Why Matty Healy and Fiancée Gabbriette Bechtel Didn’t Attend Charli xcx and George Daniel’s Wedding (Exclusive)

Matty Healy and Gabbriette Bechtel missed Charli xcx and George Daniel’s wedding for a good reason.

While Ross MacDonald and Adam Hann were in attendance, one band member from The 1975 was noticeably absent. An exclusive source tells PEOPLE that Healy, 36, and his fiancée, 27, couldn’t attend their close friends’ intimate wedding ceremony at Hackney Town Hall in London on Saturday, July 19, due to prior work commitments.

“Matty and Gabbriette weren’t able to make the legal ceremony due to her work commitments for I Know What You Did Last Summer keeping them in L.A. this weekend, but they look forward to attending the Sicily wedding,” the insider says.

Often known by just her nickname, Gabbriette recently made her acting debut in I Know What You Did Last Summer, which is a reboot of the 1997 original slasher film. She stars as Tyler alongside Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Jennifer Love Hewitt. The red carpet premiere took place in Los Angeles on Monday, July 14, and the movie hit theaters on Friday, July 18.

Charli, 32, and Daniel, 35, are planning a much larger, “star-studded” destination wedding in Sicily, Italy, a source previously told PEOPLE. This will give Healy and Gabbriette another chance to partake in their mutual friends’ wedding celebrations.

“The party’s just getting started,” the source said. “They have a larger celebration planned for Sicily. They’ve always dreamed of a big party in Italy. Somewhere beautiful and private, where all their friends can let loose. It will be star-studded. This was always the plan. London was the official wedding, but a big event is happening too and it will be epic.”

While The 1975 frontman didn’t make it to his drummer’s wedding ceremony, Healy did celebrate Daniel’s bachelor party in Ibiza earlier this month alongside MacDonald and Hann.

Healy and Gabbriette remain extremely close with Daniel and his wife, especially considering how Charli was crucial to the couple meeting.

In 2019, the “Boom Clap” singer put together the band Nasty Cherry — and hand-picked Gabbriette to join the group. The Netflix docuseries I’m with the Band: Nasty Cherry chronicled the making of the band, which petered out over the pandemic.

By September 2023, Gabbriette and Healy were romantically linked.

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The pair announced their engagement in June 2024 after attending Charli’s Brat show in Brooklyn. Gabbriette shared photos of herself wearing an engagement ring featuring a black gem surrounded by pavé diamonds on her Instagram Stories, and wrote, “MARRYING THE 1975 IS VERY BRAT.”

“I obviously have known for a few weeks that Matty got engaged,” Healy’s mother, actress Denise Welch, said on Loose Women that month. “They went over to see their friends Charli and George in New York [last night] and I woke up this morning to the fact they’ve put it on Instagram. Instagram official … he’s got engaged to Gabriella Bechtel — Gabbriette she’s known as. Black diamond; he had it made for her. I couldn’t be more thrilled. We couldn’t be happier — she is everything I would want in a daughter-in-law. I’m thrilled.”