Este Haim’s Cinderella Wedding: Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks, and NYE Magic

Mia Reynolds, 1/2/2026Este Haim's whimsical New Year's Eve wedding blended fairy tale magic with real-life grit, featuring three stunning gowns by Louis Vuitton and a star-studded guest list including Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks. The celebration marked both a personal milestone and a new era for Haim.

This wasn’t your cookie-cutter Hollywood wedding where everyone’s tanned to within an inch of recognition and nothing’s out of place. Instead, Este’s big night threaded together fairy tale nostalgia and the joyful chaos of real life—think glass slippers meet Doc Martens, with a killer soundtrack rattling nearby windows. There’s something about New Year’s Eve that magnifies every emotion, and Este seemed to savor every ounce of it.

In the Vogue video chronicling her wedding story, Este conjured images right out of a Disney reverie—a little girl, five years old, picturing herself gliding down a spiral staircase in a gown big enough to gather rumors, heart pounding, fiancé waiting below, hands outstretched. Este herself called out the Cinderella inspiration, but there was an unmistakable twist: the fantasy survived growing up in real life’s grit, with all its imperfect, lovely edges.

Reality, as anyone who’s attempted either a wedding or a fairytale will tell you, rarely sticks to script. Este met her future husband, Jonathan Levin, not at a palace soiree, but on a hiking trail. Hardly princess territory, unless you count sensible sneakers. The proposal? Maybe less storybook, definitely more honest. Imagine: December 22, late afternoon. Este’s wearing sweats, face dabbed in Mario Badescu spot treatment, hair thrown up any which way. (Try picturing a Disney princess with her retinol mask on; now there’s a new kind of magic.) Amidst the dirt path and windblown hair, Jonathan pops the question, and Este shouts her answer loud enough for the hills to hear—fellow hikers snap photos, laughter echoes. It’s messy in the best way, the sort of moment no stylist would stage but memories cling to.

When New Year’s finally rolled around, Este didn’t just settle for her childhood fantasy gown—she called up her friend Nicolas Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton. Instead of one dress, there were three: ceremony, reception, after-party. Why stay inside the lines, especially in an era defined by montage-worthy transformations? This was not the time for timid choices.

The guest list read like a fever dream for anyone with a Spotify account or even a passing relationship to pop culture. Taylor Swift—a magnetic force in her own right—turned up in a gold-sequinned dress lighting up the room even before someone captured it for social. No Travis Kelce at her side this time, but gossip columnists still had plenty to chew on. Stevie Nicks made her entrance too, the original bohemian rock oracle, and left a bit of her own stardust behind. Nicks and the Haims have their own creative project percolating (“and the song is really good,” teased sister Danielle), tantalizing fans holding out for more.

Este made a bit of unspoken history as well—she’s the first Haim sister to walk down the aisle. This meant something, not just in the familial sense, but as a marker of a new era. Danielle and Alana, proud and only slightly mischievous, didn’t hesitate to nudge that point in Vogue’s behind-the-scenes video. Anyone who’s followed Haim’s trajectory—side-by-side harmonies, matching melodies, and the kind of sisterly ribbing only years of shared bedrooms can breed—would recognize the significance. It was Este’s solo, but the harmony didn’t miss a beat.

There’s a risk, whenever a celebrity wedding catches public attention, of flattening the story into pretty pictures and throwaway lines. But that would miss what made Este’s night resonate. The beauty lay in the way ordinary and extraordinary moments coexisted: sweeping down a staircase in couture isn’t diminished by having flashbacks to muddy sneakers on a dusty hiking trail. Both chapters seem necessary—maybe inseparable.

All of this takes place against a backdrop of recent triumphs and growing acclaim for Haim. “I Quit,” the band’s latest album, hit the charts in mid-2024, landing at No. 2 on Top Rock Albums and settling into the mid-20s on the all-genre Billboard 200—a rare feat for a group defined as much by their vulnerability as by their musical muscle. For the Haim sisters, success hasn’t meant trading in their quirks. If anything, it’s meant doubling down.

Este’s wedding—princess gown, keytar energy, stars in the rafters—felt like a closing scene and a beginning all at once. Rather fitting, considering how New Year’s Eve always works: closing one book, setting up the first lines of another, and trusting that a little midnight magic might tie both together. Not everyone’s childhood blueprint survives into adulthood, yet sometimes, those improbable dreams get to live, sequins sparkling, right here and now. 2025 will have to try hard to top that kind of entrance.

If you happen to tune your senses to the closing hours of 2024 in California—a state that does New Year’s Eve with a particular sort of sparkle—you might’ve caught a certain shimmer in the air. Something more than sequined dresses and champagne flutes, though there was plenty of both. Inside a softly lit ballroom, Este Haim—bass player, oldest sister, and, let’s face it, the unofficial chief of California cool—finally stepped into a scene she’d been building in her mind since the tail end of the ‘90s.This wasn’t your cookie-cutter Hollywood wedding where everyone’s tanned to within an inch of recognition and nothing’s out of place. Instead, Este’s big night threaded together fairy tale nostalgia and the joyful chaos of real life—think glass slippers meet Doc Martens, with a killer soundtrack rattling nearby windows. There’s something about New Year’s Eve that magnifies every emotion, and Este seemed to savor every ounce of it.In the Vogue video chronicling her wedding story, Este conjured images right out of a Disney reverie—a little girl, five years old, picturing herself gliding down a spiral staircase in a gown big enough to gather rumors, heart pounding, fiancé waiting below, hands outstretched. Este herself called out the Cinderella inspiration, but there was an unmistakable twist: the fantasy survived growing up in real life’s grit, with all its imperfect, lovely edges.Reality, as anyone who’s attempted either a wedding or a fairytale will tell you, rarely sticks to script. Este met her future husband, Jonathan Levin, not at a palace soiree, but on a hiking trail. Hardly princess territory, unless you count sensible sneakers. The proposal? Maybe less storybook, definitely more honest. Imagine: December 22, late afternoon. Este’s wearing sweats, face dabbed in Mario Badescu spot treatment, hair thrown up any which way. (Try picturing a Disney princess with her retinol mask on; now there’s a new kind of magic.) Amidst the dirt path and windblown hair, Jonathan pops the question, and Este shouts her answer loud enough for the hills to hear—fellow hikers snap photos, laughter echoes. It’s messy in the best way, the sort of moment no stylist would stage but memories cling to.When New Year’s finally rolled around, Este didn’t just settle for her childhood fantasy gown—she called up her friend Nicolas Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton. Instead of one dress, there were three: ceremony, reception, after-party. Why stay inside the lines, especially in an era defined by montage-worthy transformations? This was not the time for timid choices.The guest list read like a fever dream for anyone with a Spotify account or even a passing relationship to pop culture. Taylor Swift—a magnetic force in her own right—turned up in a gold-sequinned dress lighting up the room even before someone captured it for social. No Travis Kelce at her side this time, but gossip columnists still had plenty to chew on. Stevie Nicks made her entrance too, the original bohemian rock oracle, and left a bit of her own stardust behind. Nicks and the Haims have their own creative project percolating (“and the song is really good,” teased sister Danielle), tantalizing fans holding out for more.Este made a bit of unspoken history as well—she’s the first Haim sister to walk down the aisle. This meant something, not just in the familial sense, but as a marker of a new era. Danielle and Alana, proud and only slightly mischievous, didn’t hesitate to nudge that point in Vogue’s behind-the-scenes video. Anyone who’s followed Haim’s trajectory—side-by-side harmonies, matching melodies, and the kind of sisterly ribbing only years of shared bedrooms can breed—would recognize the significance. It was Este’s solo, but the harmony didn’t miss a beat.There’s a risk, whenever a celebrity wedding catches public attention, of flattening the story into pretty pictures and throwaway lines. But that would miss what made Este’s night resonate. The beauty lay in the way ordinary and extraordinary moments coexisted: sweeping down a staircase in couture isn’t diminished by having flashbacks to muddy sneakers on a dusty hiking trail. Both chapters seem necessary—maybe inseparable.All of this takes place against a backdrop of recent triumphs and growing acclaim for Haim. “I Quit,” the band’s latest album, hit the charts in mid-2024, landing at No. 2 on Top Rock Albums and settling into the mid-20s on the all-genre Billboard 200—a rare feat for a group defined as much by their vulnerability as by their musical muscle. For the Haim sisters, success hasn’t meant trading in their quirks. If anything, it’s meant doubling down.Este’s wedding—princess gown, keytar energy, stars in the rafters—felt like a closing scene and a beginning all at once. Rather fitting, considering how New Year’s Eve always works: closing one book, setting up the first lines of another, and trusting that a little midnight magic might tie both together. Not everyone’s childhood blueprint survives into adulthood, yet sometimes, those improbable dreams get to live, sequins sparkling, right here and now. 2025 will have to try hard to top that kind of entrance.