--- title: Ryan Reynolds Apologizes for Plantation Wedding description: Ryan Reynolds is expressing regret for hosting his wedding to Blake Lively at Boone Hall, a former plantation in South Carolina, in 2012 canonical: https://time.com/5875919/ryan-reynolds-plantation-wedding-apology/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-08-05T13:48:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:31.280Z og:title: Ryan Reynolds 'Deeply and Unreservedly Sorry' for Plantation Wedding og:description: Ryan Reynolds is expressing regret for hosting his wedding to Blake Lively at Boone Hall, a former plantation in South Carolina, in 2012 og:url: https://time.com/5875919/ryan-reynolds-plantation-wedding-apology/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta87d4d13a357650b/698a11108fd2ee5cb43619d1/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-plantation-wedding-regret.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-plantation-wedding-regret og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ryan Reynolds 'Deeply and Unreservedly Sorry' for Plantation Wedding twitter:description: Ryan Reynolds is expressing regret for hosting his wedding to Blake Lively at Boone Hall, a former plantation in South Carolina, in 2012 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta87d4d13a357650b/698a11108fd2ee5cb43619d1/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-plantation-wedding-regret.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ryan Reynolds 'Unreservedly Sorry' for Getting Married at South Carolina Plantation > Sponsored content. 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Aug 5, 2020 1:48 PM UTC  Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively attend "Pokemon Detective Pikachu" U.S. Premiere at Times Square on May 02, 2019 in New York City. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively attend "Pokemon Detective Pikachu" U.S. Premiere at Times Square on May 02, 2019 in New York City. John Lamparski—Getty Images/WireImage by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 5, 2020 1:48 PM UTC Ryan Reynolds has expressed regret for holding his wedding to Blake Lively at a former plantation in South Carolina. “It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,” the actor [told](https://www.fastcompany.com/90525283/most-creative-people-2020-ryan-reynolds) _Fast Company_ in a new interview. “It’s impossible to reconcile.” Reynolds and Lively married in 2012 at Boone Hall, a former plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. In the years before the Civil War, [Boone Hall](https://www.tompsc.com/292/Boone-Hall-Plantation) was the site of a brick-building business, which thrived from the labor of enslaved people. The plantation displays nine slave cabins, called “Slave Street.” Historians and activists have long said using such venues for celebratory events like weddings glorifies the American system of slavery and the violent oppression of Black people. Speaking with _Fast Company_, Reynolds said that at the time, he and Lively viewed Boone Hall as “a wedding venue on Pinterest,” and only later saw the site as “a place built upon devastating tragedy.” Last year, Pinterest, along with wedding websites like The Knot and Zola, announced it would stop promoting content that [romanticizes plantation weddings](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/style/plantation-weddings-pinterest-knot-zola.html). “But shame works in weird ways,” he said. “A giant f-cking mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things and move you into action.” To that end, Reynolds introduced the [Group Effort Initiative](https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ryan-reynolds-diversity-initiative-group-effort-1234722532/) in July, which aims to invest in marginalized communities that are typically underrepresented and ignored in Hollywood. “Representation and diversity need to be completely immersive,” he said. “Like, it needs to be embedded at the root of storytelling, and that’s in both marketing and Hollywood.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5875919/ryan-reynolds-plantation-wedding-apology/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5875919/ryan-reynolds-plantation-wedding-apology/"},"headline":"Ryan Reynolds 'Unreservedly Sorry' for Getting Married at South Carolina Plantation","datePublished":"2020-08-05T13:48:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:31.280Z","description":"Ryan Reynolds is expressing regret for hosting his wedding to Blake Lively at Boone Hall, a former plantation in South Carolina, in 2012","url":"https://time.com/5875919/ryan-reynolds-plantation-wedding-apology/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Race","Brief","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta87d4d13a357650b/698a11108fd2ee5cb43619d1/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-plantation-wedding-regret.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta87d4d13a357650b/698a11108fd2ee5cb43619d1/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-plantation-wedding-regret.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-plantation-wedding-regret","caption":"ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-plantation-wedding-regret","creditText":"John Lamparski—Getty Images/WireImage","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/5875919/ryan-reynolds-plantation-wedding-apology/","name":"Ryan Reynolds 'Unreservedly Sorry' for Getting Married at South Carolina Plantation"}}]}] ```