Boy Weds Girl
Source: People Magazine
Thanks to Backstreet.net and Jenn.
Kevin Richard son goes from Backstreet Boy to married man, tying the knot with
longtime squeeze Kristin Willits.
Before the Backstreet boys, before the 11 million- selling album Millennium, before the
legions of screaming of teenage fans, Kevin Richardson was just a guy in a Teenage
Mutant Ninja turtle suit. On a break from his gig at Orlando's Disney-MGM Studios theme
park in 1993, he met Kristin Willits, a dancer with the park's Beauty and the Beast show,
in the employee cafeteria. "It's great he became what he is," Willits's mom, Susan Patton,
55, said in February. "But we know him when he was a Ninja Turtle."
Now she know him as a son-in-law. On June 17 outside Lexington, Ky., Richardson's
hometown, the oldest Backstreet Boy,28, wed Willits, 29 and now an aspiring actress, in
a private ceremony for close family and friends. "it was a beautiful wedding," says the
father of the bride, John Willits, 56, a chiropractor divorced from Patton. "it was very
unique."
And perhaps inspiring. The couple managed to make it to the alter after years of living
separate live on the road-Richardson with the Boys, Willits at various theme parks and as
a backup dancer with Cher. "they really stuck it out for each other," said Kristin's sister
Tina Huet, 34. "I'm glad they were able to make it." After asking her father's permission,
the singer proposed last December (Richardson's bandmate and cousin Brian Littrell, 25,
got engaged a few days later).
"They were made for each other," said John Willits. "They're both old-fashioned,
big-hearted. They've both done very well."
"He's a super-nice guy, and he's made my daughter very happy," said Susan Patton of
Richardson.
