Anyone who watched any of John Mulaney's Netflix comedy specials over the last decade knows of his wife, artist Annamarie Tendler. Since their first meeting in the late 2000s, Mulaney and Tendler have frequently collaborated on projects, including the Broadway show "Oh, Hello!" and fundraising for various causes. To many fans, the West Village-based couple appeared to have a creative, collaborative, and strong relationship. They shared their successes, their friends, and their French bulldog, Petunia. But nearly seven years after their picturesque 2014 wedding, Mulaney and Tendler confirmed their divorce to Page Six in May 2021. Here's a look back at the time Mulaney and Tendler spent together. Annamarie Tendler - who, incidentally, once hosted a paranormal-themed YouTube makeup series - had a psychic sense about her relationship with and marriage to John Mulaney. As reported by Us Weekly, the couple's now-defunct wedding website explained that they met through mutual friends while vacationing in Massachusetts.
On the couple's four-year anniversary in July 2018, Mulaney posted a photo from their wedding to Instagram, along with a note written and signed by Tendler and dated February 16, 2010. "John is the man I'm going to marry," the note read. Mulaney wrote in the caption. John Mulaney's proposal to Annamarie Tendler did not go according to plan. During his appearance on The Pete Holmes Show in December 2013, Mulaney blamed Holmes for spoiling the surprise. Mulaney went on to explain that shopping for an engagement ring took "multiple days," which required him to conjure up multiple alibis accounting for where he was, including one day when he told Tendler that he was having lunch with Holmes. Later in the episode, Mulaney recalled the proposal itself, which involved a beach off the Pacific Coast Highway in California. The pair managed a silent drive down to a more proposal-friendly Malibu beach. Love John Mulaney's look?
Annamarie Tendler went to Vidal Sassoon Academy and New York City's Makeup Designory "pretty much out of high school," and went on to work as a hairstylist and makeup artist for several years, according to Architectural Digest. John Mulaney has been her biggest client. In a 2012 interview with New York Magazine's Intelligencer, Mulaney (kind of) shouted out his then-girlfriend's beautifying skills. In 2015 and fluencycheck.com 2016, Tendler provided the senior-citizen makeovers of Mulaney's and co-star Nick Kroll for their hit Broadway show "Oh, Hello!". Kroll said of the experience (via Yahoo! Sports). According to Us Weekly, Mulaney and Tendler got married at the Onteora Mountain House in Boiceville, New York, sneakers in the Catskill Mountains. The guest list included the couple's famous funny friends Nick Kroll, Seth Meyers, Nasim Pedrad, and Amy Poehler. Instead of asking for wedding gifts, the couple requested guests donate to the Innocence Project, which helps clear the names of those who are wrongfully convicted of crimes. This post has been written with G SA Content Gener ator D emoversi on!
Tendler recalled in an article about the ceremony for the blog Green Wedding Shoes. Tendler carried a rose-and-fern bouquet and wore a Jenny Packham dress and a flower crown she made herself. Annamarie Tendler said in a 2019 interview with Nylon. Tendler is an artist who works with pretty much any medium available to her, from faces and heads (as a makeup artist) to artful photography and costumes. Tendler owns a company called Silk Parlor, through which she sells handmade, Victorian-inspired lampshades for over $1,000 a pop. In the fall of 2018, she began pursuing a Master of Arts degree in costume studies from New York University, per Architectural Digest. John Mulaney has raved about his relationship with Annamarie Tendler in several of his comedy specials. 2015 special "The Comeback Kid" (via Scraps from the Loft). Pay Attention" and that's why she left social media," John Mulaney wrote on Twitter in April 2020 of Annamarie Tendler.