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Updated Oct 14, 2024Inside Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton's Wedding
"The wedding, the best way to describe it, is it was 'perfectly them,'" said their officiant, Carson Daly.
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton married in, arguably, the wedding of the year on July 3, 2021. The event took place on the grounds of Shelton's Oklahoma ranch within a chapel built solely for the occasion. After privately enjoying their first few days of marriage, the newlyweds finally shared their first wedding photos with fans on Instagram. "Dreams do come true !!!" the "Hollaback Girl" singer expressed. "I love you."
Rather than exchanging traditional written vows, the musically-inclined couple opted for a special way to commemorate the moment. "Gwen and I decided we were going to write our own vows for the wedding, but I decided to surprise her by writing a song instead…" Shelton shared in November while promoting that same song, now entitled, "You Can Reach the Stars."
"You didn't decide to! I forced you to," commented Carson Daly, their officiant. "Thank Jesus too, yielded the best wedding moment & a hit song! You should buy me a tracker [with] the royalties cowboy."
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Designer Todd Fiscus of Todd Events orchestrated the florals and design for the picture-perfect occasion, while the couple hired photographer Jeremy Bustos to capture the joyful day. "I had the greatest honor of spending the weekend with sweetest, most down-to-Earth, and straight-up best-est couple, ever," Bustos shared on his Instagram Stories. "G + B, thank you for not only trusting me to capture your most important day… but for your genuine hospitality and kindness."
Gwen Stefani's Custom Wedding Dresses
The bride wore two strapless Vera Wang dresses, both couture and custom. Stefani's ceremony look featured an elaborate train with a fitted bodice. To pull together her look, she carried a voluminous bouquet of white flowers down the aisle. Wang shared details about Stefani's look: a custom, lily-white, silk georgette and hand-tumbled and tulle gown in a high-low style. The piece featured a plunging neckline and a sexy cut-away back.
Another show-stopping element from Stefani's wedding ceremony dress was her chapel-length veil, which was hand-embroidered with a shout-out to her entire family. The personalized piece read, "Blake, Gwen, Kingston, Zuma, Apollo" for the newly-minted family of five, and included two white roses on each side of the inscription. Stefani's pure white ceremony look, overall, was a stark departure from her now-iconic dip-dyed pink wedding dress from her marriage to Gavin Rossdale (with whom she shares her three sons) from decades prior.
The bride's second outfit, a custom minidress by Wang, included a floral waist with a tulle skirt. She thoughtfully paired the reception outfit with the same white cowboy boots (with stilettos) from the ceremony. "You need a party dress when u get to marry [Blake Shelton]," Stefani noted.
Gwen and Blake's Wedding Details
Additional aerial photos obtained by Page Six showcased Shelton and Stefani's immaculate new home, where guests originally convened before luxury buses took them over to the chapel. (Shelton had previously built a chapel on the grounds with the intent to marry his girlfriend-turned-wife in the privacy of their own home.) The ceremony venue was also designed with voluminous floral installations, covering the awning of the chapel, as well as the surrounding area all by Todd Events.
There appeared to have been a coordinated dress code where some guests were told to wear white. As the event was thoughtful and intimate, The Voice host Carson Daly was tapped to officiate the occasion. "It was incredible to be a part of such an important moment in their lives," Daly revealed on the Today show on Tuesday, July 6. "The ceremony was a perfect blend of country and glamour, of course, just like Blake and Gwen… The wedding, the best way to describe it, is it was perfectly them. The whole weekend and the marriage itself. It was as elegant and refined and cool as Gwen is, and it was country and down-home and fun as Blake is."
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton's Wedding Planning
Shelton-Stefani wedding watched commenced after the couple applied for their marriage license on June 29. It was expected the pair, who registered it in Johnston, Oklahoma, would marry within the 10-day period where it remained valid.
Like millions of couples, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton planned a wedding in the middle of a pandemic, which hasn't been the easiest process. However, it's finally time to move forward with the wedding and the parties commenced with a weekend shower.
The singer posted a photo of herself from her bridal shower over the weekend, teasing: "She's getting marriiieeeeed." In separate photos obtained by the New York Post, Stefani sported what appeared like a wedding band, prompting mass speculation about the couple's relationship status, though it was preemptive.
The superstars, who first revealed their engagement in October 2020, have since grappled with several COVID wedding-related questions—mostly centered around timing and their desired guest list. Recently, Shelton spoke out about the timeline and how he hopes to make it official quite soon.
While guest-hosting TODAY with Hoda & Jenna this week, Shelton said his wedding will take place "hopefully [happen] this summer. With COVID, it looks like it may be okay, but I don't know." Like many couples, the pair will likely host an outdoor wedding and provide ample testing and precautionary communication with guests before moving forward with a summer 2021 wedding.
Since their October 2020 engagement, the wedding schedule has remained tentative. A few months ago, Stefani opened up about wedding planning too and her non-negotiables. "I would love to get married, but I want my parents there," Stefani told Wonderland. "So that's hard to plan. We have three kids in school and at home on Zoom, so hopefully that will end for them. But there's not a lot of plans, I just want to put this record out!"
Ever the silver-linings celeb, Stefani said COVID has benefited her life in one way. "There was an amazing need to have a pause, I think, that we didn't even know could be possible," she noted.
According to The Knot 2020 Real Weddings Study, about 96% of all couples have dealt with wedding modifications due to the pandemic. Among those who've moved forward with their nuptials (largely minimonies and microweddings), precisely 82% of respondents said they implemented health and safety measures into the wedding day and eight out of every 10 couples said they reduced their original guest list to comply with regulations.
Like Stefani and Shelton, most couples are moving forward with planning their weddings regardless, painting a clear picture of how post-pandemic weddings, anniversary receptions and engagement parties will be abundant in the years to come.
Gwen and Blake's Engagement Details
The singers confirmed in October 2019, that they were engaged after nearly five years of dating. "Yes please!" Stefani wrote on Instagram, alongside a snap of herself kissing Shelton with her new engagement ring on display. Country superstar Shelton, like his fiancée, had equally adorable sentiments on social media. "Hey @gwenstefani thanks for saving my 2020... And the rest of my life.." the "God Gave Me You" crooner wrote. "I love you. I heard a YES!"
The ring is a large round brilliant or oval diamond of at least eight carats. Currently, experts believe the piece could be close to a million dollars in value. "With the center stone nearly reaching Gwen's middle knuckle, I estimate the total weight of her engagement ring to be approximately 8-10 carats at a value of $700k-$800k, depending on the color and clarity of the diamonds," says Katie Zimmerman, chief merchandising officer of Blue Nile.
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Following the proposal, Stefani stopped by the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, with whom she revealed Shelton had reached out to her father before popping the question. The proposal, it seems, was a long time coming. "It's like, 'Blake, why couldn't you have done it before?'" she laughed. "Now, we can't have a wedding with the pandemic. "It's like [we're] sitting around going, 'OK, drag [this] out more.'"
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton's Love Story
It is the second marriage for Stefani, who was married to rocker Gavin Rossdale from 2002 to 2016. It is the third marriage for Shelton, who was once husband to Kaynette Williams, followed by a volatile marriage with Miranda Lambert.
Shelton and Stefani famously bonded after the fallouts from their marriages to Lambert and Rossdale, who particularly was embroiled in a public nanny scandal at the tail end of his relationship. "I won't forget that day. I looked over at Gwen—who I didn't really know—and she had these huge tears in her eyes. I thought, 'Wow, she feels super bad for me!' . . . I thought it was going to be another one of those things-are-going-to-be-OK talks," Shelton recalled to Billboard in a July 2016 cover story. "She didn't tell me much, because we didn't know each other at the time, but she said, 'I'm going through something very similar to what you're going through. I understand. And I hate it.'"
As both Stefani and Shelton were mending from their failed marriages, their friendship blossomed before viewers on NBC's The Voice, where they were coaches. "That's kind of how our friendship and bond started, that day," Shelton added in the same interview. "It went from that, to checking in on each other once a week through email—'This sh-- happened to me, what happened to you?'—to maybe three times a week, then every day, to 'Hey, here's my phone number if you ever want to text.' Next thing I know, I wake up and she's all I care about, and I'm wondering if she feels the same about me."
In November 2015, they confirmed they were dating. Since then, fans have persistently hoped for the couple's relationship to turn to an engagement. Still, they repeatedly described their love as easy-going given the many factors they had encountered throughout their previous marriages. "There is zero pressure … when there's trauma, the way that we had trauma back in the day," Stefani told NBC News in 2018. "Going through all these hard times, [you] get to a place where you find somebody that's like your best friend, that you know you can depend on and trust and go through life — we're just trying to be in the moment as much as we can."
Gwen Stefani's Wedding Dress to Gavin Rossdale
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As recalled, Stefani married ex-husband Gavin Rossdale in a hand-painted and dip-dyed, vanilla-color crepe dress that included derivatives of rose and cherry hues on the skirt. The iconic piece was designed in 2002 by John Galliano for Christian Dior, and a similar style gown was recreated in 2017 for Stefani by Christian Siriano. (According to our data, 60% of those who marry for the second time report they or their partner wore white compared to 90% of first marriages.)
