Jonathan Davis has married jewellery designer Brittany Parisi, closing out a seven-year relationship with a clifftop ceremony in California that the couple kept quiet for nearly three weeks.
The Korn frontman, 55, and Parisi, 39, were married on Friday, July 3 at The Neighborhood Church of Palos Verdes in Palos Verdes Estates.
“Our wedding was a perfect fairy tale,” the newlyweds exclusively tell People. “We will never forget it.”
The couple kept the guest list tight.
“We invited our closest friends and family members, only about 80 people,” the couple tells Billboard. “The cliffside setting overlooking the ocean looked and felt like Italy, where [we got] engaged last year.”
Every current member of Korn was there — guitarists James “Munky” Shaffer and Brian “Head” Welch, bassist Ra Diaz and drummer Ray Luzier.
“Getting married with all of our closest loved ones in such an intimate, gorgeous setting was truly a blessing, and the most beautiful way to kick off our happily ever after!” the couple added.
The wedding took its entire visual direction from a single afternoon in Florence.
On June 12, 2025, while Davis was on tour, he took Parisi to the Uffizi Gallery and proposed in front of Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” — the Renaissance painting showing the goddess of love arriving on the shore atop a scallop shell.
“We had the sweetest little room overlooking a magical, lit-up carousel. I was already on cloud nine — sitting in the sun with my coffee, my gelato, and my rock star boyfriend — when he surprised me with a trip to a museum I’d always dreamed of visiting: the Uffizi Gallery,” Parisi said.
She had a personal reason for wanting to be in that particular building.
“I’ve always been obsessed with my Italian heritage and the history of the Medici family, who commissioned Botticelli to create some of my favorite paintings. So when we stopped in front of ‘The Birth of Venus’ and I looked over to see Jon down on one knee asking me to marry him, it honestly felt like a dream. I can’t imagine a more thoughtful or more perfect proposal.”
That painting became the brief for the whole day. Michele Fox Gott, founder and lead designer at Center of Attention Events, built the wedding around it, pulling the palette straight from the canvas and carrying those tones through the flowers and the decor. The intent was to make a stretch of Californian coastline feel like Florence.
For Davis, the goal was simpler. He has said that whatever Parisi wanted, he wanted, and that marriage means “being with my best friend, who brings out my best qualities, forever.”
The music leaned hard on both sides of the couple’s heritage.
The processional opened with the church’s historic organ. Then came the bagpipes — award-winning piper Aaron Shaw announced Davis‘ arrival, a nod to the singer’s Scottish roots and to the fact that Davis plays the instrument himself, most famously on Korn‘s “Shoots And Ladders“.
A female string quartet flown in from Las Vegas played Pachelbel‘s “Canon in D” and Wagner‘s “Bridal Chorus” as Parisi walked the aisle. Pastor Scott Spence, the church’s senior minister, married them, and the couple left to Mendelssohn‘s “Wedding March“.
Both outfits were custom work by Ashton Michael, the designer behind much of Davis‘ stage wardrobe. Davis wore a Douglass Tartan; Parisi wore a bespoke gown built to echo the Botticelli.
“Draped silk taffeta over the structural basque waist bodice, we wanted to create a softer second layer to highlight the harmonious duality between restraint and romantic worlds,” Michael said. “Siren meets mid century.”
Shaw piped the guests from the ceremony out to a cocktail hour on the clifftop, where Davis and Parisi took their first dance to Lana Del Rey‘s “Young And Beautiful“, the 2013 track written for Baz Luhrmann‘s “The Great Gatsby“.
Drinks came with a parmesan wheel of freshly made cacio e pepe and passed hors d’oeuvres — squash blossom pizza, mushroom profiteroles and roasted tomato tartlets. At sunset, guests got an unannounced skywriting message over the Pacific.
The piper then walked everyone through to dinner, where a jazz ensemble played and menus were handed out on personalised scrolls. Chef Celestino Drago cooked five courses of Italian food chosen to echo the meals Parisi‘s grandmother used to make: burrata insalata with rocket, then pesto busieto alongside mushroom risotto, then free-range roast chicken in truffle sauce, then New York strip with black garlic zabaglione.
The cake was white, with detailing the couple describe as drawing on both the sea and gothic architecture, and it was cut outdoors against the water. A dessert table followed — a tiramisu tower, lemon profiteroles, chocolate mousse, fruit tarts, biscotti and seasonal fruit.
Davis later posted photographs to Instagram with the caption: “Here is to the rest of our lives. I’m so lucky to have you.”
Asked what the next chapter looks like, the pair gave short answers.
“Rediscovering the world with my best friend,” Jonathan said. His wife added: “Making my husband happy, and taking care of him every day!”
Davis co-founded Korn in Bakersfield in 1993, and the band went on to become one of the defining acts of nu metal. They have placed five songs on the Billboard Hot 100, among them the 2003 top 40 single “Did My Time“, and topped the Billboard 200 twice, with 1998’s Follow The Leader and 1999’s Issues.
He was previously married to Deven Davis, who died in 2018.
His July has been busy beyond the wedding: he also performed an orchestral arrangement of “Freak On A Leash” alongside Yoshiki of X Japan.
Korn head to Europe in October for a tour with Architects and Youth Code — which leaves the newlyweds a window for a honeymoon first.
