Adrienne & Israel Houghton's Love Story | All Things Adrienne

- Hello everyone. I'm definitely going to bring guests on my videos from time to time, and today we have my favorite guest of all time. I'm very excited about this. He is my husband, my best friend in the whole world. We are newlyweds and literally every day, I thank God that our travels brought us together. So sit back, because we're about to tell you our whole

story

. So, are you ready to meet him? Say yes, say yes, say yes. I hear you, you're ready. Okay, okay, you're ready, you're ready, you're ready. Baby, come on. This is my husband, Israel Holton. (Laughs) Guys, you're wrong about our names.

They have to understand it. - all the time. I always joke that I literally thought I went from a first name no one could pronounce to another last name no one could pronounce. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, meet Israel Houghton. - The crowd goes crazy, I can actually hear them screaming at home. - Through the screen, exactly. Okay, are you ready for this? - I'm ready. - Actually? - Yes. - Don't you

love

this kind of thing? - It's what I like to do most in life. (laughs) - Sarcasm on another level, get ready for it. - No, but I'm excited.

I think people... Well, I'm excited about anything about you and All Things Adrienne includes me. - There you go. (upbeat music) - We met in New York City at a church called CCC. - What does CCC mean? - Christian Cultural Center. - There you go. - We met because we were doing... - We were doing promotion. - Yes, promotion of a film in which she starred. - Yes. - called I'm in

love

with a girl from church. - I met you there. I literally said, I'm the girl from church, I'm really late, and we literally said, "Hi, nice to meet you." We hugged, no, no, we hugged? - Yes, I think we gave each other like a church hug. - Like. - Let's show them what a hug is like in church. - Like.

Hello, nice to meet you. - Then the movie came out and, you know, you work on a lot of projects, you're generally not in touch with everyone. We are still friends. - Yes, we all did. It was like a group of us who made the movie. -And the first day I met her family, I met her mother in particular and her brother-in-law, and I got along well with both of them. - Super wild. -So, when I went to town, Jared, her brother-in-law, told me: "Hey, come." - They were going out without me all the time. I was like, "Why are you guys cooler than us?" They became very, very tight. - And the rest is a bit of hi

story

, because we saw each other from time to time at different functions and that kind of thing, and I don't know how to say it.

You know someone will be in your life forever. - You just don't know how. - You don't know in what capacity, but you know that I like being with them, I like talking to them. You make me laugh. - We used to laugh together. - All the time, we still laugh all the time. - Yes. - I think that's the point. - Always. (laughing) Oh, it's so funny. - But I knew she was the one, actually on our first real date, our first real getaway together. It started out a little crazy, (laughs) it had a lot of chaos connected with paparazzi and all that.

I had recently announced that I had gotten divorced, even though I had been divorced for quite some time, so everyone was speculating and saying, Crazy. - different

things

and saying crazy

things

about her, at that point I just said, "Hey, listen, I'm happy to accept one for the team, this is new." You can just say, "Hey, I didn't know what that was all about." - You can say: "I don't want to have anything to do with him." and she keeps pushing. - And she said, "I was your friend before this happened, I'm your friend now, and let's get over it." I think in that moment I knew that this is everything, and she is everything to me, so what?

Eight months later we got married. - MMM. (upbeat jazz music) One of the things we have in common is that we love to travel and we love to travel together. We had a lot of fun, although I hate flying. - Well, once we land. - Once we land, yes, because I hate flying. It's not my favorite activity (laughs), which doesn't make sense for someone who loves to travel, but one summer we decided, oh my God, we were going to Greece, and then we were like, let's go to Paris, then we'll go to Greece , and we'll just hop over to Europe, and start from there. - So, it was August 11. - Yes. - And I had hired a private boat - Yacht. - on the Seine, and a chef and all that, and so on... - Crazy.

So I thought we were just going to dinner, and actually, this is very common in Paris, they actually have a lot of cruise ships that offer dinner on the Seine, like it's an open public restaurant that you can go to. Just floating restaurants, so I thought that's it, so I was like, "Okay, cool, whatever, let's go have dinner." I get there and I realize it's just... - There's no one else there, just us. - I say: "Wait, this is private?" I was like, "Wait, what?" Then, at some point, we went down to dinner. After dinner, he's like, "Oh my God, I know the perfect thing..." When you know your girl is into Instagram and you know that a really high shot would mean the world to her, that's how she got me, okay?

There was a bowl that had all these white rose petals in it, so you said, "Honey, if you grab them and throw the rose petals away and turn around, I'll film you in slow motion." - Pause. - Yes. - Wonderful tonight, Eric Clapton. He was timing that song to play. - That is our song. - At that time, - Yes, it was also our first dance. - It was also 11 o'clock, so the Eiffel Tower was lighting up. - Right, at exactly 11, the Eiffel Tower lighting, I'm totally thinking I'm just doing this for the 'gram. Do it for the gram. - IM not going to do it. - Do it for the gram. - IM not going to do it. ♪ Do it for, I'll do it ♪ - Okay. - Well. - Then I turned around and said: "On the count of three." Sure, because I think I'm doing it to have a chance, so honey, you count, do it. - One, I'm going to do it. - Well. - One, two, three, bling. - And he was on his knees and they captured it in slow motion.

The problem is that I would give you that footage, but my mother was the one who filmed it and she did a terrible job. - It was terrible. - It was terrible, - But we love her very much. -then she is not. I love you mommy, but that's not your strong point. Guys, am I the only girlfriend? Please let me know in the comments. Am I the only bride that when they see someone kneeling, I crouch with them? I was like, "Oh!" -He was so nervous that you don't even understand it. I'm sticking it in his middle finger like... (laughs) How terrible. - And then I see the ring.

I literally say to him, "What did you get me?" I thought, "I'm going to get robbed on the street for this ring." I say, "I'm afraid." And then as we were flying home from Paris, she remembers thinking, "Honey, my ring is kind of ugly." - Unpleasant was the word. - And what did you say? - That was the whole idea. (laughs) (soft music) We had an amazing, fairytale wedding. We expected 50 people to show up and 87 people showed up. Correct. - to Paris and it was... - I thought, I sent you the invitation thinking you wouldn't come. - I'll say: - Just kidding. (laughs) - I will say we learned a really cool lesson that night.

We were at this very, very exclusive posh place, but the highlight of the night was Angie Martínez, his friend. - Yes, who is like my sister? - Our dear friend from New York City who is the voice of New York. - Literally. - He gets on the mic at 11:11 and says, "Okay, everyone." - She said, "Adrienne, we may be in Paris, but Adrienne, never forget, you're a New York girl." - And all the waiters, at the right moment, came out with boxes of pizza. - They dropped the Jay-Z, Empire State of Mind, and then they came out with these pizza boxes, rose gold pizza boxes - With our crest on them. - with our shield on them. - It was the success of the night.

I eat some pizza. -How do you pronounce our chef's name? - A lot of money. -Alain Ducasse. -Alain Ducasse. Alain Ducasse was the chef at our wedding, which is crazy. - Michelin star. - Amazing, and then the pizza came out and everyone said "Yes!" -Everyone lost their minds over pizza. - What I love about our wedding is that we actually had people around us who love us, who support us, who have been there with us. My family, your family, the kids, it was amazing and we had a great time. We didn't go to bed until six in the morning. - Mhmm, we saw the sun rise. (upbeat music) - The thing is, we just make sure we find fun in everything we do. - All.

Go get your guitar. Please go get the guitar, because we need a guitar. - We could be at the most boring event or the most exciting and exclusive restaurant in the city, it doesn't matter. - We are the fools in the corner acting crazy. We literally sit in a corner and we have our own, we're in our own little world, in my little corner, in my own little world, and we just die laughing. (laughs) We love music, that's why we are always listening to music. We love going to concerts together. He loves to go to the movies while I take a nap. (laughs) In fact, I've done very well.

I stay awake now. - You've done well lately. - We like to sing together, but we're not like... - If it's cold. - There is a musical upstairs in our house, like waking up in the morning, ♪ Good morning, handsome ♪ ♪ Good morning, beautiful ♪ ♪ Thank you ♪ - We don't do that. - That's weird. We love to entertain, so we love hosting parties, getting together, having family over, and yes, sometimes Israel ends up playing the piano. No, but then I will sing with you. If it's at a time like that, we end up singing together, but it ends up being like everyone is singing together, even those who don't know how to sing. - Those are the favorites. (laughs) (upbeat music) - Something people don't know about Israel, people take you too seriously, because you don't take yourself very seriously, so I think people think, "Oh my God, it's a gospel artist." Some people say you're a minister, so they think you're super uptight.

He's normal guys, super funny, super silly and would literally do anything to make me laugh. Something else, something people don't know about you, wait, you can't eat without a shirt. - That's true. (laughs) That's weird, right? - You have to wear a shirt when you eat. Not me, I don't need anything to eat, I'm fine. - I think one thing people assume about Adrienne is that she is always the life of the party wherever she goes, which is true. I mean, she is, and when she's on, she's on, and if she likes you, then she likes you and you'll know it, but she'd rather never leave this house, and I'm the same way. and can be extremely antisocial. - I get embarrassed very easily, like, "Oh my God, that's going to be so embarrassing I can't go say hello to them." People will come up to me and say, “Oh my God!” And I'm like, (gasping) sometimes I don't even want to be noticed. - The other thing is that this woman can fall asleep (laughs) anywhere and at any time. - Narcoleptic, just a little. - I mean, it could be the greatest show on Earth and we could be watching it and it's like 20,000 people, and the next thing I know I'll feel this head on my shoulder and she's asleep. - Yes, knocked out.

She-she fell asleep at a Jay-Z concert sitting next to Jay-Z's wife. That's pretty epic. -Guys, he was very tired. (soft, happy music) - I think it is as important to like the person as it is to love them. We all know people who have been in relationships where, sure, you love the person you're with, but if you don't get along, if you don't like each other, you're going to have a hard time making it work. It is not difficult for us to make it work. We really like being together, so much so that we get separation anxiety when she has to work somewhere and I'm working out of the country. - I just say: "It would be a lot more fun if you were here." Right now I'm having a lot of fun because you're here.

If I have a choice, I prefer you, I want to be with you. Yes like that. - So that was the story about us. I can't wait to hear what you think. Definitely ask more questions, because guess what? Will be a recurring guest. (laughing) So... - Wait, what? - Definitely yes, you're going to come back. He'll be doing more, so if you have questions, be sure to put them in the comments for next time and don't forget to subscribe. (kissing) Kiss them goodbye like I do. (kissing)