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WRITER AND MUSE GET MARRIED IN SMALL, PRIVATE CEREMONY
The New York Times.
May 11, 2014
On May 10, 2014, best-selling author Richard Castle and NYPD Detective Katherine Beckett tied the knot in a small, private, intimate ceremony in the New York Public Library.
The couple was married by Robert Weldon, New York City's very own Mayor and a close friend of the groom. Other well-known persons in attendance were fellow mystery writers James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly, and the newest face in crime novels Alex Conrad, former baseball star and Yankees manager Joe Torre, and stars of the "Nikki Heat" movies, Carson Phillips and Natalie Rhodes, who took a weekend off of shooting the second movie in the series "Naked Heat" to attend the nuptials of the creator and his muse.
This is the third marriage for Richard Castle – two relatively short lived marriages to D-List actress Meredith Williams, with whom he has a 19 year-old daughter, and Gina Griffin, his publisher at Black Pawn. It is the first marriage for Detective Beckett, and it seems as though Richard Castle is determined to make this one last. In an interview last month on The View, he spent the majority of the time answering questions about his impending third marriage. When Joy Behar asked why he thought this marriage was going to be any different than his previous two marriages, he responded with this:
"With her… it's such a different feeling than anything I've ever felt before, and I think it's because we have a really solid foundation. We started out at colleagues and then I nearly ruined that before we even got a chance to get started. Then we became friends and I really almost ruined that relationship with her and everyone at the Twelfth. Then we became partners and we both almost ruined that, but we've always come back to each other. And it gradually grew into this thing where I'd watch a bad movie and think about how much she would have laughed at it, or I'd eat at a restaurant and make a note to take her there, or I'd look at flowers on the street corner and almost buy them for her when I know she would've killed me for doing so, and I'd call her when I needed to talk a plot line out with someone, and ask for advice regarding my teenage daughter, and bring her coffee every morning because I just wanted to see her smile. We've been there for the good and we've torn each other into pieces and we've made our relationship stronger as a result. She was never just my girlfriend – she's always been my partner and I'm not marrying my fiancé this time - I'm marrying my best friend, and I think that's made all the difference."
When asked by Barbara Walters why Detective Beckett was the woman for him, he smiled:
"She keeps me settled," he said, "She's not afraid to knock my ego down a few notches or remind me that I'm really not as great as everyone thinks I am. She always saw the real me behind all the money and the clothes and the articles. She loves my daughter, she loves my mother, and they've both loved her since they first met her. She's really made me grow up and be the man that she deserves to have, but she'll still indulge me and play laser tag with me (which, please note, playing laser tag with a cop is a terrible idea. You'll basically always lose) or try my crazy recipes in the kitchen. She's extraordinary, always keeps me on my toes and every day I learn something new about her that only makes me love her more. She's –" as a picture of the two of them came up onto the screen from the "Heat Wave" premiere nearly two years ago, one of their few official pictures taken as a couple, the crowd 'aw'd', cutting the writer off. He looked back at the screen and his smile grew, throwing a thumb back at the picture, looking back at the crowd and said, "-the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Really, just look at her! If I didn't try and keep her for myself, I would hope someone would have me committed."
As the crowd clapped in agreement, he laughed:
"Oh, she's going to kill me for saying that."
Fortunately for everyone, she didn't. The two celebrated their wedding surrounded by their family and closest friends. Detective Beckett wore a simple but elegant gown designed by Maggie Sottero and heels by Enzo Angiolini. A source tells us that they couple wrote their own vows, and that Richard Castle cried while they read them. Another source tells us not only did they both cry, but the entire bridal party did as well. They celebrated with an ombre red velvet wedding cake made by TLC's Cake Boss, Buddy Valastro, with the bride and groom cake toppers handcuffed together (the cake design was apparently the groom's job). Our sources also tell us the wedding pictures were taken in the fiction section of the library, and not a single person in the room stopped smiling as they ate and danced to celebrate the wedding of the couple together, police officers sitting with actors and best-selling authors with federal agents.
The couple departed early this morning on their honeymoon to an undisclosed location and are due to arrive back home to New York in the middle of June. Well, all of us here at the New York Times say bon voyage and wish Richard Castle and his new bride, Mrs. Katherine Beckett-Castle, every happiness in the world and the happy ending that their story deserves.