‘What? Don’t fall in love with me at a enterprise assembly?!’” she tells Us. “However I simply felt like, if this man falls in love with me, I’m sort of, you understand, I’m carried out for as a result of I simply felt this calling towards him, and our first kiss, it virtually felt prefer it was our eightieth kiss, the primary kiss for me. It’s one thing I by no means skilled earlier than and felt prefer it was an unstated feeling. I felt like that is simply the place I should be. It’s bizarre, however I simply felt like I used to be imagined to be with him, and I’m supposed to simply be with him, and every thing is effortlessly, chaotically understanding.”
Whereas planning her wedding ceremony to Safier, Stodden mirrored on her previous marriage to Hutchison.
“I wish to be completely satisfied, and I believe the wedding that I went by way of in Vegas — it was so quick and I couldn’t course of it as a result of I used to be 16,” she explains. “So that is so essential to me, to simply lastly have my alternative of getting married. I don’t must have a father or mother log off on this one. That is fully my resolution.”
Regardless of feeling “overwhelmed,” Stodden stated she can be “excited” for the subsequent chapter in her relationship with Safier.
“I believe that it’s solely pure for me due to my story to really feel nervous about this as a result of I actually do need my completely satisfied ending,” she says. “I would like this to be it, and it’s nerve-racking as a result of loads of PTSD and loads of various things have been swirling round, however I do know that I’m marrying a extremely wonderful man and I’m simply hopeful, and so I’m feeling all of the feels. … I simply know that my intestine is telling me that is the place I belong proper now, and I’m simply going with it.”
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With reporting by Lanae Brody
