The Finneas O’Connell wedding to Claudia Sulewski took place on 29 August 2026, nearly eight years after the couple first connected on the exclusive dating app Raya in 2018. According to People, the ceremony was held at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, in front of a small gathering of friends and family.
Vogue reported the location as Montecito, California. Billie Eilish, O’Connell’s sister, reportedly officiated at the ceremony. Sulewski wore a strapless Oscar de la Renta gown, one of four custom wedding looks from the fashion house for the occasion.
The guest list was, to put it mildly, not short of faces. Nina Dobrev, Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Emma Chamberlain, Rachel Sennot, Nat Wolff, Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber, Stassie Karanikolaou, and Jason Sudeikis were all reported to have attended.
From Raya to the Aisle: How the Finneas O’Connell and Claudia Sulewski Relationship Began
The story of how they got together is the sort of thing people tell at dinner parties. Sulewski had already heard about O’Connell through mutual friends before they ever spoke. On a 2023 episode of The Skinny Confidential podcast, she explained that two of her best friends had separately had music sessions with him and each time told her, ‘You guys would fall in love, but it’s not worth it because he’s always out of town.’
Then, in 2018, she spotted his profile on Raya while at breakfast with one of those same friends. She matched with him, and, as she put it, ‘everything fell into place so perfectly and so quickly.’ The day after they met, O’Connell wrote a song about her called ‘Claudia.’
Their first public appearance as a couple came on 16 May 2019, at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards. Later that year, they attended the American Music Awards together. In 2020, they were at the Grammys, where O’Connell took home six awards, including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. They have since appeared together at the Oscars, further Grammy ceremonies, and most recently at the GQ Men Of The Year celebration in Los Angeles on 13 November 2025.
O’Connell announced their engagement in September 2025, when Sulewski posted photos on Instagram with the caption ‘forever and ever 9.22.’ Eilish responded with a string of pink heart emojis. Sulewski followed up with a video showing off her diamond ring. He had proposed, and she later shared behind-the-scenes footage of where it happened, along with more details about the moment.
Who Is Claudia Sulewski? YouTuber, Actress, Director and the Woman Behind Cyklar
Sulewski is not simply ‘the partner of.’ She has been building her own career in parallel, across several different lanes, for well over a decade.
She started posting on YouTube as a teenager, with her first public video dating back to 22 June 2010. She has since grown to 2.45 million subscribers, posting monthly vlogs and, in September 2025, a full account of O’Connell’s proposal titled ‘we’re engaged.’ Of her early approach to the platform, she told ELLE: ‘It really started with this love for filmmaking. For whatever reason, I took YouTube so seriously. That consistency and drive was what allowed me to turn it into something much bigger. I’m grateful for that little girl.’
Her acting career began in 2014. She has since appeared in projects including The Commute, I Love My Dad, and Apple TV+‘s Shrinking. ‘Acting is so exciting,’ she told ELLE. ‘I get to surrender my control and my power over to all of these other people. That is something that’s still new to me.’
She has also worked as a music video director. Her credits include O’Connell’s ‘2001,’ which stars Kate Hudson, and ‘David’s Brother’ for his band The Favors. Of directing ‘2001,’ she wrote on Instagram that it was ‘a DREAM to conceptualize, direct and edit.’ O’Connell commented: ‘My hero!!! Music video about falling in love with your director, made by the director I’m in love with! It’s meta!!!’
In 2023, she founded Cyklar, a sustainable body care company offering products including exfoliating body spray, perfume oil, and body cream. The line is unisex. ‘I’ve never built my own brand or put my name on something as, here is 100 percent me,’ she told ELLE. ‘This is my first time doing that. And I’m happy I waited as long as I did, because I knew whatever I ended up making, I wanted it to have a purpose and a reason to exist.’
The couple married with Eilish at the front of the room and a considerable number of famous guests filling the rest of it. O’Connell’s anniversary tribute to Sulewski on Instagram, posted on 22 September 2022 to mark four years together, perhaps captures it best: ‘You’d have to scour the globe to try to find someone equally as talented, creative and hard working as you are, my love.’
