Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Wrote Their Own Vows and Promised to 'Make Each Other Laugh'

By:OK! Staff

Sept. 12 2012, Published 5:27 a.m. ET

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Gossip Girl's Blake Lively secretly married Ryan Reynolds, her boyfriend of less than one year, in a small intimate ceremony in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina at Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens on September 9, and more details are coming out about the surprise event.

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According to People, the couple wrote their own vows and a source reveals, "They promised to support and love each other and to make each other laugh." The groom "said he would treasure Blake; she said she would adore him. The whole time they were beaming."

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Blake's close friend Florence Welch and her band Florence + the Machine performed "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," and the bride "started to well up," says the source. "A lot of people started to well up, actually."

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Although the private affair was kept to a minimum — only 60 guests in attendance, Blake's Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars America Ferrera, 28, Amber Tamblyn, 29, and Alexis Bledel, 30, where all there to watch their friend walk down the aisle.