Rob Lowe Remembers Stress-Free, Quiet Wedding, 33 Years After Marrying at a Friend’s House: 'It Was Amazing' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

And then there’sRob Lowe’s wedding.

When Lowe, then 28 andnewly sober, marriedSheryl Berkoffon July 22, 1991, the smitten pair opted for an intimate ceremony at a mutual friend’s house.

Rob Lowe and Sheryl Berkoff.Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty

Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty

“What was great about it was we didn’t get caught up in getting a big place to do it or fancy anything,” Lowe, 60, tells PEOPLE in this week’scover storythat celebrates the mosttransformative momentsof the Hollywood icon’s life.

“It was very quiet. Nobody even knew they were coming to a wedding. We didn’t want word to get out. It was just for us.”

He adds: “I have nothing but great memories. I had no stress around it.”

Lowe allows that Sheryl, 63, did most of the planning and pulled off the perfect experience within just one month of his proposal.

Rob Lowe and Sheryl Berkoff.Courtesy Rob Lowe

Courtesy Rob Lowe

The couple, who had their first wedding dance to the “Love Theme” fromOut of Africa,soon started their family and went on to raise sonsMatthew, now 30, andJohn Owen, 28.

Rob Lowe and Sheryl Berkoff.sheryl Lowe/Instagram

sheryl Lowe/Instagram

Lowe says he’d actually visualized a future with Sheryl years before they walked down the aisle.

“I’ve been lucky enough to have a couple of, like they say, ‘aha moments.’ It’s actually way above that: it’s a profound, life-changing, visceral, crystalline, certain God shot [and] one of them was when Sheryl and I were on a vacation in Fiji as boyfriend and girlfriend,” he says.

Rob Lowe.Jenny Gage + Tom Betteron

Jenny Gage + Tom Betteron

“They had put a little plaque on our hut where we were staying, and it said, ‘Rob and Sheryl.’ I was overwhelmed with visions of the future, that we were going to be together, and kids were involved.”

Lowe has held onto the little sign as a keepsake from that meaningful moment all these years later.

He says: “I had an epiphany that if I couldn’t make it work with her, I couldn’t make it work with anybody.”

For more of Rob Lowe’s exclusive PEOPLE interview, please pick up a copy of the new issue, on stands Friday.

source: people.com