Gossip GirlActress Jessica Szohr Shares Tribute to ‘Best MOH’ Nina Dobrev After Arizona Wedding

Mar. 15, 2025

Jessica Szohr (left), Nina Dobrev.Photo:Jessica Szohr/Instagram

Jessica Szohr/Instagram

Jessica Szohris gushing about her maid of honor,Nina Dobrev.

TheGossip Girlalum, 39, shared a heartfelt message on Instagram, shortly after she tied the knot with former Vancouver Canucks playerBrad Richardson.

Szohr continued: “You were thoughtful and creative! You were charming and funny (as usual)! Picking fun places with such fun gifts for everyone when we arrived:) you have been there with me through thick and thin for almost 2 decades… so thank you… thank you Nina for all you’ve done throughout our friendship- but especially for all the wedding events;)”

“You outdid yourself … going through a surgery, had a movie coming out, redoing a house, and being such an amazing friend through everything. For real- love you more than you will ever know!” Szohr wrote, adding that Dobrev’s reception speech was “next level.”

“You just kept serving us with good energy, and good times;) thank you sister,” she added.

Szohr played Vanessa Abrams onGossip Girlduring the same years Dobrev was starring as Elena Gilbert onThe Vampire Diaries.

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Dobrev, as Maid of Honor, wore a Galia LahavElisedress in custom sage green.

Szohr and Richardson went Instagram-official in 2019 and welcomed their first child together, daughterBowie Ella Richardson, almost two years later on Jan. 11, 2021.

The couple joyfullyannounced their engagementin May 2022 with a black-and-white image on Instagram with the her diamond ring on full display.

source: people.com