My Wedding Day with Valerie Wheeler: 'Portugal felt familiar and special to us — and the golf courses were a plus'

Valerie Wheeler, who recently announced her first pregnancy, reflects on her 2025 wedding at an intimate venue, called Vau: A rooftop restaurant on a cliff just outside Portimão in Portugal

Valerie Wheeler and her husband Gavin Young on their wedding day. Pictures: Endless Moments Wedding Photographer.

We got married on September 18, 2025. We’d got engaged in January 2024 in New York, on top of the Rockefeller Centre, and when we came home, we decided we wanted to have a small, intimate wedding.

Considering the jobs we’re in, with everything so public, we thought we’d love to head off somewhere with family and close friends.