Tommy Bracco Is Married! Contained in the ‘Huge Brother’ Star’s Marriage ceremony (Unique)

• Celebrations are to ensure that Tommy Bracco and Joey Macli, who obtained married over the weekend after 5 years relationship
• The couple, who’re each Italian, celebrated their nuptials with a joyful bash surrounded by household, associates and enjoyable
• All the main points — together with what they wore, who was in attendance, and the dishes on the menu — will be discovered under

Tommy Bracco and Joey Macli turned husband and husband on Saturday, April 19, the actor and marrying at a giant fats Italian marriage ceremony held at The Marina Del Rey in New York Metropolis.

PEOPLE was among the many 300 visitors in attendance on the joyous event, celebrating alongside the grooms’ households, their closest associates and a slew of recognizable faces from throughout the leisure enterprise, together with Bracco’s former costars from Broadway and his activates Huge Brother and The Problem.

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From the boards, there was Tony nominee Orfeh, The Crew‘s Jillian Mueller and best-selling writer Renée Marino — all of whom Bracco starred with in 2018’s Fairly Girls: The Musical. His former Newsies costars Kara Lindsay, Alex Wong, Adam Kaplan and Aaron J. Albano have been there too, as was Jessica Lee Goldyn, most not too long ago of Moulin Rouge! The Musical.

A lot of Bracco’s Huge Brother housemates season reunited to help him, like Christie Murphy, Holly Allen, Nicole Anthony, Ovi Kabir, Nick Maccarone and Analyse Talavera (who would go on to be his companion in The Problem: Trip or Dies). Rounding out the Huge Brother alums within the crowd have been Kaitlyn Herman (season 20), Britini D’Angelo (season 23) and Alex Coladonato (season 9), the latter serving as DJ for the get together together with his firm, E-Squared Productions.

Within the combine from The Problem? Couple Michele Fitzgerald and Devin Walker, as properly their Problem 40 rivals Laurel Stucky and Jakk Maddox.

Different stars within the crowd included The Wonderful Race‘s Krista DeLisi, The Traitors season 1 breakout Anjelica Vispisiano (who occurs to be Bracco’s cousin), former NHL star Jason Demers, plus Ellyn Marsh (host of the I Suppose Not! podcast) and TikToker Kathy Quadrato.

All have been on their toes, cheering Bracco, 32, and Macli, 30, as the 2 stated their “I dos.” They later partied with the pair, eating on scrumptious Italian meals and dancing the night time away at their reception.

“I’ll by no means recover from this sense!” Bracco tells PEOPLE. “It’s cliché to say however the No. 1 factor that was most essential to us once we have been planning this marriage ceremony was ensuring that everybody may actually really feel the love we now have for them, as a result of we see our family and friends as an extension of us and we needed them to know the way grateful we’re for them. And there was a lot love and electrical power in that room, it was past my wildest goals.”

The couple, who obtained engaged in Might 2023 after practically three years relationship, have been wearing coordinating customized black tuxedos by GRAY for the event.

Bracco wore a double-breasted, cropped blazer whereas Macli went for a extra conventional tuxedo jacket minimize. Each paired the fits with white-button-downs and black bow-ties.

Their seems to be did not come collectively instantly. “We had a tough time determining what to put on,” Bracco admits, noting that the 2 searched “for months” earlier than stumbling on designer Brandon Grey’s namesake model. “Instantly after seeing his work, I knew we needed to work with him on our customized tuxedos.”

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Attendees obtained to first see Bracco and Macli’s suits on the afternoon waterfront ceremony as they adopted each other down the aisle with their mother and father on both facet of them and an acoustic cowl of Tina Turner’s “Merely the Finest” by Brooklyn Duo taking part in within the background.

They stored their marriage ceremony events small, however all seemed elegant, with the matrons of honor sporting robes by Birdy Gray and their dads and brothers (all groomsmen) in garb from The Black Tux.

After some sentimental speeches, Bracco and Malci exchanged rings. The traditional gold bands (by Gerald Peters) have been further sentimental as they included customized engravings on the within of two little doves, the couple’s nickname for each other.

Vows, which the 2 wrote, have been stored non-public however the couple’s officiant — Debbi Epstein, Bracco’s finest buddy from highschool — led them via some conventional ones earlier than the 2 shared their first kiss as husbands.

Company then made their option to an almost two-hour cocktail occasion, the place they listened to requirements sung by American Idol‘s Charlie Romo and dined on practically each sort of delicacies conceivable among the many many carving stations (like freshly-grilled burgers and fries, sushi, antipasto, pizza and NY-style pastrami and corned beef sandwiches served with cream soda or root beers, ‘natch).

The meals did not cease after the cocktail hour. As soon as within the reception corridor, attendees have been served a full plated dinner — beginning with a sorbet course and adopted by a pasta course (mushroom risotto, pasta with purple sauce, and cheese raviolis in a béchamel). A number of choices got for primary, resembling an eggplant parmigiana, chateaubriand with purple wine and mushroom bordelaise, hen valdostano stuffed with prosciutto and mozzarella, baked Alaskan salmon served in a white wine and caper sauce or broiled jumbo shrimp scampi with garlic butter sauce.

As if that weren’t sufficient, there was then dessert. First, a sampling plate with chocolate-covered strawberries, purple velvet cake, a cannoli and extra. Then, a slice of the couple’s marriage ceremony cake by Vincenzo Salvatore (which in true Italian style, was rainbow cookie-flavored).

Oh, after which a made-to-order crepe station, and a soft-serve ice cream machine.

“That was one of many primary issues that drew us to the Marina Del Rey: the meals!” Bracco tells PEOPLE. “There’s nothing worse than going to a marriage with unhealthy meals. Right here, every little thing we tasted was simply perfection.”

There was one other factor that made Marina Del Rey particular. The venue is the place Macli’s mother and father, brother and cousins all obtained married.

“There’s lots of household historical past right here. Joey is from the Bronx however he lives with me in Staten Island, the place I am from, so we determined to have the marriage right here. Moreover, once we have been trying to find our venue, nothing else even got here near evaluating to the Marina Del Rey for a large number of causes! They deal with you want household,” Bracco says, including a “shoutout to maître d’ Joe Savino!”

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The venue’s primary ballroom was adorned to the nines, with linens by Reverie Social, signage by Minted and florals by boutique studio Flora and Dean. Every floral show was extra lovely than the final, beginning with towering preparations filled with white dendrobium orchids, peach roses, and numerous greens and wildflowers that framed the top desk.

Some tables mimicked the peak of the top desk design, with preparations atop massive golden platforms. Others tailored smaller variations of that design, inserting the bouquets beside busts, outsized candelabras and cascading bundles of grapes.

A 3rd tablescape embraced the meals parts, with scatterings of greens like eggplant, artichokes, cherry tomatoes and garlic amongst potted crops of basil, mint, parsley, lettuce and extra. A fourth was designed round a wide range of candles, with bottles combined in that included hand-written recipes from Bracco and Macli’s households for visitor to take house and share.

There have been no less than two extra setups as properly, one round what appeared to be a bundle of olive tree branches coming kind a big crystal vase.

“This was removed from a cookie-cutter marriage ceremony,” says Bracco. “We undoubtedly embraced our New York Italian roots with the decor and vibe. It’s been a imaginative and prescient of mine for the reason that starting to include meals within the decor. Fortunately, Sal from Flora + Dean was on board to assume outdoors the field; he took our imaginative and prescient and ran with it!”

Digital content material creators So Bridal Social made certain to seize each element of the occasion, whereas Gabriella Marisola, of The Marriage ceremony Connection, helped plan the night and ensured that every little thing went off and not using a hitch.

A part of “every little thing” included shocking Bracco and Macli with a efficiency by Victoria, Bracco’s finest buddy. She enlisted the assistance of most of the Broadway expertise within the room for her quantity, which resulted in a rousing standing ovation from onlookers.

Earlier within the night, Bracco and Macli had their first dance to “Be Extra” by Stephen Sanchez. They then danced with every of their mothers, earlier than Bracco and his dad Phil did a choreographed dance to “Nice Balls of Hearth” by Jerry Lee Lewis.

Phil made one of many many speeches all through the night, too. Others have been made by Vispisiano, Bracco’s mother, Donna, Macli’s brother, Nick, and his sister-in-law, Jess.

Exterior the reception corridor, visitors may “convey the drama” by filming in a actuality TV confessional sales space for the grooms. The construction — constructed by VLT Stylish, who additionally designed a seating chart and picture wall — had outsized “T” and “J” lettering floated in entrance of a backdrop made from rows of tomato cans.

By night’s finish, the newlyweds had become matching Sergio Tacchini tan tracksuits — as a result of, as Bracco places it, “Nothing says ‘I am an Italian New Yorker’ like a Sergio Tacchini tracksuit.”

On their manner out, the group picked up their favors: containers of heart-shaped Barilla pasta, wrapped alongside a monogrammed wood spoon.

And earlier than leaping of their vehicles and heading house, there was yet one more factor to eat: made-to-order private pizzas from native eatery Pugsley Pizza.

Now that the marriage is finished, Bracco and Macli have one other huge venture on the best way; renovating their future house in Staten Island (the place Bracco proposed).

“Someplace alongside the road of planning this marriage ceremony, I spotted it is so much like mounting a Broadway present. Besides you’re doing each job: you’re doing the sound, the costumes, the casting, choosing the theatre and also you’re starring within the present!” Bracco shares. “I had a blast directing this masterpiece, so trying ahead to tackling the renovation subsequent.”

That will sound disturbing to some, however Bracco has a secret weapon in Macli.

“What I really like most about Joey is the steadiness he brings into my life,” the performer says of his beau who works as a monetary analyst. “I’m wild, chaotic and inventive, whereas he’s extra calm and centered. The 2 of us praise one another completely.”

Bracco provides, “He is merely one of the best.”