Ivy Getty's Wedding Jewels Belonged to Her Legendary Grandmother Ann Getty

This season has already been so fabulously flush with high society weddings—in just the past few weeks, we've (vicariously) witnessed the glittery unions of an Arnault, an Arrivabene, Greek royalty, Japanese royalty, and a Gates (not to mention the blowout Hilton wedding forthcoming). Now another one joins the list. This past weekend, Ivy Getty, scion of the oil dynasty and great-granddaughter of its infamous patriarch J. Paul Getty, married photographer Tobias Alexander Engel over a four-day celebration in San Francisco that was, even by 0.001 percenters' standards, an incredibly extravagant affair, studded with more A-list names than the Met Ball, Oscars, and a White House State Dinner, combined.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi officiated. California governor Gavin Newsom and San Francisco mayor London Breed were guests. Mark Ronson, who himself recently tied the knot with Grace Gummer (as in, Meryl Streep's daughter), was a DJ at the welcome party, where Earth, Wind & Fire also performed. Anya Taylor-Joy served as the maid of honor. John Galliano designed the bride's two wedding dresses. And her jewels came from the vaults of her late grandmother, the great socialite and philanthropist Ann Getty, who died in 2020. (Ivy's father John Gilbert Getty also died last year of an accidental drug overdose—her grandfather Gordon walked her down the aisle.)

"This day was so important to my grandmother, as she raised me," Ivy says. "Being able to wear her jewelry meant everything to me."

For the ceremony at City Hall, for which Galliano created a multilayered, corseted tulle wedding look covered in a tunic of cracked mirror fragments and accented with a crown inspired by broken bottles, Ivy opted for tradition with Ann's flower motif antique mine-cut diamond and briolette-cut sapphire earrings, which constituted both her something borrowed and something blue. "The dress was so stunning and intricate that I needed something simple and these studs brought everything together. If she was here today she would have given me the same exact pair," she says. "And it felt as though she was walking down the aisle with me."

The newlyweds' reception at Ann and Gordon's legendary mansion in Pacific Heights naturally warranted a quick costume change: another sparkly Galliano creation, this one accented with a choker, also Ann's, made of freshwater pearls, aquamarine, citrine, and enamel by Italian jeweler Percossi Papi.

The borrowed jewels may have since gone back into the Getty vaults, but Ivy will forever carry around mementos of her beloved grandmother—the sapphire stone on her engagement ring, which belonged to her husband Tobias's mother, is encircled with diamonds that came from a necklace Ann gifted her granddaughter years ago. "I felt her presence with me the whole night," Ivy says. "I know she was looking down on Toby and me."

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