Erika Henningsen's Favorite Wedding Memory with Husband Kyle Selig Happened After All the Guests Left (Exclusive)

Erika Henningsen loves quiet nights successful pinch her hubby. 

The Four Seasons character tied nan knot pinch chap character Kyle Selig backmost successful May 2023, aft gathering successful nan Broadway accumulation of Mean Girls: The Musical. But 2 years aft their "I dos," her favourite wedding representation has thing to do pinch her white, sleek gown aliases their buffet of mini desserts; it was nan events that occured after they near nan party.

"It's going to sound terrible, because it's going to time off each my friends and family retired but my favourite point is astatine nan very extremity of nan night," Henningsen tells PEOPLE. "We ordered pizza, sewage a vessel of champagne and we turned nan bath on, because my feet were sidesplitting me."

She continues, "We conscionable sat and soaked our feet because we had been dancing each night. We shoveled pizza successful our faces and sewage truthful champagne-tipsy, and had unspeakable hangovers nan adjacent day. And we conscionable talked astir nan day. It was truthful bully to beryllium there, resting our aching feet and saying, 'Remember erstwhile this point happened?' Or 'You weren't location for this, but...' "

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The character goes connected to enactment that circumstantial infinitesimal is reflective of why their narration flourishes. "To me, that's benignant of suggestive of what I for illustration astir our matrimony and immoderate bully marriage: The point that happens erstwhile nobody's around."

A PEOPLE reported exclusively astatine nan clip Henningsen and Selig — who originated nan roles of Cady Heron and Aaron Samuels successful nan Broadway accumulation of Mean Girls — tied nan knot connected May 22, 2023 astatine nan Bowery Hotel successful New York City. Their chic Manhattan wedding welcomed astir 130 wedding guests, including galore from nan theatrical community.

The philharmonic duo are presently some backmost connected nan boards, 5 years aft Mean Girls closed. "It's a thrilling point to beryllium a portion of nan Broadway play astatine nan nonstop aforesaid clip again,” Henningsen tells PEOPLE.

Henningsen, 32, is successful Alex Timbers’ Just successful Time, nan philharmonic now unfastened astatine Circle successful nan Square Theatre astir nan life of legendary vocalist Bobby Darin. Starring alongside Tony victor Jonathan Groff, she plays Darin's sun-kissed lover, Sandra Dee.

Meanwhile, Selig, 32, is portion of the all-star formed successful Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, a tribute to the precocious Stephen Sondheim. The accumulation — led by Bernadette Peters and Lea Salgona — is successful performances astatine nan Samuel J. Friedman Theatre done June 29. Direction is by Matthew Bourne and Julia McKenzie.

Both shows are dreams travel existent for Henningsen and Selig.

"He’s doing a show pinch Bernadette Peters. I don’t deliberation Jonathan would beryllium offended by this, but Jonathan’s benignant of my Bernadette Peters," nan character says of her co-star Groff. "I conscionable listened to him complete and complete and over; nan measurement girlies were listening to Sunday successful nan Park pinch George, I was listening to nan Spring Awakening formed album. I deliberation he would bask that comparison because he’s a curly-haired diva successful his ain way."

Just successful Time and Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends are playing conscionable 3 blocks from 1 another, which makes it other bully for Henningsen and Selig. "We'll return trips into activity together, drawback luncheon connected two-show days. We moreover person our small post-show portion area," she says.

They've besides been spending plentifulness of clip pinch 1 another's formed mates. "There are group successful his show who are like, brackish of nan earth, breadstuff and food Broadway people, who we person known from afar. And group successful my show who we've gotten to build this enslaved with," Henningsen says. "And that's 1 of nan champion things astir moving successful nan aforesaid field: nan organization you shape together. Getting to beryllium portion of his formed and having him bent pinch [my] formed is really special."

As for Just successful Time, Henningsen was tickled to find that their wedding opus "That’s All" — primitively sung by Nat King Cole but famously covered by Darin successful 1959 — is featured heavy successful nan show.

"I did not cognize that!' she says. "When I auditioned, I had nary idea. I had publication my sides, I had not gotten nan full script."

"It's an unthinkable song," she adds. "And it's featured successful our show twice, successful very different ways. I screamed erstwhile I sewage to that part. I said, 'Kyle! Our wedding song's successful that show!' Which feels for illustration nosy kismet."

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Ultimately, Henningsen believes she has recovered her ain Bobby done Selig. "It's very bizarre," she says. "He’s supportive successful nan aforesaid measurement Bobby was to Sandra Lee, and we really some understand each different arsenic performers only can. I haven't talked astir it successful tandem erstwhile talking astir nan show, but I consciousness very lucky."

"He’s my dream lover," she gushes.

Tickets for Just successful Time and Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends are connected sale.