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Ryan Cabrera and Alexa Bliss have officially walked "On the Way Down" the aisle.
The singer, 39, and the WWE star, 30, exchanged vows at the Kempa Villa in Palm Desert, California, on Apr 9, PEOPLE can exclusively announce.
Two weeks ahead of the big day, the couple sat down with PEOPLE to give all the details on their hymeneals, which Elation described every bit "very non-traditional" and "rockstar" themed.
"It's very united states," Cabrera said. "The whole thing'due south meant to bring out our personalities, and we are far from but normal."
Cabrera and Elation — who started planning their wedding correct after they got engaged in November 2020 — fell in love with their venue (which is endemic by a friend) afterward offset stopping by to visit on their way to a "glamping" trip in nearby Joshua Tree.
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Then, afterwards they got engaged, they again saw their friend who owns the five-acre property, and he suggested it could be the "perfect" backdrop for their wedding.
"Nosotros were similar, 'Oh my God,' information technology's admittedly perfect," Cabrera said. "It'southward absolutely gorgeous and nestled inside the mountains. At the bottom, there are vineyards, and behind the business firm in that location's a cute lake. It'southward simply far enough exterior of Los Angeles, besides."
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In contrast with the serene environment of the estate was a giant, light-upward "Welcome to the S—show" sign and hot pink carpeting that greeted their 360-count guest listing (which Cabrera said he "weeded down" from 608) upon arrival.
"Our wedding has been self-deemed 'the s— testify,'" Cabrera explained.
As guests arrived, they were able to pour their own glass of Campo Viejo Cava champagne from the Bubble Tap trailer every bit they soaked in the acoustic sounds of singer Tyler Ward and harpist Lexie Lowell.
To kicking off the ceremony, Cabrera and Bliss had people walk downward the alley tossing out shots to attendees in lieu of flower girls "to really set the stage."
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Their families so walked down the aisle to Walk Off the Earth's version of Tina Turner'due south "The Best." The bridal and groom party — which had a mix of sixteen men and women on each side — followed, walking down to "Eye-to-Center" from A Goofy Film, i of Bliss' favorite films.
As Bliss made her archway, Cabrera'due south song "Worth Information technology," which he wrote for his proposal, played in the background.
"I'thou but trying to figure out how I'm going to get through this because it's such an emotional song," Cabrera said. "I don't remember she understands, considering we were talking nigh doing our vows, and I was like, 'Maybe nosotros should exercise it in private.' I cry a lot! I can't assistance information technology. I'1000 that guy. Information technology is what it is. I'thousand emotional, then it's going to be waterworks."
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At the time of their PEOPLE interview, both Cabrera and Bliss had said that their vows were already written.
"Mine came to me in a dream," Cabrera said. "It was like 4 a.m., and I had this dream nearly me reading the vows to her. I was uncontrollably crying, but I was reading the vows, and I was like, 'Oh, that's skillful stuff!' So I woke up in the middle of the nighttime and started jotting it down. That led to writing more and more and more. I'll probably be tweaking up until the day of, only that's simply the author in me ... or I may just scratch it and go improv."
Bliss said she wants to read her vows first "because I'm not a writer — I don't want to follow his!"
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Keeping with the not-traditional theme, Bliss wore a custom clothes by designer Netta BenShabu in blush.
"The top is a mesh corset bodice with rhinestones and beaded appliqué," she said. "It has drapey sleeves that are detachable and fabricated of the lace from the bottom of the clothes, which also has the appliqué on it."
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"The bottom of my dress has iv different layers of tulle — two of them are glitter tulle, and 1 of them is chroma," Bliss added. "There is a long train in the back that'due south all glitter, merely it has a hurry in the back as well, to lift it up and then I can dance and all the things. It'southward very whimsical, very fairytale-esque."
Bliss — whose bridal makeup was perfected by makeup artist Ian Maxion — said that the manner that she plant BenShabu to make her dress was really "casual."
"With my clothes, there wasn't annihilation that I knew I wanted, I simply knew what I didn't want," she said. "I was scrolling through different designers on Instagram and Pinterest and all these things, and I came beyond Netta BenShabu's designs, and I really loved them. I knew, similar, 'OK, and then this is who I'm going to buy my dress from.'"
"Ii days later, Ryan coincidentally was like, 'Hey, so I set yous upward a dress date with this boutique in Fifty.A., Kinsley James, and they actually have a designer who wants to design a dress for you lot,'" she connected. "I was like, 'Oh, I already accept a designer in mind.' He was similar, 'Oh, well at least go hear her out. Her proper noun is Netta BenShabu.' I was like, 'Expect, what?'"
At her appointment with BenShabu, Elation said she tried on "a bunch of different dresses" and pulled what she liked from each one.
"It was similar a snowball of ideas," she said. "As soon as I put on the dress that I customized, I was like, 'This is my dress.' I got emotional. The i matter everyone who I show my apparel to says is, 'That's you. That is y'all in a wearing apparel.'"
I of Bliss' bridesmaids fabricated her a garter of blue lace from the bottom of her clothes, which also featured borrowed gems to serve as her "something borrowed."
Instead of a veil, Bliss wore a Swarovski headpiece in the dorsum of her pilus, which was a half-upwardly, half-down style done by Cabrera's hairdresser Josh Stinnett.
"The veil was too much," she said. "There's already a lot going on with pinkish hair, pink wearing apparel. I think the veil would've been a fiddling besides much."
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Cabrera also went with blush for his suit. Elation had those on her side wear unlike shades of bluish.
As for their guests, the couple told them that the dress code was, "What would Harry Styles exercise?"
"And that goes for male, female ... what would Harry Styles wear?" Cabrera added.
"Ane of my cousins is wearing a Pac-Man adapt," Elation said. "It's going to be ridiculous."
After the ceremony, the couple fabricated their way into the cocktail hour, which they made sure they could relish by getting all of their photos out of the way earlier in the solar day.
"We wanted to try to spend every bit much time with everybody every bit we could because it'south a destination," Cabrera said. "Nosotros have people flying in from Dubai, from Ohio. People travel, spend a lot of coin to come to your hymeneals and see you for fifteen seconds. So we're getting quality time in where we can."
In order to get even more fourth dimension with their guests, which they described equally a "melting pot" of people from their corresponding lives and careers, Cabrera and Bliss planned a week of events leading up to their wedding ceremony, including a gunkhole twenty-four hour period, a "Cabrera Classic" golf game tournament, and a rehearsal dinner featuring the Original Taco-Man and a magician bartender from Magic & Cocktails.
The night before the wedding, Cabrera and Bliss also got their ain quality time in.
"We're not separating the night before considering we have to get upwardly early, and I already told her, 'Wedding night, babe, I am partying. Y'all're not getting no action that night. So you better get it the nighttime earlier,'" Cabrera said. "I'm but existence honest. I'k partying hard after the ceremony. I would be shocked if I don't end upward in that lake."
At that place's no doubt Cabrera and Bliss got the party started at the cocktail hour, where they had games like corn pigsty, a giant Connect 4, a giant Jenga, and the dice game Farkle. Patrón also had a tequila bar and margarita bicycle.
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Other drink options at the cocktail hour were provided by Witting Cocktails and Amass gin.
At the reception, which guests needed to show their "backstage laissez passer" to get into, Cabrera and Bliss had a tequila bar, an Absolut vodka bar, a Jameson whiskey bar, and a wine and beer bar featuring Bonita Bonita Wine, created by friends Nikki and Brie Bella.
For food, the couple had ii of their favorite L.A. food trucks, Heavy Handed burgers and chips and Yamashiro Japanese, there to feed their guests instead of having a sit-downwards meal.
"We wanted it to be more than laid dorsum," Cabrera said. "A chicken or steak dinner is not actually us."
They also had Gastro Garage catering small bites like sandwiches and pizzas made by accident torch.
"They have their own area because of the fire," Elation said, as Cabrera joked, "And my hair! You lot don't want me around that thing."
For dessert, the couple had four dissimilar flavors of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, Brownie Brittle, popcorn past Cookie & Processed Pop, and a candy bar by Candy Vixen. Instead of a wedding block, they each sabered a bottle of champagne.
"Nosotros're going to toast," Cabrera said. "It's really about the commemoration of the moment, maxim that we're now married, so we're going to popular the champagne."
At their tables, which didn't have assigned seating, Cabrera and Bliss used old-schoolhouse CDs as their centerpieces and vinyl records every bit the identify settings.
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"We dear music, obviously, and then we wanted to bring that theme into things," Cabrera said. "There'due south no assigned seating and so people can go around and see what vinyl they love, like, 'Oh my God, it's O-Town! Oh wait, I'm in O-Town!'"
While Cabrera and Bliss originally planned to share their first trip the light fantastic toe as a married couple to James Arthur'southward "Falling Similar the Stars," Cabrera switched to a special recorded acoustic version of his bride's favorite vocal, "Eye to Eye," at the last minute.
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Two DJs, DJ White Shadow and DJ Charan, also as '90s and 2000s cover band SEGA Genecide, kept guests dancing well into the night. "It's going to be wild — I'm already tired!" Cabrera said. "It'due south like putting on a festival."
While Elation had initially purchased a "fun" party apparel for the reception, she opted instead to stay in her wedding gown. However, she did swap out her wedges for her rhinestone Betsey Johnson sneakers.
"My clothes is and then comfortable, and I didn't want to change into something that everyone else can have when I have something that'due south custom made for me," she said. "My wedding planner Elle Anderson with Elle A Events was in my alteration with me and kept saying, 'She needs to be able to lift her arms. She needs to be able to trip the light fantastic and drink and not worry.' So nosotros hemmed the dress to my reception sneakers, non my heels."
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Throughout the night, guests posted using the couple's wedding hashtag #OntheWayDowntheAisle, a nod to Cabrera'due south 2004 striking "On the Way Down."
All throughout planning their intricate day, Bliss said Cabrera was "super amazing," adding: "I didn't accept to worry about any of it because he's such a planner and likes to programme."
What'due south funny is just how unplanned their love story began. "It's like a Friends episode: the ane with the rumor," Cabrera said.
In early 2020, while Cabrera was on the prove Miz & Mrs with WWE wrestler The Miz, his social media team started liking a lot of wrestlers' posts, including Bliss'.
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Cabrera said that he thinks a member of his team "had a crush on Lex" because he was liking everything that she was posting. "She was freaked out," he said. "I didn't fifty-fifty know about this. I had no idea."
"Information technology was weird," Bliss added. "Over a week, I would get four or five notifications per day, like, 'Ryan Cabrera liked your tweet. Ryan Cabrera replied to your tweet. Ryan Cabrera liked your tweet.' I was like, 'OK. He needs to calm down. I don't even know this guy.'"
Eventually, Cabrera and Bliss figured out what was going on, and they started talking.
"I was on an plane flying to Orlando to play at Disney Epcot, and we chatted for the unabridged aeroplane ride," Cabrera said. "I was like, obviously she'south cute, only she's actually cool too. Nosotros both love Disney. We honey the same movies. Nosotros both love Reese'due south Puffs cereal."
When Cabrera touched downwards in Orlando, Elation told him that she lived in the city. So, he invited her to his shows. "I said, 'Maybe,'" Bliss recalled. "He didn't similar that."
Cabrera said he stayed "persistent" and invited her to a film, where they concluded up talking the whole time. "Nosotros were like, 'This is something,'" he said.
While they both bout full time, their schedules coincidentally kept matching up.
"Wherever she was, I simply happened to be," Cabrera said. "I was like, 'I'grand playing a Thanksgiving Day parade in Chicago.' She's like, 'Oh we take WWE Raw in Chicago.' Everywhere nosotros were going, it lined up, which is crazy too considering our schedules are usually so opposite with my tour and her wrestling. Then she came to a DJ gig, and I told her that night, which was probably the second time we'd hung out in another urban center, that I was going to marry her one twenty-four hour period."
"I'm older, and I've dated a lot of people, so I was like, 'OK, I know now subsequently dating unlike people what I want, what I don't want,'" he added. "And then when I met her, I was like, 'This is everything I've always wanted.' Then that's why I was like, 'I'1000 going to marry you i day.'"
Though Elation took a scrap more fourth dimension, she said she knew Cabrera was "the one" when she realized she was overall "a happier person."
"Ryan brings out the best in me, and all my friends and family saw a modify in me for the better," she said. "It was the first time that I could genuinely say that I loved someone more than myself. So that's when I knew I was in love with him. I was very guarded in the beginning because I'k just a guarded person in general, and he changed that about me."
After spending the majority of the COVID-19 pandemic together in Orlando, Cabrera knew his initial gut feelings about Elation were correct.
"We were together every day," he said. "At that point, you're like, 'OK, if we tin can become through this together, I think nosotros're going to be all right.'"
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Cabrera took his first pace towards marrying Bliss when he proposed at Disney in Nov 2020. Afterwards months of planning, he popped the question in the park after it had closed.
"We had dinner at ix p.chiliad., and the park closed at x, but patently they allowed usa to stay subsequently the park closed considering they knew this was happening," Cabrera said. "She was similar, 'Babe, we have to get. The park is closing soon.' She'south a rule follower, and I'k the exact reverse, so I'thousand similar, 'We're fine. Come up on. We're good.'"
Equally they walked upwards to a table set up for their proposal, Cabrera had "Worth It" outset playing through the unabridged park. He then asked Bliss to dance, still still, she had no idea what was happening.
"He just does stuff like this, similar he's and then sweet," she said. "He's a hopeless romantic. He's a planner, and it was our anniversary, then I thought it was just an ceremony affair."
Bliss said she knew this was more than a cute anniversary date when Cabrera started "shaking" and said, "I waited 38 years to exercise this."
At that moment, Cabrera said, "I blacked out."
"I don't fifty-fifty know what I said, but I said a whole thing, and then I got down on one genu," he recalled. "It was perfect, and the photos came out amazing and the video came out amazing."
For the band, Cabrera worked with 14 Karats in L.A. to create a "royal" looking engagement ring, which he had carried around in a satchel for months.
"On the appointment day, I didn't desire the ring in my pocket," he said. "So I started wearing the satchel with the ring in it ahead of fourth dimension so that the day of she wouldn't recollect anything was weird."
Added Elation: "I had gotten him 3 custom satchels for Christmas thinking it was his affair now. For the final 4 months he had been selling me on how user-friendly satchels are."
After the proposal, Cabrera had another surprise planned: an date political party at the Riviera Resort.
"I had fifty people waiting in that hotel, and as shortly as nosotros came effectually the corner, the champagne was popped," Cabrera said. "It was quite the day and quite the functioning, merely it ended up being absolutely perfect."
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The mean solar day afterwards their wedding ceremony, Cabrera and Elation will return to Disney, but this fourth dimension the park in California. "We're geared up," Cabrera said. "We've got shirts. Nosotros've got hats. All the cheesy things, we're all most it."
The couple volition then go to Hawaii to spend a few days solitary, before being joined at that place by a group of their friends.
Looking forrad to forever, Elation said, "I beloved that I don't know what every twenty-four hours is going to bring."
"If I wanted to know what the balance of my life would expect similar every single day I would be with anyone else in the earth but Ryan," she said. "But I love not knowing, and I love knowing that I go to wake upward adjacent to him and problems him every morning, and information technology'southward the best. I dearest our life together. We constantly make each other express joy, we constantly are having fun, and I'm merely overall happier around this guy. We're already married."
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Added Cabrera: "She's always down for gamble."
When information technology comes to the adventure that is starting a family, Cabrera said, "Whatever happens, happens, but nosotros definitely want kids."
"We're planning on two," Bliss said. "He's so great with kids. He'south going to be an amazing dad for sure."
Until then, Bliss said, "Nosotros're just going to keep on doing what we're doing."
"This is existent, and it's always going to be existent," she said. "I think we're e'er going to continue up the effort to brand each other happy."
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