Mandy Teefey was a proud mother-of-the-bride when eldest daughter Selena Gomez tied the knot with Benny Blanco.
“Sunday sort of love,” Teefey, 49, wrote through her Instagram Tales on Sunday, September 28, reposting Gomez’s official wedding ceremony portraits.
Teefey set her publish to Louis Armstrong’s model of “La Vie En Rose,” a traditional love track that was beforehand featured in Gomez’s 2011 film Monte Carlo.
Gomez, 33, and Blanco, 37, acquired married on Saturday, September 27, sharing the information through social media a number of hours later. The Solely Murders within the Constructing actress posted gorgeous pics snapped by Petra Collins, by which she wore a customized Ralph Lauren halter bridal robe. Blanco, for his half, donned a traditional black tuxedo.
In a follow-up publish shared to her Instagram, Teefey referred to as the ceremony a “fairy story.”
“What an ideal celebration for essentially the most kickass couple I do know! The night couldn’t have been extra lovely and ideal,” she wrote on Sunday. “Completely flawless! All my like to my lovely daughter @selenagomez and to the best son-in-law @itsbennyblanco!!! It was a fairytale come true and it was past heartwarming watching my father stroll her down the aisle!!!”
A supply completely advised Us Weekly that the nuptials have been additionally a star-studded affair.
“Will probably be an enormous, A-list wedding ceremony, deliberate by Mindy Weiss,” the insider advised Us earlier this week, referring to the superstar organizer who’s helmed occasions for the Kardashians, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato and extra well-known faces by means of the years.
Whereas Gomez and Blanco’s visitor listing featured an array of their superstar pals, their family members have been additionally presumably in attendance. Selena, for her half, is the daughter of exes Teefey and Ricardo Gomez. Mandy is now married to Brian Teefey, with whom she shares 12-year-old daughter Gracie.
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco on the Oscars in March 2025. John Shearer/97th Oscars/The Academy through Getty Pictures
All through Selena’s life, she has been particularly near Mandy, who primarily raised her as a single mom.
“I blamed my mother lots [for breaking up with my dad] as a result of I wished a household so dangerous,” Selena recalled throughout a June 2011 E! Leisure particular about her life. “I wished to have my mother and pa collectively. I bear in mind simply being indignant with my mother. I nonetheless really feel actually dangerous about that.”
The pop star continued, “Having me at 16 needed to have been a giant accountability. My mother gave up all the things for me and had, like, three jobs. She supported me, sacrificed her life for me.”
As Selena began pursuing her performing and music profession, Mandy was her No. 1 cheerleader. They even launched Wondermind, a psychological health-focused group, collectively in 2022.
Years earlier, Selena and Mandy’s relationship briefly fractured amid the Grammy nominee’s psychological well being struggles. (Selena entered a psychiatric facility in 2018 for psychological well being remedy.)
Benny Blanco had an lovely first remark about his and new bride Selena Gomez’s star-studded wedding ceremony on Saturday, September 27. The Solely Murders within the Constructing actress, 33, confirmed through Instagram that the couple tied the knot on Saturday in Santa Barbara, California. A beautiful carousel of wedding ceremony images revealed Gomez’s sleeveless white gown and […]
“They referred to as me and wished to know what my daughter was doing within the hospital with a nervous breakdown. She didn’t need something to do with me. I used to be scared she was going to die,” Mandy recalled in Selena’s 2022 documentary, My Thoughts and Me. “You grasp on as tight as you possibly can and attempt to assist them with their remedy and that’s the toughest factor to do — to then go to mattress and hope that they get up the subsequent day. … It’s a miracle she acquired out, however there’s at all times a worry it’s going to occur once more and that harm us a lot.”
After collaborating within the documentary, Mandy didn’t plan to observe the ultimate minimize.
“The rationale why is as a result of we lived a few of that collectively. We went by means of that, and we discovered therapeutic and we’ve moved previous a few of it,” she defined on a 2022 episode of the “On Objective With Jay Shetty” podcast. “And even when it’s one thing she went by means of, and I didn’t know she went by means of it, as a mom, it’s gonna have an effect on me. It’s gonna harm my abdomen, it’s gonna put me in that mindset, and I’m going to want I may go and defend her.”
