Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence will quickly be in-laws — Eddie’s son Eric Murphy and Martin’s daughter Jasmin Lawrence are engaged.
The spouses-to-be introduced the information on Saturday, November 30. “We’re engaged!” they wrote in a joint Instagram publish. “God really blessed us with a love that looks like future. We couldn’t be extra excited for this subsequent chapter.”
In that publish, the couple shared a video of Eric popping the query on the West Hollywood restaurant Cecconi’s on Wednesday, November 27.
In that footage, Eric will get down on bended knee to suggest to Jasmin in a room decked out in candles and flower petals. Jasmin, after all, fortunately accepts the proposal. “I’m engaged!” she exclaims within the clip, holding up the diamond sparkler now adorning her ring finger.
Eddie and Martin are pals who’ve costarred in two motion pictures — 1992’s Boomerang and 1999’s Life — nevertheless it was truly an uncle of Jasmin’s who launched her and Eric, as she instructed InTouch Weekly in January 2022.
“We turned actually good pals. We bonded on plenty of issues, clearly. We’ve got comparable backgrounds, so we understood one another on a sure degree. And over time, it simply, you realize, turned extra,” she mentioned on the time, after going Instagram-official with Eric the earlier June.
In a June 2022 look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside, Martin laughed when host Jimmy Kimmel instructed that Eric and Jasmin would have a “comedy super-baby” collectively.
Martin mentioned that he and Eddie hadn’t talked about their children’ blossoming romance. “We type of simply keep out of their enterprise and allow them to do their very own factor and respect their factor.”
He additionally quipped that within the occasion of a marriage, he would “attempt to get Eddie to pay for it.”