Avril Lavigne on her wedding to Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger: it will be ‘spectacular’


These are photos of Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger (of Nickelback) out in LA a couple of days ago. Avril is sporting some really ratty too-long extensions here. She shaved half her head in September so it’s not like it’s grown out to nearly her waist in the interim. I love how they’re color coordinated in all-black with bleached blonde hair. They look sympatico.

As you once knew and have forgotten by now, these two are engaged. Because when you get two washed up Canadian musicians with inflated senses of talent and self worth together – magic happens. These two consider their love story magical, too. Avril and Chad were in a joint interview with Ryan Seacrest when they discussed how they met (in the studio!) and how they just knew they were meant for each other, from the very start. They also divulge that they’re planning a small-ish wedding but that it will be “spectacular” and have some kind of theme, which Avril is trying to keep a secret from Chad. I’m guessing it will involve black skulls and pink hearts. Here’s more, thanks to US Magazine:

“When you’re sitting there across from someone singing into the microphone and you’re singing a love song, you start to develop feelings for them,” Kroeger, 38, told Ryan Seacrest in a joint interview with Lavigne on Tuesday, April 9. “And it just kind of blossomed into this kind of thing and the next thing you know … we started dating [last summer].”

Lavigne added that fellow Canadian Kroeger was quick to make his feelings be known — and she immediately reciprocated.

“We started dating and the next day he was like, ‘You know I’m gonna marry you,'” the “Complicated” singer recalled. “And I said, ‘I know.’ It was one of those things that we just knew.”
Kroeger and Lavigne, 28, announced their engagement last August after just one month of dating, surprising both family and fans.

“Things just clicked real quick,” Kroeger had told radio station K104.7 in April, prior to their engagement. “And then she wanted me to sing on one of [her songs] and then we just started flying on all these different songs.”

Lavigne’s interpretation of their whirlwind relationship is likewise simple. “Well that’s how we met — in the studio — and I was really excited to work with him because he’s also a musician,” she told Seacrest of how their relationship developed. “[We] wrote a bunch of songs together, became really good friends and now we have a wedding.”

Indeed! As Lavigne prepares to launch her first album since 2011’s Goodbye Lullaby (the pair collaborate on several songs, including the new single “Here’s To Never Growing Up”), the couple is also planning a “spectacular” wedding together, Lavigne told Seacrest.

“It’s kind of just a lot of close friends and family. It is smaller,” she said of their plans. “[But] it’s gonna be quite spectacular and there’s a theme to it. But Chad doesn’t even know everything.”

Agreed Kroeger: “Every man knows that we get very little participation in the planning — and these are good things.”

[From US Magazine]

I’m being sarcastic in that intro, as is my default setting, but this is kind of sweet! I don’t expect these two to last more than a couple of years post-wedding, but it’s still sweet. I remember covering Avril’s first wedding, to another Canadian singer, Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley, back in 2006. Those two were even conveniently papped on their honeymoon in Portofino, Italy. I know it’s been seven years and a lot can change in that time, and a lot did change for Avril. She divorced Deryck Whibley after about three years, dated Brandon Davis, got serious with Brody Jenner before eventually realizing that was a bad idea, and then quickly fell in love with Chad Kroeger. This is a woman who seems to get serious fast. She’s still just 28 and this will be her second marriage. I’m thinking she shouldn’t make it official, but I do want to see the photos! This is going to be one trashy Ed Hardy wedding. What do you think the theme will be though, Nightmare Before Christmas? That might be cute.

These two in September in Paris. Romantic.

Photo credit: WENN.com and FameFlynet

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  1. marie says:

    aww, the first Hello Kitty inspired wedding dress *eyeroll*

  2. aims says:

    It will be tacky. Because neither one of them seems to know the word, class.

  3. TXCinderella says:

    Awwww…Isn’t that sweet, they are both still trying to be relevant. Avril especially is O-V-E-R. Her fan base has moved on (i.e. grown up)

  4. momoftwo says:

    I’ve never really liked Avril Lavigne (or even thought of her much) but I actually think they look kind of cute and happy together!

    Better than Brody Jenner! (wasn’t she dating him?)

    • Meredith says:

      I always liked her music (even though when I bought her CD in 2005, the clerk asked if it was for my daughter! i.e. aren’t you a bit old for her, lady?). But she always seemed like a bit of a poser herself, trying too hard to be relevant. I didn’t even know she had a CD out in ’11.

      Great voice even though she doesn’t use it fully most of the time.

  5. brin says:

    “You may now spit at the bride”.

  6. Jessica says:

    They seem to enjoy getting photographed.

  7. Joanna says:

    another woman who can’t be without a man for five minutes. 2nd wedding at 28? jc! oops, i mean congrats. smh

    • jess says:

      Yeah..but didn’t she get married at like 18? It’d be like 25 and 35, if you think about it.

  8. bns says:

    Both are the laughing stock of rock, so I guess this is perfect.

    • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

      Exactly!

      “the pair collaborate on several songs, including the new single “Here’s To Never Growing Up.”

      This sounds like a joke made in the onion!

  9. dcypher1 says:

    I get her and racoon mcpantsless confused they look a like too me.

  10. Natasha says:

    Yeah, spectacularly douchey

  11. Arock says:

    All the wedding pics will be selfies w/duck face.

  12. Bianca says:

    God. I can’t believe it, but I was absolutely obsessed with her when I was 11. Hers was the first album I ever bought, and I knew every single song by heart (pretty impressive, since I couldn’t understand a word of English at the time.) Awkward, and also kind of sweet. Like these two.

  13. Emma13 says:

    I was never really impressed with Avril Levine. She has some good songs, but they aren’t going to be classics and that’s ok. Same goes for Nickelback. I really don’t understand why people say they hate that band so much. They always sell out when they come to town. It’s kinda like some pop musicians (*side eye* JB who I kind like D:-songs not the person) they put out songs that sound similar to one another, but they’re fun for that moment. I just don’t get the hate on for this band. My boyfriend was making fun of me for listening to JB and he used the argument many others use for him and Nickelback: “he’s not talented,” and “it’s not very complex.” I know that. I will never claim JB or Nickelback are talented musicians, but they’re fun for that moment. If I want to listen to “good” music I’ll go listen to Nessun Dorma, Magnum Mysterium, or When Jesus Wept 🙂

  14. Hautie says:

    Is there a reason Avril has not moved past the angry goth makeup? And wife beater get up’s?

    She manage to clean up Chad’s look. But she is still stuck with raccoon makeup and ratty weaves… stage of life.

    • Emma13 says:

      I agree. I THINK she’s a really pretty woman, but it’s hard to see past the black eyes and extensions.

  15. Chicagogurl says:

    I’m betting day of the dead with glittery sugar skulls everywhere. Really hardcore you guys.

  16. Ag says:

    Congrats to the original Baddest Racoon in the Dumpster Behind the HotTopic. (Credit: Michael K.)

  17. TeresaKansas says:

    Alchohol is not your friend.

  18. I’m Canadian and I have a few friends from Chad Kroeger’s hometown. Apparently he sucked his own dick for a case of beer once AND he told an 11-year-old girl to show him her tits (not sure if he knew her actual age but nevertheless…) the guy is a total DOUCHEBAG and a cokehead.

    • arock says:

      beer or not, thats pretty impressive.
      ***wretch***
      you made me think of his penis. ugh.

    • Greenie says:

      It’s funny how Canada is so small it seems like we all have a story when it comes to Canadian pop stars. I’m from Ontario and I’ve heard a few stories about Avril but they’re not worth repeating. She’s just a twit.

      I’m not surprised at what you say about Chad. Everything I’ve heard about him (besides the AWFUL excuse for music his band plays) indicates to me that he is a huge loser. I was saying to a friend recently that despite how much I dislike Avril, she seems too good for Chad. Trust me, that says a lot.

    • Buckwild says:

      All else aside, I didn’t know it was possible for someone to…uh…perform on their own…parts? I thought that’s why Marilyn Manson got a rib removed..to be able to do so. LOL

  19. Jag says:

    It’s very telling that it’s similar to the scene where Leia tells Han that she loves him, and he says “I know,” except it’s reversed. Chad is all swooning over Avril and she’s calling him a friend. Is she just seeing dollar signs in her eyes, perhaps?

    • Greenie says:

      Avril’s an idiot but I doubt very much that she’s a gold-digger. She has her own money (and lots of it sad as that is) besides her “music” she makes good money selling shallow pseudo-goth gear and other trifles to materialistic children.

  20. stevie says:

    I’m embarrassed to say this since I have no liking for either of them, but I like them together! Sure they have no musical talent, self awareness or fashion sense but they seem to like each other a lot.

  21. Relli says:

    My guess is that the theme isn’t going to be that crazy. If I recall correctly her first wedding was like super pretty, pretty princess and classic to which everyone was like WTF? Her response was something like wedding photos are forever I don’t want something that I am goign to be appalled by later because i was going through a phase….
    (cough, cough)POSEUR

  22. Lucy says:

    Love her. Too bad she’s marrying that massive douche, though. Then again, it’s her life and I don’t necessarily have to agree w/everything she says or does.

  23. Victoria1 says:

    Is she pregnant ? I thought it was a shot gun wedding

  24. Melissa says:

    Since two of the biggest douchebags in the universe have found one another, I’m guessing Ed Hardy and Tap Out clothing will be required attire for the guests.

  25. emma says:

    I think it’s hilarious she never heard Nickelback before they got engaged.. or at least didn’t admit to it.

  26. TheOneAndOnly says:

    I’m surprised that no one mentioned Avril spit on a photographer awhile back putting her on my foreover sh*t list Classy girl that one – and next to the term “douche” in Webster’s is a pic of Chad – anyway I saw a true artist/legend last weekend Eric Clapton -and after watching Clapton perform magic on his fenders, there’s no reason to even mention music as regards to these two posers.

  27. cwebb says:

    It doesn’t happen very often but I’m almost embarrassed to be Canadian when I think of these two douchebags marrying and possibly one day procreating.