Two days after the Knicks fans went gaga over Jordyn Woods’ lavish wedding ceremony with Karl-Anthony Towns in Malibu, the newlywed couple gave their first interview. Towns has also made comments in the meantime, but Woods had a lot more to say.
The newlywed couple spoke to Vogue in a tell-all interview, where Woods revealed how she met Towns, how they came together, how he proposed, and also showed off a diamond ring that Karl-Anthony Towns personally customized for her, along with much more.
“We connected over a game of Uno, and he thinks that he won,” Woods said. “We both have a very competitive nature. When we play games, we are not on the same team; we are in it to win.”
“I lost my dad at 19,” Jordyn said as she recalled how the couple started dating in 2020. “And during COVID, his mom got sick and passed, and I was able to be there for him in a different way.”
“Ironically, he didn’t know that my parents got engaged on Christmas Eve, so it was a real full-circle moment,” Jordyn added on how Town proposed after nearly six years of being together. “He was very private and didn’t tell anyone, but he asked me if my family was coming to town for Christmas.”
“None of us had any clue,” Jordyn said as she remembered how he insisted her entire family would join them for Christmas. “But Karl kept asking if I’d had my hair done.”
“She always said, ‘If you ever do it, I better have my hair done,'” Towns explained as he laughed.
“I’m a very intuitive person, so my antenna was up,” Woods further added. “I wore a white dress that I had, and the proposal was very personal. I tend to be very shy, and he knew exactly what was perfect.”
“I originally wanted a totally different cut,” Jordyn lovingly said about Towns’ customized ring for the proposal. “But he went with an emerald-cut diamond. Now I can’t imagine having anything else.”
Their parents’ birthstones are placed next to theirs on the ring, one on each side, and a gradient of pink diamonds runs down the band.
The inscription on the inside is written in Karl-Anthony Towns’ handwriting and says, “I love you, my heart,” in Spanish (Jacqueline Cruz, Towns’ mother, was Dominican).
“The ring looks like a glacier on her finger,” Towns added about the approximately 15-carat De Beers diamond.
Later, Woods also spoke about the wedding in detail, including how they chose the date (August 15) and their outfits. Woods also spoke about her emotions leading up to the ceremony and how the wedding and the NBA Finals victory made this a perfect year for Towns.
“We didn’t want to wait too long,” Jordyn added as she admitted she wanted to be done with the ceremony before the upcoming basketball season. “I’m a Libra—if I wait two years, I’ll change things 45 times.”
“I grew up in California,” Woods further added on the destination wedding. “Malibu is a place that we love when we want to decompress and just enjoy and reflect. When my dad passed, I would drive the Pacific Coast Highway and look at the ocean. Malibu is also a destination for people coming from the East Coast. It doesn’t feel as destination-y, but it is just gorgeous.”
After hiring Weiss, Jordyn’s next step in the wedding planning process was finding her dress. She scheduled four appointments in New York, starting with Danielle Frankel.
“I just kept coming back to that first dress. I loved the fabrics. They were so luxe,” Jordyn says. “I worked with Danielle’s team on adding my own touches, things only I would know. We took a dress and made it me, and it’s different from any other design she’s done so far. From what she has told me, it inspired her next collection.”
Karl-Anthony Towns was just as certain about what he wanted to wear. From the beginning, he knew Ralph Lauren was the brand for him.
“Ralph is always a part of my life,” Towns said. “It is the epitome of being attainable but high class. I was a big Macy’s credit-card person. [Growing up], Macy’s was our Rodeo Drive. It had it all, and Polo was everything. Ralph has always meant elevation and sophistication, while also feeling relatable.”
“I knew that I was going to wear the brand, and now with the position that I’m in, there’s not a label that I align with more in my life, and it’s New York. Our designers are all New York–based designers. It’s where all of our dreams have come true.”
For the wedding, the groom wore a made-to-measure Purple Label double-breasted Italian wool dinner jacket featuring peak satin lapels. He completed the look with a white Sea Island cotton Aston pleated tuxedo shirt, black barathea tuxedo trousers, and a black silk bow tie.
“I had to leave before him to get ready, so I showered while he was still in bed,” Woods recalled the morning of the wedding. “As I was walking out, I looked at him and said, ‘See you at the aisle.’ From that moment on, we stayed apart until the ceremony, which made seeing each other again feel even more special.”
“I was already crying before I even started,” Jordyn added. “But once I reached the altar, everything else disappeared. All I could see was him. I wasn’t thinking about the dress, the flowers, the guests, or any of the details we had spent so much time planning. I was just looking at the person I was about to marry.”
“I loved that we chose to keep that part just for us,” Woods explained that the couple decided to privately take vows during the ceremony. “With so much of the day being shared with the people we love, having those few quiet moments together felt incredibly special.”
“The band was incredible, the food was amazing, and the energy completely shifted into a party,” Jordyn remembered. “It felt like everyone could finally exhale and just celebrate.”
“We wanted there to be real connection and for everyone to put their phones down,” Karl-Anthony Towns added. “We wanted that pre-phones 2000s vibe.”
“We didn’t want it to feel performative,” Jordyn further said. “This has been one of the best, most successful years of our lives—being in the NBA Finals was surreal. And everything [at the wedding] was beautiful, but what I remember most is the feeling in the room. There was so much love surrounding us, and you could genuinely feel how happy everyone was to be there witnessing that moment with us.”
“That means so much to me, because that was exactly what we wanted,” the bride said on the overwhelming messages she received about how wonderful her ceremony made attendees feel.
“We were incredibly intentional about every detail, not just how everything looked, but how we wanted people to feel. It was authentic to us, it was filled with love, and I wouldn’t change that experience for the world,” Woods said in conclusion.
Subsequently, the couple released 100 photos of the event, all of which were published in Vogue. It is heartwarming to see Karl-Anthony Towns secure two of the most important rings of his life in one year. We congratulate the newlywed couple on their special day.
