Ivy Love Getty and Tobias Alexander Engel.Photo: Jose Villa
Ivy Love Gettyhonored her late father and grandmother as she said “I do” over the weekend.
The wedding took place nearly a year after the death of her father, musicianJohn Gilbert Getty, who died on Nov. 20, 2020, at the age of 52. His mother Ann, a philanthropist and publisher, died months earlier, in September 2020. She was 79.
“Not physically having two of the most important people in my life with me on my wedding day is extremely hard,” Ivy toldVogue.
However, thanks to wedding dress designer John Galliano’s “vision and creativity,” Ivy said he was “able to bring their presence to life” on her happy day.
Ann Getty, John Gilbert Getty.Ron Galella/Getty; Ivy Getty/instagram
When it came to her wedding dress, Ivy said she always knew Galliano was the designer for the job.
“My grandmother always wore John Galliano’s designs,” she toldVogue. “After my grandmother’s passing — she was really more like a mother to me — I felt this connection to John. I knew I wanted him to create the dress for my wedding.”
Ivy Getty.Jose Villa
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In a nod to her late family members, Ivy’s embroidered veil included guitars, which represented her father, as well as walnuts, as her grandmother grew up on a walnut farm.
“My veil embodies the people and moments that got me to this day,” she toldVogue.
Ivy’s engagement ring pays tribute to her grandmother as well.
Around the stunning sapphire ring, which previously belonged to her husband’s mother, sit some of her grandmother’s diamonds, according toVogue.
Ivy Love Getty, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Tobias Alexander Engel.Jose Villa
The rest of her wedding jewelry came from her grandmother’s vault as well, according toTown and Country.
“Being able to wear her jewelry meant everything to me,” Ivy told the magazine, opting for a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings.
“The dress was so stunning and intricate that I needed something simple and these studs brought everything together. If she was here today she would have given me the same exact pair,” she explained. “And it felt as though she was walking down the aisle with me.”
The couple also honored Ivy’s late loved ones at a pre-wedding celebration.
On Tuesday, Ivy shared a candid photograph from their 1960s-inspired bash at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, as she explained that there was aspecial significance to their outfits.
Although they may not have been physically present, Ivy said she knew her late grandmother and father would have enjoyed the celebration just as much as she did.
source: people.com
