Crystal Harris and James Ward have tied the knot.
Hugh Hefner’s spouse Crystal Harris weds once more
The previous Playboy mannequin – who was beforehand married to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner from 2012 till his demise in 2017 – eloped with Ward to Aitutaki, one of many Prepare dinner Islands, the place they wed on Thursday (02.04.26).
Crystal, 39, advised PEOPLE: “We selected the Prepare dinner Islands due to how distant it’s. There aren’t any large chain motels, which makes it really feel extremely peaceable and genuine. It’s additionally dwelling to one of the stunning lagoons on the planet. Since James and I each love the ocean and nature it felt like the right place for us to begin this chapter of our lives.”
Crystal and James selected a easy wedding ceremony with no company.
She defined: “As a result of the marriage is small, it allowed us to deal with the significant particulars somewhat than managing a big occasion. We didn’t need an enormous manufacturing. We needed one thing quiet and private the place we may actually be current with one another and the second.
“Marriage means selecting one another daily and constructing a life based mostly on belief, help, and partnership.”
And James, 42, mentioned he feels just like the “luckiest man alive” after tying the knot with Crystal.
He mentioned: “Crystal’s coronary heart, particularly for me and all non-human residing issues, is a factor to behold. All creatures, nice and small are bestowed a generosity and kindness, the likes of which I’ve by no means seen. She’s the classiest, brainiest, most adventure-seeking associate I may have ever hoped to search out. My life is now higher in each approach, and I really feel just like the luckiest man alive that I get to spend my life together with her.”
The couple – who met by mutual buddies in Hawaii in 2024 – shared their first dance to Protected With Me by Ike Dweck.
Crystal mentioned: “That music completely represents us. It’s the primary time in my life I’ve actually felt secure and guarded in a relationship. He’s extremely supportive and grounding [and makes me feel] “secure, inspired, and free to be utterly [myself].”
In the meantime, Crystal beforehand claimed she solely beloved her first husband Hugh Hefner – who died in 2017 aged 91 – like an aged relative.
She wrote in her memoir Solely Say Good Issues: Surviving Playboy and Discovering Myself: “Life within the (Playboy) mansion wasn’t the fairy story I had as soon as hoped it might be.
“From the skin, certain, it had all the trimmings of a fairy story. However it wasn’t, and everybody who lived there knew it.
“I used to be by no means in love with Hef, however I beloved this outdated man within the methods you might be supposed to like your elders.
“Within the methods you might be supposed to like somebody who’s nearing the tip of an extended and complex life.”
She mentioned she was so nervous about protecting him completely satisfied she misplaced all sense of self and “turned no matter he needed”.
After a collection of surgical procedures, Crystal introduced in 2022 she had “all the pieces faux” faraway from her physique.
She additionally mirrored on the “actually large energy imbalance” of her marriage.
She advised PEOPLE journal: “I used to be coping with a extremely large energy imbalance. It appeared like a world of success and fantasy, however everybody’s having to sleep with an 80 12 months outdated. There’s a worth. Every thing has a worth.”
