Ivy Getty and Tobias Engel split: Inside the couple’s 3-day wedding in San Francisco, Anya Taylor-Joy attended and officiated by Nancy Pelosi as the couple called off their marriage

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

It was a moment guests quickly forgot as they were immediately serenaded with Myra’s Miracles Happen, from the hit Princess Diaries, but when Ivy files for divorce after just a few years of marriage, they can reflect that it was a moment of portent .

Tying the knot in November 2021 (after a private ceremony 11 months earlier), when the Covid pandemic was still ripping through communities, meant large gatherings were risky business. Nevertheless, Ivy, great-granddaughter of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, managed to pull off her miracle when she wore a John Galliano mirrored wedding dress to walk down the aisle in a ceremony officiated by Nancy Pelosi.

Ivy, who is also a model, was accompanied by bridesmaids including actress Anya Taylor-Joy and some cousins ​​too, with every detail of the fantasy union documented in the pages of Vogue.

But for Tobias and Ivy, who had met a few years earlier through mutual friends at Paris Fashion Week, the fairytale romance is over as Page Six reports 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 on 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 night, but in a break from the couple’s usual routine, Toby chose the restaurant for dinner.

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

‘As the sun was about to set, we went outside to take pictures of it. Toby set his iPhone timer and dropped to his knees. The timer went off at the perfect time as we have the most incredible picture,’ she said.

The ring was a large stone surrounded by diamonds, taken from a necklace Ivy had been given by her grandmother as a teenager – which the heiress said held huge sentimental value for her and always brought a ‘smile’ to her face.

However, the couple could not throw themselves into wedding planning just yet, as the world was still in the throes of the pandemic, which threw everything into uncertainty. So, like the rest of the world, they sat tight.

In 2020, Ivy sadly lost two relatives; her grandmother Ann, an interior designer, and her father John Gilbert Getty. A postmortem later concluded that John had died of a fentanyl overdose combined with heart disease.

Ivy explained that the loss of two close relatives made her realize the importance of waiting until the pandemic had subsided to get married so she could be surrounded by her loved ones. It also made her certain that she wanted the whole wedding to be a tribute to her grandmother – meaning that part of the three-day extravaganza would have to be held in her home (if the interior was designed by Ann).

Fast forward to November 2021, and guests arrived in San Francisco for the lavish nuptials, which included a first-night mod party where guests, including bridesmaid Anya Taylor-Joy and Princess Olympia of Greece, were spotted in swinging sixties gear.

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 host Fletcher Cowan and filmmaker (and boyfriend of Kiernan Shipka) Christian Coppola.

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

To host the British Invasion Mod Party at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, a team of event planners led by the bride’s close friend Stanlee Gatti spent a week transforming the venue into the perfect 60s party room. During the night, Ivy appeared in three vintage outfits.

On the second day of the celebration, guests were invited to attend a picnic party in a log cabin in the Presidio, a site 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 post-party sore heads were treated to IV drips to help them replenish their stores.

That evening, the bridal party attended a rehearsal ceremony at the Town Hall before an ‘intimate’ dinner as they prepared for the big ceremony the following day.

That evening, the bridal party attended a rehearsal ceremony at the Town Hall before an ‘intimate’ dinner as they prepared for the big ceremony the following day.

As the bride and her 14 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 14 bridesmaids’ dresses – something he wouldn’t normally do because the wedding dress itself takes so much time.

However, he said he had been ‘bewitched’ by Ivy and her tales of the women who followed her down the aisle, so he decided to make an exception.

As the ceremony took place, with Nancy Pelosi standing in front of the couple, guests were captivated 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 — at which point Ivy changed into her second wedding dress, a lace couture gown by Maison Margiela.

After a night of partying, San Francisco’s elite called it a night around 8 p.m.

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

But two and a half years later, the couple’s adventure has come to an end as Ivy has filed for divorce, according to Page Six. The couple have a prenup in place to protect their billionaire family’s assets.

“It’s clear that Ivy is a member of the Getty family and is wary of legal entanglements,” a source told the publication.

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

That means the former couple didn’t settle with a mediator until Getty filed the papers.

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