Over a decade ago, model April Love Geary and singer, songwriter, and record producer Robin Thicke’s love story began at a Labor Day Weekend party in Malibu. “April was stunning, but wasn’t as interested in me as I was in her,” Robin laughs. Their relationship deepened from there, and seven months in on a private beach in the Maldives, Robin asked April if she wanted to start a family with him. “I knew at that moment, someday I would propose to her,” he says.

They welcomed their first child less than two years later, and while expecting their second, Robin proposed on Christmas Eve 2018 in front of their families. “Everyone was crying,” remembers April. The couple was engaged for seven years – focusing on family and the arrival of a third child – before planning a destination wedding in Mexico.

“We chose Cabo because it’s one of our favorite places, and it was an easy destination for our family and friends to get to,” shares Robin, who was involved in planning every step. “I love to throw parties!” he confirms. April adds, “He truly cares about details, and I wanted him to also have the best wedding.”

They hired a wedding planner, who was instrumental in ensuring the celebration went off without a hitch – especially when a few logistical issues popped up last minute. The week of the wedding, a tropical cyclone in the forecast threatened their original date, so the entire celebration was moved up a day to avoid the storm. Then, the night before the wedding at the welcome party, Robin asked Usher to be a groomsman and since a matching tuxedo proved impossible to find in Cabo, the planner’s husband stepped in to provide his own suit for the celebrity groomsman.

In a twist of fate, the venue’s 20-foot steel tree that marked the spot for the vow exchange – adorned in baby’s breath to disguise it since the bride hadn’t loved the piece – toppled just 20 minutes before the arrival of 100 guests. The planner simply laughed and asked the string quartet to play the Titanic theme as the tree fell. When April called her, also laughing hysterically at this seemingly divinely guided collapse, she asked their planner to have them play the same song, which was already playing. “I never wanted the tree there to begin with, so it was pretty funny,” she smiles. “Although I felt bad after our florist had just finished decorating it so beautifully!”

Once the site was cleared, guests took their seats on either side of an aisle lined with baby’s breath and roses, facing the sea. April desired white flowers to convey purity and new beginnings – “qualities that perfectly reflect the meaning of a wedding,” she shares. A special seat was lovingly reserved in honor of Robin’s late father, actor, writer, and host Alan Thicke.

At last, April walked down the aisle in an elegant lace gown with long sleeves and a high neck to meet Robin, handsome in a sharp tuxedo. One of their closest friends officiated the ceremony. “He didn’t really know what he was doing,” Robin admits with a smile. “I probably should have hired a professional, but it sure made for some great laughs.”

“We chose Cabo because it’s one of our favorite places.”

Though the wedding-date change required the reception to move from the beach to one of the property’s restaurants, the décor retained the couple’s love of a clean, ethereal, and highly sophisticated aesthetic: tables warmed by ebony taper candles, flowing linens, and ethereal arrangements of white roses and baby’s breath. Menus were finished with the bride’s beloved bows, and marble signage added to the timeless, grounding, and natural look.

Of course, music was central to the night. “We started with the string quartet for the ceremony; my longtime friend DJ Cassidy got the party start at the dinner; and then our good friend DJ Pookie finished it off at the after-party,” Robin shares. The newlyweds danced with each other and their guests on a black-and-white checkerboard dance floor as fireworks lit up the sky – one of April and Robin’s favorite memories, along with watching their kids – Mia Love, Lola Alain, and Luca Patrick, as well as Robin’s son Julian from a previous marriage – walk down the aisle.

As for their wedding advice? “Enjoy the process and stay in the moment – because hopefully, it only happens once, and you want it to be the best day of your life, which for me it definitely was,” Robin says. His bride adds: “Stay together as much as possible – share the little moments, soak it all in together, and make the day truly yours… It was a perfect day. A perfect weekend!”

This real wedding was originally published as a cover story in the Winter 2026 issue of Inside Weddings magazine. 

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