Anica Lazic Ristovski Shows Off Wedding Ring

Anica Lazic Ristovski publicly showed off her wedding band and engagement ring for the first time yesterday, since her secret wedding to Lazar Ristovski. Photos from the celebration at a restaurant, attended by actress Milica Tomasevic and her sister Andjelka, were posted on Instagram.

Anica and Lazar, who are 39 years apart, married in secret at an intimate ceremony held far from the public eye. Serving as maid of honor was model Sofija Milosevic, who posted her own footage of the newlyweds on her Instagram account, along with a photo taken in an elevator as the couple got ready to head to the ceremony. After the wedding, the couple took a short trip to Italy, and once back in Belgrade, Anica decided to share her happiness with her closest circle of friends.

Friends gathered at a restaurant, and the newlywed bride, according to both outlets that covered the celebration, screamed with joy as she showed Andjelka her wedding ring. Besides the wedding band, her hand also carried an engagement ring with a large center stone. In the photos from the wedding itself, unlike Anica’s, Lazar’s wedding band is not visible.

Andjelka Tomasevic captioned the celebration photos with a short note on Instagram.

“We’re celebrating love,” Andjelka wrote alongside the post.

After the wedding, the actress also changed how she presents herself on social media. She now signs off on Instagram as Anica Lazic Ristovski, and her account goes by the handle anicalazicristovski.

This is not the first time Anica has spoken about marriage. Asked previously about it, she said the formal side of things was never what mattered most to her.

I didn’t dream much about a wedding when I was a little girl. Even today it’s not that important to me. I see it more as a formality, and the substance matters more to me. We women enjoy wearing wedding dresses, but I don’t long to get married, it’s more important to me to live the substance of love, and I already have that, thank God.

Anica has also previously described, to the media, how her relationship with Lazar Ristovski, an actor 39 years her senior, began. The couple, she says, met spontaneously, without anyone’s help.

Lazar and I met without any intermediary, the only intermediary there was God. We met in Belgrade, looked at each other for a few seconds, and then we hugged. After that hug we sat down and talked for hours. When people ask me how long we’ve been together, I say since the first time we looked at each other. We talked about whether we should go public and say we were together. We agreed that I should be the one to announce it, Lazar wouldn’t be Lazar if he hadn’t done it his own way.

The outlet has previously reported that Lazar Ristovski, at 73, married a colleague 39 years his junior. The couple kept the romance under wraps for about a year at first, and it began after Lazar’s divorce from Danica Ristovski, with whom the actor has two sons.

Based on everything Anica and Lazar have shared so far, and on what has surfaced on their friends’ Instagram accounts, the timeline runs as follows: first, a secret wedding at an intimate ceremony with Sofija Milosevic as maid of honor, then a short trip to Italy, followed by the celebration with friends in Belgrade upon their return, where Anica showed off her wedding ring and engagement ring for the first time. Neither of the newlyweds has yet posted a joint photo from the wedding on their own accounts, everything the public has seen so far has come through posts from the maid of honor and friends.