Heather Locklear’s new romance had a very public family moment this weekend.
The Melrose Place star attended daughter Ava Sambora’s wedding to Tyler Farrar in Montecito, California, with Lorenzo Lamas by her side, while also reuniting with ex-husband Richie Sambora to walk Ava down the aisle. The ceremony took place Saturday, May 16, at the Rosewood Miramar, according to People’s wedding report.
For celebrity-watchers, the wedding landed as two stories at once: Ava’s polished California ceremony, and Locklear and Lamas stepping further into the spotlight after their relationship was confirmed in April.
Locklear and Lamas sat front row at Ava’s ceremony
Photos from the outdoor wedding showed Locklear with Lamas as the family gathered for Ava and Farrar’s ceremony. People reported that Richie Sambora, Locklear and Lamas were all in attendance, while Entertainment Weekly noted that Locklear and Sambora walked their daughter down the aisle together before sitting front row for the nuptials.
That detail is part of why the moment traveled quickly. Locklear and Sambora were one of the defining celebrity couples of the 1990s, married from 1994 until their 2007 divorce. Seeing them come together for Ava, with Lamas also present, gave the wedding a rare mix of family warmth and prime-time TV nostalgia.
The Locklear-Lamas romance became public only weeks ago
Locklear, 64, and Lamas, 68, have not been hiding in the background. A friend of Locklear’s told People that Heather Locklear and Lorenzo Lamas are dating in April, after TMZ first published photos of the pair together in Las Vegas.
Days later, the couple made their first public appearance together at the 2026 Chiller Theatre Expo in New Jersey. Lamas then spoke openly about Locklear in a People interview recap, saying he never expected the relationship to come full circle decades after they first crossed paths during their early acting careers.
That backstory is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. Locklear became a TV fixture through Dynasty and Melrose Place; Lamas was a major ’80s television name through Falcon Crest and later Renegade. Their pairing is new, but the public memory around both of them is not.
Ava Sambora’s wedding was still the center of the day
The attention around Locklear and Lamas did not erase the main event. Ava, 28, married Farrar in an outdoor ceremony surrounded by close family and friends. People reported that Farrar works as an investment associate in Los Angeles, while Ava has worked as a model and actress and holds degrees in psychology and marriage and family therapy.
The couple’s relationship has been public for years. Farrar proposed in February 2024, and the pair later celebrated their engagement with family and loved ones.
Richie Sambora also shared a personal reception moment after the wedding, posting video of his father-daughter dance with Ava. According to People’s report on the father-daughter dance, the two danced to “I’ll Always Walk Beside You,” a song Sambora wrote for his daughter.
Why this family moment is getting attention
Celebrity weddings often turn into photo galleries, but this one had a cleaner emotional hook: a daughter’s wedding, divorced parents showing up together, and a new relationship becoming part of the public family picture.
Locklear and Sambora’s co-parenting relationship has been discussed publicly before, and the wedding photos reinforced that Ava remained the focus. Lamas’ presence made headlines because his relationship with Locklear is still new to the public, but the ceremony itself read less like a spectacle and more like a blended family milestone.
For fans who watched Locklear, Sambora and Lamas through very different eras of pop culture, the wedding offered a compact update: Ava is married, Locklear and Sambora are still able to share a proud-parent moment, and Locklear’s romance with Lamas is now clearly moving beyond rumor.
