Mel C is reportedly set to marry Chris Dingwall in a private ceremony this weekend, turning a relationship that went public in 2024 into the next major chapter for Sporty Spice. The reported wedding is being described as a secret ceremony, and it lands during the 30th anniversary period for Wannabe.
Raya to wedding weekend
The couple have been together for around two years after first meeting on Raya, and Chisholm said earlier this year that marriage was not part of the story she expected for herself. Speaking to The Sunday Times in 2022, she said: “I’ve never, never wanted to marry. Maybe marriage works for some people, but maybe to think it works for the majority is an old-fashioned notion.”
She later struck a different note, saying: “You know what? (Marriage is) something I didn’t think would be part of my story. But I’m so happy with Chris.” She also added: “Maybe it is something that will be in my life. I just think, just do all the things. Do you know what I mean? Have all the experiences.”
Victoria Beckham in United States
Victoria Beckham is expected to miss the ceremony because she is in the United States with David Beckham for the FIFA Club World Cup final. That leaves almost all of the Spice Girls lined up around a wedding moment that arrives while Wannabe is being marked across the group’s 30th anniversary period.
Chisholm, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell-Horner and Melanie Brown have all marked the anniversary on social media, keeping the focus on a catalogue that still carries more than eight million copies worldwide for Wannabe. For a group whose biggest record still sets the timeline, this wedding folds private life into a very public pop legacy.
Chisholm's 2022 turn
The contradiction is the story’s sharpest edge: in 2022 she said she had never wanted to marry, yet this weekend she is reportedly preparing for a private wedding. She told The Telegraph in May that Dingwall is “very laid-back” and “loads of fun... we have very similar personalities and lifestyles.”
That makes the reported ceremony feel less like a sudden pivot than a change Chisholm has been arriving at in public, one quote at a time. The immediate next step is simple: a private wedding this weekend, with the only real open question being whether the reported plan goes ahead exactly as described.
