Perrie Edwards finally married her soccer star in a tiny Portuguese church — but hours before the lace gown went on, she was in tears
There’s a little white church on a hill in Estoi, a sleepy village in Portugal’s Algarve, not far from the holiday villa Perrie Edwards has loved for years. On Saturday, June 13, 2026, its worn stone steps vanished under a snowfall of white petals — and the Little Mix singer walked down them a married woman at last.
She and soccer star Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had been engaged since 2022. Four years, two babies and a whole lot of “someday” later, the couple finally said their vows inside the Igreja Matriz de Estoi, in front of their families and closest friends, People reported. Their son Axel, 4, and their baby girl Alanis Valentine — born just this past January — were there for every minute of it.
Perrie, 32, knew exactly what she wanted to wear. She’d known, in a way, her whole life.
“I’ve always envisioned myself in lace,” she told British Vogue. “I wanted something classic and timeless.”
So that’s what she got: a floor-length white lace gown by designer Dana Harel, with long sleeves, a soft train and a veil. Her hair was swept into a sleek low bun, she wore a pair of simple gold earrings, and she carried a tall bouquet of white calla lilies. Alex met her at the altar in a black tuxedo with a single white lily pinned to his lapel.
By every account, it looked like a fairy tale.
What almost no one in that church knew was that, a few hours earlier, the bride had been crying her eyes out.
Something small and precious — a diamond necklace she’d planned to wear — had simply disappeared from the room. And Perrie was sure it had been taken.
“I cried all day,” she told Vogue. “We looked everywhere — we even checked the hoover — but it was gone. I was convinced someone had stolen it.”
And then, somehow, it turned up. The relief washed over her all at once, and she says that was the moment the whole day tilted right side up again.
“I was so happy and so relieved,” she said. “It set the tone. I knew from that moment it was gonna be the best day ever.”
She wasn’t finished with the dresses, either. Before the night was over, Perrie changed twice more. For the first dance she slipped into a crystal-covered floor-length gown by Galia Lahav, paired with Jimmy Choo heels. Then, once the real dancing started, she pulled on a custom lace minidress from Annie’s Ibiza and a pair of Christian Louboutins — because a train and a veil only get you so far on a dance floor.
“I wanted to change for the evening so I could dance and be free,” she told Vogue. “It was short and fun and fab and cinched to the heavens with the corset!”
By the time the music was going, her little boy weaving between everyone’s legs and her baby daughter being passed from one set of arms to the next, Perrie wasn’t thinking about the missing necklace anymore. Or the four years of waiting. Or any of it.
“Best day of my life,” she said simply — right up there, she added, with the births of her two children.
The petals on those old stone steps have long since blown away. But you get the feeling she’ll still be finding one or two of them tucked into that lace for years.
