Revealed: Kourtney Kardashian wore her late father’s wedding ring when she married Travis Barker in their lavish Italian nuptials thanks to Kris Jenner: ‘He reminds me so much of my dad’
Kourtney Kardashian received a very special gift from her mother Kris Jenner on the eve of her lavish Italian nuptials to Travis Barker.
The reality star, 43 – whose wedding extravaganza is fully detailed in her and Barker’s new Hulu special Till Death Do Us Part – revealed that Kris passed on the wedding ring that the late Robert Kardashian gave her back in 1978.
Kris and the famed attorney for O. J. Simpson split in 1991 and went on to amicably co-parent their four children until Robert tragically passed away in 2003 from esophageal cancer.
Jenner gave Kourtney the touching heirloom during the rehearsal dinner and the Lemme founder was instantly overwhelmed by emotion.
‘When my dad died, I remember thinking I never want to get married because my dad isn’t there to walk me down the aisle,’ Kourtney said in her Hulu special. ‘So that gift meant so much.’
So meaningful: Kourtney Kardashian, 43, received a very special gift from her mother Kris Jenner on the eve of her lavish Italian nuptials to Travis Barker, 47
Thinking of him: The reality star – whose wedding extravaganza is fully detailed in her and Barker’s new Hulu special Till Death Do Us Part – revealed that Kris passed on the wedding ring that the late Robert Kardashian (pictured with a teenage Kourtney) gave her back in 1978
Kourtney went on to describe how she felt her father’s ‘presence’ prior to walking down the aisle and she also described the sweet connection between the Blink 182 drummer and her late father.
‘My dad would’ve loved Travis and Travis reminds me so much of my dad in the weirdest ways…’ gushed Kourtney.
‘I felt his presence and a sense of calm. It felt so good and calm… like, I’m ready and it just felt perfect.’
The intention behind Kourtney and Travis’s over-the-top ceremony was to have a wedding similar to the iconic 1991 Guns ‘n Roses music video November Rain.
While neither Barker nor Kardashian are particularly religious, they both revealed on the special that they wanted to tie the knot in a Catholic church in Italy.
However, they quickly had to abandon that plan, as the couple required ‘really specific documents, or we had to do a one-year Catholic course.’
The pair received a lifeline from Dolce & Gabbana’s Domenico Dolce, who ended up recreating a church for the couple on his lavish property in Portofino.
In the special, Kourtney says of the famed Italian designer: ‘One thing I did realize, working with Domenico, is what Domenico says, he just does it. We presented a lot of stuff that looked like the church, and they just like created a church.’
The ultimate mom: Jenner gave Kourtney the touching heirloom during the rehearsal dinner and the Lemme founder was instantly overwhelmed by emotion
Epic romance: ‘When my dad died, I remember thinking I never want to get married because my dad isn’t there to walk me down the aisle,’ Kourtney said in her Hulu special. ‘So that gift meant so much’
Tying the knot: The Lemme founder went on to describe how she felt her dad’s ‘presence’ prior to walking down the aisle and she also described the sweet connection between the Blink 182 drummer and her late father
True love: ‘My dad would’ve loved Travis and Travis reminds me so much of my dad in the weirdest ways…’ gushed Kourtney. ‘I felt his presence and a sense of calm. It felt so good and calm… like, I’m ready and it just felt perfect’
While it’s unclear how much the lavish wedding ultimately cost, Kourtney did reveal that Domenico took care of the bill.
The Portofino nuptials were the third that Kourtney and Travis did in roughly two months.
The pair’s first wedding was an April ceremony in Las Vegas followed by a Santa Barbara courthouse in mid-May – a week before the Portofino bash.
The first wedding in Vegas was apparently a liqueured-up ‘practice run’ and the Santa Barbara nuptials were to make sure that the Italian blowout would be legal.
