Vanessa Hudgens Says She Nearly Fainted While Touring Her Wedding Venue in the Mexican Jungle

Mar. 15, 2025

Cole Tucker and Vanessa Hudgens.Photo:Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Vanessa Hudgensfell in love with her wedding venue — but it did come with a few challenges.

For one, the actress — whomarried baseball player Cole Tuckeron Saturday — said she nearly fainted the first time she toured the location inTulum, Mexico. In an interview withVogue, Hudgens, 34, shared that she had her heart set on staging her wedding at theAzulik Hotel, which she had long been eyeing on Instagram.

“I told Cole, ‘Maybe we could go here on our honeymoon…we would get such great pictures. Wait — maybe we could get married here?!’” she recalled to the outlet.

Keen to check out the hotel in person, she managed to squeeze in a trip to Tulum amid filming for the latestBad Boysmovie. “I was like, ‘You know what, even if it’s not that hotel, I’m sure I’ll find another hotel that might work,’ " she explained. “I also knew I wanted to get married somewhere warm. I felt like ‘Mexico it is!’"

However, that was only part one.

The Azulik Hotel in Tulum, Mexico.getty

getty

“At the end of this very long tour, I was like, ‘Where would we have our ceremony?’ and they were like, ‘Oh, that would be at our museum [the Azulik City of Arts],’ and they said, ‘It’s 45 minutes into the jungle.’ I was thinking, ‘Okay, that sounds aggressive, but I guess I’ll give it a try,' " she continued.

As she made the trek deep into the jungle — much of it “down an unpaved dirt road” — she started to have serious doubts. “I proceeded to think, ‘There’s no way in hell we’ll be able to have our wedding here — how are we going to get our entire party out here down this bumpy dirt road?' " she said.

That all changed the moment she set eyes on the museum. “I knew that it was our place,” she recalled. “I felt like I was transported to some kind of utopia, unlike anything I had ever been to before. It was whimsical and magical, and I just fell in love.”

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Vanessa Hudgens and Cole Tucker.Araya Doheny/Getty

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Hudgens and Tucker, 27, exchanged handwritten vows in an outdoor ceremony on the museum grounds in what she described toVogueas “one of the most emotional moments of my life.”

“I literally keeled over when I saw Cole and had to take a big breath and had to force myself to keep walking because I could have dropped to the floor,” she said of her groom, who plays for the Albuquerque Isotopes.

As she looks back on the wedding, Hudgens said she is still basking in the glow of the moment. “It was genuinely the most magical weekend of my life,” she told the magazine. “Literally talking about it right now, I’m getting teary-eyed. I couldn’t have dreamt it to be any better. I knew it was going to be magical, but it exceeded my expectations.”

source: people.com