Martin Garrix and Ed Sheeran crashed a fan’s wedding at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, performing ‘Repeat It’ live after a fan DM’d the Dutch DJ
Martin Garrix and Ed Sheeran crashed a fan’s wedding at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium on June 29, 2026, and the footage has now been covered by ABC7 Chicago, TMZ, NBC Chicago, and more. The surprise came together in the most low-key way imaginable: a fan sent the Dutch DJ a direct message asking if he and the British superstar could possibly stop by. Both artists, in Chicago as part of Garrix’s ongoing Americas Tour, said yes. What followed is already being framed as one of the most surreal celebrity wedding surprises in recent memory.
The Adler Planetarium, which sits on Chicago’s Museum Campus overlooking Lake Michigan, is already one of the most photographically striking event venues in the city. Adding two of the most globally recognised musicians in the world to the reception was not in the couple’s original itinerary. It was in the results anyway.
The Performance and What the Couple Got
Garrix and Sheeran performed their recent collaboration “Repeat It” for the couple and their guests, live and apparently unannounced. The song has already had its own viral moment on Garrix’s Americas Tour, with an acoustic version performed at his sold-out Barclays Center show in Brooklyn. The Chicago wedding performance adds a more intimate entry to the “Repeat It” live history, one that will be considerably harder for anyone else to replicate.
The couple’s reaction and the footage that followed spread quickly across social media and broadcast news simultaneously, which is a combination that does not happen often. Most viral wedding surprises stay within the platform where they are first posted. This one broke out of that loop because the scale of the names involved pushed it into a news category that broadcast journalists cover regardless of whether it originated online. ABC7, TMZ, and NBC Chicago all running the story within hours of the footage appearing reflects that crossover exactly.
The Americas Tour and the Bigger Picture
The wedding crash arrives in the middle of what is already being described as one of the most-talked-about touring chapters of Garrix’s career. The Americas Tour has generated headline news at multiple points: the sold-out Barclays Center Brooklyn residency, a connected charity auction involving a £10K Knicks jersey, and the live debut of his forthcoming Madonna collaboration, all alongside the standard touring narrative of sold-out arenas and packed festival sets.
Garrix has always positioned himself as unusually fan-first for an artist operating at his commercial scale. The decision to respond to a direct message and actually show up at a stranger’s wedding rather than politely declining or ignoring the request is the kind of action that is more meaningful than any marketing campaign could manufacture, and more memorable than most tour setlist moments.
For the couple, who got two of the most globally recognisable musicians at their reception after a single Instagram DM, the story is one they will be telling for the rest of their lives. For Garrix, it is further evidence that the artist connecting directly with the audience continues to generate the most enduring cultural moments.
