You'll Never Guess Who Crashed Jimmy Fallon & Nancy Juvonen's Destination Wedding
"Every shot he’s photobombing," The Tonight Show Host said of their surprise wedding guest.
When Jimmy Fallon proposed to his wife, film producer Nancy Juvonen, The Tonight Show Host had a dream wedding location in mind. But little did he know that a phone call from Sir Richard Branson would have them planning their wedding and getting married at that dream location in just a matter of weeks.
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Read on to learn all about Fallon and Juvonen’s intimate destination wedding, how the party continued days after they said “I do,” and the surprise guest they both never expected to be in the front row.
Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen got married on Necker Island
After first meeting in the early 2000s, Fallon and Juvonen got married December 22, 2007 in a small destination wedding on Necker Island, Richard Branson's private island in the Caribbean.
In a May 2020 segment of “Ask the Fallons” for The Tonight Show, Juvonen explained that immediately after Fallon proposed, she got very busy with production on the 2009 rom-com He’s Just Not That Into You. Fallon was also busy with his own work, and they were not at all interested in the many little details of wedding planning.
“We’re living in L.A. and we’re making these lists and lists and lists of people. And I’m like ‘I don’t have any time,’” Juvonen said of planning a big wedding. “We kept trying to talk to these wedding people and they wanted to talk about napkins and things. We just could not have cared less, really, on any level.”
Fallon said that he’d talked to his travel agent about the possibility of a destination wedding and told him that it was his “dream” to get married on Necker Island. “He said, ‘Yeah that’s out of the question,’” Fallon recalled. "I go ‘I gotcha. No big deal, life goes on.’”
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But while they were home for Thanksgiving, Fallon’s travel agent reached out again and dropped the perfect opportunity into their laps. Though Fallon was previously told that he’d have to rent out the island for two weeks, Branson made a special exception for them because he was a fan of the SNL alum. And because Branson wasn’t going to be on the island over Christmas that year because his daughter was having a baby.
“We got this place for three days and Jimmy goes, ‘What if we got married in three weeks instead of next summer?’ And I’m like, ‘This is the best idea of all human time,’” Juvonen said. “So we had 12 people at our wedding, I just got a dress done as fast as I could.”
“There are some aunts that don’t talk to us to this day,” Fallon joked of their small guest list, adding that they only invited siblings, parents, and best friends. “Man, we had a rager time. It was so much fun.”
Fallon and Juvonen both remembered how “cool” the staff on the island was and all of the exotic wildlife. “They had animals everywhere,” Juvonen said just before Fallon finished her sentence and they both laughed in unison, “All these flamingos and giant turtles!”
“Hands down one of the best days and nights of my life,” Fallon said.
“It was the best wedding I’ve ever had,” Juvonen joked with a smirk as Fallon burst out laughing.
Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen had a Below Deck experience after their island wedding
The couple’s mutual best friend, Drew Barrymore — who founded the production company Flower Films with Juvonen in 1995 — was one of the lucky attendees at their wedding. They’re so close, Barrymore explained on her talk show, that she calls Fallon her "brother-in-law."
After their wedding and they said goodbye to their other guests, the newlyweds and Barrymore stayed on Necker Island with the staff through Boxing Day. While the workers had taken care of them during their wedding festivities as guests, they were told they'd have to fend for themselves for their extended stay. And they were pumped for the experience.
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“It was almost like we were in Below Deck, we kinda worked there,” Fallon said, referring to the long-running Bravo reality series. “We did dishes with them, had dinner with them.”
“Oh my gosh it was so fun,” Juvonen added.
Jimmy Fallon does not recommend filming your wedding
Fallon has one piece of wedding planning advice: “Don’t get your wedding videotaped.”
In the same “Ask the Fallons” video, Fallon and Juvonen talked about how they attempted to watch a video of their wedding, but had to turn it off. “Remember we tried to watch the DVD?” Fallon asked his wife, who quickly said, “Oh god.”
“You can’t watch it!” Fallon added. “I mean, we had the best time ever and then you watch it back and you’re like ‘eww.’”
Kermit the Frog crashed Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen’s wedding
While their wedding was tiny, an unexpected wedding crasher made it to the front row of the ceremony. During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, Fallon revealed that their videographer had surprised them with a giant, life-sized Kermit the Frog doll. Why? Fallon’s only guess is because “Rainbow Connection” by Jim Henson from The Muppet Movie was one of their wedding songs.
“There’s a Kermit the Frog doll in the front row. Like flopped in there, like a puppet with no hand in it,” Fallon told Barrymore in a 2020 interview. “And Nancy’s coming in and I’m welling up, she looks beautiful, and then in the corner of my eye there’s a Kermit the Frog doll, just zapping all the romance out of the wedding.”
And Kermit stayed for the reception, too. “I watched [our wedding video] once and every shot he’s photobombing,” Fallon recalled to Barrymore in another interview. “Like these moments I thought were intimate, like my dance with my mom. And then Kermit’s head pops out the back.”
