Ivy Getty and Tobias Engel divorce: Inside the couple’s 3-day San Francisco wedding attended by Anya Taylor-Joy and officiated by Nancy Pelosi as the pair call time on their marriage

When billionaire oil heiress Ivy Getty sealed her marriage to Tobias Engel with a kiss at City Hall in San Francisco, the bridal crown she was wearing fell from her head.

It was a moment the guests quickly forgot as they were immediately serenaded with Myra’s Miracles Happen, from the hit film Princess Diaries, but now that Ivy is filing for divorce after just a few years of marriage, they may think it was a moment of foreboding.

Tying the knot in November 2021 (after a private ceremony eleven months earlier), when the Covid pandemic was still sweeping through communities, meant large gatherings were a risky proposition. Nevertheless, Ivy, great-granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, managed to make her miracle happen when she wore a mirrored wedding gown by John Galliano as she walked down the aisle at a ceremony officiated by Nancy Pelosi.

Ivy, who is also a model, was joined by bridesmaids including actress Anya Taylor-Joy as well as several cousins, with every detail of the fantasy union documented in the pages of Vogue.

But for Tobias and Ivy, who met a few years earlier through mutual friends at Paris Fashion Week, the fairytale romance is over, as Page Six reports that the 29-year-old heiress filed for divorce in January.

Ivy previously told Vogue that she and Tobias, known to friends and family as ‘Toby’, got engaged during one of the couple’s many trips abroad, in Capri.

She revealed that they had attended a Unicef ​​ball a few days earlier, before deciding to spend some time in Italy, and went out for dinner one evening but, in a break from the couple’s usual routine, Toby chose restaurant for dinner.

Although Ivy said she was always the one to choose the couple’s dinner plans, she happily went along with her partner’s choice — and when they arrived at the restaurant, everything became clear.

‘When the sun was about to set, we went outside to take pictures of it. Toby set the timer on his iPhone and got down on one knee. The timer went off at the perfect time because we got the most incredible photo,” she said.

The ring was a large stone surrounded by diamonds that came from a necklace given to Ivy by her grandmother as a teenager – which the heiress said had enormous sentimental value to her and always put a “smile” on her face.

However, the couple couldn’t fully dive into wedding planning just yet as the world was still in the grip of the pandemic that threw everything into uncertainty. So, like the rest of the world, they stayed calm.

Sadly, Ivy lost two family members in 2020; her grandmother Ann, an interior designer, and her father John Gilbert Getty. An autopsy later concluded that John had died of a fentanyl overdose combined with heart disease.

Ivy explained that losing two close family members made her realize the importance of waiting until the pandemic is over to get married so she can be surrounded by loved ones. It also left her wanting the entire wedding to be a tribute to her grandmother – which meant part of the three-day extragavanza would take place at her home (the interior of which was designed by Ann).

Fast forward to November 2021 and guests arrived in San Francisco for the lavish wedding, which included a modern party on the first night where guests including bridesmaid Anya Taylor-Joy and Princess Olympia of Greece were decked out in swinging Sixties equipment.

Other guests included designer Wes Gordon, designer Mimi Wade, influencer Marta Mae, musician Petite Meller, fashion editor Hamish Bowles, activist Marsha Molinari, model Laura Hanson Sims, British TV presenter Fletcher Cowan and filmmaker (and Kiernan Shipka’s friend ) Christian Coppola.

In a post on Instagram, Ivy shared photos of herself and the revelers at the party, where Mark Ronson was on the DJ decks and Earth Wind and Fire performed, and thanked her stylists, photographers and acts, saying the wedding celebrations were the “best week of history’. my life’.

To host the British Invasion Mod Party at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, a team of event organizers led by the bride’s good friend Stanlee Gatti spent a week transforming the venue into the perfect ’60s party space Over the course of the evening, Ivy appeared in three vintage outfits.

On the second day of the festivities, guests were invited to a picnic party at the Presidio log cabin, a location overlooking the city.

To attend the picnic, the bride wore a black lace dress from Alexander McQueen’s 2016 collection, while any guests who might have suffered from headaches after the mod party were treated to IV drips to help them replenish their supplies .

That evening, the bridal party attended a rehearsal ceremony at City Hall before an “intimate” dinner as they prepared for the big ceremony the next day.

That evening, the bridal party attended a rehearsal ceremony at City Hall before an “intimate” dinner as they prepared for the big ceremony the next day.

As the bride and her fourteen bridesmaids got ready for the big day at City Hall, they held a “pajama party” to celebrate the upcoming nuptials.

The late John Galliano, who designed Ivy’s mirrored wedding dress, revealed that he also designed all fourteen of the bridesmaids’ dresses – something he wouldn’t normally do because the wedding dress itself takes up so much time.

However, he said he was “enchanted” by Ivy and her stories about the women who accompanied her down the aisle, so he decided to make an exception.

As the ceremony took place, with Nancy Pelosi in front of the couple, guests were charmed by Toby’s vows in which he said Ivy had been the “greatest gift” of his life.

After the ceremony, guests moved to the Getty Mansion for the wedding reception – after which Ivy changed into her second wedding dress, a lace couture gown from Maison Margiela.

After a night of partying, San Francisco’s elite called it a night around 1 a.m.

Reflecting on the three-day extravaganza, Ivy said: ‘It’s been everything I could have dreamed of and more.’

But two and a half years later, the couple’s fairy tale has come to an end, as Ivy has filed for divorce, according to Page Six. The couple entered into a prenuptial agreement to protect her billionaire family’s assets.

“Obviously, as a member of the Getty family, Ivy is cautious about legal entanglements,” a source told the publication.

According to the court documents, this is a ‘contested’ divorce.

That means the former couple did not reach a settlement with a mediator before Getty filed the paperwork.

Ivy has since deleted some photos with Engel from her Instagram, although he still appears in some carousel posts from their wedding.