--- title: Ed Sheeran Performs Surprise Set at Wedding: Video description: The pop crooner took to the wedding stage with the band Snow Patrol to give wedding guests an unexpected performance of their hits. canonical: https://time.com/4474678/ed-sheeran-wedding-surprise/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-31T21:05:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:05.585Z og:title: Watch Ed Sheeran Treat Wedding Guests to a Surprise Show og:description: The pop crooner joined Snow Patrol to perform at the wedding party in Ireland. og:url: https://time.com/4474678/ed-sheeran-wedding-surprise/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Ed Sheeran Treat Wedding Guests to a Surprise Show twitter:description: The pop crooner joined Snow Patrol to perform at the wedding party in Ireland. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Ed Sheeran Surprise Wedding Guests With a Performance Like It’s No Big Deal  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 31, 2016 9:05 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 31, 2016 9:05 PM UTC When you’re the sister of Snow Patrol frontman Johnny McDaid, you enlist your brother for some musical assistance during your wedding. And sometimes, that assistance luckily comes in the form of [pop crooner Ed Sheeran](http://time.com/2802761/ed-sheeran-x-album-review/?iid=sr-link4), who has been known to collaborate with McDaid. At the wedding in Derry, Ireland over the weekend, the ginger guitarist got up on stage to perform hits from his and McDaid’s repertoire with the Snow Patrol band, [_Entertainment Weekly_ reports](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/31/ed-sheeran-snow-patrol-perform-wedding). The 30-minute set included romantic ballads like Sheeran’s “Tenerife Sea” and a version of Snow Patrol’s hit “Chasing Cars” for the bride and groom’s [first dance.](http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/watch-ed-sheeran-joins-johnny-mcdaid-at-irish-wedding-to-perform-snow-patrol-and-stevie-wonder-hits-35007200.html) They also went out of their usual musical zone to play Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” because no wedding is complete without a little Stevie. Sheeran wasn’t the only big name at the wedding, either; _Friends_ actress [Courteney Cox](http://time.com/4464161/courteney-cox-bear-grylls-aging-hollywood/?iid=sr-link1) was in attendance as well, as she and McDaid have been dating since 2013. Hopefully the wedding celebration helped distract Sheeran from this summer’s legal troubles: he’s facing [copyright infringement suits](http://time.com/4446236/ed-sheeran-lawsuit-marvin-gaye-thinking-out-loud/?iid=sr-link2) on [two of his biggest](http://time.com/4361887/ed-sheeran-photograph-lawsuit/?iid=sr-link3) hit songs. “Tenerife Sea” is not one of them. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4474678/ed-sheeran-wedding-surprise/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4474678/ed-sheeran-wedding-surprise/"},"headline":"Watch Ed Sheeran Surprise Wedding Guests With a Performance Like It’s No Big Deal","datePublished":"2016-08-31T21:05:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:05.585Z","description":"Good friends play at each other's sister's weddings","url":"https://time.com/4474678/ed-sheeran-wedding-surprise/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4474678/ed-sheeran-wedding-surprise/","name":"Watch Ed Sheeran Surprise Wedding Guests With a Performance Like It’s No Big Deal"}}]}] ```