[Safiya] Hello, friends And welcome to our wedding video. That's right, we are no longer engaged! betrothed or affianced! [Tyler] Despite how many times you've said that, [Safiya] We are married, Wedded, matrimonied! [Tyler] Yes we are! [Safiya] So back in November, we got married, which we may have spoiled in this Instagram post where Tyler is wearing his wedding ring [Tyler] Yeah, I think some of you guys might have figured it out. [Safiya] And we had so much fun at our wedding It was such an incredible night, [Tyler] that we really wanted to share it with you guys. -[Safiya] Hence the wedding video, hence.
- [Tyler] Hence [Safiya] Now we've edited this video to be a little different than like a traditional wedding highlight video, mostly because we wanted to show you guys the day from our perspective, but also to provide some of our thought process that went into the planning and like the design decisions and stuff, because we had a really great time putting it all together and choosing all the things. [Tyler] Now before we jump in we wanted to say a huge thank you to our cinematographers, Amari productions, who did an amazing job filming, [Safiya] and also helping make sure that I didn't pick up a camera all day, because I was really nervous. I was just gonna like grab one and start filming b-roll of the venue. [Tyler] Me too [Safiya] Yeah [Tyler] We also want to say thank you to our wedding planner Marnie at So Smitten Special Events, who's been unbelievably helpful the last couple of months. [Safiya] There's not a ton of footage of Marnie because she was zipping around doing stuff all night - But you'll see her here and there.
- [Tyler] Here and there. Also, thank you to all of our other vendors as well, for helping make our big day so special. [Tyler] So with that, here's what happened on our wedding day. [Safiya] And I guess the best place to start is with us getting ready in the morning I stayed at like a hotel the night before, [Tyler] I was with Crusty... at home [Safiya] So that way the morning of, all of the ladies like involved in the wedding could get their hair and makeup done in my room. It was kind of poppin'. I had a face mask on for most of it And then around 10 a.m. Dave and the Amari Productions crew stopped by to start filming. All right. Hello. We're getting ready. We're getting ready. We've been getting ready for a few hours actually There's been a lot of people in and out you guys are here now other people were here earlier [Tyler] You had like a caravan of relatives, I just had the cat. [Safiya] But we had my mom got her makeup done. We had Tyler's mom get her makeup done We had Tyler sister get her makeup done cuz she's the officiant but also because she's Tyler sister and then we also got my bridesmaids get their makeup and hair done. Are my bridesmaids here?
-Yeah. Yeah Some of them we're at Target a second ago. So I was just checking in but we have the bridesmaids in the house. We have Kaitlyn somewhere. "Woo" from the distance. [Laughs] A distant woo was heard. Oh also, um, this is my wonderful glam team. I should have started with that. It's okay. This is Kaylee Melissa doing my hair - [Kaylee Melissa] Hi
- [Safiya] of decade video fame [Laughs] And this is Yuki who's doing my makeup. [Yuki] Hi! and I would say in general we're going for kind of like a um, [Ringing] and then [Ringing] - [Tyler] Who was calling you?
- [Safiya] No one ever told me. It's just a mystery. For the hair, we wanted to go for kind of like There is a lot going on. There's a lot of hair. I think my general hair and makeup goal was just to have something that would match the fantastical meets medieval vibes of my dress and my dad did tell me that I ended up looking like Aragorn's girlfriend So I think we succeeded. We're almost done with my makeup I think except for the finishing touch the lips where I shall be wearing one of our ColourPop Franken-Lipsticks [evil laughter] - Shameless plug it's happening. It's my wedding day. It's fine. No one can tell me no. [Laugh]
- [Tyler] That was, uh, really smooth [Tyler] That was, uh, really smooth. [Safiya] I stand by. It my nails also got done not today, but Christine did them yesterday So it's simplynailogical. There's actually no good b-roll of my simply nails here But there is a shot of me picking Tyler's nose later. So keep an eye out for that. [Tyler] That did happen. So with my hair and makeup done, it was time to do like a looking into the mirror for the first time reveal Which I did not anticipate being so emotional because I, I pretty much immediately started crying There is a lot of my crying face in this video, so just know that [Tyler] Don't worry about it. I cry a lot in this video. [Safiya] Okay. All right. That's not what I expected to do Ok I'm fine! So after my sob sesh We stuffed me into an uber and headed over to our venue the Carondelet House. [Tyler] Where I had been basically all day Okay, so we are here at the Carondelet house, which is our venue This is like our dude lounge for me and my groomsmen I was supposed to do our first check-in like this at my house and then I got like kind of uh lost in the fray So I had mistakenly go into the Carondelet house first and the cinematographers had correctly go into our house first So when they got to our house, they thought that I had bailed. [Safiya] Runaway groom! [Tyler] I was just overeager! But I, I feel like this is fine for us to do a check-in here. My house is really dirty. Crusty my cat, if you don't know him, has been just dragging litter everywhere So it's better than we're here.
The other dynamic of my morning was that we forgot to give me wedding shoes outright So I'm gonna trade shoes with my dad For the ceremony and I had to stuff them with toilet paper just to get them to fit. Hey, you know what? That's that is gonna help pretty snug now So yeah shoes didn't think about that, but wait back up after those two mini fire drills. My groomsmen started showing up This one is Sean and besides Sean, we also had Ben, Block, my brother-in-law James, and my dad who was actually my best man Dad: dun-dun-daa *shoo* [Tyler] And once everyone was there, it was time for me to get dressed. And I wore a black velvet tuxedo jacket. [Dad] Looks great! I'm gonna be sweating either way I think just cuz you know the vows and all that stuff. There's a lot of lights out there and then as a finishing touch We have a rare Marnie sighting here. [Safiya] The Marnicle! [Tyler] as I got boutonniered-up. So that was my wedding look. [Safiya] Looking fly [Tyler] Thank you. Is this "ready to get married"? Now while Tyler was downstairs getting dressed I was upstairs Hangin with my gang in the bridal suite and I think I'm about to get dressed. I think that's what's on the schedule So let's do it. Now. I actually needed some assistance to get into my gown because besides being pretty awesome [Tyler] It's so cool [Safiya] It also ended up being kind of fragile that too and of course classic me as soon as I got into it [Tyler] That too. [Safiya] And, of course, classic me, as soon as I got into it I started getting teary eyed. I was just blubbering all day. I feel like actually a fair amount of the audience has seen this dress in muslin form We ended up choosing this beaded scalloped patterned fabric which has kind of like an Art Deco/mermaid feel to it Also, I didn't realize this would happen when I chose the fabric, but the dress is 30 pounds I can't tell that it's 30 pounds of just, like, bead basically just beads and though our fabric was heavy and kind of had a mind of its own, I don't regret our choice at all because I really loved how it ended up looking Like it's inevitable, but I'm gonna try and not crunch while I walk down the aisle So after that, we added my finishing touches, like my jewelry. I'm just like where's my ear? Literally where? As well as a gold celestial headpiece. As well as a gold celestial headpiece. Now Kaylee and I had a really hard time finding" the right one" like we were looking for months So she actually ended up making this one herself and it turned out so perfect like she just totally nailed it. She did [Tyler] She did. [Safiya] All right, so I think I am generally styled downstairs and see Tyler so we decided to do this thing called a first-look which is basically like a moment before the ceremony So we decided to do this thing called a "first-look" which is basically like a moment before the ceremony where the bride and the groom reveal themselves to each other. [Tyler] That sounds wrong. [Safiya] Mostly to get rid of some nerves but also so you can like start hanging out together and also take some pictures before the ceremony and also take some pictures before the ceremony I'm ready. Oh my god - [Safiya] We are a couple of sad sacks.
- [Tyler] We're not good at this. [Safiya] Ready? Whoa [Tyler] Oh wow [Safiya] We did eventually pull it together. [Tyler] We de-blubbered. [Safiya] It's kind of crazy to me that we remembered so many little things but we forgot your shoes. [Tyler] To be fair, they're supposed to be on my feet and I didn't even think of them [Safiya] So after checking each other out, The general consensus was that up next, it was photo time. [[SIMPLYNAILOGICAL NAILS SPOT]] So we took a bunch of photos both inside the little atrium area where we had the first look and also outside the front of the Carondelet house, both with each other and with our bridal party [Tyler] We had a hard time being serious for these ones Cheers. Hey, hey Cheers. Heyheyhey [Safiya] It's like uh, bey-beyblades?? [Tyler] Beyblades?? with that that one came out. It's an analogy for marriage. Our photographer. Alex was very patient with us. Yeah [Safiya] Was that what I'm talking about? [Tyler] It's an analogy for marriage. [Safiya] Our photographer, Alex was very patient with us. [Tyler] Yeah he's a cool guy. [Safiya] Its like the tops that fight each other. I think its beyblades! [Tyler] Yeah, ok. [Safiya] We'll look it up. So we filmed this next portion of the video as like the last thing we did before the guests started arriving mostly to quell my own nerves because I really wanted to get footage of everything and I was irrationally nervous that we wouldn't. So we did like a tour for you guys of the whole venue But just a heads-up, it wasn't 100% set up yet. Now our general wedding theme was "A starry night." So we had a lot of stars and moons and twinkle lights going on However, because of the rooms near the entrance of the Carondelet house are already pretty decorated in like a vintage manner style, we reserved most of the celestial trimmings for the back of the house and left this stuff up here kind of as it was And we were kind of thinking of it almost like a Narnia situation where these front rooms were like the professor's house, and then as you venture deeper into the building, there was more magic afoot. We choose an espresso martini because it's brown like Crusty, and also because it's very caffeinated. [Tyler] Kind of like a classy Four Loko. [Safiya] Moving on from the front foyers, there was this little hallway in between the front of the house and the back of the house So we decided to deck it out and make it like the entrance to Narnia And these hanging stars were actually our escort cards. So people could figure out where they were sitting for dinner after that There was the First Look atrium, Tyler's little lounge situation, and then we had our main ceremony space, which I would say is the room we tried to deck-out the most. The other reason I wanted to have this cloudy sky backdrop, was that in this main room, they actually have like a big non-removable mirror in the back, which I just wasn't sure we wanted as like such a strong focal point of the ceremony. And then finally, we had this back atrium where our photo booth was gonna go. Which had like this cool, old-timey moon as the centerpiece. And with our photo booth area visited, that concluded our tour. After that, it was time for all of us to go hide upstairs in the bridal suite, because our guests were starting to arrive. [Tyler] All right so, [Tyler] No, this is not a bit. - [Both] Kaylee has super glue!
- [Tyler] There you go. Jinx, but uh, yeah. No, let's do that [Safiya] There was just so much going on with Tyler's shoes. I think maybe that was like our Charlotte and Harry moment, like from Sex in the City. Like little things have to go wrong at your wedding. [Tyler] But after gluing my soles together and a few final to-do's, [Safiya] It was pretty much time to make it official-- like official-official. [Tyler] All right. They were just about to walk in I'm walking down with my niece and my mom so we'll see how it goes. I'm definitely feeling some butterflies, but we got this. [Safiya] Now, as we mentioned earlier, Tyler's sister was our officiant, so she was our first person down the aisle. Then we had Tyler, Tyler's mom, and baby Ellie. Then we had the whole bridal party [Tyler] looking spiffy [Safiya] And then it was finally my turn to walk down the aisle. [Officiant] Welcome everyone. Please have a seat. I know everyone is as excited as I am to be gathered here in LA to celebrate the marriage of Safiya and Tyler. [Safiya] Now we're actually gonna keep a lot of the ceremony and like most of our vows off of the internet. We wrote them ourselves They're kind of mushy. We cried, we laughed, Tyler called himself a dingus. [Tyler] "So if you really want to marry this dingus, let's do it." [Tyler] It's what I wanted to say originally when I proposed, so I had to work it in. [Safiya] My vows were kind of all over the place, I talked about zombies for a while-- [Tyler] that was actually pretty relevant to our early relationship-- [Safiya] I exposed some of our intimate secrets-- [Tyler] Yeah, you did-- [Safiya] "And I will pop your pimples even when they are in unspeakable crevices [Tyler] "Aw!" [Safiya] But they were good, I think! [Tyler] I loved them. [Safiya] Besides all of that, we did actually want to show you guys this one thing that we brought to the ceremony [Officiant] "Safiya and Tyler have chosen to affirm their love by the lighting of a unity candle this candle is actually made by Safiya and Tyler last year while filming a video for their YouTube channel, and is called their Franken-candle." [Safiya] Now when our wedding planner asked us if we wanted to do a unity candle, we knew that we had the perfect candle for the job, so we had to do it. [Safiya] "Also I'm sorry guys if it smells like blueberry pancakes in here. - It's the candle, not me "
- [Tyler] "It's a dominant scent."
- [Safiya] "Yeah, it's a dominant scent." So after that We cried a little more We did the whole ring thing, - [Tyler] And you know, the actual marriage part--
- [Safiya] And then, [Officiant] "By the power vested in me, I pronounce you as a newly married couple! You may kiss each other." [Safiya] And that was our ceremony [Safiya] We were married. [Tyler] We're still married. [Safiya] We're married! [Tyler] There you go. Alright so, How was that? Did I cry too much, you think? [Safiya] No I don't think you cried too much. - [Tyler] No?
- [Safiya] No. I thought we got through our vows pretty well pretty well. I do. [Tyler] Pretty well! We had a nice guest appearance by Ellie here and there [Safiya] "Well-timed! Well-timed!" [Tyler] But I overall I thought I thought it went great. [Safiya] It's probably stinking up the place right now. [Tyler] It's probably going to turn everyone's appetite off. Are you ok? A lil still emotional? Ok. Ok! Let's go take some pictures! Newly married couple. - [Safiya] Oh, mine's like totally off center.
- [Tyler] Yeah.
- [Safiya] We'll figure it out.
- [Tyler] We'll figure it out. [Safiya] So after that, we had to take some family pics before the sun set [Tyler] and then we went into cocktail hour. [Safiya] Now while everyone was in the front foyers for Crustinis and appetizers, The ceremony space in the back was actually getting flipped into our dinner space, [Tyler] Oooooooh yeeaah. [Tyler] looks pretty incredible. Wow! [Safiya] which we got to get a little peek of. For our dinner tables, we have like gray velvet tablecloths with black and gold flatware and plates and also little like personalized moons to designate where everyone was sitting. And for our centerpieces, we had a variety of antiquey vampy library paraphernalia. Like Beauty and the Beast style terrariums, vintage looking books, and mossy florals. Yes And then we had our sweetheart table at the front of the room Which had more of those mossy flowers as well as a lot of black candles. But dinner time was quickly approaching. [Tyler] So after everyone took their seats, we and our bridal party did like our grand entrance thing. [DJ] Please help me with a huge round of applause as we welcome in our newly married couple! Give it up for Safiya and Tyler! [Safiya] I think sometimes people plan stuff for their entrances, but we kind of forgot so everyone just did their own thing - [Safiya] I think they might have spilled like directly onto simplybenlogical's head.
- [Tyler] Sorry about that Ben. [Safiya] But anyway after a little dinner and doing the rounds saying hi to everyone, we were onto the toast portion of the evening Starting with Tyler's dad. [Tyler's Dad] Now I am extremely honored to have had Tyler asked me to be the best man so I could give a toast but interestingly enough, this is not the first time I've given a toast at a wedding of Tyler and Safiya. Now as we all know because we are all loyal subscribers and we all "shamash" the like button and we "shamash" the subscribe button, [Safiya] I don't know why everyone's laughing. I mean, I hope they're all subscribed [Tyler's Dad] They had a wedding in Hong Kong this summer and at that wedding, I gave a very impromptu toast which was not very good. Safiya was very kind and she said and I quote." Well, that wasn't half bad." No, it was all bad trust me it was really bad, in fact it wasn't even close to the best toast That was given that day The best toast was from our Hong Kong hosts Thomas and Winkle and it was "Apple. Apple, May your hearts be joined as an apple." So, I'm extremely happy to have a chance to take a mulligan and redo and see if I can at least get to the level of Thomas and Winkle. [Tyler] Now, we're not gonna put his whole speech here But I do think he did a great job with his toast definitely got some of the emotional stuff in there. [Safiya] But I think he was also able to like bring a lot of different things into the mix like our MacDonald's wedding, promoting our channel, Shakespeare. [Tyler's Dad] Because as we all know, loyal subscribers and viewers, Safiya is a big fan of Shakespeare. [Safiya] We got some Henry V, a little Tempest. [Tyler] And he really got the crowd going. [Safiya] Now my dad gave the second toast and as you can probably tell by his guitar he also played a song [Safiya's Dad] Let me just say a few words about Safiya and Tyler. Of course, I have two really wonderful children. And now I have Tyler as one more guy so we're very happy about that. He's not really much of a speech guy [Safiya] He's not really much of a speech guy. I would say, but I think he did a great job [Tyler] Yeah, I loved it! [Safiya] And after that he and my brother played a little cover of Yesterday by the Beatles, but with altered lyrics. [Safiya's Dad] I'll start by making an apology to Sir Paul McCartney because we could gonna mess up one of his beautiful songs, but We'll do what we can. [Safiya] my dad actually used to be in a Beatles cover band in the 60s in Denmark And I think it's been a little while since he's picked up a guitar But recently he and my brother have been like jamming. Unfortunately, we can't actually play their song for you guys because it would get copyright claimed but it was really sweet and I completely lost it. Basically. [DJ] Yes, one more round of applause! For the father and brother of the bride [Safiya] Now before we could really let loose, as some of you may know, we did have this whole change into a black wedding dress choreographed first dance thing on the docket. So after the toasts we had to run upstairs because I had to get changed in like five minutes [Safiya] Yes we are in the middle of a costume change The MVP right now. cuz Yuki's touching me up. [Safiya] I really was a mess. And besides Yuki trying to salvage my face and a little bit of a lipstick change, Hayley was also pulling my hair back for partying purposes. [Tyler] More aerodynamic. [Safiya] And she replaced my crown with some cosmic pins on the back of my head for like a Milky Way but made of hair look. And once we had at that in order, and once I was fully spruced we headed down to the dance floor because it was time to tango. So our first dance was actually a recreation of the tango scene from The Addams Family Values. Now, unfortunately, that music is also copyrighted so we can't actually play it for you, but we did spend a few months learning this routine neither of us are dancers Neither of us are dancers, so please be gentle with us but we thought it would be fun to do like a performance situation and in addition to the choreo if there were some props some audience participation Some toreador-ing and some sleight of hand I think I pulled that off as well as this whole move where Tyler like spins me around on my butt Which may or may not be called the buns are rolling. None of our guests really knew exactly what we were going to do So I was pretty pleased that we were able to surprise them with this After that in quick succession we cut our cake which was sadly not the Franken cake, but was this beautiful All-black cake that may or may not stain your mouth. We did like the father-daughter mother-son dances, and also like a giant group photo And then we checked in one final time, all right, so we just did our first dance and our cake-cutting Yes, a lot of things just happen. We're both kind of sweaty Tyler's teeth are a little bit black are my lips also red everything everything, but it's like purple I was super super nervous for the dance. Yes. I think that all things considered we did a pretty good job Yes I think there were like a couple hiccups here and there I went for the second but to roll in spin on the ground We'll have to film a dance practice video. So people can see the full buns are rolling. I think what we recovered Yes, I got angry Yeah an entire look dragged me up but it worked and we're going to do it and we got the kiss and I think I got the knife in my mouth at The right time that was fun. I thought I also have never done it with the lighter and Good thing that didn't happen. I think it's time for us to party and have fun Let's do it. After that. The rest of the night was mostly just partying. We hit up that sick Good night moon photobooth Even though Tyler's mouth was still a little purple and then we just like broke it down on the dance floor Would you say we tore it up? Yes There was just like an endless stream of go to wedding songs a little shout a little journey a little Britney and then we finished Off the night with some dancing queen Which is always a solid choice and we were just really happy that everyone was there and we just had a really good time. So That was our wedding Oh also one last thing when I threw the bouquet I accidentally hit one of our editors Claire in the face But she has assured us that she still had fun. So we're all good on that front a huge. Thank you to everyone Who came to our wedding as well as everyone who was involved. I've put everyone's links in the description below So make sure to check them out. And yeah, that's the gist of it TL DW were married We're married pound it. Hell. Yeah. Oh, you hear the rings little click? There was a little click. Yeah Thank you guys so much for watching if you like that video make sure to smash that like button and if you want to see more videos like this sort of like This not really like this. Make sure to smash that subscribe button a beach out to Jade for watching Thanks for watching Jade and we will see you guys A-next time
Watched the videos for her dresses, and I just love the fabrics she got for them both. She looked really good too. Good makeup and hair.
That was a nice ceremony that really captured their style. I liked how she used her Colourpop collaboration and even used the frakencandle!
There were a number of youtubers I spotted: Cristine & Ben, Jenna & Julien, MatPat & Stephanie from Game Theory, Rosanna and I think I saw RinRin as well!
I loooove the gothic celestial vibe they went for. If I could copy/paste that style into my house and everyday life I'd be good for life.
Flipping the ceremony room into the dinner room is so cool! I bet that was hard work for the wedding team :0
This video blew up in views. I saw it almost hit the 500k mark in 30 minutes. The first 10 minutes had nearly 250k views.
However, this was such a lovely video and they did an excellent job. I love how Safiya and Tyler narrated their video, and it was a nice touch. I am glad they kept certain parts more intimate, and off the Internet. A wedding is so personal, and I wish them the best. :)
Why am I crying? Also, those hair pins for the black dress are to die for.
I didn't expect too, but I cried when they did. They're so lovely together and I'm so happy for them
So happy for them! I cried when Safiya's dad sang his song 😭
SimplyNailoigical has also posted a S+T wedding vlog on her side channel (SimplyNotLogical) if anyone wants more wedding content.