Ben Barnes married Aubrey Cleland on Sunday at Chateau de Lis in Oregon, turning a relationship they kept mostly private into a public wedding report. The ceremony brought the couple’s two-and-a-half-year run into the open and added a concrete update for readers who had followed Barnes’ off-screen life as closely as his work.
The wedding drew 150 guests, with Cleland in a corset-style dress and Barnes in a tailored dark suit. Barnes is 45 and Cleland is 33, a gap that had little visible weight once the pair reached the altar and chose a small, tightly controlled celebration over a more public rollout.
From summer 2024 to Oregon
They began dating in the summer of 2024, then kept moving forward in ways that were visible but still carefully contained. Cleland appeared in Barnes’ music video for Nevermind in December 2024, and in January 2025 she joined him on stage in Portland for a duet of One Minute More.
By the following month in Stockholm, Barnes told an audience he wrote The In Between during a “miserable breakup” and a “very, very rough time,” before saying he was “very happy now.” That sequence gives the wedding a clearer timeline: the split-era music, the onstage duet, and then the marriage all land within a compact stretch of less than a year.
Los Angeles, London and the wedding report
By July 2025, Barnes and Cleland were photographed together on a dinner date in London, and the pair also made Los Angeles their permanent home. They follow each other on Instagram, and Barnes often leaves heart emojis beneath her artwork uploads, a small but steady signal that the relationship had gone well beyond speculation.
Cleland’s name will also mean more to viewers who remember her from American Idol. The wedding report ties that public past to her role now as Barnes’ wife, while the family detail that they share a Siamese cat named Simba makes the change feel less like a headline and more like a domestic shift.
Chateau de Lis and the private gap
Chateau de Lis was described as “a timeless event venue offering luxury, charm and unforgettable experiences” with “the elegance of a European estate,” and the setting fit the couple’s understated approach. The celebration was described as “dreamy,” while the speeches were called “soulful and funny,” which suggests a wedding built around intimacy rather than spectacle.
The private part matters here because Barnes and Cleland kept their relationship mostly under wraps and neither addressed the engagement before the marriage report. Barnes had previously been linked to Tamsin Egerton, Felicity Jones and Julianne Hough, but this wedding closes the loop on the relationship that actually mattered here: the one that started in the summer of 2024, stayed quiet through an engagement in England on Dec. 31, 2025, and ended with vows in Oregon.
