--- title: Beyoncé and Jay Z Crash a Wedding in Italy description: They'll attend a random couple's wedding but not Kimye's canonical: https://time.com/3310400/beyonce-and-jay-z-italy-wedding/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-09T16:13:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:56.893Z og:title: Beyoncé and Jay Z Crash a Wedding in Italy og:description: They'll attend a random couple's wedding but not Kimye's og:url: https://time.com/3310400/beyonce-and-jay-z-italy-wedding/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52b72fd05bd5238f/6986a27fadae444848544dad/beyonce-photobomb.jpg?branch=production&width=933&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 933 og:image:height: 525 og:image:alt: Beyonce og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Beyoncé and Jay Z Crash a Wedding in Italy twitter:description: They'll attend a random couple's wedding but not Kimye's twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52b72fd05bd5238f/6986a27fadae444848544dad/beyonce-photobomb.jpg?branch=production&width=933&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Beyoncé and Jay Z Crash a Wedding in Italy > Sponsored content. 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The diva posed for pictures with the bride while wearing sunglasses and a bikini. Though Jay and Bey dropped in on this Italian wedding, they were conspicuously absent from [Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s recent nuptials in Florence, Italy](http://time.com/119213/kanye-west-kim-kardashian-wedding-photos/), opting instead to spend the weekend in the Hamptons. “It doesn’t even matter to me whatsoever, who would show up. Because the most important person to show up there, to me, was Kim. And that’s all that matters to me. I had to fight for that for seven years,” West [told GQ](http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201408/kanye-west) of his _Watch the Throne_ partner’s no-show. The couple is vacationing in Italy with daughter Blue Ivy to celebrate Beyoncé’s birthday, which was on Sept. 4\. The two are slated to finish their _On the Run Tour_ in Paris on Sept. 12 and 13. The couple recently [tried to dispel rumors](http://time.com/3171852/vmas-2014-beyonce-jay-z-divorce-rumors/) of an impending split at the MTV Video Music Awards, where Jay Z presented his wife with the Video Vanguard Award. 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