Fairground
September 2013 Issue

Inside the Extravagant Wedding of Sean Parker and Alexandra Lenas

Wedding of the year? In a V.F. exclusive, social-media baron Sean Parker and singer-songwriter Alexandra Lenas traded vows amid towering redwoods.

Photographed by Christian Oth and Mark Seliger, the must-be-seen-to-be-believed lush images—appearing here for the first time—show nuptials guests like Olivia Munn (holding a bunny!), Sean Lennon, Allison Williams, and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. You can see the couple’s “performance-art” vision for their wedding come to life—Parker, 33, oversaw all details, from the leather-bound keepsake volume for guests, to the nine-foot-tall wedding cake, to the fur-pelt-strewn beds in the lounge area. Dedicated to their love of old-growth forests, the celebration—which included Tolkien-ized costumes for all 364 guests by Lord of the Ringscostume designer Ngila Dickson—cost Parker $4.5 million for the wooded site alone.

Read more about Sean Parker’s wedding, where some guests watched the Game of Thrones “Red Wedding” episode, in David Kirkpatrick’s exclusive dispatch from the event. Plus, look back at our 2010 profile of Parker and his post-Napster adventures.