Matty Healy marked his bachelor party in Malibu by stepping onstage with The 9075, a tribute band that played The 1975 songs for the gathering ahead of his wedding to Gabbriette Bechtel. Videos from the night showed him running through “The Sound” and “Sex,” then dancing with the group and crowd-surfing above the guests.
The scene fit the mood of a groom heading into a wedding that has been moving toward the center of celebrity attention for months. Healy and Bechtel first sparked romance rumors in September 2023 and later announced their engagement after attending Charli XCX's show in Brooklyn the following June. Bechtel had her own bachelorette festivities in Las Vegas in June, where photos showed pink decorations, playing-card details, fake money, champagne and bridal-party styling, while TMZ reported the weekend began with a staged arrest and a joking handcuffing before a private jet ride.
That wedding buildup has also brought Taylor Swift back into the conversation, because Healy and Swift were romantically linked in spring 2023 and split in June 2023 after a short burst of intense public attention. The Daily Mail framed the old relationship as an awkward shadow over the marriage plans, and Denise Welch added to that picture in a July 2025 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen when she said she had nothing against Swift personally but called the situation “tricky.”
Welch has also said the family could not be happier about the engagement, and that Bechtel was everything she would want in a daughter-in-law. She said Healy had commissioned a black diamond ring, while also making clear that the renewed focus on Swift was something the family had learned to live with. The friction is simple: the wedding is about Healy and Bechtel, but the public still keeps pulling the story back to a brief 2023 relationship that ended long ago.
For now, the next confirmed step is the wedding itself. The exact date has not been given, which is why Malibu matters today: it was the last big public marker before the ceremony, and it showed Healy turning a private milestone into a performance, with his band, his friends and his future wife all already part of the same story.
