Jun 11, 2023; New York, NY, USA; Noah Galvin, left, and Ben Platt arrive at the 76th Annual Tony Awards at the United Palace in New York City on Sunday, June 11, 2023. Photo: Jasper Colt-USA TODAY
Actors Ben Platt and Noah Galvin got married over Labor Day weekend in a days-long celebration in Manhattan and Brooklyn that earned a Vogue magazine shoot and an “inside look” with the pair of Broadway royalty.
The “dress to dance” theme played out across several venues, beginning on Friday with a Shabbat welcome and rehearsal dinner at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on the Lower East Side, a restored synagogue that’s now an art gallery and performance space.
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The couple wore matching Thom Browne, with Noah donning a suit jacket and pants, and Ben in a blazer and skirt.
“For our Shabbat rehearsal dinner, I wanted to be a bride, so I wore a skirt,” Platt stated. The meal was catered by Brooklyn hotspot Laser Wolf, where the pair got engaged.
Platt and Galvin, both creatures of the New York theater world, have known each other since 2015, but only got together in 2020. Platt, famous for his Tony Award-winning performance in Dear Evan Hanson, was replaced in the titular role by Galvin in 2017.
The party continued on Saturday with cocktails at Cellar Dog in the West Village before the nuptials on Sunday at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood.
The couple went creamsicle for their wedding day outfits, with Galvin sporting a French workwear-inspired set with lace button-down and Platt in a 70’s-styled cream suit and button-down to match his spouse. Cream-colored skull caps with navy trim topped off the pretty ensembles.
The pair exchanged matching diamond and birthstone wedding bands by Grace Lee; Ben added an heirloom gold ring that once belonged to his gay grand-uncle Gary.
“Our moms are terrible secret-keepers, but somehow managed to surprise us by singing their first ever duet to us at the end of the ceremony, a classic Jewish wedding song in beautiful harmony,” Ben wrote on Insta, accompanying a pic of the women singing.
With the ceremony behind them — the couple stomped their glasses, “and they broke, thank god!” Galvin said — a “raging” hora commenced.
“During the hora comes shtick, which is when groups of family and friends do a series of personalized bits replete with props and costumes — Judaism is inherently gay,” Platt explained.
The weekend finally ended at Sunny’s Bar in Brooklyn, with a Shake Shack truck parked out front and a requisite musical theatre sing-along with the couple’s besties Beanie Feldstein, Zoey Deutch, Micaela Diamond, Cynthia Erivo, and Lena Waithe joining family and more friends to sing out what will surely be the gay-Jewish-New York theatre world wedding of the year.
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