Mena Suvari Marries Simone Sestito in Italy
'American Pie' actress Mena Suvari got hitched to concert producer Simone Sestito at a private church in Vatican City yesterday. The 31-year-old Suvari and her 25-year-old beau Sestito had been dating for almost three years. They first met at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007 and the couple got engaged in 2008.
"The ceremony was truly unique and Mena looked breathtaking. They are very much in love," a guest told People. The marriage was followed by a private reception, just outside the city. Suvari had attended the Rome Film Festival for the premiere of her 2008 flick, Garden of Eden, and had then said, “I really want it to be romantic and like a fairy-tale wedding. It is going to be “very romantic and traditional Italian...we'll have at least a couple hundred guests. It's big!” Talking about Sestito, Suvari said, "I love him. He's Italian and my family is part Greek, and it's all about family and culture...I love his family and it just inspires me to live that kind of life."
Suvari's wedding gown was designed by her close friend Stacey Bendet. Canadian-born Sestito proposed to Suvari, while they were on a trip to Jamaica in summer 2008.“It was very romantic,” Suvari said about Sestito's proposal. On his part, Sestito claimed that he is deeply in love with Suvari. “We just understood each other. She's very caring and understanding. There was a connection,” he told People in 2008.
This is Suvari's second marriage. She married cinematographer Robert Brinkmann in 2000 but divorced him in April 2005 citing irreconcilable differences between them.
