American creative director and activist Alana Hadid, 42, walked down the aisle with her longtime boyfriend, Ross Williams, on October 18, 2025, at her father’s home, Palestinian-American real estate developer Mohamed Hadid, in Los Angeles, Vogue reported.Ross Williams is an Emmy-winning television producer and a mental health advocate. He previously worked for 17 years on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on NBC. The couple first met via a dating app in 2022. She told Vogue that she had given up on finding someone until the “last swipe” matched her with her now-husband.“I felt like I was never going to meet anyone on the app, and then—no joke—I did one last swipe, and there he was,” Alana Hadid stated.Last year, on Alana’s 41st birthday, they got engaged. During a road trip to Big Sur, Ross Williams fell on his knees on a black sand beach with a trillion-cut amethyst ring belonging to his mother, Janet.On Saturday, the pair exchanged wedding vows in the presence of their parents. Alana Hadid’s famous half-siblings, Bella Hadid, Gigi Hadid, and Anwar Hadid, attended the wedding. Bella and Gigi were, in fact, her bridesmaids. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostAll you need to know about Alana Hadid’s husband, Ross WilliamsAccording to Vogue, Alana Hadid met Ross Williams on a dating app. After exchanging texts for the first few weeks, the duo met for a morning coffee date at a woodside café in Topanga, California.“Everyone thought it was kind of hilarious: ‘Why are you going on a date at eight in the morning?’ But it was so beautiful, we were there basically in this café by ourselves, and we talked for like two hours. It was kind of over after that. [I knew] right away: that’s my husband,” Alana told the outlet.About choosing the date and location of the wedding, Hadid shared that October 18 is Ross’ parents' wedding anniversary, and the backyard of her dad’s house was a “natural thought.”“We wanted to do it somewhere that meant something to us, so my dad’s house was a natural thought. Then we were trying to figure out what time of year we wanted to get married, and I just think that fall in L.A. is a beautiful time,” she stated.Alana Hadid also mentioned waiting for a “long time to get married” and finally having a dream wedding in the presence of her family.Her husband, Ross Williams, is a marriage and family therapy trainee at NuView Treatment Center and an addiction and mental health therapist and a group facilitator, according to his LinkedIn. He attended Glenbard West High School and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Kansas in 1999.Later, Williams pursued film, cinema, video studies, and fine arts at Columbia College Chicago. He is currently studying for a master’s degree in marriage and family counselling from the Phillips Graduate Institute’s MFT Program at Campbellsville University.Earlier, the Illinois native turned LA resident, worked on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for over 17 years in numerous roles, such as stage manager, co-executive producer, supervising producer, coordinating producer, and audience producer.For his roles, Ross Williams won the Emmy Award six times in the outstanding talk show category in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2020. He is also a CLIO Entertainment bronze recipient for the NBC comedy talk show.His other television gigs include The Sharon Osbourne Show, Monique, The Larry Elder Show, and Fox Sports Net, among others.Alana with her mother, Mary, and sister Marielle on Day 3 - Runway - Copenhagen Fashion Week SS25 - Source: GettyAlana Hadid’s husband has been a lecturer at Oxbridge University Business School, senior vice president of business development for JLANDAU, and a mental health advocate for several nonprofits. Ross Williams has a daughter from a previous relationship, according to Alana’s interview with Vogue.Alana Hadid is the daughter of Mohamed Hadid and Mary Butler. She has an elder sister named Marielle Hadid. Alana is a creative director at Watermelon Pictures and an activist. She has also worked as a stylist, designer, and model in the past.