Jonathan Bennett, actor of “Heavy Girls”, married in the Riviera Maya

Jonathan Bennett married Jaymes Vaughan in the Riviera Maya over the past weekend. The couple said that their union in Quintana Roo was a dream despite having suffered discrimination almost a year ago.

The male protagonist of the film Heavy Girls, Jonathan Bennett, and TV host Jaymes Vaughan sealed their love in a hotel in the Riviera Maya. Among white flowers, 104 guests and their favorite songs, the couple got married in front of the Caribbean Sea.

The newlyweds shared in an interview with People that the wedding planning had very good results, so much so that they both thought they were in the middle of a recording set and were shooting a new romantic film.

“Honestly, it was a dream wedding! We had to stop and remind ourselves that we weren't on a film set, but that it was actually our real life. If they had told me that this was one of my Hallmark movie sets, I would have believed it.” It was that perfect,” Bennett told the magazine.

The spouses confessed that they wanted their wedding not to be very traditional, so the ceremony was held at the foot of the beach and instead of walking to the altar with the wedding march, they decided to listen to a song that Vaughan composed for her today's husband, they were surrounded by white flowers and the one who officiated the wedding was the youtuber Brian Tyler Cohen. In addition, they revealed that their rings are currently on sale in a store.

The event took place at the luxurious Hotel Unico, which they turned to after a bad experience last April at the Palace Resorts, where they had engaged, but they were not allowed to have their wedding there because they are a homosexual couple.

The actor explained that they sought to make their wedding an event in which everyone felt comfortable, so they made it gender neutral and asked their guests to dress white or similar, but that it was how they felt best, they could do it in a suit or dress, but there was no label and neither they should feel obliged to meet expectations.

The reason they chose to have their guests dressed in white was because that way they could feel the presence of Jonathan's mother, who died in 2012.

They decided to make it gender neutral because, as Jonathan explained, they wanted to make it clear that the ceremony was not only about their union, but about the LGBTQ+ community and what belonging to this group means to them.

Jaymes shared that they both feel as if they had married their best friend, which made the wedding even more emotional. The two cried as they read their vows, but the excitement also made them laugh and have fun at the party.

“I married my best friend! I knew we'd get excited, but I don't think either of us realized how overwhelming that moment would be until we were in it. Seeing him cry only made me cry more, and then our guests cried more, and then we all started laughing, and then we all cried again,” the driver said.

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