--- title: Mariah Carey Says Nobody Is Qualified To Sing At Her Wedding description: When asked who was the one qualified singer to sing at her upcoming wedding, Mariah Carey said "nobody." canonical: https://time.com/4338834/mariah-carey-wedding-singing/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-17T18:48:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:28.343Z og:title: Mariah Carey Is Very Particular About Who Can Sing at Her Wedding og:description: Life is rough when you're Mimi og:url: https://time.com/4338834/mariah-carey-wedding-singing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt199eb26f04df2be9/6988938e5f570f216eb20f5d/mariah-carey-nobody-qualified-wedding-singer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: NBCUniversal Upfront - 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mariah Carey Is Very Particular About Who Can Sing at Her Wedding twitter:description: Life is rough when you're Mimi twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt199eb26f04df2be9/6988938e5f570f216eb20f5d/mariah-carey-nobody-qualified-wedding-singer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mariah Carey Is Very Particular About Who Can Sing at Her Wedding > Sponsored content. 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Entertainment -- (Photo by: Theo Wargo/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) NBCUniversal Upfront in New York City on Monday, May 16, 2016 -- Pictured: Mariah Carey, "Mariah's World" on E! Entertainment -- (Photo by: Theo Wargo/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 17, 2016 6:48 PM UTC Forget the time [she was carried to her own concert](https://www.instagram.com/p/BCQnvw5S2JD/) or when she said [she “didn’t know” J. Lo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vcDKvMIBw4) because [Mariah Carey](http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748%5F1733752%5F1735744,00.html) might have just had the most diva moment of her career. When asked by [_Entertainment Tonight_](http://www.etonline.com/news/188838%5Fexclusive%5Fmariah%5Fcarey%5Fsays%5Ffking%5Fnobody%5Fis%5Fgood%5Fenough%5Fto%5Fperform%5Fat%5Fwedding/) who would be qualified to sing at her upcoming wedding, Mariah responded with, “f\*\*king nobody.” However, even though no one is good enough to perform at her wedding, MC won’t be taking the stage at the event herself. “Of course I’m not going to perform at my wedding. It’s not even gonna be like that,”Carey said. “I’m not even sure someone is performing. It’s more gonna be a small thing. We already did the thing with the ring. So, you know, it’s over the top already! It’s over the top enough.” [Life can be tough when you’re an elusive chanteuse](http://time.com/3908427/mariah-carey-collaboration-music/), but if this is any indication of what [her new reality show](http://time.com/4337905/mariah-carey-mariahs-world-trailer/) will be like, then consider the diva drama on lock. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4338834/mariah-carey-wedding-singing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4338834/mariah-carey-wedding-singing/"},"headline":"Mariah Carey Is Very Particular About Who Can Sing at Her Wedding","datePublished":"2016-05-17T18:48:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:28.343Z","description":"Life as an elusive chanteuse","url":"https://time.com/4338834/mariah-carey-wedding-singing/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Mariah Carey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt199eb26f04df2be9/6988938e5f570f216eb20f5d/mariah-carey-nobody-qualified-wedding-singer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt199eb26f04df2be9/6988938e5f570f216eb20f5d/mariah-carey-nobody-qualified-wedding-singer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NBCUniversal Upfront - 2016","caption":"NBCUniversal Upfront - 2016","creditText":"NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4338834/mariah-carey-wedding-singing/","name":"Mariah Carey Is Very Particular About Who Can Sing at Her Wedding"}}]}] ```