{"id":2118667,"date":"2025-10-27T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2118667"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:42:07","slug":"joe-keery-officiates-wedding-dressed-as-stranger-things-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/joe-keery-officiates-wedding-dressed-as-stranger-things-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Keery officiates wedding dressed as &#8216;Stranger Things&#8217; character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F10%2Fjoe-keery-dresses-beloved-stranger-114304481.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Wedding goals. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Keery dressed up as his beloved \u201cStranger Things\u201d character, Steve Harrington, to officiate his friends\u2019 wedding in California over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/updatingkeery\/status\/1982484920661393432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went viral <\/a>for the footage of him wearing Steve\u2019s signature Scoops Ahoy costume as he stood under a garden arbor in front of the groom, Matt Williams, and the bride, Veronica Capaldi.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery officiating his friends\u2019 wedding in California. <span class=\"credit\">@tal1u1ah\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery dressed as Steve from \u201cStranger Things\u201d at the wedding. <span class=\"credit\">@tal1u1ah\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a video on X, Keery spoke into a microphone and read from a paper in his hand as he made things official for the couple.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAnd by the power invested in me by the state of California \u2014 yesterday \u2014 I now pronounce you husband and wife,\u201d Keery said during the outdoor ceremony.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery officiating a wedding in California. <span class=\"credit\">@tal1u1ah\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery in \u201cStranger Things.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Capaldi also posted pictures on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/veronicapaldi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her Instagram Stories<\/a> of Keery in costume during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>On X, fans gushed over Keery\u2019s epic wedding officiant attire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly Joe Keery could make a Scoops Ahoy uniform look wedding appropriate,\u201d one account wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cthis is the most steve harrington thing joe keery could possibly do how do i get joe keery to officiate my wedding next??\u201d another fan said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery as Steve in \u201cStranger Things.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a legendary friend. I bet that ceremony was full of laughs and great quotes. An absolute icon,\u201d a third person tweeted. <\/p>\n<p>Someone else wrote, \u201cOfficiating a wedding in full scoops ahoy gear?? absolute legend behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keery has played Steve on the hit Netflix series since its premiere in 2016. His co-stars include Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Maya Hawke, Charlie Heaton, Natalia Dyer, Winona Ryder and David Harbour. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Maya Hawke, Joe Keery, Gaten Matarazzo in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 3. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/21\/entertainment\/stranger-things-creators-reveal-eddies-fate-in-season-5\/\">The fifth and final season<\/a> of the show will be released in three parts, with episodes dropping Nov. 26, Dec. 25 and Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m-8n_B5c_kM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d <\/a>in January, Kerry explained how it was \u201cemotional\u201d filming the end of the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a long year,\u201d he said. \u201cBut to wrap it all up and the anticipation of working on something for so long \u2014 I mean it\u2019s been one-third of my life, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was emotional,\u201d Keery continued. \u201cWe sort of got to that last day, and it was like everything really hit on that last day of shooting.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Gaten Matarazzo, Joe Keery in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 4. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to his acting career, Keery is a musician. He is a member of the psychedelic rock band\u00a0Post Animal and has also released three solo studio albums under <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/29\/ticket-sales\/djo-back-on-you-tour-2025-where-to-buy-tickets-see-joe-keery\/\">his musical alias, Djo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan, what does music mean to me? Right now, I\u2019m making a little bit of a career out of it, so it\u2019s like my livelihood, but it\u2019s a lot more than that,\u201d he said in an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/68684\/1\/djo-joe-keery-music-is-a-direct-line-to-the-soul-the-crux-deluxe-album-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Dazed magazine <\/a>last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a magical thing, where you can communicate something that words aren\u2019t always able to,\u201d Keery added. \u201cYou can\u2019t really describe something in a way that a song can.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wedding goals. Joe Keery dressed up as his beloved \u201cStranger Things\u201d character, Steve Harrington, to officiate his friends\u2019 wedding in California over the weekend. The 33-year-old actor went viral for the footage of him wearing Steve\u2019s signature Scoops Ahoy costume as he stood under a garden arbor in front of the groom, Matt Williams, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2118668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,346392,23191,305890,22205,21913,350701],"class_list":["post-2118667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-joe-keery","tag-netflix","tag-stranger-things","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-weddings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Joe-Keery-officiates-wedding-dressed-as-Stranger-Things-character.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118669,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118667\/revisions\/2118669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}