Some people come to the JCK show in Las Vegas for the diamonds. Some show up for the pageantry. Little did the employees at Spicer Greene Jewelers know, but the owners were in Vegas to be witnesses at a very special staff wedding.
Known as the Spicer Greene sweethearts, sales manager Brian Filer and appraiser Kathleen Gold got married June 11 at the Chapel of the Bells in Vegas, and store owners Eva-Michelle and Elliott Spicer, along with the store’s inventory manager Bethanie Phillips, were the couple’s witnesses.
Kathleen Gold? “Yes, that is her last name and she kept it. Wouldn’t you?” Filer says.
The Spicer Greene staff were all in town for the JCK show, and Filer and Gold were there on their own time to get married. As it is the third marriage for both of them, the couple wanted to keep it sweet, simple, and short, Filer says.
Filer has been in the jewelry business for 42 years, and Gold has been for 39 years. Filer says they were friends and business associates for a long time before they started dating in 2011.
“Basically, we’ve been doing it our whole lives. We met in the jewelry business,” Filer says. “We talked about [marriage], but we didn’t see the point of being married because we both had been there before. So, six years ago, I gave her a diamond ring and asked her not to marry me.”
The couple moved in 2019 for Filer to take the job managing the Spicer Greene location in Asheville. Gold had been an independent appraiser for years and started working there as well in a freelance capacity.
Then, for no other reason than plain old love, the couple decided that since they had been dating 11 years in 2022, they might as well tie the knot officially.
“We bought a house together. I turned 61. We know that we’re going to be together. Why not get married?” Filer says.
They started planning their wedding quietly, picking Vegas as the destination. They selected the Chapel of the Bells because it was an elegant location and many famous people from Mickey Rooney to Kelly Ripa had gotten married there. Plus, the limo driver who picks you up for the wedding also is your wedding photographer, so that felt very Vegas.
“A lot of people who don’t want a big wedding go out to Vegas just because it’s fun,” Filer says. “We decided to get married on the 11th and picked June, which just happened to correspond to the Vegas JCK show.”
Then, the happy couple invited everyone in Vegas along for the ride. They enjoyed a quasi–bachelor-bachelorette party, seeing Cirque du Soleil on Friday night. Then, they all got a ride to the chapel on Saturday for the actual ceremony and lunch afterward as the Spicers’ treat at the Wynn.
“Elliott had an appointment to go see a diamond at 1 p.m. so we had just enough time for a reception,” Filer says.
Well, the newly married couple did squeak in something more formal: They attended the Sting concert Saturday night as a romantic night out, Filer says. Soon afterward, they were made official on the store’s Instagram and Facebook accounts, and the secret wedding soon became not so secret, which was fine by everyone.
“It was a fun ceremony with just the group of us,” Filer says.
Top: When two of its employees, Brian Filer and Kathleen Gold, flew to Vegas to get married at the same time as the JCK show, the Spicer Greene Jewelers team found out about it and became the ultimate witnesses to a relationship that bloomed in their store (photos courtesy of Spicer Greene Jewelers).
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