Emma Roberts had a five-year-old escort and an Audrey Hepburn soundtrack. Her wedding song was an instrumental “Moon River”, and her son, Rhodes, walked her to actor Cody John hand in hand. They married on 25 July 2026 at his family’s home in Sun Valley, Idaho.
The first dance was Ryan Adams’ “When the Stars Go Blue”. The Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” closed the night, because Emma asked for it.
“Our favorite movie is Breakfast at Tiffany’s, so I walked down the aisle to an instrumental of ‘Moon River,’” Emma told Vogue. Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer wrote “Moon River” for Audrey Hepburn to sing in that film, in 1961.
On 2 October, Emma posted her own set of wedding photos on Instagram, captioned in one word: “hitched”.
Her son did. Rhodes walked her down hand in hand, The Wed reported. His father is actor Garrett Hedlund.
The caption on that photo in Vogue’s gallery reads: “A picture is worth a thousand words, and in this case, a million.”
“It was so magical, and my son walked me down the aisle,” she told the Sibling Revelry podcast in September, as Us Weekly reported.
Of Rhodes, she added: “He was so excited.”
They married beside a flowing creek. Cody’s brother-in-law, Luke Proskine, officiated, and the couple wrote their own vows. The story began with how Emma and Cody got engaged.
Emma wore custom Monique Lhuillier in a tea-stained antique white, and the dress has its own story in our celebrity weddings coverage. Emma posted the gown herself on Instagram, captioned “an actual dream come true”. Every Emma Roberts wedding story sits in one place.
The playlist was the groom’s job, while Emma chose the menus for the weekend.
The first dance was Ryan Adams’ “When the Stars Go Blue”, from his 2001 album Gold.
“We had no time for lessons, so it didn’t last long before we had the whole room up slow dancing with us,” Emma said.
The gallery caption on the first-dance photo is drier: “Also we should have taken a lesson.”
Next came Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need”, which Emma says “got literally every person dancing like I hadn’t seen them dance before.”
Emma kept one song for herself.
The Metro Music Club Band, a dance band, ended the night with “Iris”.
The choice was Emma’s. She asked for it as the last song, she told Kate and Oliver Hudson on the same podcast, as Entertainment Weekly reported.
“I’ve never seen this many people of all different ages sing a song at the same time at each other,” she said. “Goo Goo Dolls gets people in a place where you were crying. I mean, it was transcendent.”
Her verdict: “I have never seen people sing louder or dance harder.” The gallery caption adds, “Every single person there was belting every lyric at the top of their lungs.”
Like “Moon River”, “Iris” was written for a film, City of Angels in 1998. It went on to spend a then-record 18 weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 Airplay chart.
Then the party moved on to the Cellar Bar in Ketchum, for country music and custom pink Jell-O shots.
Her aunt, Julia Roberts, came with her husband, Danny Moder. “I love you Aunt Julia,” Emma wrote beside their portrait.
Her mother, Kelly Cunningham, rode the gondola up with Emma, Cody and Rhodes to the welcome party at Roundhouse, a restaurant atop the mountain. “I rode up with Cody, my mom, and my son Rhodes,” Emma said.
Her father, actor Eric Roberts, did not attend.
“I love my daughter, always have, always will,” he said in a statement to the same magazine. “It is perfectly wonderful for her to celebrate however she wants, with whomever she wants.”
On 28 October, Julia’s birthday, Emma posted again: “happy birthday Aunt Julia… i love you beyond!!”
Emma asked for her last song by name, so name yours. Give the band every cue in writing, with artist and recording, because “Moon River” has been recorded many times. For more ideas, browse our wedding entrance songs or find a band in the Wedded Marketplace. Our Wedded Concierge team can book the band for you.
Emma walked in to a song with no words. The band signed off with one the whole room could sing.
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