Jesse Tyler Ferguson Reveals He Wasn't Sarah Hyland's First Choice for Wedding Officiant - Someone Backed Out!

Jesse Tyler Ferguson officiated his longtime friend and Modern Family co-star Sarah Hyland‘s wedding, but he just revealed that he wasn’t the original choice for the gig!

The 46-year-old actor opened up about the wedding while attending the premiere of Netflix’s Ivy and Bean on Monday night (August 29) at the Harmony Gold Theatre in Los Angeles.

Jesse was joined at the event by co-stars Sasha Pieterse, Keslee Blalock, Lidya Jewett, Marci T. House, Garfield Wilson, Jesse Gervasi, and more.

Click inside to read what Jesse Tyler Ferguson revealed about the wedding…

On the red carpet, Jesse talked about Sarah‘s wedding during an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

“I don’t know if people know this, but Ty Burrell was meant to do it, and there was a family emergency,” Jesse said about officiating the wedding. “So, I got a phone call 12 days before the wedding, and that’s why Ty wasn’t there, he had stuff going on.”

Jesse continued, “Everyone was invited and not everyone could make it, but I had 12 days, and I was like, ‘Well, no pressure this is my first time, and then it’s going to be a wedding, and it’s going to be in Vogue magazine, and there’s also going to be paparazzi shots of me from a helicopter, officiating, no pressure.’”

“But I did call Ty, ‘Like what are some of your bullet points that you were going to talk about, because I need to fast track this,’” he added. “He hadn’t written anything up, but he had some ideas, and I was like, ‘Oh, this is all really good. This is a jumping-off place.’ I was honored to do it. Very happy to understudy Ty Burrell.”

Here are all the celebs who attended the wedding!