At AEW Beach Break 2021, Kip Sabian and Penelope Ford tied the knot in a tried and true wrestling wedding.
In wrestling wedding tradition, the wedding went array thanks to "The Best Man" Miro, who turned on Sabian during the ceremony. Sabian and Ford are a real life couple who got married off-screen before they tied the knot on screen.
Speaking on Sappenin, Sabian reflected on the wedding ceremony, both on-screen and off.
"We got engaged, and then the idea was pitched to us, ‘Do you guys want to do a wrestling wedding?’ ‘Yeah, sounds great.’ As a wrestler, as soon as you’re presented with TV time, you’re probably going to want to take the TV time. We thought we would have plenty of time to get married, but the timeline of the wrestling wedding got shot up. Don’t know of the reason why, but I guess there were changes in plans for stuff down the line, so they had to move it sooner. I’m pretty sure we had maybe three to four weeks to put together the wrestling wedding. I’m very big on bad luck and omens. I didn’t want to get pretend married before we got really married because, to me, it could be a bad omen for our real marriage. We had to rush to get that done. We didn’t want a big wedding anyway, we wanted to put our money into our house as opposed to our wedding. We did a courthouse wedding, but that was almost canceled. That was two days or the day before we got married before the TV wedding. That was almost canceled because there was a snowstorm. The night before we got married, they called us up and said, ‘hey, we can’t do it, the roads aren’t clear.’ We’re panicking. The next morning, we get a call, ‘If you get here within an hour, we can do it.’ We rushed to get ready, we let our family know, we rushed through the snow to the courthouse to do it. Two days later, we got pretend married and [Penelope] nearly broke her face on the cake because it was so hard," he said.
Sabian and Ford remain happily married on and off television, though an injury took Sabian off TV shortly after the wedding. He returned under a box and a different gimmick.
Sabian is currently aligned with The Butcher & The Blade on AEW TV.
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