Overview
- Beyoncé said in an i‑D interview published Wednesday, November 11, that most guests were told they were attending a party and only their parents and a few friends knew the event was a wedding.
- The singer and Jay‑Z were married on April 4, 2008, in a small ceremony at his New York City penthouse that the couple kept largely private.
- Beyoncé confirmed her mother, Tina Knowles, designed her wedding dress and said wearing a gown made by her mother was more important to her than any designer piece.
- The couple later shared parts of the wedding selectively with larger audiences by showing the dress in Beyoncé’s 2011 Live at Roseland release and using wedding footage during their 2014 On the Run tour.
- The interview reinforces a long-standing pattern in which Beyoncé and Jay‑Z fold private life into public work on their own terms and suggests their family archives and future projects will be curated rather than openly disclosed.