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Amanda Frances and Eddie Tsivislavsky celebrated their marriage with a second ceremony on Saturday, October 10.
Thirteen months after the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alums tied the knot in a civil ceremony in Laguna Hills, California, they said “I do” once more at Grimm’s Bluff, a vineyard in Santa Ynez Valley, California, an event that was part of a “sacred and wildly joyful” four-day celebration planned by Tyler Speier.
“It was spiritual, extraordinarily romantic, and one hell of a party,” Amanda, 41, told PEOPLE on October 13. “We wanted more than a wedding day. We wanted several days of actually being with the people we love.”
“I’ve been coming to the Santa Ynez Valley since I moved to California 10 years ago. I love the charm of its little towns, the exceptional restaurants, and the rolling vineyards. It feels a bit like Gilmore Girls set in California wine country. There’s a romance to this part of the world that I’ve always loved. We wanted our guests to experience it, too,” she continued.
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Starting on Thursday, October 8, Amanda and Eddie, 40, enjoyed an intimate dinner at SY Kitchen and drinks and karaoke at Mavericks with close friends.
“We wanted a chance to really talk, laugh, and spend time with our people before the larger celebrations began,” Amanda explained.
The following day, she and Eddie were joined by 130 guests at Mattei’s Tavern in Los Olivos for a “Wine Country Garden Party” with a bluegrass band, a family-style dinner, and a gifting experience with olive oils, honey, fruit, and other gifts from a general store.
Then, on Saturday, the wedding took place, blending Amanda and Eddie’s faiths (Amanda is Christian while Eddie is Jewish) as they were joined by friends and family, including their four children (Canaan, 4, and Delilah, 2, and Eddie’s older kids, Liam, 11, and Shoshana, 9). Live music was featured, including a string quartet and a gospel choir, who sang “I’m Kissing You” from Baz Luhrmann‘s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet as Amanda walked down the aisle.
As they exchanged vows beneath a chuppah with a cross and in front of their officiants, their “dear friends,” Nick and Katrina, the former of whom delivered “a warm, hilarious, and at times wonderfully inappropriate speech,” and the latter of whom offered a prayer and blessing, arches built by Eddie were seen above them.
“There was something incredibly meaningful about being married beneath something my husband had built with his own hands,” Amanda noted.
Throughout Saturday, Amanda wore four different outfits.
“Unlike most brides, I didn’t spend months searching for dresses,” she admitted. “I grabbed a girlfriend, hired my driver, and spent one very productive day in Los Angeles going everywhere from vintage shops and sample racks to couture showrooms. I found nearly my entire wedding wardrobe that day. It was the Friday before my book tour began, because that was the one day in August I had open.”
Following the ceremony, Amanda and Eddie, who met in 2019 and got engaged in 2024, enjoyed an “absolutely extraordinary party” inside a large tent that was decorated with chandeliers and olive trees.
“We wanted black-tie elegance that still felt at home on a vineyard,” Amanda shared. “Soft blush pinks, pale blues, and seemingly endless flowers. Garden roses everywhere, extraordinary peonies flown in from Australia … It was breathtaking.”
After a father-daughter dance to Don McLean’s “American Pie,” guests danced to Brooks & Dunn’s “Boot Scootin’ Boogie.”
For food, Amanda opted against a sit-down dinner and instead offered a Russian-style display with gluten-free fancy bites and comfort foods, inspired by Eddie’s roots, and a giant pavlova from Lindsay’s Little Bakery that Amanda and Eddie decorated for dessert.
“I love a wedding where caviar and chicken strips can coexist,” she stated.
Flourless chocolate cake, oatmeal cookies, macaroons, and ceremonial-grade matcha were also featured.
Looking back, Amanda said the event was “more extraordinary than anything [she] could have imagined.”
“When ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ came on as the final song of our reception, I found myself onstage,” she recalled. “I took a moment to look out at the room and really take it all in. There were so many of my favorite people on the planet, smiling and singing back at me … people we love had felt the magic of the weekend as deeply as we had.”
Eddie also spoke out, confirming that his favorite aspect of the wedding was doing the hora.
“When I saw how many people had rushed in to lift Amanda and me up on chairs for the hora, it felt like the perfect symbol of how we got here in the first place. There was so much love and power behind it that we were literally getting airborne,” he shared.
On Sunday, the final day of Amanda and Eddie’s wedding celebration, the couple and their wedding guests did yoga and drank matcha before enjoying an “A&E Beach Club” celebration with cornhole, pizzas, and rosé.
“It was the sweetest, most relaxed ending to an extraordinary weekend,” Amanda gushed.
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According to Amanda and Eddie, marriage is “a sacred commitment to keep choosing each other.”
“I’ll admit I expected the wedding day to feel like a formality. We had four kids, a home, and real loss behind us,” Eddie explained. “Then Tyler lined me up to walk down the aisle with my parents, and it hit me all at once … I walked under the arches I’d built and saw faces I’d been with all weekend, suddenly carrying a different weight. It felt like the heavens had opened up to witness it. After everything we’d lived through together, it felt like we were starting fresh, like every moment had been building to that one.”
“To me,” he added, “marriage means knowing a relationship is never 50/50. Some seasons it’s 90/10, some it’s 30/70. When I had nothing left, Amanda gave 100. Marrying her was my promise to keep giving more than my share for the rest of our lives.”
Amanda Frances appeared on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15.