{"id":433544,"date":"2026-01-27T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433544\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:09:12","slug":"will-reeve-reveals-the-touching-ways-he-honored-late-parents-christopher-and-dana-reeve-at-his-wedding-to-amanda-dubin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433544\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Reeve Reveals the Touching Ways He Honored Late Parents Christopher and Dana Reeve at His Wedding to Amanda Dubin"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n

Will Reeve married event planner Amanda Dubin at the Rubell Museum in Miami on Jan. 17<\/p>\n

On the big day, he honored his late parents, actor Christopher Reeve and singer Dana Reeve, in several poignant ways<\/p>\n

Christopher died in 2004 at age 52, and Dana died in 2006 at age 44<\/p>\n

Will Reeve<\/a> made sure his late parents, Christopher<\/a> and Dana Reeve<\/a>, were with him in spirit when he said “I do” to Amanda Dubin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ABC News correspondent, 33, married<\/a> the event planner at the Rubell Museum in Miami on Jan. 17. The couple’s special day included several touching tributes to the late Superman actor and singer, per Vogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christopher died from cardiac arrest resulting from sepsis at the age of 52 in 2004, nine years after suffering a horseback riding accident and becoming paralyzed from the neck down. Dana died from lung cancer at age 44 in 2006.<\/p>\n

For his groom’s look, Will chose a traditional black tuxedo, custom-made by Michael Andrews, and added some sentimental accessories.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy accessories for my wedding night were particularly meaningful: I wore gold cufflinks that belonged to my late father, inscribed with his initials, \u2018CR,\u2019 a brooch that was my late mother\u2019s, and an IWC Portugieser Chronograph watch that Amanda gave to me as a wedding gift to kick off the weekend,\u201d the journalist told Vogue.<\/p>\n

\"Dana,Dana, Will and Christopher Reeve in 1997 <\/p>\n

Jim Smeal\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps most special of all was the Todd Snyder pocket square that Amanda had embroidered with my mom\u2019s handwriting,” he continued. “Amanda found a letter my mom had written years ago, highlighted the words \u2018I love you,\u2019 and had that sewn into the fabric and gave it to me as a gift before the wedding.”<\/p>\n

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Will and Amanda also wore his late parents’ wedding bands.<\/p>\n

The groom walked down the aisle to Norah Jones’ “Sunrise,” a favorite of his mom’s. “Norah herself performed \u2018Sunrise\u2019 at my mom\u2019s memorial service in 2006, which is why I chose it for the ceremony,\u201d he told Vogue.<\/p>\n

\"WillWill Reeve and Amanda Dubin <\/p>\n

Will Reeve\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Two empty seats in the front of the ceremony were left symbolically empty, each adorned with a flower, for Christopher and Dana. Will told Vogue that he spent “a deliberate moment staring at the two chairs” after the ceremony.<\/p>\n

“I thought about all the moments in my life they\u2019d missed out on, but also how present they felt in the room and in the ceremony,” he recalled.<\/p>\n

With his mother’s absence, Will invited Ann Pucci \u2014 who, along with her husband, Ralph Pucci, took in Will after Dana’s death \u2014 onto the dance floor at the reception. The pair performed “a special twist on a mother-son dance” to “That\u2019s What Friends Are For\u2019 by Dionne Warwick.<\/p>\n

Will told Vogue the moment “was pitch-perfect and a highlight of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, Will opened up exclusively to PEOPLE about how he stays connected to his late parents.<\/p>\n

“I connect with my parents, and I try to feel their presence in the way that I move through the world, the way that I interact with people, and the way that I might channel my parents in my values and my lived experience in the present moment,” he said in February 2025.<\/p>\n

\"WillWill Reeve; Christopher Reeve <\/p>\n

Michael Loccisano\/Getty; Barry King\/WireImage<\/p>\n

At the time, Will was promoting the ABC special\u00a0Will Reeve: Finding My Father, in which he retraces his dad’s final project \u2014\u00a0a nature documentary about gray whales in Alaska and Mexico, filmed just months before Christopher’s riding accident.<\/p>\n

“I’ve wanted to do this for most of my life,” Will told PEOPLE of the passion project. “I grew up obsessed with this one-hour-long documentary that my dad made just before he got injured.”<\/p>\n

“For as long as I can remember, I wanted to go to this same lagoon in Mexico and this island off the coast of Alaska \u2026 just because my dad did it and because it seemed like this great big adventure,” he added. “I had always dreamed that he and I would go there together, or that I would go and come back and be able to tell him all about it. Of course, that ended up not being possible. So I made it my mission as a journalist to make a documentary that picked up where my dad left off.”<\/p>\n

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