Vicky Pattison has officially wed her handsome fiancé Ercan Ramadan in a chic London ceremony at London’s iconic Marylebone Town Hall today, Saturday 24 August. The former Geordie Shore star, 36, had earlier shared her preparations including beauty treatments and shots for everyone attending.
Vicky is officially a wife and now she’s ready to walk down the aisle again with husband Ercan in Italy later this summer, following their legal ceremony, surrounded by 150 of their loved ones. Her London wedding debuted just one of her chic wedding dresses as the star previously revealed to Rock My Wedding, that despite trying to be a little sensible in places, she will be wearing four wedding dresses in total over the course of her nuptials. But she has limited certain luxuries and hasn’t splashed out on the flower installation she had her eye on for their welcome dinner.
Vicky said: “I knew weddings were a big money business and, like I say, it’s not my first rodeo in this space, but everything’s just got more and more expensive. I was really shocked. I don’t want to be paying it off for the next 10 years, or remortgaging my house for a wedding”.
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Vicky and Ercan got engaged back in February 2022 after he proposed on the beach in Dubai and went on to have an epic joint stag and hen party in Dubai earlier this year. Vicky and Ercan, who have been dating since 2019, also hosted 300 guests for their star-studded engagement party in London’s 14 Hills.
Now they’ve officially tied the knot, the couple will head to Italy for a welcome dinner, wedding ceremony and evening reception, which has attracted 150 guests so far.
The Geordie Shore favourite is also allowing cameras to document the most important day of her life, as she prepares to exchange vows with Essex-born Ercan again in Italy. Vicky will get married in picturesque Puglia in September.
In the two-part reality special for E4 that will air later this year, cameras will follow Vicky through the emotional rollercoaster as she prepares for her vows with Ercan, who was a labourer and builder before he joined the cast of The Only Way is Essex in 2016 for series 19.
They’ve planned a four-day extravaganza with a guestlist of celebs pals. Vicky recently said: “Ercan and I are super excited to share our journey with E4 viewers. No doubt there’ll be tears, tantrums and tense moments over table plans. But ultimately, we can’t wait to start this next chapter of our lives surrounded by our incredible friends and family. I’m finally getting my happily ever after.”
The podcast host also recently opened up about the realities of wedding planning – especially when it comes to sorting out the guestlist. “The bit that I didn’t love, and I think people will be able to relate to this, was the guest-list. Ercan, my partner, is from a Turkish Cypriot family, which to make a sweeping generalisation normally means that he has a huge family. He’s got cousins and brothers and everyone’s got kids and you can’t invite one without having the other,” she told OK!
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Vicky previously revealed she’ll be having 13 bridesmaids for her big day – and the I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! winner says the pair toured Italy looking for potential venues before finally settling on Puglia. She says the couple “fell in love” with the “relatively unheard of” region when they first visited. But their wedding plans hit a snag when international superstar Kim Kardashian visited the region for a major Dolce and Gabbana fashion show. It saw prices in the city sky-rocket with its newfound appeal.
Speaking on the White Wine Question Time podcast with Kate Thornton, Vicky said: “We went all around Italy trying to find the right venue for us and stuff and the right sort of region. And we just completely fell in love with Puglia.
“It was relatively unheard of when we booked it about 18 months ago. Then Kim Kardashian popped down with Dolce and Gabbana for a big fashion show and now every f***** knows about it.
“I was on Instagram and I saw somebody at a wedding at our venue and I was like ‘oh god this can’t come around quick enough’. So yeah, we’re dead excited.” Vicky went on to explain it was former TOWIE star Ercan who actually chose the venue. She added: “He saw things I couldn’t see and then yeah, I fell in love with it too.”
The extra nuptials means that her wedding is “too glam to give a damn.” She previously teased: “I’m getting married in London initially, at Marylebone Town Hall, so I needed a dress for that. It’s cute and a bit of a sixties vibe. I want the little short veil and the big white sunglasses.
“I absolutely loved what Sophie Habboo did. I thought that was a super gorgeous vibe. I went just recently, this week to go and see Suzanne Neville for that one, and she’s sketched me something.
“So I have an original and that’s probably the first time anyone’s really going to see me in one of my wedding dresses and that’s the summer, I’m excited about that. And then when we get out to Italy, there’ll be a dress for the welcome dinner. There will be a dress for my actual wedding and then it will be a dress for the evening. So four in total.”