Selena Gomez Shares Sweet Surprise From Fiancé Benny Blanco After Emmys 2025
The heart wants what it wants: A fall wedding.
Nine months after Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco got engaged, the pair will prove this is not the same old love when they get married in California.
“When I look at her,” the music producer, 37, previously told Howard Stern, “I’m always just like, ‘I don’t know a world where it could be better than this.'”
As it turns out, it could. Because in December 2024, he proposed to the 33-year-old with a Taco Bell picnic and a marquise-cut diamond. As she wrote on Instagram at the time, “Forever begins now…”
Or, at the altar of their vows, with guests including the bride-to-be’s BFF Taylor Swift —who had offered to be the flower girl—as well as Selena’s Only Murders in the Building costars Martin Short and Steve Martin.
One must-have: A special role for Martin.
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“Marty is due to give a speech,” Selena said on The Drew Barrymore Show in April. “I told him he must. Steve will probably pull out his banjo, but I feel like Marty would have an epic speech.”
And after months of planning, his role has expanded. “Marty’s the ring bearer,” she teased earlier this month on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, after which Martin pretended to present the ring and then busted out his Father of the Bride character, saying, “Well, I’ll be Franck.”
“We are all so excited because we love this lady,” he added, joking, “And we love her fiancé, Bad Bunny.”
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Yes, the day will be filled with fun—and some emotional moments. Like, for instance, when the Disney alum shares a dance with mom Mandy Teefey‘s dad. (Mandy and husband Brian Teefey eloped in Las Vegas.)
“He never got a chance to walk my mom down the aisle,” the actress said on the April 30 episode of the Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware podcast. “I wanted to give him an opportunity.”
What else is in store? Well, come and get all the details ahead of Selena and Benny’s big day…
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The Wedding Date
Haven’t received your invitation to Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco‘s wedding yet? Baby, calm down, calm down.
While Ed Sheeran suggested in a May lie detector test for Vanity Fair that he’d already been invited, Benny has insisted he and Selena haven’t finalized a date.
“I was like, ‘I’m going to have a wedding, and you’re going to come to the wedding,'” Benny explained in a June interview for Australia’s Today show. “I guess literally newspapers take things out of context and stuff. Eventually Ed will come to our wedding when we do have one, but unfortunately, we have not scheduled one yet—but we will.”
And who says the couple needs to get married right away?
“I think every day she’s planned a new wedding in her head,” Benny added in a March interview with Rolling Stone. “We’re very much ‘take it one day at a time’-type of people. We’re still not over this moment.”
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The Star-Studded Guest List
Ed won’t be the only celebrity on the guest list. And you probably don’t need to go round and round trying to guess who else Selena and Benny will invite.
After the pair announced their engagement in December 2024, Taylor Swift offered her services.
“Yes,” the 14-time Grammy winner and Selena’s longtime pal wrote on Instagram, “I will be the flower girl.”
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The Speeches
Of course, we can’t forget about Steve Martin and Martin Short.
When Drew Barrymore suggested that Selena’s Only Murders in the Building costars officiate the ceremony, the bride-to-be replied, “Oh my gosh! I haven’t even thought about that.”
However, she had given some thought to other potential roles.
“Marty is due to give a speech,” Selena continued on the April episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. “I told him he must. Steve will probably pull out his banjo, but I feel like Marty would have an epic speech.”
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The Music
While fans already know Selena and Benny love each other like a love song, they might be wondering what actual tracks the two will play on their big day. And given the singer and the music producer’s careers, it’s no surprise they’re making the tunes a priority.
“We’re definitely not planning exactly at this moment, but we do want to make sure that the music’s good,” Selena shared on a March episode of The Tonight Show. “And I’m gonna let that be his job.”
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The Cake
When it comes to dessert, the actress doesn’t have that same old love for a multi-tiered cake.
“Whenever that day comes, I do know I don’t want a big cake,” Selena said in a July TikTok video for her brand Rare Beauty. “I think I’d want a mini one for just us that we can freeze.”
Instead, she’d rather serve a different option and tell her guests, when you’re ready, come and get it.
“My preferred dessert would be biscuits and gravy,” Selena continued. “My nana’s biscuits and gravy, that sounds like dessert to me.”
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The First Dance
A first dance is hardly a rare tradition, but it’s one Selena seems comfortable skipping.
“I don’t think we’re looking at having one of those,” the Wizards of Waverly Place alum said on an April episode of Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware. “Cause they’re a little…”
When Benny noted Selena gets shy, she acknowledged, “I feel embarrassed.”
But that doesn’t mean the Emilia Pérez star will stay completely off the dance floor. In fact, she said she’d like to “have a special dance with my papa.”
“He’s my mom’s father,” Selena said, referencing mother Mandy Teefey, who eloped with Brian Teefey in 2006. “He never got a chance to walk my mom down the aisle because, good for my mom, she decided to go to Vegas and be like, ‘Whooo’ and she’s still been with him ever since they were 26. So it’s very cute that they did that, but I wanted to give him an opportunity.”
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