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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Yes, those smiles and kisses were real: A couple did indeed get married during Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show.<\/p>\n
The couple, Eleisa “Elli” Aparico and Thomas “Tommy” Wolter, had invited the singer to their wedding, but instead of attending, Bad Bunny invited them to be part of his halftime performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ceremony took place during the show and was officiated by Antonio Reyes, a pastor from Sacramento, who has connections in the entertainment industry from having pastored in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reyes told KCRA3<\/a> that he was selected after a rigorous process that included interviews with more than three dozen churches.<\/p>\n He said that within hours of being chosen, he was reviewing and signing a non-disclosure agreement.<\/p>\n \n Related\n <\/p>\n Puerto Rican cultural symbolism of Bad Bunny’s halftime show explained<\/a> <\/p>\n Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday marked the first time such a show was performed in Spanish, and many were left pondering the cultural significance of the symbols the wildly popular entertainer used in his 13-minute piece. We’re here to break down the moments, symbol by symbol:<\/p>\n Reyes said he met the couple via Zoom two weeks before the event and quickly formed a close bond with them. He also said he was in Santa Clara for a week leading up the Big Game in the Bay, and there were a lot of late nights to prepare for the show.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m Mexican and so I\u2019m Latino and I pastor a Latino congregation as well,” Reyes said. “So to me, it was a very important moment beyond the performance. It was emotional, it was moving. I had to keep it together several times because I wanted to cry.”<\/p>\n Reyes said he appreciated Bad Bunny\u2019s commitment to including real people in the show to play the roles he envisioned, rather than hiring actors.<\/p>\n He also admitted that this was the biggest secret he\u2019s ever kept from his congregation, Project Church.<\/p>\n “To be part of that\u2014it meant a lot,” he told KCRA3. “The first time I stepped onto the field, I was very emotional. It wasn\u2019t just a show. It was what it represented. It was a moment to represent my faith as a follower of Jesus, and also to represent Latinos. I\u2019m just a local church pastor serving my community in south Sacramento. They wanted real people on that stage.”<\/p>\n Super Bowl<\/a>California<\/a>Entertainment<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Yes, those smiles and kisses were real: A couple did indeed get married during Bad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1184,967,100,121,123,122,11730,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-171938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-headlines","13":"tag-sacramento-news","14":"tag-super-bowl","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}