AEW Star Kip Sabian appeared on the Sappenin program to talk about a number of topics such as how All Elite Wrestling approached him and his wife Penelope Ford to do a wedding angle on television shortly after they got engaged in real life.
Kip Sabian said:
“We got engaged, and then the idea was pitched to us, ‘Do you guys want to do a wrestling wedding?’ ‘Yeah, sounds great.’ As a wrestler, as soon as you’re presented with TV time, you’re probably going to want to take the TV time. We thought we would have plenty of time to get married, but the timeline of the wrestling wedding got shot up. Don’t know of the reason why, but I guess there were changes in plans for stuff down the line, so they had to move it sooner. I’m pretty sure we had maybe three to four weeks to put together the wrestling wedding.”
Kip Sabian also talked about how he made sure he and his wife Penelope got married in real life first before they did the wrestling angle on television because he is very big on bad luck and omens and he believes it would have been a bad omen on their real marriage if they did the wedding angle on AEW TV first.
Kip Sabian said:
“I’m very big on bad luck and omens. I didn’t want to get pretend married before we got really married because, to me, it could be a bad omen for our real marriage. We had to rush to get that done. We didn’t want a big wedding anyway, we wanted to put our money into our house as opposed to our wedding. We did a courthouse wedding, but that was almost canceled. That was two days or the day before we got married before the TV wedding. That was almost canceled because there was a snowstorm. The night before we got married, they called us up and said, ‘hey, we can’t do it, the roads aren’t clear.’ We’re panicking. The next morning, we get a call, ‘If you get here within an hour, we can do it.’ We rushed to get ready, we let our family know, we rushed through the snow to the courthouse to do it. Two days later, we got pretend married and [Penelope] nearly broke her face on the cake because it was so hard.”
You can check out Kip Sabian's full comments at this link. H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes.
