Millie Bobby Brown put her acting skills to the test at her final wedding dress fitting.
After all, when it came to her May 2024 wedding to Jake Bongiovi, the Stranger Things star wasn’t about to let the key details leak—especially with photographers camped outside her dress shop.
“I turn up in New York and I’m going to do my last, final dress fitting, and I see this tabloid person with a camcorder,” Millie shared on the March 11 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “And she was like, ‘Millie! Millie! Millie! Are you going to try on your wedding dress?'”
“I went into the wedding dress fitting and I put my wedding dress on, and there was a big glass window, and I thought that she could see through it,” she continued. “So I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, she knows what my wedding dress looks like and then Jake’s gonna see it.’ I was so terrified.”
However, Millie, 21, came up with a quick solution to make sure her dress couldn’t be debuted before she and Jake—the son of Jon Bon Jovi—made it down the aisle on their big day.
“So I thought, ‘Okay, I’m going to find a dress that’s the complete opposite,’” the Enola Holmes actress noted. “Bedazzled with gloves and it was kind of a peachy tone. I was like, ‘I’m gonna walk out and I’m gonna start fake crying, pretending that I found the gown.'”
And her plan worked, as the photographer “got the whole thing and it sold.”
“She thought she got some quality,” Millie joked. “Well, let me just tell you right now, it definitely wasn’t. I tricked you.”
Indeed, Jimmy Fallon then shared video footage Millie had of the day at the bridal shop, where she walked toward a mirror and convincingly exclaimed, “This is my dress!”
“You can see her!” Millie emphasized as the photographer could be spotted through the window. She continued, telling Jimmy her acting “was the best of my career.”
For more of Jake and Millie’s love story, read on.
June 2021: First Instagram Pic
The pair sparked romance rumors around the time that Jake posted this photo, with the caption, “bff <3”
November 2021: Never Say Goodbye
The couple officially confirmed their romance with this PDA pic.
November 2021: Bon Jovi 2.0
“We’re starting a band,” Jake wrote on Instagram, “send name ideas.”
December 2021: Merry Christmas
The Stranger Things star and the actor celebrated their first Chirstmas together in 2021.
December 2021: Happy Holidays
Sweet selfie.
February 2022: Celebrating Millie’s 18th Birthday
Twinning.
March 2022: Red Carpet Official
Millie and Jake make their first joint appearance at a celebrity event—the 2022 BAFTA Film Awards in London.
May 2022: Stranger Things Premiere
Millie and Jake were twinning at the premiere of Stranger Things season four in New York City.
January 2023: New Year’s
Millie shared photos of the couple in celebration of the New Year, writing, “endlessly in love with the year I’ve had.”
January 2023: New Year’s
One snapshot showed a photo booth strip of the loved-up couple.
January 2023: New Year’s
As Millie put it, “grateful for my friends, family, donkey (bernard), my doggies, my puppies teeth, and my partner for life.”
February 2023: Golden Birthday
Jake marked Millie’s 19th birthday on Feb. 19, 2023 with a sweet tribute, writing, “Another year around the sun together happy 19th to the girl of my dreams.”
February 2023: Golden Birthday
The sweet post included photos of the couple.
February 2023: Golden Birthday
The pair’s silly side is depicted in one image of Jake and Millie clowning around in the pool
February 2023: Golden Birthday
Jake and Millie snuggle up in a romantic selfie.
April 2023: Engaged
Millie announced the couple’s engagement on Instagram, quoting Taylor Swift’s song “Lover.” The two would go on to celebrate with family and friends at an engagement party weeks later.
July 2023: Six Flags Visit
Millie and Jake enjoyed a day out with her sister Ava Brown, 11, and friends at the Six Flags Over Georgia theme park.
September 2023: Summer Nights
Jake shared this pic in the final days of summer 2023.
November 2023: Glamour Women of the Year
The two appear at the event, where Millie was honored as one of two Global Women of the Year.
February 2024: Happy Birthday Millie
Jake shared a tribute to his partner for her 20th birthday, writing, “Happy birthday my beautiful fiancéI love you so much. Big year ahead.”
March 2024: Anniversary
Millie shared this tribute to Jake on their third dating anniversary.
May 2024: Married
After three years of dating, the duo tied the knot in a private ceremony, multiple outlets reported.
August 2025: Expanding Their Family
Over a year after their nuptials, Millie and Jake shared they had a new arrival.
“This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption,” the couple announced in an Aug. 21 Instagram post. “We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy.”
They concluded, “And then there were 3.”
