The wedding countdown is on for Andy Lee, who will marry his long-term partner, Bec Harding, this week.
The soon-to-be-married couple have officially arrived in New York City for their hotly anticipated wedding after months of secrecy.
Photographers captured the lovebirds, who got engaged in 2024, walking arm-in-arm through NYC, with Bec appropriately wearing a white dress for their celebrations.
While they haven’t confirmed the day of their nuptials, many notable Aussie names have flown to the US for the destination wedding, including Andy’s co-host and friend, Hamish Blake.
It’s expected to be a multi-day celebration, but they have kept the details tightly under wraps.
However, we do know that Michael Horgan, a long-time contributor to Andy’s radio show, will be a groomsman, after Andy revealed he nearly missed his flight to NYC!
At the airport, Andy hilariously had to send out an intercom announcement for Michael, who hadn’t turned up at the gate for boarding.
“Almost had to replace a groomsman,” he joked.
Bec also shared photographs from the flight as well as her “pre-wedding” facial, but fans will be eagerly awaiting more details in the coming days.
While they’re opting to get married under the glitzy lights of NYC, Andy previously said it would be a low-key wedding with around 80 guests in attendance.
His co-host, Hamish, and Andy’s brother will also be groomsmen alongside Michael.
When did Andy Lee and Bec Harding get engaged?
The couple got engaged in May 2024 after dating for more than 10 years, with Andy announcing the news on Hamish and Andy the following week.
“I asked Bec to marry me on Sunday,” he announced during the episode.
The comedian explained that he got down on one knee and asked Bec to marry him, and handed her a napkin with the question “Will you marry me?” written on it.
The napkin was a sweet nod to when they first met in 2014, when Bec was working at a cafe, and Andy slipped his number to her on a napkin.
In an interview with Stellar after the proposal, Andy revealed that he’d known that he wanted to marry Bec for “a long time”.
“I think six, maybe to eight months [beforehand] was when I really started thinking about it. I think I knew for years. Then getting the ring, and hoping Bec liked it – that would have been the most nerve-racking part. And getting her there on time to the actual proposal,” he said.
In the interview, Bec also confessed that she didn’t know whether the proposal would ever actually happen.
“I mean, we’d been dating for 10 years, so I kind of was like, maybe getting married is not for us. There was enough in our life that I knew he was serious about me,” she said.
“It’s such a nice feeling to know someone has gone and put all of this effort into something, to ask you to spend the rest of your life with them.”
However, the model said the external pressure from family, friends, and the public was starting to get to her in the end.
“Andy doesn’t like being told what to do. So in my mind, I was like, can everyone please stop pressuring him to propose? Because he’s not going to do it,” she said.
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