Millie Bobby Brown revealed she enlisted her Stranger Things father figure Matthew Modine to officiate her May 2024 wedding to Jake Bongiovi.
“The second Jake proposed I said, ‘I know who needs to marry us. It’s my papa,’” Millie, 21, told Jimmy Fallon during a Tuesday, March 11, appearance on The Tonight Show.
Matthew, 65, has played Dr. Martin Brenner, director of Hawkins National Lab, on the Netflix series ever since the show premiered in 2016. He and Millie have developed a close offscreen bond.
Millie joked, “I think he thought when I called him he was like, ‘OK, sure.’ And then I sent him the invite and I was like, ‘You’re still officiating’ eight months later, he’s like, ‘Oh, you really wanted me to do that?’”
The Electric State actress brought along a photo of Matthew standing in between herself and Jake, 22, during their wedding. The model was seen reciting his vows to Millie from a piece of paper as she gazed at him adoringly while Matthew looked on smiling.
The England native looked stunning in a white gown with a fitted bodice and lace straps along with a full skirt. Millie wore her hair in an updo for her wedding, with a long veil atop her head.
The trio stood outside under a large arch dripping with white roses and other flowers, which took place at Villa Cetinale in Italy’s Tuscany region.
“I hate to be that person, but it was perfect,” the Enola Holmes star gushed about her wedding. “You put so much pressure on if it’s going to be good.”
At first, Millie was a bit of a bridezilla, revealing, “When I turned up, I was directing the whole thing, cause that’s my nature.”
“When it came down to me walking down the aisle, I was like, ‘Oh this is real.’ And when I went down the aisle, everything became so real and pure and nothing about that was like a production,” she continued. “It felt so beautiful and was the most meaningful thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
Millie revealed how she was almost seen in her custom-made Galia Lahav wedding gown prior to her ceremony but managed to throw off a paparazzo waiting outside the dress salon when she arrived in New York City for her final dress fitting.
Because of a “big glass window” in front of the store facing the street, “I thought she could see through it,” Millie told Jimmy, 50.
“‘Oh my gosh, she knows what my wedding dress looks like, and then Jake’s gonna see it’ and I was so terrified,” the Florence by Mills founder explained. “So I thought, I’m going to find a dress that’s the complete opposite.”
Millie ended up finding a dress in the shop that was “bedazzled with gloves,” and totally the opposite of something she would have chosen.
“I’m going to walk out and I’m going to start fake crying, pretending that I found the gown. And she got the whole thing,” the star explained while sharing the video of her walking towards a mirror and appearing to break down in tears of joy over the dress she was wearing. “And it sold. It definitely wasn’t [her wedding gown] and I tricked you,” Millie proudly proclaimed.
