Martin Lawrence was ready for his daughter to take the next step with Eddie Murphy’s son. 

One day before The Nutty Professor star confirmed his son Eric Murphy and Martin’s daughter Jasmin Lawrence tied the knot, the Bad Boys alum had nothing but positive things to say about his son-in-law. 

“He’s a great young man,” Martin told Jennifer Hudson of Eric on the May 28 episode of her daytime talk show, cheekily noting that a wedding “might be a good idea.”

Indeed, while Martin did not go so far to confirm his daughter’s nuptials, he did allude to just how involved he and Eddie had been in their romance. 

“I think we are both protective,” he explained. “We want the best for our children. We let them do their own thing and make their choices and stay out of their business and let them find their way.”

A day later, Eddie shared that their kids’ latest choice involved eloping rather than hosting a big wedding following their 2024 engagement.

“Everybody was making their big wedding plans,” Eddie explained during his own appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show May 29. “They decided they wanted to do something quiet with just the two of them.”

Naturally, the Coming to America star also took the opportunity to playfully jab Martin—who is also dad to 24-year-old Iyanna and 22-year-old Amara. As Eddie noted, the Martin alum doesn’t have to “pay for a wedding now.”

As for the happy couple, it comes as no surprise they were eager to make their romance official. 

“God truly blessed us with a love that feels like destiny,” Jasmin gushed in their engagement announcement on Instagram last November. “We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter.

Special thank you to everyone who made this moment so beautiful!!”

Eric, for his part, has previously noted that his life would be “incomplete” without his now-wife. 

“The moments we spend together make time stand still,” he wrote in a birthday tribute to Jasmin in 2023. “You make me a better man in every way. Thank you for being such an inspiration in my life. Thank you for being the LOVE of my life!”

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The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback married the tech executive in early 2025, with Jalen sharing in his April cover story with Men’s Health, "You can call her my wife."

Amid his 21-year prison sentence, the Tiger King star (real name Joseph Maldonado) married his fellow inmate, who changed his moniker to Jorge Flores Maldonado.

The Twilight alum said yes to loving the screenwriter for a thousand years at an April 20 wedding ceremony held at Los Angeles' Casita Del Campo Mexican restaurant.

The Big Brother star wed his longtime love in a New York City ceremony April 19.

One month after sharing her breast cancer diagnosis, the Bachelor Nation star announced she and the comedian got hitched at a backyard ceremony in New York.

Joan Rivers' daughter officially tied the knot with the Los Angeles-based attorney in a Wyomming ceremony in March, just months after the couple's house burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. 

“We were going to cancel,” Melissa—who got engaged to Steve in November 2023—told People in an article published March 20. “I was tapping out, like ‘I just can’t do this.’ And that’s when my friends stepped in and said, ‘We are doing this’ because a number of people who are coming lost their homes too, and they were like, ‘Thank God we have this to look forward to.’”

And good thing, as the television host described their special day as "perfect."

On March 19, the Lovecraft Country alum confirmed he married the Think Like a Man actress after nearly two years of dating.

"We finally got to do it," he said on the Sherri, "but it was always the plan."

The Leftovers alum tied the knot with the the Gilded Age actress in Tulum, Mexico, on March 15.

In March, the Traitors star shared that she and the comedian got married in a private Las Vegas ceremony earlier in the year.

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The Nobody Wants This star tied the knot with the Detention actor at a Los Angeles courthouse on Feb. 18. In tow were the couple's baby girl Ellis, as well as their dog Lil.

While accepting the 2025 Grammy award for Best Rock Song, the "Broken Man" singer (real name Annie Clark) revealed she got hitched.

"Thank you to my beautiful wife Leah, our beautiful daughter," she shared, adding that "this record was obviously a labor of love."

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The Olympic swimmer married the pastor at a ceremony in Perth, Australia, on Jan. 10. "The day was everything we dreamed it would be—overflowing with love, joy, and the tangible presence of God," she wrote on Instagram. "It felt like heaven touched earth."

The former School of Rock costars—who met as kids on the Jack Black movie, before reconnecting as adults pursuing careers outside of acting—tied the knot at a Jan. 4 ceremony attended by their castmates.

Kaley Cuoco officiated her sister's New Year's Eve wedding at the Cathedral of St. Vibiana in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the Big Bang Theory alum and fiancé Tom Pelphrey's daughter Matilda served as a flower girl.

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