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- Mark Consuelos let AI generate renewal vows for him and wife Kelly Ripa on the Sept. 12 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark
- The AI engine ended up getting one thing about his wife wrong in the vows that indicated it was computer-generated
- Consuelos and Ripa — who celebrated their 29th anniversary earlier this year — met in 1995 and eloped a year later in Las Vegas in 1996
Mark Consuelos is letting AI try a hand at his renewal vows for wife Kelly Ripa.
On the Friday, Sept. 12 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, the 54-year-old actor enlisted AI’s help to pen his vow renewal for his wife of 29 years, Ripa, 54, after the pair chatted about busy brides using AI to generate vows for their weddings.
“Rather than spending hours agonizing over pouring your heart out on a piece of paper or blowing big bucks and hiring a human … busy and frugal fiancées are turning to technology,” Consuelos said on the morning talk show.
The Riverdale alum noted that he “put a small prompt in the AI generator” to see what kind of vows it would write for him for his vow renewal for Ripa. He said he asked it to “write a short vow renewal” from him to Ripa, “but make it funny and include something about their dog Lena.”
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“Okay, here we go. Kelly … I still can’t believe I landed you. I’m pretty sure Lena can’t either,” the actor read. “She looks at me, really? Him?”
“I vow to keep loving you, laughing with you, and pretending not to be scared of how organized you are,” he continued, before noting, “See, that’s where they get— you’re very organized, but that’s not something that I would tell it.”
Ripa chimed in, “I’ve become organized because you have forced me to. I’ve willed myself to become organized.”
Consuelos then concluded the vows, saying, “I’ll keep holding your hand through life and holding Lena when there’s thunder. You’re my favorite co-star, my best friend, and the only person that I ever share the remote and the dog with.”
Although the AI vows drew a few “awws” from the crowd, Ripa joked elsewhere in the segment, “Can’t you just stick with the pre-written vows that come with the wedding?”
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When it was revealed that brides pay up to $1,000 on vow writers, the daytime TV alum noted that future brides and grooms did not need to go to those monetary extremes — especially since her own wedding to Consuelos cost just “$174 and we’ve been married almost 30 years.” She previously claimed in August 2022 that the event cost $179.
Ripa added that wedding vows don’t need to be overly elaborate, especially when shared in front of family and friends who may not understand the private references.
“You don’t need to declare stuff that the rest of us don’t know what you’re talking about,” Ripa said. “It’s always like inside jokes between the bride and the groom, and I’m always spellbound as to what any of it means.”
“Right? I’m usually sleeping,” Consuelos joked.
