
Way back in October 2018, two years before they officially announced their engagement on their Instagram feeds, reports circulated that Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton had already secretly tied the knot. After "wedding crazy galpal" Stefani became "really adamant" about getting hitched, an allegedly reluctant Shelton gave in to her demands and whisked her off to Reno, Nevada, for a quickie secret ceremony, The National Enquirer claimed via Gossip Cop, which refuted the entire story.
According to the tabloid, the supposedly desperate duo acquired a marriage license, hunted down a preacher (in addition to some random strangers willing to act as witnesses presumably), and said "I do" behind closed doors, in the seclusion of their hotel room. "It was the way they wanted it — a marriage ceremony for just the two of them," an anonymous source alleged.
In January 2021, Stefani detailed the true story of how her romance and engagement to Shelton developed. She told "Today" that although they were initially, madly in love enough to walk down the aisle right away, since she and Shelton had been previously married, they intentionally took things slow in order to guard the "hearts" of their kids and extended family, who were all impacted by their respective divorces. "There was a lot of healing to do," Stefani said, adding that her engagement to Shelton wasn't rushed at all, but was "natural" and "right on time."
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