Bad Bunny shared the spotlight with one lucky couple during the Super Bowl LX halftime show.
Fans watched during the Sunday, February 8, performance at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, as a couple stood together and held hands in front of a marriage officiant. The pair then shared a sweet smooch as Lady Gaga emerged as a surprise guest.
Amid speculation about whether the wedding was real, Bad Bunny’s rep later confirmed to Variety that it was indeed an actual ceremony. NBC News sports reporter Rohan Nadkarni separately claimed that the couple reached out to Bad Bunny, 31, prior to the halftime show.
“This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real,” Nadkarni wrote via X on Sunday. “They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.”
Viewers have since taken to social media to weigh in on the moment — and whether someone should say “I do” during the Super Bowl.
“So the Super Bowl halftime just became a real wedding venue? Cool story, but also kind of wild, the NFL is supposed to be football, not reality TV meets concert meets ceremony. At what point does the halftime show stop being about the game entirely?” one user wrote, while another added, “That’s next-level unforgettable — getting married on the Super Bowl stage is wild.”
Bad Bunny (real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) was also joined onstage by several celebs including Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba and influencer Alix Earle. At one point during the show, he handed off his Grammy to a young boy who was seen watching the rapper’s recent Album of the Year acceptance speech. (Bad Bunny won the Album of the Year award for his Debí Tirar Más Fotos album.)
Referencing Bad Bunny’s Grammys speech, a scoreboard then showed a message that read, “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”
The decision for Bad Bunny to perform has been the subject of mixed reactions from fans, NFL players and political figures. Amid the criticism, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended the choice to have the artist headline football’s biggest night.
“He’s one of the leading and most popular entertainers in the world,” Goodell, 66, told reporters during an October 2025 news conference. “That’s what we try to achieve. It’s an important stage for us. It’s an important element to the entertainment value, and it’s carefully thought through.”
Goodell, 66, went on to note that the league has faced backlash in the past for some of their choices of performers.
“I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where we didn’t have some blowback and criticism,” he said. “It’s pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching.”
Goodell shared that the NFL was “confident” Bad Bunny would put on a “great” show, noting, “He understands the platform that he’s on, and I think it’s going to be exciting and a united moment.”
