Vanessa Hudgens describes marriage to Cole Tucker as ‘magical’

Vanessa Hudgens I wasn’t sure if she and her husband were together Cole Tucker would be able to work out the logistics of getting married in the middle of the Mayan jungle.

“A lot of it was on an unpaved dirt road, and I then thought, ‘There’s no way we can have our wedding here – how are we going to get our whole party up here over this bumpy dirt?’ away?’” Hudgens, 34, recalled thinking about the exotic location in an interview with Fashion published on Wednesday, December 6.

Fortunately, the couple overcame the obstacles, leading to what Hudgens described as “truly the most magical weekend of my life.”

The High school musical star and the professional baseball player, 27, walked down the aisle in Tulum, Mexico in front of 100 guests on December 2, almost ten months after getting engaged in February.

“Finding a location was the hardest part,” Hudgens said. “I knew I didn’t want to do it on the beach, in a ballroom or in a barn; These were all things I didn’t want. Instead, I wanted to be surrounded by nature, greenery and foliage.”

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She discovered the Azulik Hotel in Tulum while scrolling through Instagram and told Tucker, “Maybe we could go here on our honeymoon and we’d get great photos like that.” Wait, maybe we can get married here?!’”

Once she arrived for a tour, she was told the ceremony would take place at the Azulik City of Arts museum, a 45-minute drive into the jungle.

Hudgens was sure it would be impossible to transport the wedding party and guests to the museum, but once she saw the location, she knew it was the place. “I felt like I was transported to some kind of utopia, unlike anything I had ever been before. It was whimsical and magical, and I just fell in love,” she said.

For her wedding dress – a light ivory chartreuse slip dress with a draped neckline and deep cut back – she turned to her friend Vera Wang. Hudgens ended up wearing the first dress she tried on at Wang’s studio in New York City.

“Vera has been a great friend and supporter of mine,” the former Disney star explained Fashion. “I have always felt so confident, sexy and feminine when I wore her clothes. And so I thought, ‘You know, that’s the vibe… that’s how I want to feel on my wedding day. She also has such an amazing resume of women getting dressed for the most important day of their lives, and I thought, “Who better to do that than a friend?”

After the ceremony, where the bride and groom read their own vows, it was time to party, with a live band performing at the reception.

“One of my really good friends wrote a song for us called ‘Cole and V.’ And of course, me and my husband, being the music-obsessed people that we are, we really had to jump in and participate,” Hudgens recalled. “Cole played drums and I sang. I couldn’t even tell you what we did. I only knew the chorus of the song, we were just riffing and playing and having fun. It was a safe place with all the people who love us, so you couldn’t do anything wrong.”

Hudgens and Tucker first started dating in 2020 after meeting virtually.

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“It’s literally the ultimate modern love story,” Hudgens continued The view in April 2021. “We met over Zoom – through a Zoom meditation group.”

The couple quietly deepened their bond for over a year until they made it Instagram official in February 2021.

‘It’s you, it’s me, it’s us. @cotuck,” she captioned the photo of herself kissing the former Pittsburgh Pirates player on Valentine’s Day. She added a series of sweet emojis, including a red heart, lips and the hand sign for “I love you.”

Now almost three years later, when Hudgens looks back on her wedding, she says Fashion, “I knew it was going to be magical, but it exceeded my expectations.”