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Mandy Teefey was a proud mother-of-the-bride when eldest daughter Selena Gomez tied the knot with Benny Blanco.
“Sunday kind of love,” Teefey, 49, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Sunday, September 28, reposting Gomez’s official wedding portraits.
Teefey set her post to Louis Armstrong’s version of “La Vie En Rose,” a classic love song that was previously featured in Gomez’s 2011 movie Monte Carlo.
Gomez, 33, and Blanco, 37, got married on Saturday, September 27, sharing the news via social media several hours later. The Only Murders in the Building actress posted stunning pics snapped by Petra Collins, in which she wore a custom Ralph Lauren halter bridal gown. Blanco, for his part, donned a classic black tuxedo.
In a follow-up post shared to her Instagram, Teefey called the ceremony a “fairy tale.”
“What a perfect celebration for the most kickass couple I know! The evening couldn’t have been more beautiful and perfect,” she wrote on Sunday. “Absolutely flawless! All my love to my beautiful daughter @selenagomez and to the greatest son-in-law @itsbennyblanco!!! It was a fairytale come true and it was beyond heartwarming watching my father walk her down the aisle!!!”
A source exclusively told Us Weekly that the nuptials were also a star-studded affair.
“It will be a huge, A-list wedding, planned by Mindy Weiss,” the insider told Us earlier this week, referring to the celebrity organizer who’s helmed events for the Kardashians, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato and more famous faces through the years.
While Gomez and Blanco’s guest list featured an array of their celebrity friends, their relatives were also presumably in attendance. Selena, for her part, 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.
Throughout Selena’s life, she has been especially close to Mandy, who primarily raised her as a single mother.
“I blamed my mom a lot [for breaking up with my dad] because I wanted a family so bad,” Selena recalled during a June 2011 E! Entertainment special about her life. “I wanted to have my mom and dad together. I remember just being angry with my mom. I still feel really bad about that.”
The pop star continued, “Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me and had, like, three jobs. She supported me, sacrificed her life for me.”
As Selena started pursuing her acting and music career, Mandy was her No. 1 cheerleader. They even launched Wondermind, a mental health-focused organization, together in 2022.
Years earlier, Selena and Mandy’s relationship briefly fractured amid the Grammy nominee’s mental health struggles. (Selena entered a psychiatric facility in 2018 for mental health treatment.)
“They called me and wanted to know what my daughter was doing in the hospital with a nervous breakdown. She didn’t want anything to do with me. I was scared she was going to die,” Mandy recalled in Selena’s 2022 documentary, My Mind and Me. “You hang on as tight as you can and try to help them with their treatment and that’s the hardest thing to do — to then go to bed and hope that they wake up the next day. … It’s a miracle she got out, but there’s always a fear it’s going to happen again and that hurt us so much.”
After participating in the documentary, Mandy didn’t plan to watch the final cut.
“The reason why is because we lived some of that together. We went through that, and we found healing and we’ve moved past some of it,” she explained on a 2022 episode of the “On Purpose With Jay Shetty” podcast. “And even if it’s something she went through, and I didn’t know she went through it, as a mother, it’s gonna affect me. It’s gonna hurt my stomach, it’s gonna put me in that mindset, and I’m going to wish I could go and protect her.”
