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Blake Shelton tells his friends to ‘get over’ not being invited to his wedding
Blake and Gwen got married earlier this month (Picture: Instagram)
Blake Shelton has told his friends to ‘get over’ not being invited to his wedding to Gwen Stefani.
The 45-year-old singer married Gwen, 51, in a low-key ceremony at his Oklahoma ranch earlier this month with just 40 guests in attendance.
The country star insisted they weren’t trying to offend anyone by leaving them off the list, though he’s had to have a number of ‘awkward conversations’ as a result.
Speaking to Storme Warren on SiriusXM, Blake said: ‘So I’ve had awkward conversations with, with so many of my friends since it’s “Oh, oh yeah. I read y’all. Yeah, I read about that. How was that?”
‘You know, I was like, “Listen, you know, we kept it small, get over it, you know, it’s not about you.”’
Those who did make the cut include Gwen’s three sons, Kingston, 15, Zuma, 12, and Apollo, 7, whom she shares with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, and her parents Dennis and Patty.
The couple’s The Voice colleagues, including Adam Levine, did not make it, but the show host Carson Daly acted as officiant of the nuptials.
Carson’s wife Siri Pinter and their children were also in attendance on the big day.
A source told People: ‘They purposely kept the wedding simple. They didn’t want a circus. In the end, they just wanted to have this moment with their loved ones.’
Despite keeping the guestlist small, there were plenty of lavish touches at the wedding, including Gwen wearing a custom Vera Wang dress featuring a high-low tulle skirt and a plunging neckline for the ceremony, before switching into a mini-dress also by the designer and cowboy boots for the reception.
The newlyweds haven’t jetted off on honeymoon yet because they were keen to have ‘quiet time’ at home for a while first.
Asked if they’ve been on honeymoon, Blake said: ‘No. We haven’t yet. We still are probably going to…we did have some time after the wedding, just she and I, but you know…we just wanted something calm for a minute and not to run off and then go do something else.
The couple haven’t gone on honeymoon yet (Picture: John Shearer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
‘So we just stayed there in Oklahoma and just had some quiet time, just she and I…she’s realising that the agriculture part of Oklahoma,, and the things that you can do, and her passion is – outside of music – flowers.
‘This last spring, when we had time, we went and planted like a few acres of just Zinnias…we’ve had all this rain this year and wildflowers, acres of those things. She’s in absolute heaven with that. So she wouldn’t have wanted to leave anyway, because she can just literally walk out there and stand in acres of those things. And she loves it. I do too. It’s cool.’
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Blake and Gwen got engaged in October 2020, five years after they started dating after meeting while they were both coaches on The Voice.
The pair were both newly divorced at the time, with Gwen filing for divorce from Gavin Rossdale after 13 years of marriage.
Just weeks earlier, Blake filed for divorce from his wife of four years, Miranda Lambert.
The God’s Country singer was also previously married to Kaynette Gern from 2003 until 2006.
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