Todd Bridges Is Married! Internal the Diff’hire Strokes Superstar’s Beverly Hills Marriage ceremony

Todd Bridges is married!

The Diff’hire Strokes alum, 57, tied the knot to clothier Bettijo B. Hirschi in front of 70 guests on Wednesday evening at Greystone Mansion & Gardens in Beverly Hills, California.

Bridges tells PEOPLE completely that the pair wished to rep married in a diminutive ceremony with “appropriate our closest chums and family.”

The musty Neatly-known person Good Brother contestant adds it changed into as soon as particular to marry “anyone that I am head over heels in fancy with.”

TMZ changed into as soon as first to document the guidelines of Bridges’ marriage to Hirschi.

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At some stage in her particular occasion, Hirschi walked down the aisle in a gown she designed herself.

“I tried to determine on up one thing off-the-rack that I would possibly perchance likely wear, and I appropriate wasn’t seeing what I wanted because I wanted more coverage,” she says. “I admire classic beauty channeling from older eras, admire Audrey Hepburn. So as that’s what I changed into as soon as in fact impressed by.”

“It changed into as soon as all satin, and it changed into as soon as a fitted bodice with a sq. neck,” Hirschi adds. “And then I truly comprise long legs, so I did a split skirt that changed into as soon as more or less admire a wrap. And then for the ceremony, I had an 80-stride satin practice and then a 200-stride-long veil.”

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The ceremony changed into as soon as followed by a reception at internal sight Italian restaurant, Il Cielo, and included a first dance to “At Last” by Etta James. The tune is particular to the couple because “we each and every went through plenty sooner than finding one one more,” Hirschi says.

“We more or less each and every had given up on finding one thing this tremendous, and we had been tremendous taken aback with a purpose to comprise it more or less given to us, and we feel admire God had a hand in bringing us collectively, she adds. “We feel so blessed.”

Bridges, who parted techniques alongside with his first valuable other Dori in 2012, met his current bride through a mutual friend in March. (Bridges shares son Spencir, 24, and daughter Bo, 25, with Dori, and would possibly perchance likely now be a stepfather to Hirschi’s four younger folks.)

“We met through a chum that I’ve [known] for an extraordinarily long time named Mandy,” Bridges shares. “I changed into as soon as supposed to in fact be atmosphere her up with anyone else, nonetheless it did not accelerate that formula. After I met her, I changed into as soon as admire, ‘I am no longer going to position her up with anyone else. I favor her for myself.’ ”

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When it got here time to point out, Bridges tells PEOPLE that he decided the supreme space to pop the demand changed into as soon as by the ocean.

“I’d appropriate all right away decided that I wanted to rep married to her and I proposed to her. It changed into as soon as a terribly nice day, it changed into as soon as in fact appropriate climate, and she loved going to the beach,” he shares. “So we had been on the beach and I made up my tips to point out to her. I purchased down on one knee and did what I changed into as soon as supposed to attain.”

The newlyweds for the time being are returning to the beach for his or her honeymoon, as they opinion to vacation collectively in Hawaii.