John Stamos, Lori Loughlin Reunite to Celebrate 1991 ‘Full House’ Wedding

Wedding bells are ringing again for Jesse and Becky!

John Stamos and Lori Loughlin paid homage to their iconic Full House characters at a live event, looking back at their season 4 wedding. The reunion was hosted by fellow Full House alumni Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin as part of their rewatch podcast, How Rude, Tanneritos!, on June 5 at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles.

Stamos, who played Jesse, and Loughlin, who played Becky, were joined by some fun surprise guests. Series creator Jeff Franklin, Scott Weinger (Steve), and Marla Sokoloff (Gia) all joined in on the fun as they looked back at Jesse and Becky’s 1991 wedding.

Loughlin, 60, plunged into wedding memories, revealing that Becky’s elaborate headdress originally belonged to Loughlin’s aunt.

“Funny thing about that headdress, that headdress belonged to my aunt. That was her headdress from her wedding. She gave it to me, and I used it,” she shared.

Despite it looking bulky, Loughlin says the elaborate piece “wasn’t that heavy.”

She also confirmed that she used her own wedding dress from her 1997 wedding to husband Mossimo Giannulli for the episode.

“When they came up with the wedding episode, I recently got married, and I remember I went to Gina and Roberta, and I said, ‘Well, we could.’ And actually, it was Gina’s idea, our costume designer. She said, ‘Do you want to wear your own wedding dress for the episode?’ And I thought that would be so amazing, and so that’s how it ended up on the show.”

Laughing, Loughlin noted that “It was thrashed by the time it was over. I’m running the streets of Culver City driving a van.”

“But that’s how it came about. It was really Gina, our costume designer’s idea, and I just thought it was great.”

Stamos recalled the parachuting scene in the episode. “My favorite part of that was I asked my friend Kin Shriner — who was from General Hospital [and] played Scotty Baldwin — and he played Sheriff Harold, and he comes out with a bullhorn… The Sheriff of Tomato Country coming out, eating a tomato with salt on it.”

He also touched on the use of “Forever,” explaining, “That song is really beautiful. It’s an underrated Beach Boys song that Dennis Wilson sang, and they never… it just kind of sat there.”

“Dennis passed away. Then that’s when I started playing, but I knew that he loved that song, and I don’t think it ever got the attention that it deserved. So I was grateful that I got to do that for them,” he continued.

“It’s a beautiful song about unrequited love, and I do it now in the live shows, and I show a video [talking] about Bob [Saget] a little bit, just about telling people that you love them, that you care about them, because tomorrow’s never promised. And we learned that with Bob, unfortunately,” Stamos noted.

In the episode, a slideshow showing each character throughout the years plays. Loughlin says the baby picture used for her isn’t actually her.

“It was him, but it was not me. The toddler picture was me, but the infant picture is not… I couldn’t get to them fast enough or something. I didn’t have it. Didn’t have an actual infant picture, so they used somebody else’s child.”

Loughlin also shared, “Both of our moms were extras,” in the episode. “I love that they were, and your mom was the best extra. She was so into it. Loretta gave it her all. And my mom was like, ‘This is terrible,’ not feeling the whole way.”

“My mom was a bit of a ham bone. I don’t know where I got it. That made it very special.”

Barber, 48, and Sweetin, 43, played neighbors Kimmy Gibbler and Stephanie Tanner, respectively, on Full House. The onscreen friends have remained close in real life, reuniting to launch their rewatch podcast of the show in 2023. They also reprised their roles on the Netflix spinoff Fuller House, which ran from 2016 to 2020.

In the original Full House, running from 1987 to 1995, the romance between Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky was a major plot line.

Becky was first introduced as Danny Tanner’s cohost on Wake Up, San Francisco in season 2. Jesse was immediately smitten when he saw her, but Becky wasn’t ready for a relationship, so the pair decided to remain friends.

Of course, the story didn’t end there: Becky and Jesse got together at the end of season 2. They got married in a two-part episode in season 4 and had twin boys in season 5.

Stamos revealed in his 2023 memoir, If You Would Have Told Me, that his relationship with Loughlin was once on the “precipice of turning romantic.”

Stamos said he and his onscreen wife had “sort of true friendship that’s supposed to be the foundation of a great, lasting relationship,” while shooting Full House.

While Stamos went on to marry Caitlin McHugh — who made a brief appearance at the event — and Loughlin married Giannulli, the pair continues to have a great friendship.

Since the end of Fuller House in 2020, Sweetin and Barber have kept the Full House nostalgia going with their retrospective podcast.

“Full House was our childhood for eight years, eight very formative years. And so getting to relive those memories, things that we haven’t thought about in 35 years, I expect it’s going to deepen our bond even more than it already is,” Barber said ahead of the podcast’s launch in 2023.

“At least I hope so. Or maybe we’ll hate each other at the end of this. I don’t know,” she jokingly added.