Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher weren’t the only lovebirds to tie the knot over the Fourth of July weekend in the US!
‘Uptown Girl’ singer Billy Joel, 66, wed Alexis Roderick, 33, at his estate on Long Island. The ceremony was a happy surprise for the guests, who thought they were attending the couple’s annual July 4th party.
Billy’s daughter Alexa Ray was there to see the couple tie the knot, as was the actor Kevin James and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who presided over the wedding.
While the ceremony may have come as a surprise, Alexa couldn’t have been more thrilled to see Billy and Alexis wed. She took to Instagram earlier today to share a touching poem written in honour the newly married couple.
“After six years of quiet yet unrelenting devotion / A surprise wedding sets their undivided promise in motion / I’ve never seen Pop more besotted yet contented / Nor his Darling, more luminously glowing / And, sufficed to say / On this glimmering gold-coast day / Many a tear on my hopelessly-romantic cheek was flowing…” she wrote, alongside a sweet picture from the couple’s big day.
Billy’s second wife Christie Brinkley also took to Instagram to congratulate the happy couple and her daughter Alexa, who she said had “a wonderful friend in Alexis”.
“Wishing the growing family every happiness!” she wrote.