Sun Valley has always known how to keep a secret, and last weekend it kept the loveliest one of the season. On Saturday, July 25, Emma Roberts married actor Cody John in an intimate outdoor ceremony at his family’s estate in the Idaho valley, with a rushing river providing the soundtrack and only their nearest and dearest looking on. Among them, one very famous aunt. Julia Roberts, who arrived with husband Danny Moder, was reportedly spotted wiping away happy tears once the vows were done. Consider our hearts officially puddled.

An “I Do” Written in Hemingway Country

The setting is pure catnip for literature lovers. Ernest Hemingway polished For Whom the Bell Tolls at the Sun Valley Lodge, a stone’s throw from where the couple exchanged vows on a wooden platform above the water, which feels almost scripted for a bride who co-founded the book club Belletrist and treats first editions the way the rest of us treat It bags. Emma and the In the Dark and The Rookie actor have written themselves in the margins since meeting through friends in the summer of 2022, quietly and mostly off camera. He soft-launched them that August with a black-and-white kiss, and by New Year’s Eve she had made things Instagram official. The ring followed in July 2024, announced with a wink at her mother’s well-known talent for spoilers. Two summers later, the American Horror Story alum sealed the plot twist we were all rooting for, in front of a tiny guest list and one visibly misty megastar.

About That Monique Lhuillier Moment

For the walk down the aisle, the bride slipped into a drapey custom Monique Lhuillier gown dyed a tea-stained shade of antique rose, a wink to her middle name, with a removable shawl lending the silhouette a whisper of old-Hollywood mystery. A chapel-length veil floated behind her, while a lace voilette, worn pushed back like a headband, added the kind of heirloom detail costume designers dream about. The inspiration came straight from her shelves. “I’m obsessed with antique books and treasure hunting,” she confessed during her final fitting, explaining that she wanted her passion for old ephemera to shine through the design. Mission accomplished. The finished gown looked like a treasure lifted from a very chic attic, softly nostalgic and entirely her. The evening had a second act. For the after-party, Roberts swapped her gown for a two-piece pulled from the designer’s Fall 2004 archive, a black Chantilly lace corset worn with a hand-cut, calf-grazing skirt in layered silk organza. “I love the idea of wearing black for the after party,” she declared, true to a couple with a taste for the unexpected, and she prized the piece for looking as though it might date back a century or have left the atelier yesterday. Here’s to the newlyweds, then, and to a love story with the sturdiest spine on the shelf.