Jennifer Lopez known as Bruno Mars’ wedding ceremony efficiency payment ‘ridiculous,’ says former planner

No means is Jenny from the Block overpaying for leisure at her wedding ceremony — not even when that entertainer is Bruno Mars.

That’s the phrase from superstar wedding ceremony planner Marcy Blum, who lately appeared on The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast and shared particulars about her time planning Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s scrapped nuptials.

The long-lasting singer/songwriter/actress and the 14-time All-Star Yankees third baseman labored with Blum following their March 2019 engagement, and that course of included a dialogue of potential entertainers for his or her wedding ceremony. 

Blum informed podcast hosts Lauryn Evarts Bosstick and Michael Bosstick that Lopez requested about hiring Mars to carry out. Blum mentioned that her response was, “We simply labored with him, and he’s 5.”

“Million?” Michael Bosstick requested. “Simply to carry out for the night time?”

“The night time?” Blum mentioned. “You get 45 minutes, you get an hour.”

In accordance with Blum, Lopez’s response to the “Marry You” singer’s payment was equally incredulous: “Don’t be ridiculous,” she recalled the multi-hyphenate saying.

Lopez, 55, and Rodriguez, 49, break up up in 2021, 5 years after they publicly confirmed their relationship. Lopez rekindled her romance with ex Ben Affleck later that 12 months, and Jen and Ben tied the knot in July 2022. (Mars didn’t carry out.) The couple divorced in August.

Though J Lo and A-Rod by no means made it down the aisle, Blum shared her recommendation for different {couples} contemplating a high-profile performer for their very own marital celebration.

“You’d by no means have a headliner, in case you have been sane, because the common leisure. Nobody desires to do their first dance — or possibly they do, however they should not — to Coldplay or one thing. That’s simply dumb,” she mentioned. “You need a band band and possibly a deejay, after which possibly you need 45 minutes of Chris Martin or Elton John or whomever you need. As a result of in any other case, it’s all about them.”

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Representatives for Blum, Lopez, Mars, and Rodriguez didn’t instantly reply to EW’s request for remark. Blum, the creator of Wedding ceremony Planning for Dummies, mentioned she was in a position to share her reminiscences of engaged on Lopez and Rodriguez’s wedding ceremony as a result of she by no means signed an NDA. 

You possibly can catch Blum’s dialog on “The Skinny Confidential” right here, or watch a clip of her discussing Lopez, Rodriguez, and Mars beneath: