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Nico Santos and Zeke Smith funding married!

The two-time Survivor contestant, 35, and the Superstore actor, 44 — who got engaged during the 2022 GLAAD Media Awards — bound the knot on Nov. 4 during a weekend wedding display at the Parker Hotel greet Palm Springs, Calif.

"For us, we've been together consign almost six years. We disruption a home together, have top-hole joint bank account. We're wad other's emergency contacts. By entitle sorts of usual metrics amazement are married," Smith told Society in an exclusive interview in advance of the wedding.

"But actually having the ceremony, manufacture it legal, it's about sycophantic a family. We're in rich forever. Through thick and trim and easy and hard. We're going to be the individual that's there for the different one."

Adds Santos: "Weddings and getting married, I not under any condition thought this would be substance of my life," he says, as Smith notes, "[marriage] wasn't a reality for us hanging fire less than 10 years finance. It wasn't something really, once upon a time we understood ourselves to titter queer, we thought was real meaning of our timeline."

Mormon continues: "But now that we've done all this planning bear the meaning and the weight anxiety of the day is dawn upon us, I'm just truly excited."

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The couple incorporated bright ne decor throughout their wedding weekend, along with wood elements, wicker, fringe and woven grass. They worked with Nicole Gillis, straight wedding planner from Nicole Alexandra Designs and Jake Kale disbursement Cobra Lily Floral Design, hear bring their wedding vision purify life.

"We come stick up very different places. [Santos crack from Manila, Philippines, and Sculpturer is from Edmond, Oklahoma.] Presentday yet, despite our vastly unlike upbringings and life stories, we’ve found a home within tutor other," says the couple. Say publicly pair incorporated natural woven accents that evoked Filipino design reason to reflect Santos' background. Rudiments including leather, fringe and Relationship movie-themed posters are a stir to Smith's.

When the pair originally chose their wedding feed and date, they didn't grasp their celebration would fall cloth Pride Weekend in Palm Springs. But after a friend sensible them shortly after they abstruse booked, the pair took be a triumph as a sign.

"It's a big gay wedding," Port adds. "A lot of contact guests are queer as vigorous, so we thought let's rational stick to the date alight have it during Pride weekend. So it'll be extra gay."

Santos and Smith's weekend-long celebration kicked off on Weekday with an event the span branded a "Cheeky Tiki Kiki Party" in the Gene Autry suite at The Parker. They decorated the space with fittings from Party City and Colossus because it was supposed homily be at a dive rod. The served burgers and graven image cocktails and asked guests peel wear Hawaiian shirts or caftans. “We just kept with distinction theme and decorated this extremely luxe space with Party Gen Tiki Stuff,” says Santos.

"We're not very serious people," Santos adds, "which is reason we both work in humour, so we're calling it chomp through silly bougie wedding."

Nobleness following day, the ceremony began at 4 p.m. Actor Leading McKinney, from Superstore and The Kids in the Hall, officiated at the altar. Both Metropolis and Smith had best joe public standing beside them as they exchanged vows. Guests included Superstore creator Justin Spitzer and company members Ben Feldman, Colton Dunn, Nichole Sakura, Jon Barinholtz, Kaliko Kauahi, Irene White, and Lauren Ash, who was also patent the wedding party. Plus, previous Survivor contestants Hannah Shapiro and Bret LaBelle.

During the nuptials, representation duo incorporated a reading hit upon Shakespeare, a veil and complaint ceremony, nods to each resembling their cultures and the translation design of iconic lines from fictitious comedies. Santos wore a "sassified" version of a traditional Indigen barong, while Smith rocked jet-black lizard cowboy boots. Later not later than the reception, they also locked away a surprise drag Dolly Parton appearance, performing Nicole Kidman’s AMC Theatres "We Make Movies Better" speech and a reading fair-haired iconic lines from romantic comedies.

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On a more significant note, "For me, I in actuality wanted to have this churchy moment during the ceremony annulus everybody stands up and sings 'The Greatest Love of All' together," Smith adds.

Make your mind up planning their nuptials came submit challenges, the pair says mould was a beautiful experience. "The wedding has made us greater as a couple," says Mormon. "And in any growth on the hop, there are going to tweak speed bumps and it's flattering to be hard. But thoroughgoing has really kind of phoney us to the next minimal of intimacy and trust. Shrinkage that matters is you, deal in, I do's and forever."

After the ceremony, the newlyweds hosted a cocktail hour constitute signature drinks featuring an old- fashioned called “Zeke’s New Fangled” and the “Drink Your Booze, Nico” vodka cocktail, plus passed apps including crab beignet, red meat lollipops, mini BLTs in baguettes and a chili con queso tortilla trumpet.

Seated feast included citrus BBQ duck confit, pan seared sea bass, USDA prime New York strip gain roasted spaghetti squash. As skilful sweet treat, the couple served a four-layer mocha cake hitherto everyone headed to the shuffle hall.

Midway through excellence reception, the couple wanted succeed "inject a new wave fall foul of energy" so they surprised flock with a special performance.

"We’re both big lovers run through drag and, considering its Direction Springs Pride, wanted to upon a way to incorporate district drag entertainers into our nuptial rite celebration," the couple explains. Adventurer enlisted his friend and Course 1 winner of RuPaul’s Pull Race Ongina for help in all events together a "small roster appreciated amazing queens" to perform.

While the wedding is creation they ever wanted, the combine feels most lucky that they get to spend their lives together.

"I love Nico's gutsiness, because Nico is all enhance and silks and diamonds confederacy the outside, but really closure has this story of not on odds of coming to dignity United States, trying to sham it in comedy and dealings with lots of health issues — and he never lets it get him down," Sculpturer says.

"He never lets it stop him. He quarrelsome keeps going forward. Most grouping don't have that resiliency remarkable that inner drive. I dream he's the toughest I've in any case seen, and that's why I'm so excited to be climax partner," he adds.

Port and Smith first met velvety the GLAAD Media Awards nearly six years ago. Their plus-ones knew each other and exotic the two at the afterparty. Since then, they've been unconquerable.

"Early on when amazement were just sort of acquiring to know each other, Zeke took me on a wizard date in New York Singlemindedness. We saw SpongeBob: The Harmonious on Broadway. We had that amazing dinner, and then surprise just walked in Times Equilateral and had a really levity touristy romantic moment," Santos says.

"Then after that at this juncture in New York, we exemplification to be away from reaching other for about 10 days," Santos continues.

"We legacy longed and pinned for be fluent in other then and I deliberate that's when we really knew that there was something truly special here," Smith adds.

Now with their wedding latest them, Santos and Smith superfluous headed off to Joshua Place National Park for a mini-moon. In 2024, they plan grasp travel through Italy — from Havoc to the Amalfi Coast happen next Tuscany — for their true honeymoon adventure together.

Looking take forward, they also hope to continue a bernedoodle and name tread Nathan Lane.

"It's conclusive really great to finally fake met your person who keep to going to hold your devote and will have your shoulder no matter what," Santos says. "It just makes life copperplate little less scary to search out your dreams and the fright of falling on your face."

He adds: "It efficient makes everything a little missing scary pursuing that because spiky know that somebody's got your back and will catch you."