Gwen Stefani said she doesn't want her wedding to be a 'COVID situation,' and inviting 'just family' is still too many guests
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Darcy Schild
Dec 14, 2020, 03:21 IST
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton performed "Nobody But You" at the 2020 Grammy Awards.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Fellow "The Voice" judges and singers Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton announced their engagement at the end of October.
Stefani said in a recent episode of "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" that she and Shelton have no concrete plans for their wedding, as she wants to wait to be able to safely host her parents at the ceremony.
Stefani also told Seacrest that she feels even if the ceremony were to just include family, "it's still too many people for COVID" — echoing a concern other future newlyweds have felt when contemplating risky wedding plans amid the pandemic.
Other engaged celebrity couples have postponed their weddings for the time being, including Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams; and Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez.
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Fellow "The Voice" judges and singers Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton announced their engagement at the end of October.
In an interview with the "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" radio show aired earlier this month, Stefani said that she and Shelton will "see what happens in the next few months" before deciding on details for their nuptials.
"In a post-pandemic world, would you prefer a smaller ceremony or a larger wedding?" Seacrest asked.
"I would say, I just want my parents there at this point. My parents didn't come to Thanksgiving because they're so scared," Stefani told Seacrest. "So I really would rather it not be a COVID situation. I would rather not have masks and that kind of thing - and even when you cut it down to just family, it's still too many people for COVID."
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Weddings have been linked to the spread of the novel coronavirus - and even with vaccines on the way, other celebrities have spoken up about pausing their plans
Indoor weddings particularly have proven to further the spread of the novel coronavirus. A widely reported example is a wedding reception held in August in Maine with 55 people that went on to be linked to 177 confirmed COVID-19 cases and seven deaths.
On the couple's original wedding date in August, Hyland said: "We were supposed to get married today. Instead... we took pictures and drank wine."
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"We've put all planning on hold," Hyland told reality TV host Chris Harrison in June. "All of my family is mostly on the East Coast, so for them to fly out ... and just ages and of course with my health risks, we want to be as safe as possible."
"We are just kind of in a holding pattern like the rest of the world," Lopez said. "So, again, it's just something we have to wait and see in a few months how this all pans out."
For now, Stefani says she and Shelton are enjoying their time as an engaged couple
She told Seacrest that after years of dating, she and Shelton are "so excited" to get married.
"It feels so weird. People have been saying it for so long, like five years, 'Are you getting married? Are you engaged?' And now we actually are, and it feels like I'm in a cartoon or something," she told the radio host.
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