Wolfgang Van Halen is a married man!
On Sunday, October 15, the son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli married his fiancée Andraia Allsop in their Los Angeles home in front of 90 guests. PEOPLE was the first to learn all the intimate details.
The eight-year-long couple, whose wedding date of October 15 coincided with their first-date anniversary in 2015, tell PEOPLE they were thrilled to host a gathering of their loved ones.
“Our goal was just to get all of our closest friends and loved ones together,” Andraia explains. “The last few years, not just with the world, yet with personal tragedies, weren’t the easiest, but we intended to create this wedding as a celebration not simply for us to get married, yet a celebration for the people we love.”
The couple’s living room served as the venue for the ceremony since it allowed them to “have privacy as well as have our moment together with everyone,” according to Andraia. The event was held outside in the backyard with floral decorations and string lights.
The ceremony was officiated by one of Wolfgang’s nearest family friends, whom the 32-year-old claims he has known for “almost three decades at this point.” “He’s the dad of one of my most beloved men and he’s just a significant guy in our life,” adds Wolfgang.
Beautiful stained-glass windows, the same backdrop Lady Gaga utilized for one of her outcomes, as well as dusty rose and mauve flowers were used to embellish the wedding.
The Mammoth WVH vocalist walked down the aisle with his mother to a song that his father Eddie, who passed away from throat cancer at age 65, penned for him. He was dressed in a special three-piece black suit for the occasion. “My father had composed a song for me, and it’s an instrumental tune called 316. He says, “It’ll be a good way to include my parents.
Observing her son get married, according to Bertinelli, is a wonderful gift. “It brings me such a pleasant feeling of peace knowing Wolfie & Andraia have each other for the remainder of their lives,” she told PEOPLE. “They truly ‘get’ each other. They have extremely similar senses of humor, enjoy similar things, respect each other’s boundaries, and seem to be at ease with one another.
With her father by her side, Andraia made her entrance to Dean Martin’s “Everybody Loves Somebody.” ‘Oh, that’s a beautiful tune,’ I thought as Dean Martin is one of my favorite performers. I need a Dean Martin song,” she declares to PEOPLE on her selection.
Her choice to use her grandmothers as the flower girl was also unusual. “Back in March, my grandfather died away, but at the time he and my grandma got married early 1990s, I was around 3, and so I was their flower girl,” she recalls. “So I thought it would be fitting to have a nice little moment of having my mom’s mom and my dad’s mom be our flower girls.”
Andraia wore an Eva Lendel dress with a V-neck, sheer long sleeves, and lace trim. “My goal was just to be capable of being comfortable during the whole day & the whole night,” she says. “It’s a long dress, not one with a big train, but touches the floor with lace and a little beading detail.”
The pair created their own vows and made sure to pay tribute to any close family members who couldn’t be present on their special day.
“One of the things which I really wanted was a means to bring Wolf’s dad into it,” Andraia explains. “We’ll be having a vacant seat that could have been his at the ceremony.”