Christina Perri Reacts to How ‘A Thousand Years’ Became a Popular Wedding Song forTwilightFans

Mar. 15, 2025

Christina Perri; Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).Photo:Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Summit Entertainment

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Summit Entertainment

Christina Perriapproves ofTwilightfans using her hit track as their wedding song.

Perri wrote “A Thousand Years” for the vampire romance series' penultimate film,The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, in 2011.

“I really was aTwilightfan. I have to admit I was more of a Twihard. I was, like, a hardcore fan,” Perri said. “So I will not deny that, but I wrote this song for the movie and it was very specific. It was like, you know, you go in, you screen the film. They were like, ‘We need a song for the wedding scene.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, great.’ I made it a waltz.”

Christina Perri.Manny Carabel/Getty

Manny Carabel/Getty

Her song was chosen, but not forthe wedding. Instead, it was played during the credits.

In 2012, the yearThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2released, fans said they wanted the song to be in the final movie because they “loved” how it represented the tortured love story between Bella and Edward.

“The fans were like, ‘Oh, hey, we know that Christina Perri is a Twihard, and so we want this song.’ I feel like they knew, because there was aBruno Marssong that was on the radio, but then I feel like they were like, ‘We know Bruno isn’t a Twihard.’ And so, like, they swapped out and they put my song on the radio as a single for the film,” Perri explained. “And I was like, ‘Wow. That’s really cool.'”

This led to Perri creating a longer and orchestral, duet version of the song with her then-boyfriendSteve Kazee.

“I thought maybe that was it,” Perri said. She was wrong.

“Then all the people who loveTwilightstarted to get married,” she continued. “This is all just, like, in real time. And then they chose it as a wedding song. So then all of a sudden, this song is not so much aboutTwilightanymore, and it’s the song that everybody’s walking down the aisle to, everybody’s doing their first dance to. And I’m like, well, that’s really cool.”

Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).Summit

As the fanbase has grown, the song has too.

“This song just keeps living its own life and evolving,” Perri said. “And so, for, I don’t know, for the next ten years, everybody gets married to it. And what comes after marriage, but everybody starts having babies.”

“Then all of a sudden, because everyone got married to my music, they’re having babies at the same time as me,” said Perri, who shares daughtersPixie RoseandCarmella Stanleywith husband Paul Costabile. “Now they’re playing my lullabies to all their kids. So all of a sudden, I’m like this voice in their story, in like some of the most amazing moments of their lives.”

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Perri is “grateful” and “honored” to play a special role in people’s milestones.

“It just was the most natural progression, I have to say,” she said. “Like, it’s just the gift that keeps on giving. Like, this song has its own life.”

Perri will always remember the roots of the song. She’s still very much a fan of Bella, Edward and Jacob.

source: people.com