Justin Bieber ties the knot at this Bluffton resort Monday. Here’s how people reacted
There’s officially “one less lonely girl” in Bluffton now.
Inside the private 20,000-acre Montage Palmetto Bluff resort facing the May River, Canadian pop star Justin Bieber and model Hailey Baldwin held their religious wedding ceremony Monday with celebrity guests that included model Kendall Jenner.
Over the past month, as news about the wedding spread across the Lowcountry, residents took to social media for details. Some tried to spot Bieber as he cruised along the May River.
“When your daughter and friends are stalking Justin Bieber as he gets ready for his wedding in BLUFFTON, SC Tom.....The teenage girls are going crazy over all the celebrity sightings in their backyard,” one user wrote on Instagram.
The couple obtained their marriage license at a Los Angeles courthouse last September and were secretly married in New York last fall, according to People magazine. Last month TMZ reported Bieber and Baldwin had sent out comic book-style wedding invitations for the religious ceremony in Bluffton.
Bieber and Baldwin were photographed by the Daily Mail before their wedding rehearsal at the resort Sunday night. In great coastal fashion, Bieber wore boat shoes, a white polo and black pants. Baldwin was seen in an ivory off-shoulder dress.
With the amount of publicity the couple’s wedding received throughout the country, six officers from the Bluffton Police Department were called to assist the Montage Palmetto Bluff security team Sunday and Monday, department spokesman Capt. Joe Babkiewicz said. The department also provided a boat for added security. As of Monday afternoon, Babkiewicz said there were no security issues at the wedding, and his officers were just working “in the backdrop” in case the security team needed anything.
On top of the national attention the wedding brought to the town of Bluffton, at least one local business benefited from the “One Less Lonely Girl” singer’s nuptials. Liz Breeckner, the shopkeeper at The Juice Hive, a local juice bar along Bluffton Road, said Bieber and Baldwin ordered 20 gallons of cold press juice for the wedding.
The guests are, “all from California, so they like juice,” she said. “I’m glad they chose a local business. I was pleased as punch to make juice for Mr. Bieber’s wedding.”
This story was originally published September 30, 2019 at 2:48 PM.
