{"id":9656,"date":"2025-09-29T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:22:24","slug":"selena-gomez-marries-benny-blanco-in-fairytale-santa-barbara-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2025\/09\/selena-gomez-marries-benny-blanco-in-fairytale-santa-barbara-wedding.html","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez Marries Benny Blanco in &#8216;Fairytale&#8217; Santa Barbara Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9659\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9659\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/413\/2025\/09\/Selena-Gomez_credit-selenagomez-Instagram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@selenagomez Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Selena Gomez has officially tied the knot!<\/p>\n<p>The pop superstar and actress married music producer Benny Blanco on Saturday in a beautiful, intimate, and star-studded ceremony in Santa Barbara, California.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez, who got engaged to Blanco in December 2024, revealed the joyful news on Instagram, posting a series of photos and videos with the simple caption: \u201c9.27.25.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the photos, the bride looked radiant in an elegant custom hand-draped satin gown with embroidery, while Blanco looked dashing in a classic black tuxedo and bowtie. Both wore Ralph Lauren. A handful of snapshots showed Gomez clutching her lily of the valley bouquet and wedding rings. One sweet video captured the newlyweds skipping hand-in-hand across a field, glancing back at the camera with smiles as bright as the California sun. Another clip showed Gomez fixing her new husband\u2019s bow-tie before sharing a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco himself couldn\u2019t hold back his excitement, commenting on Instagram: \u201cmy wife in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPH6AbikoLG\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPH6AbikoLG\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The couple exchanged vows at the lush Sea Crest Nursery with around 170 family and friends gathered to celebrate, according to <em>Vogue.<\/em> The guest list was a who\u2019s who of Hollywood, including Taylor Swift, Paul Rudd, Ashley Park, and Gomez\u2019s Only Murders in the Building co-stars Martin Short and Steve Martin. Paris Hilton, Ed Sheeran, and Gomez\u2019s Wizards of Waverly Place castmate David Henrie were also there.<\/p>\n<p>One notable absence was Meryl Streep, who co-starred with Gomez in Only Murders in the Building. A source told the Daily Mail that Streep had planned to attend but \u201ctold Selena she now won\u2019t be able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Peltz and her husband Brooklyn Beckham were also missing. While rumors swirled of a falling out, a source told <em>Page Six<\/em> that Peltz was in \u201cpre-production for a very rigorous film shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guests stayed at the $3,500-a-night El Encanto hotel, a luxury retreat owned by Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen. Martin and Short were photographed there ahead of Friday\u2019s rehearsal dinner, which was held at a mansion in the private community of Hope Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez, 33, and Blanco, 37, dated for a year before getting engaged in December 2024. At the time, Gomez posted a photo of her sparkling diamond ring with the caption: \u201cForever begins now.\u201d Blanco commented playfully, \u201cHey wait\u2026 that\u2019s my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bride also enjoyed a bachelorette trip in August in Cabo San Lucas, joined by close friends Raquelle Stevens, Ashley Cook, and Courtney Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco admitted earlier this year that the surprise proposal almost didn\u2019t go as planned. \u201cIt was the sickest surprise that she had no idea about, and it couldn\u2019t have come at a better time because I was starting to f\u2013k up,\u201d he told Interview magazine. He laughed about sneaking around: \u201cThe thing that makes me so crazy is, you\u2019re getting engaged, and right before, they\u2019re like, \u2018Show me how good of a liar you are. Sneak around and try to do this perfect thing without me knowing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAt the end, she was starting to get upset because she was like, \u2018Why aren\u2019t you coming home tonight?\u2019 \u2026 But I nailed it, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their romance blossomed in the recording studio. \u201cThat\u2019s how easy it was for me,\u201d Gomez recalled. \u201cI liked him before he liked me.\u201d Blanco admitted he was clueless at first, even trying to set her up with his friends. But everything clicked once they started spending time together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think you\u2019ve met the right person, you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, my God,\u2019\u201d Blanco said. \u201cThe second we started hanging out, I was like, \u2018This is my wife.\u2019 I was telling my mom, \u2018This is the girl I\u2019m going to marry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And now, he has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selena Gomez has officially tied the knot! 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