The couple wed on Saturday night in the South of France after some nine years together
Olympic ice dancing champion Meryl Davis and her newlywed husband, Fedor Andreev, just finished their three-day destination wedding in the South of France â and there are no plans to turn around and throw a baby shower just yet.
âWeâve talked about it,â Davis, 32, tells PEOPLE of starting a family with Andreev, 37. âBut itâs a little bit of a ways away.â
âFedor and I have made no secret in our conversations together that we always talk about how weâre kind of late bloomers,â she explains. âWhile we absolutely love spending time with our friendsâ kids and our cousins and familyâs kids, weâre not quite ready.â
The couple, who wed on Saturday night in Provence after some nine years together, joke that they are already parents to one âfur childâ: their 2-year-old mini sheepadoodle, Bilbo.
âWe definitely feel like a little family unit already, and so once we feel like weâre ready then itâs going to be another discussion,â says Andreev. âBut I kind of have a feeling itâs going to be another furry one before non-furry one.â
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Raising a dog isnât bad practice for the real thing, either.
âItâs interesting parenting a pet with your significant other,â Davis says. âI feel like you learn a lot about yourself ⊠but also weâve learned so much about each other, and I think itâs made us just fall in love with each other even more â watching each other co-parent and sort of figuring out how to be a team. Not just the two of us, but in taking care of something else.â
âI mean I know that sounds silly,â she says, âbut itâs just such a great way to continue growing and evolving together and appreciating each otherâs special qualities.â
After their weekend wedding festivities ended on Sunday night, Andreev and Davis remained in Provence, where they married in the backyard garden of Le Mas des Poiriers, to soak up a few more days with their families.
They have a honeymoon planned for later this year. Davis, who said in 2017 she would not continue competing, still tours extensively with longtime skating partner Charlie White. Andreev, an accomplished skater in his own right, now works as an entrepreneur.
The future awaits. Says Davis: âWeâre just excited to continue going on adventures together.â
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Meryl's flowers were outstanding (!) and her gown fit the venue and the aesthetic of the wedding beautifully. However, why oh why does she consistently choose skating costumes and now her gown that actually emphasize her flatchestedness? That familiar deep V cut, designed to draw the eye to the breasts, does her no favors! A lace insert (an easy custom alteration) and/or a little built-in bra support/soft padding, nothing ott, would've kept the attention on the bride rather than on her chest.
Her wedding fits my aesthetic exactly. So of course I loved it.
If you go through my blog I have lots of pictures of beautiful tables outdoors under lights, lots of flowers,vintage china and embroidered dresses.
It was much the closest to things I would chose myself of all the celeb weddings I have ever seen.
Honestly I think you are being ridiculous here. Why would she want to look like a different person for her wedding? She looks stunning. Fake hair, fake boobs and any other additions are signs of lack of confidence in who you are as a person.
I thought her choice of gown was perfect for her and fit the setting to a tea. Romantic, ethereal, and comfortable. Why not choose something that might resemble one of her skating costumes. She knows what she looks good in and what is comfortable to her. She wore it well.
The couple wed in front of some 95 guests in the backyard garden of the luxurious Le Mas des Poiriers
Former Dancing with the Stars champion and Olympic figure skater Meryl Davis is embarking on her next adventure with Fedor Andreev: They are now husband and wife!
The couple tied the knot in an âintimateâ outdoor ceremony in the South of France on Saturday night, PEOPLE can exclusively confirm.
âWe chose each other, and weâve been committed to each other for a long time,â Davis, 32, tells PEOPLE. âAnd yet, to be able to celebrate our relationship and what this means for us and our families with our families and our closest friends â and the fact that so many of them are traveling all the way to Europe to celebrate us and this time in our lives â just means so much.â
âWe love each other unimaginably,â says Andreev, 37. âSo Iâm just really excited to make it official, since we know we want to spend the rest of our lives together.â
Andreev and Davis, who have been together about nine years, got engaged in July 2017. He proposed with a square-cut canary yellow diamond ring while they were on a hike in California.
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With Davisâ uncle Cam officiating, she and Andreev wed in front of some 95 guests in the backyard garden of the Le Mas des Poiriers, a luxuriously renovated 18th-century farmhouse on an island in Provence.
âI really wanted it be like sort of an intimate family [and] friend backyard gathering,â Davis says.
âI have never had a backyard gathering quite like this, but that was the intention was to make it very comfortable, warm, welcoming and feeling as if youâre in your backyard garden pulling out your grandmotherâs beautiful treasured china,â she continues. Not unlike âa summer backyard garden party where you invite your closest friends and family.â
Decidedly non-traditional, Andreev and Davis didnât avoid one another the day of the wedding. (Instead they planned on going for a run together.) In lieu of vows, they each wrote the other a letter they read aloud before exchanging rings â and then âI doâs.
For the wedding, Davis wore a sleeveless white dress by Monique Lhuillier, which was the very first one she put on: âI ended up trying on many other dresses with the styling help of Cynthia Cook Smith but always returned back to this piece.â
âIt just felt right,â she says.
Andreev wore a custom-made deep blue suit â but no tie. (âAll the men wouldâve been sweatingâ in the heat of the French summer, he explains.)
At Davisâ side was her man of honor, younger brother Clayton. Andreevâs best lady was his cousin Danielle Vincent, a makeup artist and founder of beauty company Kimiko.
Davisâ longtime skating partner, Charlie White, with whom she has won three Olympic medals, including a gold, was of course in attendance.
âIt wouldnât be the same without Charlie there,â Davis says. â[He] has been a huge part of my life since I was about 8 years old â heâs family.â
Dinner afterward was held in an alleyway of plane trees on the farmhouse property, and the eveningâs reception was to be set, in part, to a playlist curated by the bride and groom.
Music, in fact, carried throughout the evening: A string quartet played at the ceremony followed by a jazz band at dinner and cocktails and a DJ for the ambling post-dinner reception which was expected to carry into Sundayâs early hours.
The newlyweds danced to a remake of Elvisâ âCanât Help Falling in Loveâ that âjust has a nice warm feeling of happiness and joy,â Andreev says. They danced with their parents to âMy Girl.â
The wedding, planned with Luis Otoya and Matthew Robbins, was the centerpiece of the weekend that also included a laid-back welcome dinner on Friday and, to come on Sunday, a brunch and pool party.
âTraveling and seeing the world and going on an adventure, itâs such a part of our lives and who we are as a couple and sort of what makes us happy, and I think a lot of our friends and family identify us as that,â Davis says. âAnd so that was sort of the deciding factor when it came to whether or not we really wanted to go for a destination wedding.â
Provence, she says, âspoke to us.â
Andreev and Davis plan to stay for a few days with their families after the wedding, with a honeymoon in the fall or winter.
A former figure skater himself, the Moscow-born Andreev now works as an entrepreneur. Though she retired from Olympic competition, Davis continues to skate professionally with White, with whom she tours frequently.
She and Andreev have talked about starting a family but they arenât in any rush. They have the rest of their lives, starting with Saturday.
âI think for all of us, itâs just a magical experience,â Andreev says.
Says Davis: âHow often in life do you get to sort of hit pause and just enjoy an adventure in a beautiful location with the people you love most?â
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