The Important Role Carson Daly Played in Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton's Wedding

The Voice host Carson Daly took on a major role in pals Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton's Oklahoma wedding on July 3. Read on for details.

Keeping it in The Voice family.

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani recruited a close friend to officially pronounce them husband and wife: Carson Daly. That’s right, the host of the NBC competition series officiated the couple’s July 3 wedding in Oklahoma, Today confirmed shortly after the pair shared footage from the ceremony online.

The trio has grown very close over the years thanks to their time on The Voice. In fact, Daly couldn’t help but tease his pal Shelton back in 2015 after he and Stefani first went public with their romance. “I didn’t think Blake could get a girl as hot as Gwen to be honest,” he said on Today. “He’s a goofy cowboy. She’s the queen of cool. But God bless them. They’re two of the nicest people in the business.”

Daly even advised Stefani against dating Shelton early on. “Five years ago, when you started to date Blake, you’ll remember this, we went back to your house, your old house in LA, and I sat you and Blake down in the kitchen,” Carson recalled during Stefani’s January 2021 appearance on Today. “And I said, ‘You guys, pump the brakes. This is not good. This is not going to work.'”

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He continued, “And I looked at Gwen, and I said, ‘You’re much, much too good for this guy. You’re smart. You’re intelligent. You’re one of my oldest friends. And then there’s Blake.'”

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However, the former TRL host’s wisdom was clearly ignored, given the duo’s recent nuptials. Later on in the interview, Stefani revealed what she loves most about the “God’s Country” singer. “He’s just such a good guy,” she said. “He’s one of the most generous human beings and down-to-earth. It almost sounds generic, but it’s just so true.”

You can read more of Shelton and Stefani’s sweetest quotes about each other HERE!

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The musical duo officially tied the knot on the “God’s Country” singer’s ranch in Oklahoma on July 3. For the occasion, which came eight months after Stefani and Shelton got engaged, the couple was surrounded by loved ones. 

Two days after the ceremony, on July 5, Stefani, who shares three kids with ex Gavin Rossdale, took to her Instagram to share a glimpse inside the wedding festivities.

“July 3rd 2021 [heart emoji] gx,” the “Cool” artist captioned a boomerang video, showing herself in a floral robe and veil with an oversized white bow. The bride, whose makeup was perfected with a red lip, tagged Shelton in the video and added a heart emoji and hands praying emoji. 

Stefani later revealed three more romantic photos from the big day, tagging Vera Wang as the designer of her strapless wedding gown. “dreams do come [heart],” the singer wrote. “@blakeshelton i love you.” The pictures showed the newlyweds posing at his ranch at sunset, and the pair kissing as they stood in front of their elegant tiered wedding cake.

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Her stylist Mariel Haenn wrote on Instagram, “Couldn’t be happier for this union! And family! I love you.”

Shelton, 45, and Stefani, 51, have been each other’s sweet escape since November 2015, when The Voice coaches officially started dating. As the pair—who first met on the set of the NBC competition series—would later share, they formed a deep connection following their respective divorces.

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“It’s not something anybody could’ve seen coming, besides God I guess, because it doesn’t look like it would make sense,” Shelton, who split from Miranda Lambert in July 2015, told CMT’s Katie Cook the following year about his relationship with Stefani. “All I can tell you is that it does. It just makes the most perfect sense for us and where we’re at in our lives.”

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He added, “I tell people all the time, ‘Gwen saved my life last year.’ She did.”

Shelton shared a similar quote when announcing his engagement to Stefani. “Hey @gwenstefani thanks for saving my 2020… And the rest of my life,” he wrote in an October 2020 Instagram post. “I love you. I heard a YES!”

Remember When all of Hollywood Turned Out for Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie's Magical Wedding?

Winter was months away, but before Kit Harington wed Rose Leslie—at her family's 12th century castle—on June 23, 2018, he did make sure that the entire Game of Thrones cast was coming.

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We’re not saying Kit Harington and Rose Leslie‘s 2018 wedding affected the entire shooting schedule for Game of Thrones‘ final season. Though we’re not not saying that. 

Because not long after the over-eager London-bred actor dropped to one knee during a holiday in the English countryside—”I was going to string up some lights in some trees and do all the romantic stuff, but we were in the country and we were under this beautiful night sky and had a log fire burning and red wine, and I blew my load early,” he joked on The Jonathan Ross Show, immediately correcting himself to say, “I popped my question a bit early. Not blew my load”—he phoned up producers with a second proposal. 

“I said, ‘I’m getting married and it’s your fault actually,'” he recalled to Ross of his request, a not unfair point considering he first fell in love with his former costar while pretending to fall in love with her on the fantasy drama’s snowy Iceland set. “I was like, ‘You need to factor in a Game Of Thrones wedding by the way. They have all got to be there so the whole thing has got to shut down!'”

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And thus it was so ordered.

At Jon Snow’s decree, a break in filming was created, Belfast’s Paint Hall Studios abandoned for the weekend so the likes of Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams could turn up some 300 miles to the north in Leslie’s hometown of Aberdeen, Scotland, on June 23, 2018. 

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Because while Snow may have been king, it was Leslie’s family who laid claim to some true royal lineage—her mother Candida Leslie is a direct descendent of King Charles II—and pretty impressive real estate. Dating back to the 12th century, Wardhill Castle—where one of Leslie’s brother William, one of her five siblings, and his wife Sarah live year-round—boasts turrets and towers and some 700 bucolic acres complete with views of the Bennachie hills. 

And though the popular wedding venue they selected for their reception site regularly hosts ceremonies in the grand drawing room and on the front lawn, Harington and Leslie, both 34, went the traditional route, booking Rayne Church to trade their actual vows. 

Harington arrived first with his groomsmen and ushers, stepping out of his taxi and straightening his three-piece suit before heading into the 18th-century stone parish. An hour later—after the entirety of the Game of Thrones cast, plus the couple’s pals Marcus Mumford, Malin Akerman and husband Jack Donnelly and some 80 other guests walked up the gravel drive—Leslie made her entrance.

Her ear-to-ear smile almost pulling focus from her long-sleeve, floral-embroidered ivory gown, cathedral-length veil and crown of white flowers, Leslie “was ecstatic,” an onlooker noted of the actress, who was escorted by dad Sebastian Leslie. “Rose looked relaxed and very happy as she walked in.”

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Though that was nothing compared to joy she exuded on the way out.

After the groom promised to love and honor his bride and never again repeat the April Fool’s Day prank that saw Leslie stumble upon a model of his head in their fridge (“She pretty much told me if I did it ever again that would be it,” Harington confessed to Ross of his epic stunt, “and I think that’s marriage included”), the pair dashed outside through a shower of white flower petals to their awaiting chariot: An old Land Rover Defender adorned with paper hearts, a “Just Married” sign and a train of tin cans that rattled the whole route to Wardhill Castle. 

With press and fans gathered outside the imposing manse, having been tipped off by the notice posted at Aberdeenshire’s Huntly registration office, the father of the bride, a local councilor, made a bit of noise himself, telling reporters, “We are absolutely thrilled for Kit and Rose to be marrying today. It’s an absolutely lovely day for us.”

And though we were left to imagine the chiavari chairs and florals that were chosen (doubtless, tasteful arrangements that complemented Leslie’s all-white bouquet), Sebastian did share that they’d relied on “local caterers, local lighting, local flowers” to put the whole day together.  

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The result, as one attendee told E! News, “was perfect. Family and friends were elated for Rose and Kit. It was a day of love and celebration and you could see it on everyone’s faces.”

In the three years since, there have been several more toast-worthy occasions—including the recent arrival of their son. But more than a decade into their love story, the duo find joy in life’s little pleasures. 

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After spending years in New York City filming The Good Fight, the actress told UK’s Make Magazine recently that she was thrilled to return to Europe—where she filmed both the upcoming BBC One thriller Vigil and the Death on the Nile adaption—spending weekends with Harington at what she called “the house that Jon Snow built,” their 15th century Tudor-style manor deep in East Anglia.

“It’s incredibly old,” Leslie told the outlet of their Suffolk abode. “We have a thatched roof, which currently has an enormous hornet’s nest in it. I do love to think about the house and all the people who have lived there. Were they happy, how did they live? All the families passing under those ancient beams.” 

Having confirmed to Make that she was, indeed, expecting at the time, she added that the spot provided a nice escape. “What a glorious thing to be able to run to the countryside and recoup,” she noted. “It’s a great privilege to be surrounded by greenery, birdsong and hedgerows, and our delightful neighbors.”

Plus the man she first fell for under those Northern Lights back in 2011. 

While neither actor has been entirely forthcoming about the intricacies of their romance, save for the fact that it was quite easy to mix business and pleasure as Jon Snow and Wildling warrior Ygritte, “we are very, very happy,” Harington allowed to Esquire in 2017, wanting to keep the details between himself and his bride. “So that’s what I’ll say about that.”