Lunden Stallings and Olivia Bennett’s Lesbian Wedding
This past weekend, an apparently quite famous 26-year-old lesbian couple, Lunden Stallings and Olivia Bennett, tied the knot at their sun-dappled, tree-sparked and generally resplendent wedding venue in Roswell, Georgia. TikTok user @jcubedhax referred to this widely acclaimed event as “the royal wedding of lesbian TikTok,” a sentiment that has been echoed in social media comments across the web as well as ideas like “this is my Roman Empire.” Said wedding also garnered a People Magazine exclusive. The wedding peaked when the entire wedding party participated in a Taylor Swift singalong, as the lord intended.
Who are Lunden Stallings and Olivia Bennett? If you, like me, hadn’t heard of them until last night, here’s the story: they are social media stars and conventionally attractive white lesbians from the South who are beloved by the straights as well as the gays. Lunden and Olivia met in the summer of 2020 when Olivia, seeking a golden retriever, reached out to Lunden to ask where she’d procured her own Golden Retriever. When Lunden’s job transferred her to Atlanta, where Olivia lived, they met up for the first time, talked all night long over their mutual favorite soda pop (Doctor Pepper) and allegedly have spent every day since together! They then both planned to surprise propose to each other on the same day.
On TikTok, Lunden and Olivia share Outfits of the Day, beauty routines and Days in the Life, interspersed with wedding planning content (they did it themselves with the help of their mother) and sponcon for brands like Taco Bell and Sephora. They live in a very fancy house and their faces are radiant, like two women in their mid-twenties who did not spend the early 2000s inside a tanning bed but in fact were born in the late 90s and already have responsible skincare routines.
“It’s so much bigger than us, and if, just by us showing our life and being in love with each other we can share that with other people, and make people feel an ounce more comfortable about themselves, or change the way they think about people because of us, that means more than any sort of brand deal,” Lunden told People. “And I think that by showing two feminine women in a relationship in the south, I think that it breaks a barrier.”
Lunden & Olivia’s ceremony included 150 friends and family members, as the couple prioritized having everybody they loved present at the ceremony. Lunden wore a Safiyaa dress, Sarah Flint shoes, an Ann-Marie Faulkner birdcage veil and a long veil borrowed from her sister. Olivia wore a strapless Monique Lhuillier gown and Stuart Weitzman kitten heels.
Editor’s Note (10/04/23): After the publishing of this piece, it was brought to our attention that past tweets from Lunden Stallings have resurfaced, including a variety of tweets in which Stallings uses anti-Black language.
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*completely scrolls past the TikTok stuff, because will never use and/or support such a waste of internal space*
You must be very cool. The coolest person you know.
OK, that Queer Nature Show article was basically written with me in mind.
i feel pleased by this
I spend way too much time on Lesbian tiktok but had only seen them pop up on my FYP a few times with their outfits of the day videos, had no idea they were that big. Very happy for them.
i’d never seen them before yesterday and was surprised to see they’re so big!
Obviously we should be focused on the racist language used and “apology” video that occurred less than 24 hours AFTER their wedding I’m confused as to why this article is missing those details.
Possibly the timeline of the news? I don’t pay too much attention to tiktok stuff but I didn’t hear about all that until yesterday and the article is from the day before.
These women got married on a whole ass plantation and then the racist tweets got exposed. LOL. White lesbians are something else.
These people got married at a plantation – but hey they’re lesbians so I guess they get an article? Why is this considered acceptable?