Alex Cooper's Dad Didn't Walk Her Down the Wedding Aisle: 'Never Loved That Tradition'

“My mom also walked herself down the aisle, so in a sense, I guess we are creating our own tradition for the women in our family,” the podcaster told 'Vogue'

Alex Cooper always planned to go solo down the aisle.

So when the Call Her Daddy host, 29, said “I do” to her longtime love, Hollywood producer Matt Kaplan, earlier this month, that’s exactly what she did.

Speaking with Vogue about her and Kaplan’s nuptials in Riviera Maya, Mexico, the podcaster revealed that from the beginning of the wedding planning process, she “really rejected the concept of being walked down by a man to be handed to another man."

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"Although to clarify I have such an incredible relationship with my father and both of my parents—it wasn’t about that,” she told the magazine. “To me personally, I just never loved that tradition. It’s old and antiquated.”

Not only that, but Cooper’s mother had rejected the convention years ago.

“My mom also walked herself down the aisle, so in a sense, I guess we are creating our own tradition for the women in our family,” the podcast host explained.

But Cooper’s dad did ultimately play a crucial role in her and Kaplan’s wedding.

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At the reception, following a fun-filled evening (“The vibes were immaculate,” per Cooper), he announced on a microphone that everyone was expected to run into the ocean — still wearing their formalwear.

And, to Cooper’s surprise, nearly everyone obliged.

“I was expecting maybe just my close friends to join in, but to my complete shock almost the entire wedding took charge to the ocean,” she told the magazine. “Parents, grandparents, family and friends.”

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As for the actual moment she and Kaplan tied the knot, the couple enlisted the help of different family members — their pups, Henry and Bruce, who the couple sees “as our children,” per Cooper.

“They were the ring bearers,” the Call Her Daddy host revealed. “They each had one of our rings around their collar and when my brother asked for the rings, they had their own moment entering from the double doors and came running down the aisle.”

“It was perfection,” she added.

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