Hudson and her fiancé, Danny Fujikawa, announced their engagement in September 2021.Hudson and her fiancé, Danny Fujikawa, announced their engagement in September 2021.
Kate Hudson is opening up about the wedding-planning details that are “part of why [she doesn’t] want to get married” — five years after her fiancé, Danny Fujikawa, popped the question.
On Tuesday’s episode of her and her brother Oliver Hudson’s “Sibling Revelry” podcast, which welcomed guests Joey and Hunter King, Kate revealed that the guest list is one of her biggest concerns because her family is “huge.”
As they discussed Joey and Hunter’s weddings overseas — Joey, 27, married Steven Piet in Spain in September 2023, while Hunter, 32, wed Chris Copier in Tuscany, Italy, this June — Oliver, 50, noted that a destination wedding can “weed out a ton of people.”
“I still am not married. I’m just engaged, and I keep thinking about [the] wedding, you know? Like, what are we going to do?” Kate, 47, said.
“And then every time we start thinking about it, like, who we have to invite, Danny’s like, ‘I just want a small wedding.’ I’m like, ‘Our family alone is, like, 50 people.’”
After Joey explained that she and her sister have a “small family,” Kate joked that there are “a million” kids, aunts, uncles and cousins in hers.
Oliver, meanwhile, recalled that his June 2006 wedding to his wife, Erinn Hudson, in Mexico was “controversial” after he decided that none of Erinn’s high school friends’ husbands could attend.
“I did not want to meet anyone at my wedding for the first time,” he said.
Joey admitted that the flowers at her wedding came with a hefty price tag, which prompted Kate to say that the cost is another reason she’s hesitant to tie the knot.
“That’s part of why I don’t want to get married. I’m like, it’s too expensive,” Kate said. “I just want, like, hors d’oeuvres. I want to do, like, chips and salsa.”
Kate announced her engagement to Fujikawa in September 2021, sharing a selfie of the two atop a mountain while Kate showed off her ring.
The “Almost Famous” actress captioned the post, “Let’s go! 👰♀️💒🤵🏻♂️.”
They began dating in December 2016 before welcoming their daughter, Rani Rose Hudson Fujikawa, in October 2018.
Kate is also mom to son Ryder Russell Robinson, whom she shares with her ex-husband, Chris Robinson, and son Bingham Hawn Bellamy, whom she shares with her ex-fiancé, Matt Bellamy.
In November 2022, Kate told Entertainment Tonight that she and Fujikawa were “in no hurry” to exchange vows, explaining that they had other priorities at the time.
“I love that man … But the last thing we are doing right now during the holidays is planning anything but the holidays,” she said.
More than a year into their engagement, Kate said in February 2023 that “right now, planning a wedding feels insane,” though she said she was excited to eventually do so.
She said she had been going “back and forth” between having a small or large wedding, recalling that her first wedding to Robinson was “so small,” and considering a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony to “honor” Fujikawa and their daughter’s heritage.
The “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” star also said it would “totally be a destination wedding,” adding, “It will be such an adventure that people will really want to have to come to show up. To me, those are always the most fun weddings. Like, if you really want to be there, you’ll be there.”
More recently, Kate admitted during an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show” in March 2025 that she may never marry Fujikawa, saying that she liked the idea of “being engaged forever.”
She added, “The contractual thing is tough for me. I like my freedom … I like the concept of freedom.”
