The 'How I Met Your Mother' star announces he got married to his fiance over the weekend.
- Sep 9, 2014
AceShowbiz - Neil Patrick Harris got married to David Burtka over the weekend in Italy. The star of "A Million Ways to Die in the West" announced the happy news on Monday, September 8 by sharing a photo of him and David.
Neil captioned the photo with, "Guess what? @DavidBurtka and I got married over the weekend. In Italy. Yup, we put the 'n' and 'd' in 'husband'." In the picture, Neil and David can be seen facing each other while smiling. Both of them wore Tom Ford tuxedos. The wedding was officiated by the producer and director of "How I Met Your Mother", Pam Fryman.
One of the guests, Kelly Ripa, shared some details about the wedding ceremony on "Live! with Kelly and Michael". She told co-host Michael Strahan, "I spent the weekend, in Italy. I went to a destination wedding... the wedding of Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka. They got married, yes!"
Kelly said the nuptials was "very quiet, very private, family affair." She joked, "I'm probably not even supposed to talk about it." The 43-year-old host then added, "Neil said I could talk about it."
Kelly revealed, "It was a beautiful family affair in Perugia, Italy. They rented a castle - or I think they rented it. I hope we didn't break into a castle and just stayed there. Sir Elton John performed. There were fireworks. The food was amazing. There were magic tricks, because, you know Neil is way into magic. Their wedding vows were so beautiful."
She also shared a cute story of the couple's twins, Gideon and Harper. "Harper was going to be the flower girl and Gideon was going to be the ring bearer, and he said, 'I don't want to be the ring bearer!' And they said, 'OK, well, what do you want to be?' And he said, 'I want to be the orange boy,' " Kelly recalled. "And he passed out oranges to everybody as he came down the aisle. He came up with it on his own. He had his little tux and his top hat and he was passing out oranges."
She continued, "Later on during the night, we were dancing I said to him, 'Look, Gideon, I saved your orange because I'm going to keep it forever.' And he goes, 'Oh, you shouldn't! It's so delicious!' "
Kelly said of Neil and David, "Their wedding vows were so beautiful. It was a beautiful wedding. The speeches were very moving. They are such a nice family. They are such a beautify family." She added, "I was so happy for them."
Neil began dating David in 2004. They announced their engagement in 2011 after the passage of the Marriage Equality Act in New York. At that time, Neil said they were engaged five years earlier but decided to keep it a secret.
