Jamie Lee Curtis spent Memorial Day weekend celebrating a beautiful occasion.
Not only did she get to be the mother of the bride when daughter Ruby Guest married her longtime partner Kynthia, but the actress also got to officiate. The couple exchanged vows in the backyard of Jamie's family home, just like big sister Annie Guest did three years prior.
Ruby came out as trans to her parents in 2020 and publicly in 2021, sitting down with her supportive mother for an interview. In that interview, she also talked about how Kynthia has been by her side throughout her journey, making the elements of their wedding that much sweeter.
Jamie Lee Curtis donned a World of Warcraft costume to officiate the cosplay wedding. She opened up about the idea in her March 2022 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
"Everybody at the wedding is going to be in costume and I will be in a costume to officiate the wedding," she said of her costume, an Etsy find.
"Her name is Jaina Proudmoore. It's from … it's a game. She's an admiral."
Jamie was already excited for the backyard nuptials, which are especially meaningful to her.
"We're gonna have a beautiful picnic in the backyard. I'm really excited," she shared at the time.
"Both my children will have been married in my backyard, which brings me to tears."
"It's so much more meaningful," she continued.
"Just forgetting all of show-off business — being a parent, having both of your children married in your backyard."
The scenes Jamie shared from the big day are absolutely adorable. It seems like it lived up to her dreams, and the brides looked joyous, also dressed in World of Warcraft garb. They encouraged their guests to join in on the theme, making for a colorful and fascinating party of people.
Ruby explained that she knew she was different from the time she was 16, but it took her some time to figure out what that meant for her. A bad experience in therapy ultimately set her back from coming out as trans when she felt she should have.
"Then, seven years later, still being Tom at the time, I told the person who is now my fiancé that I am probably trans," Ruby shared with People.
"And they said, 'I love you for who you are.'"
During the interview, Ruby shared praise for her parents for accepting her and working their hardest to be open and respectful of her journey.
"It was intimidating — but I wasn't worried. They had been so accepting of me my entire life," she shared.
"It's speaking a new language. It's learning new terminology and words. I am new at it. I am not someone who is pretending to know much about it," Jamie said at the time.
"And I'm going to blow it, I'm going to make mistakes. I would like to try to avoid making big mistakes."
"You slow your speech down a little. You become a little more mindful about what you're saying," she explained.
"How you're saying it. You still mess up, I've messed up today twice. We're human."
Jamie Lee admitted that she and husband Christopher Guest struggled most with letting go of Ruby's given name, but understood the importance of doing so.
"Just the regularity of the word. The name that you'd given a child. That you've been saying their whole life," she remarked.
"And so, of course, at first that was the challenge. Then the pronoun. My husband and I still slip occasionally."
Jamie says that she's helped Ruby share her story to offer her family's experience and perspective to others who may be experiencing the same thing.
"I'm not proselytizing, and I'm not trying to force-feed something to people. I'm simply saying, 'This is our family's experience,'" she noted.
"I am here to support Ruby. That is my job. Just as it is to care and love and support her older sister Annie in her journeys. I'm a grateful student. I'm learning so much from Ruby. The conversation is ongoing. But I want to know: How can I do this better?"
