Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott on sTORIbook Weddings, Marriage, and Magic Carpets

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott said it plainly: "At the end of every wedding it's like we get to celebrate our love story all over again." — and Premier Guide Miami was in the room when it happened.

Serial entrepreneur husband-and-wife team Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott are at it again with their new series, Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings on Oxygen. The show takes one lucky couple's wedding from ordinary to extraordinary. In the lead-up to the big day, Spelling turns the bride-to-be's dreams for a beautiful event into a reality while McDermott helps the groom navigate all the twists and turns. Together, they also help to overcome the potential issues with family, friends, and the couples themselves that wedding stress may cause. Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings premieres Wednesday, April 6th at 10 pm Eastern/Pacific.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: Can you tell us the story of how the series came to be, who came up with the concept and how did things come together?

TORI SPELLING: It kind of grew out of our lifestyle because we love to throw parties and basically love any excuse to throw a party. We've thrown many for our children and a few friends had asked us to throw their wedding. We started getting into weddings and then I said to Dean I wanted to start a party planning business. I wanted to do this as a hobby and plan weddings for them. And then we partnered with Oxygen and decided to do it on TV for eight lucky couples.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: What are some of the key ingredients to a successful wedding?

TORI SPELLING: I'm all about the details. I'm a very detail-oriented person and I think details are the key to every wedding. Weddings can sometimes be beautiful but cookie cutter. So I want ours to look anything but that.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: Were there any times when there were different points of view between you and the brides and if so, how did you resolve things?

TORI SPELLING: I go by the motto that the bride is always right. It's her wedding. I love style and parties and bringing everything together and visually creating a pleasing wedding. So I always listen to my brides and I can just kind of lean them towards -- I'll take what their input is and give them the chic version, I think.

DEAN McDERMOTT: But she's very influential.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: From the brides and grooms' perspectives, were there any commonalities in things they were concerned about or anxious about as their wedding day approached?

DEAN McDERMOTT: There is a lot of worry that goes on that things will be delivered on time and they'll get all the things that they want -- the colors they want, the theme they want. I think that's just a given for any couple. Guys' commonality with all the grooms was music and food. Those were their key concerns.

TORI SPELLING: The thing I found was that the brides were being influenced by family and friends a lot. They were all trying to figure out how to have their dreams. Their families would really want to interfere in the wedding -- everyone wanted what they wanted. So that was a very common thing.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: Was there anything surprising or unexpected that you encountered, Tori, in taking these brides on the journey to their wedding day?

TORI SPELLING: Probably the most surprising thing was how attached I would get to them. I kind of thought, okay great, I'm going to come in, do their wedding, and then move on to another couple. But it didn't pan out that way. We would come in and spend so much time with them. My big thing is I like to really spend time with them and get to know them so I can personalize things in their wedding -- things like, they'd be like, oh, I didn't even remember I told you that was my favorite thing, and I would have it there at their wedding. So at the end of the day it was hard kind of moving on from them to a new couple.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: What is it like working together as husband and wife for these projects?

DEAN McDERMOTT: It's awesome. A lot of people say how can you do it, how can you work so close with your spouse -- you're together all the time. And we wouldn't have it any other way. We don't function well apart.

TORI SPELLING: We don't know any difference because we've been working together since we met. And especially this is really different than working on other projects together because the greatest thing about this is, literally at the end of every wedding it's like we get to celebrate our love story all over again. Because everyone loves the wedding -- you can't not get emotional and reminisce about your own wedding when you're at another wedding. I think each wedding we're just like, oh, we take something away that we learned from the bride and groom and it's kind of like we have our little love story all over again.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: Is there a theme you're super excited about?

TORI SPELLING: My favorite is we did a Marie Antoinette wedding. I've always had a huge dream to do a big Marie Antoinette party and ball. So I was really excited when this couple -- they are very into fashion, she is in the fashion world and he is a hairstylist -- were really into the glam and the art of it all.

DEAN McDERMOTT: My favorite was a steampunk wedding. I'm really excited about it because there is a new movement in steampunk and it's really coming to the forefront. It's such an interesting fashion and design -- incandescent lighting, Victorian meets industrial revolution. We did that at the Edison and we had aerial acrobatics in steampunk gear. It was really cool.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: What is the most unusual wedding request you've had so far?

DEAN McDERMOTT: Most unusual -- a camel, and a flying carpet. Which we made happen.

TORI SPELLING: Yes, Dean built the bride a magic carpet because that's how she wanted to come into the reception.

DEAN McDERMOTT: It's really cool, I'm very proud of that piece of work.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: What would you say makes your marriage work?

DEAN McDERMOTT: All of the above. I take any moment in time I can get with T and just tell her how much I love her every day.

TORI SPELLING: Communication -- I know everyone says that, it's an old thing, but it works the best. We just try to communicate about everything and just stay on the same page about everything. And just spend time together.

PREMIER GUIDE MIAMI: Since your upcoming show is all about weddings, what was your favorite part of your very own wedding?

TORI SPELLING: We got married alone, so I loved that. We did everything that people do at weddings -- whether it was just the two of us or a 100-person wedding. We had a rehearsal dinner with us, invitations with us. We did our first dance alone, we cut the cake, and we threw the bouquet into the ocean. So we did all the things you would do at a normal wedding, we just did it alone. And we didn't have to talk to people all night long. I do not regret that we did it alone.

DEAN McDERMOTT: That I got to marry the girl of my dreams.

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