Will Reeve Kept Late Parents Christopher & Dana Reeve Top of Mind During Wedding to Amanda Dubin With Heartwarming Details

On the biggest day of his life, Will Reeve made sure to honor his parents, the late Christopher and Dana Reeve. The ABC News correspondent revealed the intimate details he included in his wedding to Amanda Dubin to ensure his parents were with him as he walked down the aisle, and it’ll make you emotional!

Reeve, who married Dubin on Jan. 17, shared all of the little ways he made sure to keep his parents top of mind on his wedding, two decades after he lost them. The Superman star, who became paralyzed from the neck down after a horseback riding accident in 1995, died from cardiac arrest resulting from sepsis in 2004. Dana died two years later from lung cancer.

For the wedding, the event planner bride wore a dress by Victoria Beckham and Reeve wore a custom-made black tuxedo by Michael Andrews. Although it’s tradition for the bride to have meaningful accessories (something borrowed, something blue), this time, Reeve wore special items as well. “My accessories for my wedding night were particularly meaningful: I wore gold cufflinks that belonged to my late father, inscribed with his initials, ‘CR,’ a brooch that was my late mother’s, and an IWC Portugieser Chronograph watch that Amanda gave to me as a wedding gift to kick off the weekend,” he told Vogue.  

Dubin even surprised him with a special gift before the wedding. “Perhaps most special of all was the Todd Snyder pocket square that Amanda had embroidered with my mom’s handwriting,” Reeve explained. “Amanda found a letter my mom had written years ago, highlighted the words ‘I love you,’ and had that sewn into the fabric and gave it to me as a gift before the wedding.” Aww! That sounds so touching, we are emotional just imagining it!

And one more cool tribute: “We are also particularly honored to be wearing my parents’ wedding bands that my family had kept safe for decades for such an occasion,” Reeve continued.

During the actual ceremony, Reeve walked down the aisle to “Sunrise” from Norah Jones, which was one of his mom’s favorite songs. “In fact, Norah herself performed ‘Sunrise’ at my mom’s memorial service in 2006, which is why I chose it for the ceremony,” he told the outlet.

“As I waited at the end of the aisle for our family members to reach me, I spent a lot of the time thinking about everything each of them has done for us to make our lives so full and meaningful,” Reeve continued. “I also spent a deliberate moment staring at the two chairs right in front, each adorned with a flower, left empty to honor my late parents, Christopher and Dana, and thought about all the moments in my life they’d missed out on, but also how present they felt in the room and in the ceremony.”

In a 2024 interview with USA Today, Reeve opened up about the loss of his parents at such a young age. “I was born to a famous dad who was then paralyzed and in a wheelchair, who then died,” he said. “And then my mom, who was a public figure by then, got lung cancer after never having smoked, and then died, all by the time I’m 13. That’s abnormal.”

Still, his parents instilled lifelong lessons in him during his few years with them. “In that short window of time I got with my parents, they raised me in a normal, human, grounded way, which, mostly, gives me a sane approach to everything that life throws at you,” he continued.

Now, he tries to keep their memory alive as much as he can. “Talking about my parents keeps them with me,” Reeve added. “I’m so proud to be their son, to be part of this family. To reintroduce my parents to people who loved them, and to show off my parents to a new generation who might not be familiar with their story. Honestly, it’s just a privilege that we can carry them with us into this future that so needs heroes.”

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