According to a new report, Ashanti and Nelly are a married couple who have been married for a few months.
On Wednesday (June 19), TMZ obtained the expecting couple’s wedding records, which reveal they tied the knot just before the new year, on December 27, 2023.
While the document doesn’t specify which city the couple said “I do,” it was made official in St. Louis County, so it’s likely they tied the knot in the rapper’s hometown.
Ashanti, who just confirmed their engagement in April, recalled the moment her partner popped the question in an interview with Entertainment Tonight earlier this week.
“It was such a beautiful, intimate moment,” she said. “We weren’t fully dressed.”
Considering the two were lying on the bed watching TV in T-shirts and boxers, she was legitimately “shocked” by his choice of setting.
The R&B icon added: “I cried. I gave him the biggest hug and kiss ever. I FaceTimed everyone I knew…I was so happy, shocked, surprised and happy, just Like everything else.
The couple got back together last year and are now expecting their first child, they revealed amid news of their engagement.
“You know, the growth on both sides of the ball has been phenomenal,” she said of their chemistry today compared to when they dated in the early 2000s. “We’re both the same people we were, arguing sometimes and then walking out on it, Close the door and don’t speak for a few days.”
During their separation, Ashanti began seeing Joyner Lucas, and the two collaborated on the latter’s “Fall Slowly” music video.
Lucas opened up about their relationship during an interview on The Jason Lee Podcast that premiered in April.
“She was an amazing person,” he said of his former partner. “I was a private. I don’t talk about it, but what I will say is, she was an amazing person, [I’m] Super happy for her. She is about to have a baby. I know how much she wanted to be a mother.
