Joe Lando Recalls What Jane Seymour Was Like on Their “Dr. Quinn” Wedding Day

Nov 02, 2026 by apost team

When Jane Seymour and Joe Lando filmed the wedding of their characters on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” a series that aired in more than 100 countries, the cameras captured a happy ending. What they did not capture was how Seymour was feeling beforehand.

The series followed a Boston physician who opens a practice in a frontier town and must convince its residents that a woman can be a doctor.

Revisiting the day at a 90s Con panel, Lando put it simply. “You were nervous like a real bride,” he told her. “Do you remember that? Because there was so much press there and so many people.” Seymour laughed and agreed that was exactly the problem. “That’s what made me nervous,” she quipped.

The occasion was treated as a major event. “They made it a very big deal,” Seymour said. Her own memory of the day centers on a different detail: the gown. “What I remember, though, is I was quite excited about the design of the dress, as all brides would be.”

She had good reason. Seymour helped bring the dress to life with vintage lace she had collected in England and fabric decorated with tiny seed pearls. A designer who had worked on Princess Diana’s wedding dress even contributed to the final fitting, adding a royal touch to a gown made for a frontier bride. “So he put his royal hands on it as well,” she said.

The logistics, she admitted, were “very complicated.” One thought crossed her mind more than any other as the day approached. “Will Joe show up?” she recalled wondering, a joke that landed because Lando himself admitted he tends to wander away from crowds like that one.

The nerves on that wedding day came from two people who knew each other well. Lando played Byron Sully, the most frequently featured love interest of Seymour’s Dr. Michaela Quinn, and appeared opposite her in 143 episodes. Seymour and Lando have said their bond began forming on set, where Lando often found reasons to linger after his own scenes were finished. Seymour noticed him watching her work and asked what he was doing.

Then a flash flood threatened the ranch where they were filming. Seymour was in a Cadillac as the water rose around it, and Lando pulled alongside her in his pickup. “It was actually very dangerous to work on ‘Dr. Quinn’ because there was no studio,” she said. “But so much fun,” Lando added.

The friendship outlasted the series. Seymour has called Lando her best friend, and has described their families as “an entwined family,” including Lando’s wife, Kirsten. When wildfires destroyed the Landos’ home, Seymour opened her own to them. “Welcoming Joe and his family into our home while they try to make sense of the inexplicable is just what you do for family,” she said.

Seymour has said she would only do another “Dr. Quinn” if it were “as good if not better,” and Lando has said he and a few others would be “very on board” if the right script appeared. In the meantime, the two have kept returning to the screen: a classic Christmas movie, a short parody called “Dr. Quinn, Morphine Woman,” and now “Harry Wild.”

In the fifth season of that series, Seymour’s crime-solving retired literature professor meets Lando’s Pierce Kennedy, a charming new state pathologist. Seymour kept pushing for it. “Why don’t we bring Joe in?” she remembered asking.

Some partnerships, it turns out, only need a reason to reunite.

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