Why Kelly Ripa Didn’t Have A Bachelorette Party Before Marrying Mark Consuelos

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Kelly Ripa is recounting her lack of pre-nuptial festivities. The “LIVE with Kelly and Mark” host revealed she never had a bachelorette party before saying “I do” to husband Mark Consuelos back in 1996. “No, you know me, pageantry is not my thing,” Ripa told her husband on Monday’s episode of the ABC talk show. READ MORE: Kelly Ripa Shares Pool Pic Of Husband Mark Consuelos: ‘It’s That Time Of Year Again’ “I wanted the marriage, not the big wedding.

I don’t need a bachelorette party to tell me that I’m about to get married because I’m about to get married and here I am on the airplane, you know what I mean?” she explained. “That’s my bachelorette party.” The couple — who eloped in Las Vegas on May 1, 1996, one year after meeting on the set of “All My Children” — then revealed that they didn’t even wait more than 24 hours to elope after Consuelos proposed.

But, even if there was time for a bachelorette party, Ripa wouldn’t have wanted one, nor would she have set time aside for one if her friends wanted to plan it. READ MORE: Kelly Ripa And Mark Consuelos Insist They Won’t Be Renewing Their Wedding Vows: ‘I Feel Like It’s A Pre-Divorce’ “Sashes, hats, penis hats, hats with penises.

Which, to me, it never makes any sense. I don’t understand what it means,” Ripa, 52, confessed. “I don’t know! I don’t get it! … so now they’re saying that brides are bucking the tradition of that and they’re going on solo destinations for spa and wellness retreats of so they can be contemplative.” Last August, the actress looked back on the couple’s whirlwind Las Vegas nuptials with former co-host Ryan Seacrest. “We just had a very normal, very regular wedding.