Peter Facinelli isn’t waiting to walk down the wedding aisle and say “I do” before calling his fiancee Lily Anne Harrison “my wife.”
“I mean, right now, it feels like the wedding is more of a party than making anything official,” Facinelli exclusively told Us Weekly while attending the New York Premiere of The Unbreakable Boy on Wednesday, February 19 at AMC Lincoln Square.
“I call her my wife. I treat her like my wife,” he continued. “So we’ll get to the paper and the party eventually.
Facinelli further explained that the pair — who got engaged five years ago in December 2019 — are “busy with the baby right now.” (Facinelli and Harrison welcomed son Jack in September 2022.)
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“It’s like, at some point we’ll get to it,” he continued of their future nuptials. “But every day is a celebration of love with her … right now, we’re just enjoying parenthood, being partners and when we get a minute we’ll throw a party and make it official.”
Us confirmed in January 2020 that the Twilight star and Harrison were engaged a month after Facinelli got down on one knee. Facinelli was previously married to Jennie Garth from 2001 to 2013. The pair welcomed three daughters — Luca, Lola and Fiona – before calling it quits.
Facinelli was also romantically linked to Jaimie Alexander — the pair were engaged for a year before calling it off in 2016.
“Due to conflicting family and work commitments on opposite coasts, and after much consideration, Peter and Jaimie have chosen to part ways amicably and remain friends,” a representative for the former fiancés told Us at the time.
When asked how fatherhood has changed for him now that he has a young child at home, the proud dad simply said that “every kid is different.”
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“So it’s not, like, ‘Oh, I know exactly what I’m doing now,” he told Us on Wednesday. “But I’ve found that this time around, I’m really trying to hold onto every moment because I know how fast it goes. I mean, my oldest is 27. I have a 21-year-old … I have an 18-year-old who is back in LA. They grew up in the blink of an eye, and so every moment that I have with him — even the hard ones – I appreciate that much more.”
Facinelli went on to explain that his 2-year-old “gets frustrated easily,” which is something the actor sees in himself, too.
“How can I deal with my frustrations when walls get up or things don’t come my way?” he continued of what he is forced to ask himself when he sees parts of his personality mirrored in his son. “You’re always striving for things and it’s not always easy. Also, I get cranky when I’m hungry. He gets cranky when he’s hungry. So it reminds me to make sure I eat more consistently during the day, which helps when I’m feeding him, too.”
Now that Facinelli has a son after having three daughters, he adds that he’s “looking forward to that experience.”
“I see a lot of Marvel movies in my future,” he added.
Reporting by Andrew Nodell
