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The honeymoon phase isn’t over yet forTy Penningtonand wifeKellee Merrell.
The couple’s original plan had been to wed in Italy, but the then-ongoing travel restrictions due to COVID-19 interrupted that. Instead, they brought a piece of Europe home, eating caviar and drinking champagne on the brick patio alongside their backyard pool.
The restrictions also played a role in how small the gathering was. Most of Merrell’s family, all from Vancouver, Canada, were unable to travel to Georgia for the ceremony, and Pennington said it would be “really horrible” for him to get to celebrate alongside all his friends and family if his wife could not. “It was just more intimate, and I think, to be honest with you,vows are supposed to be intimate,“he told PEOPLE at the time.
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Pennington, who was a lifelong bachelor until meeting Merrell, said in the lead-up to the ceremony that he never really envisioned himself getting married. “I started working onTrading Spacesin 2000, and I really never stopped. When you’re never home for more than seven or 10 days at a time, it’s really hard to stay in any kind of a positive relationship.”
It was Merrell that changed his mind: “I just knew I couldn’t let her go.”
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“I have admired Kellee from afar for years. She’s a beautiful person inside and out,” Pennington told PEOPLE exclusively after the engagement. “Luckily our paths finally crossed at the right time. It’s one of those things where you just feel happy being around a person. I never thought I would get married, but she changed that. Glad I waited for the one.”
source: people.com
