ABBA star Björn Ulvaeus has tied the knot for a 3rd time!
On Saturday, Sept. 21, a message posted to Ulvaeus’ Instagram account confirmed that the musician and Christina Sas had married in Copenhagen, Denmark — her native nation — that day.
Ulvaeus, 79, confirmed the information alongside a number of pictures, which confirmed former The Great British Baking Show host Sandi Toksvig seemingly officiated whereas sporting a protracted purple and gold gown.
Toksvig beforehand labored on the script for Mamma Mia! The Party; an ABBA-themed eating expertise held at The O2 Enviornment in London.
Ulvaeus and his spouse had been each dressed by designer Soeren Le Schmidt for the ceremony, the Instagram submit confirmed. The ABBA star donned a darkish go well with and white T-shirt for the ceremony, whereas Sas wore a protracted inexperienced gown and carried a blue bouquet of flowers.
“Right this moment on the twenty first of September 2024, Björn Ulvaeus married Christina Sas from Herning, Denmark,” the submit’s caption learn.
“They met in Nürnberg in 2021 in reference to the discharge of ABBA’s final album Voyage and began relationship within the spring of 2022,” the message continued.
The caption added, “The marriage happened in Copenhagen within the presence of shut family and friends. Sandi Toksvig, Anne Linnet and Kaya Brüel generously carried out and made the night further particular.”
Among the many carousel of pictures, the newlyweds posed with Danish musicians Linnet and Brüel, with the primary snap exhibiting the couple posing among the many bushes.
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Ulvaeus was beforehand married to fellow ABBA band member Agnetha Fältskog from 1971 to 1980, earlier than tying the knot with Lena Kallersjö in 1981. He shares two youngsters with every of his ex-wives.
Ulvaeus and Kallersjö had been married for 41 years earlier than divorcing in 2022.
On Feb. 23 of that 12 months, the previous couple launched a press release confirming the breakup, per The Independent.
“We stay shut and good mates and can proceed to have fun our grandchildren’s birthdays and different household celebrations collectively,” the message learn on the time, in response to the outlet.
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Music-wise, ABBA — which additionally consists of Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad — dropped its ninth and closing studio album, Voyage, in November 2021, asserting a digital ABBA Voyage concert in a custom-built enviornment in London to accompany the discharge.
Whereas talking to Rolling Stone U.K. in an interview printed in Might 2023, Ulvaeus mentioned of whether or not he ever envisaged “a digital model” of himself “performing to hundreds each evening” after ABBA’s cut up in 1982, “After all not! Again in 1982 I had simply purchased my first IBM PC and there was no web, there was nothing.”
“We had 64K RAM and that was about it. At that time I assumed that ABBA would possibly come again collectively and do a brand new album perhaps, however that by no means occurred. What’s occurred to us now could be simply mind-boggling,” he added.