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Gwyneth Paltrow has spoken about officiating the wedding of Rob Lowe’s son Matthew, calling the experience “so incredible” and joking that people can now call her a pastor.
“I officiated my first wedding,” she told guest Zoe Saldaña on an episode of her new podcast, The Goop Guide with Gwyneth Paltrow.
She said it was “so incredible to see their little faces” as the couple made their commitment to each other, and signed off: “Just call me Pastor Gwen.”
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Paltrow presided over the ceremony for Matthew Lowe, 33, and Emily Markus on Saturday 10 October in Santa Barbara, California. The pair got engaged in July 2025.
Saldaña was among the guests, along with her husband, Marco Perego-Saldaña.
Others on the guest list included Katy Perry, Chris Pratt, Cameron Diaz, Adam Levine, Behati Prinsloo and Maria Shriver.
Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt, Christina, Christopher and Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Abby Champion were also there.
The role reflected a friendship that goes back decades.
Paltrow has long been close to Rob Lowe, and she met his wife, Sheryl Berkoff, when she was a teenager. Berkoff was doing make-up for Paltrow’s mother, the actress Blythe Danner, at the time.
Paltrow’s comments came as she launched the weekly video podcast, a reimagined version of the Goop podcast she started in 2018.
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