Kelly Ripa skipped a significant ceremony of passage earlier than her marriage ceremony to Mark Consuelos — and she or he has no regrets.
Ripa, 52, revealed throughout the Monday, August 28, episode of Stay With Kelly and Mark that she by no means had a bachelorette occasion earlier than marrying Consuelos, 52, in 1996. “ me, pageantry will not be my factor,” Ripa informed her husband on their discuss present. “I wished the wedding, not the large marriage ceremony. I don’t want a bachelorette occasion to inform me that I’m about to get married as a result of I’m about to get married and right here I’m on the airplane, you realize what I imply? That’s my bachelorette occasion.”
Ripa went on to notice that she’s additionally not a fan of conventional bachelorette occasion accouterments. “Sashes, hats, penis hats, hats with penises. Which, to me, it by no means makes any sense,” she quipped. “I don’t perceive what it means. I don’t know! I don’t get it!”
Consuelos and Ripa met in 1995 whereas engaged on the cleaning soap opera All My Kids. Consuelos proposed one 12 months later — and the duo didn’t even wait a full 24 hours earlier than tying the knot in Las Vegas.
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Ripa later credited the spontaneous occasion as one purpose she and Consuelos truly went by means of with marriage.
“I don’t assume we might have made it to the marriage,” Ripa defined throughout an August 2022 episode of Stay With Kelly and Ryan, reflecting on what would have occurred in the event that they’d had a extra elaborate ceremony. “There would have been exhausting emotions and blame far and wide. And I can actually say, we don’t really feel much less married. As a matter of truth, we really feel extra married than these folks, as a result of we’re nonetheless married.”
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos arrive on the 1997 Cleaning soap Opera Digest Awards Barry King/Liaison
Ripa informed then-cohost Ryan Seacrest that the pair spent a complete of $179 on their marriage ceremony, together with airfare, as a result of they used frequent flier miles left over from a beforehand canceled journey.
“It was ’96 guys, keep in mind the winter of ’96? The winter of ’96 is within the document books as probably the most depressing, it was an limitless winter, and it was a snowstorm after we left,” Ripa recalled. “And we regarded on the climate as a result of we considered going to Metropolis Corridor however that was nonetheless chilly and depressing, whereas Las Vegas, it was 85 levels and sunny. [We thought,] ‘Let’s do this!’ And in order that’s what we did.”
