Benny Blanco just revealed he almost had to walk down the aisle without one very important thing: Selena Gomez’s handwritten vows.
During a Feb. 26 appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the producer shared that less than a week before their September 2025 wedding, Gomez realized she couldn’t find the vows she had written by hand.
“She was crying because she couldn’t find them,” Blanco told host Jimmy Kimmel, explaining the panic that set in just days before they were set to say “I do.”
The Vows That Went Missing
Blanco said the vows disappeared five days before the wedding and were gone for nearly four days. The timing could not have been worse. The couple was preparing for their Santa Barbara ceremony, and the emotional centerpiece of the day had seemingly vanished.
Then came the plot twist.
“I found them, right before the wedding!” Blanco said on the late-night show. He made it very clear that he did not sneak a peek. “They were handwritten. I didn’t look. I closed my eyes and handed them to her. I swear!”
Blanco joked that finding the vows made him look like a hero right before becoming a husband. “It made me look so good,” he said. “It was like the best thing I could have done. I’m about to marry her and then I find the thing?”
According to Rolling Stone, Blanco was on the show promoting his new podcast, “Friends Keep Secrets,” alongside Dave Burd, also known as Lil Dicky. Burd actually officiated the wedding, but even his speech required last-minute edits. Blanco revealed that Gomez asked him to make sure Burd removed certain parts because they overlapped with her vows. Those notes reportedly cut the entire opening three minutes of his remarks.
A Wedding Full of Tears and Cake Drama
Despite the near-disaster, the ceremony itself was deeply emotional. Gomez and Blanco tied the knot in late September 2025 in Santa Barbara, California. Per Us Weekly, at the time that “everyone there was sobbing,” adding that Gomez “bawled her eyes out” when Blanco recited his vows.
The guest list included Taylor Swift, who gave a speech, as well as Gomez’s “Only Murders in the Building” co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short, per Rolling Stone. Short later joked on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that he nearly caused chaos by accidentally cutting into what turned out to be the main wedding cake, thinking there were multiple cakes for different sections. Gomez later teased him about it. “Hey Marty, I hear you tried to eat my cake!” she reportedly said.
The couple first announced their engagement in December 2024, with Gomez captioning her Instagram post, “Forever begins now.” Blanco responded in the comments, “Hey wait… that’s my wife.”
And after almost losing the vows that would seal it all, Blanco summed up the moment in the most fitting way: “I found them, right before the wedding!”
