In case anyone hasn’t heard yet, this Saturday Tamara Falcó and Íñigo Onieva passed through the altar in the town of Aledea del Fresno before 400 guests. The Marquise de Griñón decided to marry in the El Rincón palace, a family property that she shares with her brother, Manuel Falcó, who has been her best man at her wedding. The couple have already enjoyed their big day and while comparisons are hateful, this is a look back at the other Preysler family weddings.
The most recent, with the permission of Álvaro Castillejo and Cristina Fernández, was that of Ana Boyer on December 7, 2017. Isabel Preysler’s youngest and tennis player Fernando Verdasco decided to get married on the island of Mustique, a natural Caribbean spot that girlfriend evoked the happy times he spent there with his father. Only between 50 and 60 guests attended, since the distance and the high cost of the transfers and the stay reduced the list to a minimum. Dressed by Pronovias, she wore a strapless dress with a mermaid silhouette. From the matching sleeves, which she removed after the ceremony, she hung a tulle veil more than three meters long.
On November 3, 2012, Julio José tied the knot with Charisse Verhaert. The couple, who are currently divorced, got married at the El Rincón palace, where Tamara and Íñigo will do the same this weekend. The ceremony and celebration was very different from the one that will take place this weekend, since Julio José’s was an autumn wedding that was held inside the palace and Tamara has prioritized that the celebration be in the gardens. It was the first time that Isabel Preysler acted as Godmother at a wedding and it was Tamara Falcó who led Charisse’s lace train to the altar. Julio Iglesias was present at the wedding and it was a reunion between the singer and Preysler after seven years.
Chábeli Iglesias went through the altar twice. First, on September 11, 1993, at a fairytale wedding with Ricardo Bofill Jr. at the Ricardo Bofill Architecture Workshop, in Sant Just Desvern. For her big day, Chábeli chose a strapless dress with lace ruffles and lace from the firm Dafnis. The chosen design matched very little with the minimalist and industrial environment where the wedding took place, but Chábeli was radiant. For her second wedding, in October 2001, with Christian Altaba, already three months pregnant, she wore an ivory textured suit jacket.
Before their children’s weddings were the three of Isabel Preysler. The young Filipino beauty married Julio Iglesias on January 20, 1971 in Illescas, Toledo. The wedding was a bit of a disaster. The exchange of rings took place in the middle of a shower of flashes, something that predicted what the protagonist’s life would be from that day on. Isabel would write about the wedding some time later in her memoirs published in Hello! in 1981, which was, according to the press gathered in the place, “a mare magnum in which it was almost impossible for the priest to officiate the ceremony and for us to find family and friends with our eyes.”
It was not expected that it would really rain that afternoon, and there was no plan ‘B’ for the service, so the guests, while Isabel and Julio became husband and wife, had to huddle standing near the altar , the only covered place in that summer chapel that they used in the middle of winter. The limp bridal bouquet and the discreet but incipient pregnant belly under the dress closed the list of unwanted guests.
Preysler’s second nuptials with Tamara’s father, Carlos Falcó, were much more discreet. There is no public graphic vestige, since it was a secret wedding in the strictest privacy and it was not the cover of the greeting magazine. It was on March 23, 1980 in the Malpica de Tajo hermitage, also in Toledo. The protagonist arrived three quarters of an hour late and Los de Río performed a rociera mass. The bride did not visit in white. For the occasion, she chose a short salmon-colored silk dress made by designer Jorge Gonçalvez.
His third wedding, although also intimate and secret, together with Miguel Boyer, did make it to the cover of ¡Hola! despite the fact that it was said that neither the children of the new couple were aware of the link. They were married in the courts of Pradillo street in Madrid on January 2, 1988. The wedding took place after the scandal in which it was rumored that the minister left the Government to be with Isabel. She chose a very atypical bridal look, she wore a charcoal gray suit with puffed sleeves and fur trim. The only white she wore were the pearls on her earrings. She didn’t carry a bouquet either, and in her place she wore a black leather handbag.
