Kate Hudson reveals the surprising reason she's still not married, 5 years after getting engaged

Kate Hudson might have shown she was once capable of losing a man in 10 days, but it turns out she needs a bit longer to make it down the aisle with one.

On a recent episode of the podcast she shares with her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, Kate shared that she’s still in no rush to get married, even if her fiancée, actor and composer Danny Fujikawa, did put a ring on it. Five years ago.

The Running Point actress shared the surprising, and perhaps incredibly relatable, reasons why they’ve still not got any further with the wedding planning, telling her brother it’s just “too expensive” and there’s too much planning involved juggling guestlists and all the admin.

On the episode of their podcast, Sibling Revelry, Kate and Oliver were joined by guests, sisters Joey King and Hunter King. When the conversation got on to weddings, Joey chimed in that there’s always more expenses than you can realise, citing the cost of her flowers as something that surprised her.

Kate replied, "That’s part of why I don’t want to get married = it’s too expensive. I just want hors d’oeuvres. I wanna do, like, chips and salsa."

She also said on the episode, "I still am not married. I’m just engaged, and I keep thinking about the wedding, like what are we gonna do. And then every time we start thinking about who we have to invite, Danny’s like, 'I just want a small wedding.’

"I’m like, ‘Our family alone is like 50 people.' There’s a million kids. There’s a million uncles and aunts and cousins."

Kate comes from a large blended family. As well as brother Oliver, who comes from Goldie Hawn’s relationship to their father, Bill Hudson, they have their brothers from Goldie's relationship to Kurt Russell, Wyatt and Boston Russell.

Kate and Oliver also discovered they had other half siblings from their father Bill - a sister, Emily, and a brother, Zachary.

Perhaps proving Kate’s point, Oliver shared how he handled the guestlist for his wedding to wife, Erinn Bartlett, in 2006.

He recalled, "My wedding was controversial with my wife, because we did it in Mexico. We only had 80 people. I did not want to meet anyone at my wedding for the first time. So, I said to Erinn, ‘Look, your girlfriends from high school - I get it, they’re your girlfriends, but, I’m sorry, the husbands can’t come.'

"Maybe I’m an a**hole, but I don’t want to be like, ‘Congratulations,’ ‘Hi, what’s your name? Doug? Really nice to meet you.'"

The Almost Famous actress has spoken about not feeling in a hurry to walk down the aisle before. In 2025, she told Drew Barrymore on her talk show, "I like the idea of being engaged forever. The contractual thing is tough for me. I like my freedom."

It’s perhaps not surprising that Kate - who has been married once before, to Chris Robinson - doesn’t feel the need to make things so formal to have her relationship feel as concrete. Kate’s mum, movie icon Goldie Hawn, has been with her partner, fellow acting legend Kurt Russell, for over 40 years, and the pair have never exchanged vows or even get engaged.

Of their decades-long commitment to one another without feeling the need to get married, Goldie told Entertainment Tonight, "We thought that by getting married that was actually going to take something from both of us that we didn't want. We want to choose each other every day."