Gwen Stefani Dishes on First 12 months of Marriage to Blake Shelton: ‘So Enjoyable’

Gwen Stefani appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Present on Wednesday (April 6) for the primary time since she married Blake Shelton, and he or she shared particulars about how married life goes for them.

First off, DeGeneres questioned Stefani about why she wasn’t current on the July 2021 wedding ceremony as Stefani’s Maid of Honor — an invite the singer jokingly prolonged in March of that yr. Stefani responded, explaining that the marriage turned a smaller affair on account of COVID-19, nevertheless it turned out to be the right day. 

“It simply acquired smaller and smaller, and you recognize, the Lord works in mysterious methods,” she says. “It was like the right quantity of individuals, it was so intimate, it was so precisely what it wanted to be.” 

Along with the marriage going effectively, Stefani says that their youngest marriage resides as much as her highest expectations. 

“Not simply the marriage, however the marriage is so enjoyable, and I’m so into it! So, I really feel very blessed,” she says, including that Shelton is her “greatest buddy.” 

Among the enjoyable the newlyweds are having consists of performing some critical gardening on their Oklahoma ranch. Stefani revealed that Shelton was again dwelling in Oklahoma engaged on the land on the time of the interview, and he or she shared a few of their gardening plans with DeGeneres. 

“After we do issues, we go massive, and we’re doing main gardening,” she says. “We’re speaking daffodils, we’re speaking about tulips. We already did the bulbs. We’re doing wildflower seeds, now we’re doing zinnias. So, I despatched him dwelling to determine find out how to until all of the land and dig a effectively. He’s engaged on the effectively digging immediately.” 

Stefani additionally talked in regards to the rewards of doing the gardening themselves, versus hiring out, and he or she associated the motion of planting seeds to all of the metaphorical seeds she’s planted — lots of which have gone on to bloom in several methods. 

“I used to be simply speaking about seed planting as a result of it’s such an enormous factor in my life, and solely to finish up in Oklahoma planting seeds, I take into consideration all of the completely different seeds I’ve planted in my life,” she says. “The seeds of religion, the seeds of those wild concepts I had that really got here true, and even the one to fall in love with Blake. It’s loopy as a result of now I’m going to return and plant so many flowers they usually’re going to bloom and it’s so thrilling.” 

Stefani and Shelton have been married in a chapel on their Oklahoma ranch on July 3, 2021. The 2 introduced their relationship in late 2015, after which their engagement in October of 2020. Shelton has taken on the position of proud stepfather to Stefani’s three boys from her earlier marriage.