Ellis and Nina Senicar, newlyweds, are living the dolce vita, with the couple sharing details about their romantic Italian wedding. The couple announced their July 9 wedding on Instagram on Monday, sharing a beautiful photo of the couple walking hand in hand.
Senicar looked stunning in an off-white Dolce & Gabbana gown, while the “Top Gun: Maverick” actor looked dapper in a burgundy tuxedo by the Italian fashion house.
“July 9, 2022… “Forever,” Ellis and Senicar captioned their Instagram posts in Italian. Vogue also published photos of the couple taken by Alessia Franco.
According to Vogue magazine’s wedding exclusive, Ellis met Senicar in a bar in Los Angeles in 2015 after being introduced by a mutual friend. The couple got engaged in January 2019, but their wedding plans were thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, according to the outlet. A family death the following year forced Ellis and Senicar to postpone their wedding to July of this year.
Ellis and Senicar married at Villa Mangiacane, a Tuscan property in Florence, Italy, with “flourishing vineyards and olive groves,” following wedding planning sessions over Zoom and careful COVID-19 protocols.
“We always knew we wanted to get married in Italy because it was our first trip together,” Senicar explained to Vogue.
Senicar walked down the aisle to Frank Ocean’s R&B ballad “Thinkin Bout You,” according to Vogue.
Senicar recalled, “I was very emotional and tried really hard not to cry.” “To be honest, I didn’t see anyone else except Jay — I was so focused on his eyes and just being present.”
“There was a moment when I was standing there in front of everyone waiting for the giant wrought iron gates to open and see Nina,” Ellis told Vogue. “So I yelled, ‘Baby, are you coming?'” Nina didn’t respond for another beat or two, so I turned to the crowd and said, ‘I guess that’s a no.’ If anyone wants to get married today, there’s a spot up here.’ And just as everyone was laughing, Nina yelled, ‘I’m coming baby!’ Everyone laughed at us, and then the gate opened, and for the first time, I saw Nina in her gown.”
While the “Top Gun” actor joked that the couple needed to unwind “after throwing the craziest three-day party ever,” the overall experience exceeded their expectations.
“After everything that everyone has been through in the last few years, it was surreal to bring over 190 people together for three days in Tuscany and celebrate,” Ellis said. “Seeing all of our friends from different parts of our lives smiling and laughing together, connecting, and forming their own friendships was such an important part of what we wanted out of the weekend and the celebration.” We wanted to make memories and moments that would last us the rest of our lives.”
In 2019, Ellis and Senicar welcomed their first child together, Nora Grace Ellis. “And just like that, our lives took on a whole new meaning,” Senicar wrote at the time on Instagram.