Blake Shelton Once Joked to Gwen Stefani That She Should Propose to Him
Blake Shelton proposed to his wife Gwen Stefani in a way that she didn’t see coming. However, before Shelton popped the question, he joked that perhaps Stefani should ask Shelton for his hand in marriage instead. But it seemed Stefani didn’t appreciate the suggestion.
How Gwen Stefani reacted to Blake Shelton’s proposal joke
Stefani and Shelton started dating not too long after they met on The Voice. However, it would take much longer for the two to marry due to the trust issues they developed from previous relationships. But there came a time when even Stefani was getting worried if Shelton would ever put a ring on her finger.
“It was kind of in my mind, ‘We’ve been together a long time now,’” Stefani once told Today. “What’s going on?’”
Shelton, however, joked that maybe the couple should break tradition by having Stefani propose to him. The idea originated in a segment Shelton did on The Ellen Show. There, the show’s host, Ellen DeGeneres, gave Shelton a clock with his and Stefani’s face on it. DeGeneres joked that the clock was a reminder that Shelton was running out of time when it came to marrying his girlfriend.
But Shelton took the gift as a sign that Stefani should’ve been the one to propose to him. When he told his wife about the idea, however, the “Hollaback Girl” singer wasn’t having it.
“She goes, ‘You know this is not how this is gonna work,'” he once told ET.
Still, Shelton planned on keeping the proposal clock DeGeneres handed him. Although it would take some time before the clock was officially his.
“Man I left [the show], I said, ‘Hey, I’m gonna take my clock with me’… There wasn’t any glass on it, I guess for camera purposes. They didn’t want the reflection, so she said she wants to have the glass put back in it and then she’s gonna send it over to me,” Shelton explained. “She’s getting it fixed up for me for sure,” she said.
Gwen Stefani called her proposal with Blake Shelton magical
Shelton did eventually pop the question to Stefani in 2020 with an engagement ring that cost $500,000. Only Stefani’s dad knew that Shelton was going to propose to her, leaving Stefani and their family floored when the time came.
“It was actually pretty magical, and (I) wasn’t expecting it at the moment that it happened at all,” Stefani said. “Didn’t have any idea. Nobody knew. I think he had told my dad on my birthday about two weeks earlier, and I got to tell you, I was sort of like, ‘What’s happening with us?’”
“I was in that place in my head and we also had this trip planned to come to Oklahoma and it was one of those COVID kind of, not a fight, but it was like, ‘Maybe we should just cancel the trip. This is getting too hard. Everybody has to get tested.’ And everyone was on edge because we were going to meet up with his sister and brother-in-law and their family. Everything, all the plans — you can’t make plans anymore,” she added.
Shelton had the ring hidden inside of his truck the entire time, then moved it to a cabinet for Stefani to find.
“He’s like, ‘Oh, get the fire starter,’ and I open the cabinet and there’s this ring there and I’m like, ‘Are you serious?!’ It was pretty like, ‘What!’ And we both start bawling. Everyone was in shock,” she remembered.
However, since Shelton proposed during the pandemic, Stefani quipped that he should’ve given her the ring at an earlier date.
“It’s like, ‘Blake, why couldn’t you have done it before? Now we can’t have a wedding with a pandemic,” she said.
