Mary Fitzgerald speaks out
Selling Sunset's Mary Fitzgerald has hit back at claims that her wedding with husband Romain was all for the cameras.
The couple's big day was a huge part of season two of the Netflix reality show.
However, it was recently revealed that the couple had legally married over a year before the ceremony took place.
Her representative explained the situation to People Magazine:
'Mary and Romain had a civil union a couple of months before the show began filming in June of 2018.'
'But they chose not to tell any of their friends or family, as they were still trying to see if their relationship would work out in the long term.'
The rep added, 'In their minds, they weren’t properly married until the wedding that was filmed during the show.'
According to TMZ, their secret wedding took place at the Ventura County Courthouse on March 9th 2018.
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Now Mary has hit back at the claims herself.
Speaking to Fubar Radio, Mary confirmed they legally married in March 2018 for 'personal reasons'.
She said: “Our wedding was absolutely real. We invited all of our friends and family, we didn’t tell anybody. We just signed the paper for personal reasons and then we wanted to wait until we could have our real wedding.”
“Romain’s never been married before. A wedding didn’t mean that much to me. I was happy to just go on a beach in Bali and I tried very hard to do that actually. No cameras, no anything, just our closest friends.”
The hosts then asked why it took them until October 2019 to host the ceremony.
Mary said some of her friends who she wanted to have in the ceremony were going through big life changes at the time so she wanted to wait.
The Selling Sunset wedding
Romain and Mary's documented wedding took place October 12th 2019 at a private home in L.A.
At the time, Mary told People, 'It was our dream wedding.'
'Neither of us are big, showy kind of people, and we just wanted the people closest to us, where it just felt sincere and comfortable. So that's what we did.'
Mary admitted they were hesitant about having their big day documented for Selling Sunset.
She explained, 'We wanted to keep it very intimate and have our families as a big focus.'
'And you never know when we get the cast there with all the cameras, if our families were going to feel comfortable, if there was to be some dramatic fighting with the girls.'
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