Steve Harvey officiates as Keven Undergaro and Maria Menounos have their wedding ceremony in 2017 in New York City.Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
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Maria Menounos had not one but two weddings — so double the special memories.
The television personality, 45, and her husband,Keven Undergaro, 55, first tied the knot on national television during Fox’sNew Year’s Eve broadcast in 2017. They said “I do"once more, on Oct. 6, 2018in Akovos, Greece, which is her father Constantinos Menounos’ hometown.
Reflecting now, Menounos jokes that it’s hard deciding on a singular moment to dub her favorite from both celebrations: “I had two weddings, so can I have two?”
Ultimately, Menounos saysher parents' participationin both events stands out. Back in 2017, Menounos surprised not just viewers with the impromptu on-air ceremony, but also her mother Litsa Menounos.
Menounos adds, “Maybe Keven launching into a Howard Stern speech for his vows when I wanted to kill him. I’m like, ‘I cannot believe he’s doing this.’ That might be the other one because then eventually he turned into his real vows.” (Undergaro quoted an infamous moment fromThe Howard Stern Showduring the ceremony.)
Keven Undergaro and Maria Menounos are married in Time.Getty Images
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He continued, “I love you so much and this show’s meant so much to both of us. Why not make it official now?”
A year later, viewers tuned in to watch the couple wed, with help from their officiant, Steve Harvey.
Menounos also tells PEOPLE about the sentimental significance of the location of her second Greek wedding. “I’ve had beautiful memories from both weddings because I also got married in Greece in my dad’s village, which was beautiful,” she recounts.
Menounos and Undergaro have been together for 25 years after first meeting on the set of his independent film when she was 19 years old. The two officially started dating in April 1998, but held off on tying the knot for nearly two decades.
The couple recently welcomed a daughter, Athena, in July 2023. Athena was born via surrogate, following Menounos’ decade-long journey to conceive.
Keven Undergaro and Maria Menounos are married in 2017.Getty Images
The birth of their daughter followedthe couple’s public fertility journey, which included IVF treatments beginning in 2012 and their public decision to move forward with surrogacy, as well as Menounos' additional health obstacles, including her 2017benign brain tumor diagnosis.
The expectant motherpreviously told PEOPLEshe was diagnosed in January, and she then underwent surgery to remove a 3.9-cm tumor. Menounos is currently cancer-free.
source: people.com
