Doris Day’s Grandson Ryan Melcher Marries Brittney Giammanco in Massachusetts Wedding (Exclusive)

Ryan Melcher, the sole heir of the late Hollywood legend Doris Day, has happily found his.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the Carmel, Calif.-based realtor, 40, and wife Brittney Giammanco, 31, shared details of their happy day at Lambert’s Cove Inn & Resort near Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts on Sept. 30.

“It was really a no-brainer,” Giammanco tells PEOPLE of holding their wedding on Martha’s Vineyard, where Melcher spent time with his family as a child. “I felt like it was meant to be.”

Although the inn, run by Bridget Sampson and her chef husband Galen Sampson, was the ideal location, their special day got off to a wet start, with Giammanco recalling that it was “boiling.” So much so that “it’s past our prime,” adds Melcher, who was recently named the no. 1 real estate agent in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

After the weather cleared, Melcher tells PEOPLE the couple said, “Let’s do it.” Then “everyone ran outside” where there was a beautiful flower garden on the grounds. “It’s amazing,” says the groom. “I’ve never seen anything like it, and it’s intentionally kind of wild and rough. And there’s a passageway to walk through, and then on each side, there’s two rows of flowers.”

“I was adamant about going into that garden,” adds Giammanco. “So he said, ‘We’ll wait as long as we have to. We’ll go inside.’ ”

“People were still sitting when we walked down the aisle,” she continues, revealing that the weather didn’t spoil the moment. “Then at the end it started raining. My poor dad and my brother – it was sweet – they were so worried about my dress. My brother says, ‘I’m going to hold your train. You can’t ruin it.’ I said, ‘Forget it. Who cares? Let’s go.’ ”

“I didn’t even realize that it started raining while we were saying our vows,” the bride recalls. “It was perfect. I was blinded by love.”

Ryan Melcher and Brittney Giammanco.

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The couple walked down the aisle to the Beach Boys’ “Kokomo,” a song co-written by Ryan’s late father, music producer Terry Melcher. Carrying a bouquet of flowers from florist Louise Sweet, Giammanco wore a flowing white dress, designed by Enzoani, with tailored sleeves to match the train, while Melcher wore a cream suit and tie.

Giammanco says her flowers had a “beautiful charm” given to her by her best friend. She adds that “she had a picture of his mother and my grandparents who passed away and my cousin who passed away.”

For the welcome party, Giammanco says she had a dress from Melcher’s mother, Jacqueline Carlin, “tailored from the ’80s.”

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“She loved the color white a lot,” Melcher says of her mother, who died in 2021, “and there’s a picture of her in [the dress] in our old house in Carmel. And Brittney gave it to her before she died.”

Giammanco says there was “so much eucalyptus down the movable tables with sort of this blue and white motley pattern going across the long tables. And then, the same pattern as for the napkins for the round tables.” She adds, “I felt like a vineyard.”

Ryan Melcher and Brittney Giammanco.

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“Everyone who went almost all called in the morning, or texted, and said, ‘This was the best wedding we’ve ever been to,'” Melcher says, adding that there were friends and family “from all walks of life.” of life, from all periods of life” for their special day.

Besides “Kokomo,” Melcher says the Dukes Band played a lot of Beach Boys songs (his father produced some of their biggest hits), as well as a few of his grandmother’s favorites, including her signature song, “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever , it will be)”, a song that also has a special meaning for both Giammanco and Melcher.

It turned out that the bride had lyrics from a classic song that Day sang in the Alfred Hitchcock film The man who knew too much tattooed on her arm when she was 19, long before she ever met Melcher.

Then, during one of the couple’s dates — after first meeting at a dive bar in Monterey, California in 2019 — Giammanco recalls Melcher asking if he knew who originally sang the 1956 record. Melcher then told her, “My grandmother gave it to me just sang the whole time,” revealing she’s related to the late Hollywood icon.

Melcher proposed to Giammanco in a meadow a few yards from their dairy farm overlooking the valley in San Lucia on her birthday — a birthday she also shares with his mother. “I was completely taken aback,” Giammanco says, adding, “He grabbed me and got down on one knee.”

But given all their interesting little connections—from sharing her birthday with Melcher’s mother to having song lyrics tattooed on her arm—Giammanco says, “It’s clear that we would have met in any life at this point.”

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