AnnaLynne McCord has defended her crowdfunded wedding to Danny Cipriani after revealing she received death threats over the fundraiser.
The “90210” actress, 39, and the former England rugby player, 38, married in Los Angeles over the weekend following intense online backlash over their Honeyfund registry, which asked guests to pay for specific wedding expenses including a $100 marriage license, $125 for reception drinks, and $600 for the cake. The couple, whose estimated combined net worth is around $11 million, raised $14,200 through the public campaign before McCord said she realized the site was accessible to anyone, not just invited guests.
McCord addressed the controversy in an interview, explaining that the registry was created after friends repeatedly asked what gifts the couple needed. “Everyone was asking what they could give us. I was like, I have five blenders. I have everything for my home,” she told the outlet. “I’m getting married at 39. I don’t need another item. I am very blessed,” she continued.
The Georgia native claimed she only understood the scale of the situation when a co-worker questioned whether she was genuinely crowdfunding her own wedding. Despite the backlash, which McCord said escalated to death threats from online trolls, the couple proceeded with their ceremony.
The morning after the wedding, McCord posted a nearly three-minute video to Instagram showing her in bed with deep, heavy breathing. “I married the love of my life yesterday, and it’s real. It wasn’t a dream,” she said in the clip shared on August 23.
“This love is a grace upon my being. Every moment of this creation of this ceremony, every moment of ritual. Every stolen glance, until we could just stand there holding hands looking into each other’s eyes. For a frozen moment, I’d held the current of infinity,” she added in the emotional post.
McCord continued her reflection on the social media platform, writing, “The energies swirling around this wedding are all completely perfect. Not a foot put wrong, no misstep, no comment, no headline – not a single word, and through or around this magical union with my magical beloved is anything less than a perfect divine design, and it only all feels like love to me. Words are beauty in the eye of the beholder, and I see only beauty, only love. Happy first day being AnnaLynne Cipriani to me.”
In the viral moment that preceded the wedding, the couple’s Honeyfund registry drew widespread criticism after it was discovered by the general public, with fans branding them “cheapskates” for soliciting financial contributions despite their multimillion-dollar combined wealth. The registry items included practical wedding costs rather than traditional household gifts, fueling the perception that guests were being asked to subsidize the event itself.
McCord and Cipriani first connected on the exclusive celebrity dating app Raya in 2016, beginning an on-and-off relationship that ended in 2020. Their romance rekindled in 2024, and Cipriani proposed on Christmas Day 2025. The couple’s Los Angeles ceremony marked the culmination of their rekindled relationship and the controversial fundraising effort that shadowed their nuptials.