Michelle Lee and Brian Gilbert

You’re going to meet someone who was born in 1968, and he’s going to be the love of your life. If you [mess] it up, you’re never going to get a second chance.” That bold prediction was made by a self-professed psychic Michelle Lee encountered two years ago at a cocktail party.

A few minutes later, Lee, who was born in 1981, struck up a conversation with a handsome stranger named Brian Gilbert. She told him what the psychic had said. “No way am I going to date a man that old,” she added. Gilbert didn’t mention that he was born in 1968.

She found him very attractive. But when he called her a few days later, she almost did mess it up. “My defensive ‘L.A. single girl’ attitude reared its head,” Lee said. “I’ve kissed a lot of frogs.” This one turned out to be a prince.

Even their careers are a great match. She’s vice president of television at Kurtzman/Orci, a production company at 20th Century Fox, and he’s a partner with Nine/8 Entertainment, an independent film production company.

For Lee, 29, and Gilbert, 42, their age difference mattered in only one way — and it pleased her enormously: He courted her by phoning, not texting.

They were wed on May 21 at the 1930s-style Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Springs. The ceremony took place in the hotel garden, where the bride made a stunning entrance in an antique white Jenny Yoo sheath with a graceful trumpet silhouette.

Lee’s roots are Taiwanese and the groom’s are Jewish, making for a colorful mix of cultures at the ceremony. “The wedding was two different backgrounds coming together as one in a beautiful way,” Gilbert said.

At the poolside reception for 200, he gave a short welcome speech in Mandarin. Lee’s parents danced a Jewish hora for the first time, and there were chocolate-dipped fortune cookies with the message “Destiny” in English, Mandarin and Yiddish.

Guests had a blast dancing, and around midnight Lee put a fun final touch on the evening. Still wearing her wedding gown, she leapt exuberantly into the swimming pool.

When asked what she was feeling at that moment, she answered, “bliss.”

—Maxine Nunes, Custom Publishing Writer