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Kristen Bellis reflecting on her courthouse wedding toDax Shepard.
“What we desired was the intimacy of just each other,” Bell, 42, tells PEOPLE about the couple’sOctober 2013 nuptialsatThe People We Hate at the Weddingpremiere in Los Angeles.
“We didn’t want to look at or talk to anyone else other than each other,” adds Bell, who tied the knot with Shepard, 47, in atiny Beverly Hills courthousewith no guest list, no expensive reception and not even a white dress.
“We really wanted to try to be as there as possible,” she adds. “It’s certainly easy and it’s very cheap.”
Like many long-time married couples, however, Bell admits that she and Shepard now struggle to remember all the details of their big day — including “the date.”
“Then we remember, oh, late October because when we look at any of the pictures we took, there are goblins and ghouls and spiderwebs all over the background of the pictures,” she adds.
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The People We Hate at the Weddingrevolves around a highly dysfunctional family trying to get it together for an overseas wedding and also stars Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Ben Platt,Allison Janneyand Annie Murphy.
The pro-gay rights couple also famously said they wouldn’t marry until all people in their statecould marry the person they love, regardless of gender, which California passed in June of 2013.
Getting married changed the couple, giving them a greater sense of security. “It just felt more normal… It felt nice afterward,” Bell told PEOPLE in March 2019 — and now they’re a family of four with two daughters: Delta Bell, 7, and Lincoln Bell, 9.
Regardless of how simple her own wedding was, theVeronica Marsstar is still a romantic at heart, as has never been shy about professing her love for Shepard and love in general.
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“There’s something really beautiful about what people write and how they promise you,” Bell adds at the L.A. premiere, going on to reveal that the nuptials are pretty much “all I really want to see” at a wedding.
“There’s something very vulnerable and sweet about standing in front of a group and a community to having them bear witness to your love,” she continues. “There’s something that still makes me feel like everyone’s levitating.”
The People We Hate at the Weddingstreams on Prime Video on Nov. 18
source: people.com
