King ready to reign
The bluesy rock singer is climbing the charts — she’s also marrying fans at her concerts
YOU can forget all that sappy “dearly beloved” stuff, because Elle King’s version of wedding vows are much more rock ’n’ roll than that.
The 27-yearold Brooklyn singer will play the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday on the latest stop of her Ministry Tour. As part of her set, she has been acting as officiant and marrying two of her fans onstage every night.
King (who is the daughter of actor Rob Schneider and model London King) tells The Post that she’s happy to tailor each ceremony to her fans’ desires — no matter how odd or unromantic they might seem.
“The first night of the tour [in Salt Lake City], I had two fans who wore all black,” she says. “They wanted me to refer to them by their nicknames for each other” — the less profane of their terms of endearment was a variation on the F-word.
King, who was ordained a few years ago in order to officiate at a friend’s wedding, received more than 400 submissions from couples looking to tie the knot, and admits to getting swept up in the nuptial emotions.
“I married a gay couple in Houston — that hit me hard,” she says. “Another couple were having their vows renewed after 35 years, and when I asked them what the secret was, they said, ‘Honesty.’ I think the whole band was crying at that one!”
The tour will close the book on her first album, “Love Stuff ” (released in 2015), which spawned a Billboard Top 10 hit in the shape of the raucous and raunchy “Ex’s and Oh’s” that was also nominated for two Grammys. More recently, she’s been making a splash in the country music world, thanks to her Dierks Bentley duet “Different for Girls,” which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. The duo even performed the song a few weeks ago at the Country Music Association Awards, where King found herself mixing with Nashville royalty.
“I got to meet Taylor Swift,” King says. “She said she liked the song ‘See You Again’ from my album, which not everyone knows or has listened to. For the biggest superstar in the world to say that is pretty special!”
But the wedding bells aren’t going to stop anytime soon. King is also in the midst of planning her own wed- ding to Scotsman Andrew “Fergie” Ferguson and has lined up a close friend to do the officiating. The two got engaged under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco earlier this year. “We’re getting married on tax day,” says King. “So now, I’ll never forget it!”
Elle King will play the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday. Tickets, $30 and up. 2124 Broadway, near 74th Street