ESPN’s Malika Andrews and Dave McMenamin Get Married

Malika Andrews and Dave McMenamin have tied the knot!

On Saturday, Aug. 24, the Los Angeles-based ESPN reporters bought married at Cavallo Level Lodge, a nationwide park resort situated on the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito, Calif. — a location that match like a glove, McMenamin, 41, informed Vogue.

“We all the time knew we wished to get married within the Bay Space, the place Malika is from,” the NBA reporter, who hails from Philadelphia, informed the journal. “Once we arrived at Cavallo Level for the primary time, it simply felt proper.”

“Getting married within the Bay Space, the place I’m from, was necessary to me,” Andrews, 29, later added. “A number of the metal within the Golden Gate Bridge was sourced from Chester, Pa. — simply exterior of Philadelphia the place Dave is from. Getting married on the base of the bridge felt like the right place.”

Enhancing the Bay Space really feel of the ceremony, the couple revealed, was the climate. “It poured the morning of our marriage ceremony,” Andrews mentioned, per Vogue. “However in basic Bay Space trend, it was stunning for our night ceremony and reception.”

Along with her robe for the ceremony, the NBA At this time and NBA Countdown host paid tribute to McMenamin’s Pennsylvanian roots with a Grace Kelly-inspired robe from New York bridal store Lotus Bridal. 

“I cherished the nod to Grace Kelly, a Philly gal — the place Dave is from,” Andrews, who labored with stylist and buddy Leon Grey on her marriage ceremony appears, mentioned.

The reporter additionally revealed that the lace, Kelly-inspired robe was a far cry from what she initially imagined for herself, telling the journal that “the one factor I mentioned I didn’t really feel would work for me was a costume that included lace!”

“It was necessary to me that the costume was not solely timeless but additionally had a way of modernity; by utilizing a singular lace sample with hand-placed appliqués and an nearly sheer base together with a clear and female skirt form, we have been capable of obtain that,” she added.

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Whereas sporting the lace costume — which included a practice over 4 toes lengthy — the bride glided down the aisle to composer Johann Pachelbel’s “Canon in D.” In the meantime, McMenamin, who wore a blue tuxedo, and the marriage occasion, who wore all black, walked down the aisle to the Beatles’ “In My Life.”

After studying their vows — “Dave and I wrote our personal to share with each other,” the bride mentioned — and saying “I do” in a ceremony that blended Andrews’ Jewish traditions with McMenamin’s Catholic ones, the couple headed again down the aisle to “An Eternal Love” by Etta James. 

“Funnily sufficient, neither one in all us remembers even listening to it—we have been simply so comfortable,” Andrews informed Vogue. However, she added, “We nailed the dip! We had been working towards.”

Later, the newlyweds had their first dance to “I’ll Cowl You” from Hire, and, extra particularly, a “stunning rendition” carried out stay by their buddy, American Idol alum Elliott Yamin.

Naturally, the couple — who first met in 2017 once they have been each assigned to cowl the identical NBA sport and bought engaged in late 2022 — additionally included a number of nods to their shared love of basketball, beginning with their marriage ceremony date, which was homage to each of Kobe Bryant’s numbers when he performed with the Lakers.

McMenamin took the tribute to the late NBA legend a step additional (actually) by sporting his “Mambacita” sneakers on the reception at Cavallo Level’s ballroom. Andrews, in the meantime, become a disco ball-inspired mini costume and matching purse.

On the reception, the newlyweds’ “hoops-inspired” seating chart was organized like a March Insanity-style bracket with a useful basketball hoop within the heart. Per Andrews, the couple requested friends ever-so-punnily to “please be seeded.”

Additionally on the post-ceremony occasion, friends — together with basketball and sports activities journalism greats like Charlotte Hornets head coach Charles Lee and NBA legend Richard Jefferson — have been handled to a three-drink menu that includes one other sporty nod. 

“Dave loves a Manhattan. I get pleasure from a unclean vodka martini. I shocked Dave, a proud Syracuse College alum, with a signature drink that was a nod to The Orange,” Andrews informed Vogue. “The toothpicks had basketballs on them.”

From its wet begin to its glowing end, she informed the journal, it was “the happiest day of my life.”

The couple frolicked surrounded by the folks they love and the game that introduced them collectively. Plus, the NBA At this time host famous, the newlyweds “held palms all evening.”

“My cheeks nonetheless harm from smiling a lot on our marriage ceremony day,” she added. “Value it.”