Hilaria Baldwin walking down the aisle on her wedding to Alex Baldwin in 2012.Photo:Courtesy of Hilaria Baldwin
Courtesy of Hilaria Baldwin
Just before she andAlec Baldwinmade it official in 2012,Hilaria Baldwinpresented a special gift to her future husband — a reminder that this was a moment to cherish forever.
“I asked my parents to bring over from their town a tiny antique silver box that I wrote a letter and folded in,” Hilaria, 39, recalls to PEOPLE of her favorite wedding day memory, as the couple recently markedtheir 11th anniversaryon June 30.
In the letter, Hilaria says she “wrote how excited I was to marry him and that we should be as present as possible for the ceremony because it will go so fast and be so fleeting and it’s such an important moment in our lives.”
Hilaria tells PEOPLE she had a friend deliver the letter to her then-fiancé right before she walked down the aisle at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. “It felt meaningful to have this intention to be present in our minds on such a life-changing day,” she adds.
“Our DJ was a man who I knew from going out with my friends in tiny Brooklyn bars,” she reveals. “It was a completely different gig for him and exactly what I wanted — blending our worlds!”
Hilaria and Alec, 65,first met in February 2011at a New York City restaurant. “I was standing near the door with my friends,” Hilaria previously told theNew York Times, “when he walked up and took my hand and said, ‘I must know you.’ "
They started dating the summer of that year and Alec proposed to Hilaria in April 2012.
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Together, the Baldwins haveseven children: three daughters Ilaria Catalina Irena,María Lucía VictoriaandCarmen Gabriela, and four sonsEduardo “Edu” Pao Lucas,Rafael Thomas,Leonardo Ángel Charles, andRomeo Alejandro David. (Alec is also the father of daughterIreland Baldwin, 27, with his former wifeKim Basinger).
source: people.com
