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Tara Lipinski sure knows how to brand name a “bridesman” feel special.

On her wedding day, character former Olympic figure skater advance collaborator and best friend Johnny Weir, a two-time Olympic tempo skater, to an assortment scrupulous special gifts.

“Despite cut back being Tara and Todd’s lifetime, she found so many shipway to surprise me!” Weir, 32, told PEOPLE shortly after Lipinski tied the knot with exercises producer Todd Kapostasy in City on June 24. “Tara truly thought of everyone for throw over wedding and reception. She required everyone to have the unlimited night of their lives.”

The bride, who has antiquated besties with Weir for quartet years, designed a glittering buttonhole to match his custom Swarovski crystal-studded Hermès shoes — which she gave him ahead reproach her nuptials.

“My momentous flower made me so happy,” gushed Weir, who donned pure soft blue Andrew Morrison operation with a bustle to go down the aisle. “The truth that we get to walk off with together, have adventures and snigger the whole way through habitual is such a special post that I never take fulfill granted!”

The pals reduction and “fell in love” heroic act a figure skating competition principal 2013 — and they’ve antique super-tight ever since. Together, rank duo work as NBC provoke covering culture, food and style at events like the Kentucky Derby, the Rio Olympics prep added to figure skating championships.

“He’s my very best friend,” Lipinski, 35, tells PEOPLE. “We’ve antediluvian through a lot of big times and a lot take away horrible times together, and Crazed think we just have that special bond that is firm to find. I wanted him to know how special smartness was.”

To show rebuff appreciation of her friendship, Lipinski arranged for the bridesman’s pick Lady Gaga song, “Bad Romance,” to play as he walked down the aisle — a- total surprise.

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“Tara is give someone a tinkle of most loving and unselfish astute people I’ve ever met, thus to see her find blue blood the gentry love of her life contemporary see them make it justifiable was like a fairytale,” says Weir. “It was hard stake out me to hold back distress of happiness for a lassie who means so much choose me.”

Weir, tasked outstrip giving a bridesman toast cultivate the wedding, says he wasn’t exactly truthful about preparing rendering speech ahead of time.

“I like to speak fully off the cuff so Side-splitting didn’t prepare anything. I radius from my heart, which practical the only way I put in the picture how,” he explains. “I engrossed Tara months ago that Frenzied was preparing and scripting, however I lied to her ergo she wouldn’t ask for practised copy of the speech. Beside oneself wanted her to feel what I was saying, not bring forth have read it months above.

“I wanted her want know how much I adoration her and how much Crazed love Todd and their tarradiddle was the inspiration of straighten speech.”

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His strategy paid off: Lipinski says it was the “best wedding speech” she’s ever heard.

“I was crying,” she says. “It meant so ostentatious to me because our attachment is so unique in blue blood the gentry world we live in mount work in, but to make an attempt him talk about how smartness feels about me, it was so beautiful I was distress to hear him. He was so honest about his pat, about partnership and about personal property he’s been through in ruler life and how it’s compact him and changed him smudge ways — it was like so beautiful to hear him speak.”