Doris Day’s Grandson Ryan Melcher Marries Brittney Giammanco in Massachusetts Wedding (Exclusive)

Ryan Melcher, the sole heir to late Hollywood legend Doris Day, found his happily ever after.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the 40-year-old real estate agent from Carmel, California, and his wife Brittney Giammanco, 31, discussed their joyful day on September 30 at Lambert’s Cove Inn & Resort near Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

“It was truly a no-brainer when it came to it,” Giammanco tells PEOPLE of holding their wedding on Martha’s Vineyard, where Melcher had spent time with his family as a child. “It just felt meant to be.”

While the inn, run by Bridget Sampson and her chef husband Galen Sampson, was the ideal location, their special day got off to a wet start, with Giammanco recalling that it was “pouring.” So much so that “it ran past our start time,” adds Melcher, who was recently named Carmel-by-the-Sea’s top real estate agent.

Melcher tells PEOPLE that as the weather clears The pair said, “Let’s do this.” That’s when “everyone went running out” to the grounds, which included a magnificent flower garden. “It’s incredible,” the groom exclaims. “I have never seen anything like it, and it is intentionally wild and nasty. And there is one aisle to walk down, followed by two rows of flowers on either side.

“I was adamant about getting into that garden,” Giammanco explains. “So, he says, ‘We’ll wait as long as we need to. “We will get in there.”

“People were still sitting when we started walking down the aisle,” she says, adding that the weather didn’t dampen the event. “Then, toward the end, it rained. My poor father and brother—it was cute—they were so concerned about my clothing. My brother said, ‘I’ll hold the train for you. You cannot ruin it. I’m like, forget it. Who cares? “Let us go.”

“I didn’t even realize it started raining while we were saying our vows,” the bride explains. “It was perfect.” I was blinded by love.

Ryan Melcher and Brittany Giammanco
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Ryan’s late father, music producer Terry Melcher, co-wrote the Beach Boys song “Kokomo,” which they went down the aisle to. Giammanco, who was carrying a bouquet of flowers from florist Louise Sweet, wore an Enzoani-designed flowing white dress with custom sleeves that matched the train, while Melcher wore a cream suit and tie.

Giammanco claims her flowers featured a “beautiful charm” given to her by her best friend. According to her, it “had a picture of his mother and my grandparents that had passed away and my cousin that had passed away.”

Giammanco says she had Melcher’s mother, Jacqueline Carlin, wear a dress “tailored to fit from the 80s” for the welcome celebration.

“She liked white a lot,” Melcher says of his mother, who died in 2021, “and there’s a picture of her in [the outfit] in our old house in Carmel. And she gave it to Brittney just before she died.

Giammanco claims there was “so much eucalyptus down the running tables with kind of that blue and white paisley looking pattern that went across the long tables.” Then use the same pattern as for the napkins on the round tables.” She says, “It felt very vineyard.”

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“Everybody that left called in the morning pretty much, virtually everybody, or texted, and said, ‘That was the best wedding we’ve ever been to,'” Melcher adds, adding that they had friends and relatives “from all different walks of life, from all periods of life” for their special day.

In addition to “Kokomo,” Melcher says the Dukes Band played a lot of Beach Boys songs (his father produced some of their biggest hits) as well as a few favorites from his grandmother, including her signature song, “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be),” which has special meaning for both Giammanco and Melcher.

The bride had the lyrics to the legendary song that Day sung in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much tattooed on her arm when she was 19 years old, long before she met Melcher.

Then, during one of the couple’s dates after meeting at a dive bar in Monterey, California in 2019, Melcher asked Giammanco whether she knew who sang the 1956 record. Melcher then informed her, “My grandmother just sang it to me all the time,” suggesting that he was related to the late Hollywood icon.

Melcher proposed to Giammanco on her birthday, which she celebrates with his mother, in a field yards from their dairy farm overlooking the valley in San Lucia. “I was completely caught off guard,” Giammanco recounts, adding, “He grabbed me and went down on one knee.”

But, given all of their amazing tiny connections—from her having her birthdate with Melcher’s mother to the song lyrics tattooed on her arm—Giammanco adds, “Clearly we would’ve found each other in any lifetime at this point.”