Kathie Lee Gifford’s daughterCassidy Giffordfinally got to have the wedding of her dreams.
Cassidy, 28,married longtime love and fiancé Ben Wierdain an intimate backyard ceremony in Michigan in June 2020, just months into the COVID-19 pandemic. (Their guest list was limited to 18 people.)
Now, Kathie, 68, is opening up about the “four-day bash” the couple threw last weekend to celebrate their union anew, joking to PEOPLE, “Momma is tired.”
“She’s never worn her wedding dress until now, or had her big party with the band and all that fun stuff,” the formerTodayhost says. “So that happened this past weekend here in Nashville.”
“It’s a great party town, I tell you,” she continues. “We had about 180 guests. Still smaller than it was going to be. A lot of people are still worried about mingling, of course, during COVID. So the event was smaller, ultimately, than it might have been pre-pandemic.”
Cassidy posted a stunning black-and-white photo onInstagramfrom the event on Wednesday, showing off her sweeping lace gown.
“Boy do I love you @letsgetwierda,” she captioned the post.
For the original ceremony, Cassidy wore an “off-the-rack cotton dress” and went barefoot, Kathie says.
“So I called him and he made it happen!” she adds. “Just good, good people who do for one another down here. And they’d be mad at you if you didn’t ask.”
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Kathie shares Cassidy and son Cody, 31, with late husbandFrank Gifford, who died at 84 in 2015. Cody also got married during the pandemic, tofiancée Erika Brownin September 2020.
“I kept my home in Connecticut and love going back there. My son and his wife live there now. My daughter and her husband live down here now in Nashville,” Kathie says. “So I have my children back in my life, close to me, in both homes. And one day, the Lord might bless us with little tiny feet running around. That’s in God’s hands. But for the meantime, life is sweet!”
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During anInstagram LivewithShop Today’sJill Martinon Wednesday, Kathie raved about her children, saying both “married well.”
Of Cassidy and Ben, the proud mom called the relationship “a real love story.”
“They met when they were so young. We used to play games at night, all the time. Our families were friends … and Cass and Ben would never be partnering up with anybody else, ever,” she recalled. “We’d go on trips to Israel and Ben would pop himself down on that tour bus right next to Cassidy before anyone else could get there. He knew when he was 14 years old that he was going to marry her.”
source: people.com
