The bride kept her accessories relatively simple. She had the House of Gilles team design a coordinating veil\u2014a dramatic touch requested by Jeff\u2014and wore a simple flower made from the same fabric in her hair. \u201cFor jewelry, I wore two tiny teardrop earrings my sons gave me for my 60th birthday last year,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n
Jeff admits he needed some guidance to find his wedding day attire. \u201cWhen Paulina met me, I typically wore the comedy writer\u2019s uniform, jeans, and logo T-shirts. I\u2019m not even sure I owned a decent suit,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I needed a great deal of help.\u201d Stylist Sean Spellman advised the groom to have a bespoke suit made to perfectly fit his 6\u20197\u201d frame. He guided Jeff towards a classic silhouette in blue wool fabric. \u201cWearing wool in 90-degree heat seemed insane to me, but he was right. It looked crisp, sharp, and classy,\u201d shares Jeff. \u201cAs for the rest of the outfit: I bought a pair of Church\u2019s<\/a> black oxfords which cost more than my first car, suspenders because they keep your pants from falling down when you\u2019re dancing like a maniac, and I wore my cherished gold 1946 Rolex Oyster Perpetual bubbleback.\u201d He adds, \u201cWatch nerds will know what I\u2019m talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n The wedding weekend began with a casual dinner for guests to get to know one another at a trattoria Pan&Vino in the center of Orta San Giulio. \u201cWe fell in love with this place on our very first trip to Orta, perhaps because of the signs out front which warn \u2018no pizza, no pasta, no panini,\u2019\u201d shares Paulina. \u201cAlso, they have an entire menu page of tinned fish, which stole this Czech girl\u2019s heart immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n The wedding day arrived, and guests gathered at the lakeside garden patio behind the town\u2019s city hall. Unfortunately upon arrival, the bride realized she had left her bouquet back at the hotel. \u201cTwo of her friends began frantically pulling flowers out of the ground and assembling one, trying to avoid the watchful eye of Roberta Mattioli, the city official who\u2019d be conducting the legal part of the ceremony,\u201d remembers Jeff. \u201cTo Ms. Mattioli\u2019s enduring credit, she made no move to stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n Paulina\u2019s sons and stepson played \u201cThe Moldau\u201d by Smetana on violin and guitar as the wedding party made their way down the aisle. Jeff\u2019s sister Jill and Paulina\u2019s brother Kym served as officiants for the ceremony, but also wrote vows for the couple. \u201cWe left it entirely to Jill and Kym, who sent drafts back and forth from Maine to Texas, and they were magnificent,\u201d shares Jeff. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t change a word\u2014and coming from two writers, that\u2019s saying something.\u201d Adds Paulina, \u201cFor me, family is my sense of safety, so having family walk us through the vows was profound.\u201d<\/p>\n At the end of the ceremony, Jeff stomped on a glass, and the newlyweds kissed at least four times before recessing to \u201cGo All the Way\u201d by The Raspberries. They completed their brief civil ceremony to complete their legal marriage, and had the song blasted one more time over the speakers. Instead of taking traditional portraits afterwards, the couple did one big group photo with all their guests on a cobblestone street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bride kept her accessories relatively simple. She had the House of Gilles team design a coordinating veil\u2014a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55,216705,48003],"class_list":["post-694154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vogue-weddings","tag-wedding-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}