Nick Bawden and wife Alexis Elizabeth at their wedding in Woodside, California on July 7.Photo:Codi Baer Photography
Codi Baer Photography
Football star Nick Bawden is married!
The running back for the New York Jets, 27, and his girlfriend, Alexis Elizabeth, exchanged vows during an intimate ceremony at the Thomas Fogerty Winery in Woodside, California earlier this month.
“It was an absolute dream come true,” the couple tells PEOPLE of the affair. “The food was incredible, [our] wedding planner killed it, and everyone danced their faces off. It was the best wedding [we’ve] ever been to.”
Nick Bawden and wife Alexis Elizabeth at their wedding in Woodside, California on July 7.Codi Baer Photography
For her part, Elizabeth says she loves Bawden’s sense of drive. “He competes with the top 1% of athletes in the world and still blows them all out of the water with his determination and dedication,” she says.
A week after the event, the new bride shared several snaps of the ceremony on Instagram. “And let me tell you I got that ring,” she joked. In another post, she also added that she was changing her social media handle now that she was married.
“RIP thecaliforniagirll, hello Mrs. Bawden,” she wrote.
Thomas Fogerty Winery in Woodside, California.Codi Baer Photography
The couple then recited special handwritten vows, saying that many of the wedding party shed tears “with how beautiful it was.”
Bride Alexis Elizabeth and her wedding in Woodside, California on July 7.Codi Baer Photography
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The three-day affair, which initially kicked off with a taco party, culminated with a planned double honeymoon with fellow Jets teammate Alijah Vera-Tucker and his wife Jesse, to either Turks and Caicos or Bora Bora.
“It was a great big party with all our closest friends,” they said of the magical weekend. “We wanted it to be a movie. And it was.”
source: people.com
