Korean actor and prospective father Choi Tae-joon expressed his gratitude for the public’s support to his marriage to “#Alive” actress Park Shin-hye.
Choi Tae-joon, 30, and Park Shin-hye, 31, tied the knot in a ceremony at the Oryun Community Church in Gangdong-gu, Seoul on Jan. 22.
“Thank you so much for your support and blessings,” posted Choi Tae-joon on Instagram on Jan. 23 along with his photo taken during their pre-wedding pictorial.
After the wedding, Park Shin-hye posted on Instagram to thank everyone who supported their marriage.
“Thank you to everyone who sent many blessings and congratulations,” wrote Park Shin-hye along with her photos in which she is wearing the Korean traditional dress hanbok and the coronet jokduri.
Their wedding became a star-studded grand affair. Among those who attended the wedding ceremony were Lee Min-ho, Super Junior’s Leeteuk, Nam Goong-min, IU, Lee Seo-jin, Yoo Yeon-seok, Ryu Jun-yeol, AOA’s Seolhyun, Lee Sun-bin, Lee Dong-hwi, Bae Jeong-nam, former rhythmic gymnast Son Yeon-jae, Kim Myung-min, Kim Bum, 2PM’s Chansung, Nam Ji-hyun, Seulong, Oh Yeon-seo, Uhm Ji-won, Yoon Kyun-sang and Kim Ye-won.
At the ceremony, EXO’s D.O., FT Island’s Hongki, Crush and Lee Juck sang original soundtracks from Korean dramas.
Zico, a friend of Choi Tae-joon, read a letter addressed to the couple.
The highlight of the event was when the couple recited their wedding vows. Choi Tae-joon raised one hand to make a pledge.
"I, Choi Tae-Joon, take you Park Shin-Hye as my wife, and pledge to love and cherish you for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health.”
She replied, “I, Park Shin-hye, take you Choi Tae-joon as my husband, and pledge to love and cherish you for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,” according to Korean media. After saying this, Park Shin-hye cried.
The couple got married four years after getting together by the end of 2017. They admitted their relationship in March 2018.
Last Nov. 23, Park Shin-hye wrote a letter to announce that she was getting married and she was pregnant with Choi Tae-joon’s baby.
“I am getting married to the person I have been seeing for a while now. He was my pillar of support for a long time, and he embraced the person Park Shin Hye with all of her lacking qualities. So I'm planning to start a new life with him as a married couple,” she wrote, according to SBS News.
She added, “Furthermore, although I am a little hesitant to discuss this since it is still in its very early stages, but while we began preparing for our marriage, a precious new life came to us. I wanted to share this news to you first, most of all,” the actress said about her pregnancy.”
Park Shin-hye and Choi Tae-joon both started as child actors and studied at Chung-Ang University.
She appeared as the young Choi Ji-woo in “Stairway to Heaven.” Her drama and film credits include “#Alive,” “The Call,” “The Heirs,” “You’re Beautiful,” “Heartstrings,” “Memories of the Alhambra” and “Miracle in Cell No.7.”
Choi Tae-joon’s acting credits include the dramas “So I Married the Anti-fan,” “A Girl Who Sees Smells” and “Exit.”