Newlywed“ Modern Family ”Star Eric Stonestreet Joked He and New Bride Built Their Home Just to Host Wedding

Eric Stonestreet ever had large plans for his Kansas City home.

On Tuesday, Sept. 9, nan Modern Family star, 54, announced successful a saccharine Instagram post that he and his longtime partner Lindsay Schweitzer had officially tied nan knot. In nan post, nan character shared stunning wedding photos of nan happy mates astatine their custom-built Missouri abode.

And nan mounting itself was a agelong clip coming. In July, nan character joked to PEOPLE that nan end extremity for building their house was ever truthful that they could yet big their wedding there.

"Well, I've said we're building a location to big a wedding, and we're still connected way to do that," nan character shared. "We're almost done pinch nan house, and that's been our scheme each along."

He added that erstwhile nan opportunity to build a location together presented itself to nan couple, they instantly thought, “no amended measurement to commencement a narration than virtually building a foundation.” 

While Stonestreet and Schweitzer’s imagination yet came to fruition, it was nary easy feat.

The location has been successful nan useful for years, and nan character shared pinch PEOPLE successful January that celebrating their wedding location 1 time was ever a representation they hoped to create.

“Right from nan opening of erstwhile we started building nan house, [the wedding] was like, correct astatine nan apical of nan database of things that we imagined happening here,” he said astatine nan time.

While they had some nan wedding and nan location connected their to-do list, Stonestreet says, it was Schweitzer who wanted to prioritize their location first. 

“We decidedly want to person a ceremony pinch each of our friends,” nan Emmy victor said. “But it was, ‘We're going to get married.’ And past it was like, ‘Oh my God, we sewage this land. Let's build a house. Do you want a wedding aliases a house? Can we do some astatine 1 time?’ And she, being arsenic awesome arsenic she is, she's like, ‘I'd alternatively build a location pinch you.’ And I'm like, ‘Me too.’” 

During nan aforesaid exclusive interview, nan Dexter: Resurrection prima offered immoderate penetration arsenic to why he yet decided to return to his hometown aft a agelong play of surviving connected nan West Coast.

He noted that aft years of doing agelong region pinch Schweitzer, who is besides from Kansas City, he was yet fresh to put down roots location together, particularly aft a portion of onshore became disposable to them. 

“We knew we're going to do this 1 time, and truthful we really were thoughtful astir it,” he explained. 

However, he said location were 2 rooms he knew he perfectly didn’t want his location to have, contempt them being beautiful modular successful nan mean property.

“We don't person a eating room. I person a eating room successful L.A., and I can't show you really galore meals I've had successful my eating room,” he confessed. “So I was like, ‘No eating room.’” He besides noted that he “didn't request a location office,” arsenic his cellphone often becomes his location office. “I don't request to beryllium down astatine nan table and type,” he explained. 

The character besides revealed different creation item he was adamant astir having successful their bathroom: “I was like, ‘I want a model successful my shower.’ I've ne'er been capable to creation my ain house, and I'm designing it. ‘I want a model successful our shower.’”

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Stonestreet first met Schweitzer, a pediatric nurse, successful June 2016 astatine nan yearly Big Slick kindness arena successful Kansas City. 

In August 2017, PEOPLE exclusively confirmed nan mates were successful a relationship, and successful 2021, Stonestreet officially popped nan mobility to Schweitzer aft 5 years of dating. The character antecedently revealed that Schweitzer’s 2 copy sons from a erstwhile narration helped him pinch nan proposal.