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Tobey Maguire at the Altar Again

Jennifer Meyer says her ex-husband, Tobey Maguire, officiated her wedding to Geoffrey Ogunlesi, calling the arrangement “a little unconventional, but so perfectly us.”

By Elena Vella 2 min read AI-written

Speaking to Vogue, Meyer described the Oct. 10 ceremony in Hawaii in notably serene terms. “I genuinely felt like I was floating on cloud nine,” she said. “I had zero jitters, just pure happiness.” She said having “our three children and our parents walk down the aisle” made the wedding even more special, and singled out Maguire’s role as officiant as part of what made the day feel distinctly theirs.

The ceremony took place at the Four Seasons Resort Lanai, according to Page Six, which also reported that Meyer and Maguire’s daughter Ruby, 19, and son Otis, 17, attended, along with Meyer’s infant daughter with Ogunlesi. Page Six said photos from the wedding showed guests including Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vittoria Ceretti, Courteney Cox and Kate Hudson.

The celebrity sheen is obvious enough. What gives the detail its charge is that Meyer did not present Maguire’s role as a stunt, or a symbol, or a bit of post-divorce theater polished for public consumption. She described it with the plain confidence of someone talking about an arrangement that made emotional sense inside her family, whether or not it fits anyone else’s script.

That matters because ex-spouses in public life are usually expected to occupy one of a few tidy categories: bitter, distant, politely cooperative, maybe exceptionally enlightened. An ex-husband officiating a wedding resists that sorting. It sounds at first like the kind of thing people will treat as either impossibly evolved or quietly chaotic. Meyer’s own phrasing pushes against both readings. “So perfectly us” is less a manifesto than a refusal to explain beyond the people involved.

There is also something bracing in how little she dramatized it. She spoke about happiness, about children and parents in the aisle, about a family configuration that apparently did not need to be disguised to look more conventional than it was. That does not turn the wedding into a lesson about how modern families should behave. It just fixes the event in clearer terms: a new marriage, with an old relationship still close enough to stand at the center of it and speak the words.

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Elena Vella Love, Life & Relationships Editor

Elena Vella is a licensed relationship and family therapist with a private clinic in Malta, a court-appointed mediator, and the most honest writer about love you will find in any language. She has been married three times. She has learned something different from each. She does not go to Dingli. Elena is interested in the sentence people almost say: the one that would change a marriage, an argument or an entire life if someone found the courage to finish it. She writes with tenderness, never with the expectation that tenderness alone will save anyone.

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