On Wednesday, Flipping 101 star Tarek El Moussa and Selling Sunset star Heather Rae Young revealed they will not be inviting his ex-wife Christina Anstead to their summer 2021 nuptials.
‘No, no exes at the wedding!’ the 39-year-old groom-to-be told ET.
‘Small, less distractions, more intimate, better conversations with the people around us. You know, we just think smaller is better.’
‘No, no exes at the wedding!’ On Wednesday, Flipping 101 star Tarek El Moussa (R) and Selling Sunset star Heather Rae Young (L) revealed they will not be inviting his ex-wife Christina Anstead to their summer 2021 nuptials (pictured September 18)
‘Smaller is better’: But the 39-year-old groom-to-be and his 33-year-old bride-to-be are thrilled to include his two children – daughter Taylor, 10, and son Brayden, 5 – with the 37-year-old interior designer (R, pictured Sunday)
But Tarek and his 33-year-old bride-to-be are thrilled to include his two children – daughter Taylor, 10, and son Brayden, 5 – with the 37-year-old interior designer.
‘The kids were so welcoming. I started putting Taylor to bed right away, and we’re like best friends. They just open arms welcomed me in,’ Heather said.
‘I’m helping raise the kids, so I think [Christina] knew, like, how important my role was, but no. It’s different. We have our own life and we respect her as their mom and we co-parent but we’re a couple. We don’t need to sit down with her and discuss that.’
The real estate duo plan on having a small ceremony in either Cabo or California with absolutely no cameras, and Young has already found her wedding gown and selected her sister to be her maid-of-honor.
Heather (2-R) said: ‘The kids were so welcoming. I started putting Taylor to bed right away, and we’re like best friends. They just open arms welcomed me in’ (pictured September 22)
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Young continued: ‘I’m helping raise the kids, so I think [Christina] knew, like, how important my role was, but no. It’s different. We have our own life and we respect her as their mom and we co-parent but we’re a couple. We don’t need to sit down with her and discuss that’
Underway! The real estate duo plan on having a small ceremony in either Cabo or California with absolutely no cameras, and the former Playboy Playmate has already found her wedding gown and selected her sister to be her maid-of-honor
‘Just intimate, with our best friends and family,’ the former Playboy Playmate noted. ‘We’re gonna have to be strict with our list.’
El Moussa and Heather – who met through mutual friends 15 months ago – bought their marital home in Newport Beach last month.
Fans can watch the half-Moroccan SoCal native’s July 25th seaside proposal to Young in the Flipping 101 series finale – titled ‘Going Off The Market’ – airing this Thursday on HGTV.
Nesting: El Moussa and Heather – who met through mutual friends 15 months ago – bought their marital home in Newport Beach last month (pictured September 15)
‘Going Off The Market’: Fans can watch the half-Moroccan SoCal native’s July 25th seaside proposal to Young in the Flipping 101 series finale airing this Thursday on HGTV
Tarek admitted: ‘I don’t even remember asking her the question. I don’t even remember her saying yes. I was pretty nervous’
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The Oppenheim Group realtor gushed: ‘God, I knew from the very beginning that I wanted to marry him…I was scared when I first met him. I’d gone through awful relationships and when I met him [everything changed]’
‘I don’t even remember asking her the question. I don’t even remember her saying yes. I was pretty nervous,’ Tarek admitted.
‘She has completely changed my world, you know. I say it all the time, especially on my social media. I was a different person, living a different life and the day she walked into my life my life changed for the better, and I’m thriving and the kids are thriving. And honestly, I owe most of it to her. She’s been my best friend, my ally.’
The Oppenheim Group realtor chimed in: ‘God, I knew from the very beginning that I wanted to marry him…I was scared when I first met him. I’d gone through awful relationships and when I met him [everything changed].’
‘Difficult decision’: Meanwhile, Christina and her second husband Ant Anstead announced September 18 that they were legally separating after 21 months of marriage and having 13-month-old son Hudson
Nursed him through his stage 2 thyroid/testicular cancer: As for El Moussa and Anstead (L), the Flip or Flop co-hosts had a turbulent seven-year marriage, which ended in January 2018
Meanwhile, Christina and her second husband Ant Anstead announced September 18 that they were legally separating after 21 months of marriage and having 13-month-old son Hudson.
As for El Moussa and Anstead (born Haack), the Flip or Flop co-hosts had a turbulent seven-year marriage, which ended in January 2018.
The former couple endured many hardships like his stage 2 thyroid/testicular cancer, her fertility issues, an ominous 2016 ‘suicidal’ gun altercation involving police, and an alleged fling with ex-nanny Alyssa Logan.