Steven Krueger Reveals Wedding Update with Fiancée Candice King, Plus Who from “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Originals” Will Be Invited

Steven Krueger and Candice King are starting to scheme their wedding!

The Originals alum, 36, and The Vampire Diaries alum, 38, announced their engagement connected Instagram connected May 14. Four days later connected May 18, Krueger revealed really wedding readying is going truthful acold while chatting pinch nan New York Post astatine nan 2025 Emmys Pickleball Slam presented by nan Television Academy Foundation astatine nan Calabasas Pickleball Club successful Calabasas, Calif.

“We are starting to person conversations,” Krueger teased. “I think, for nan moment, we are enjoying nan engagement; we’re not going to unreserved it. We want to spot really activity worldly goes complete nan adjacent year. But we are starting to flip astir immoderate ideas astir wherever we want to do it [and] precisely what we want to do. There’s a batch of possibilities.”

Even though nan actors are only successful nan early stages of wedding planning, they've already discovered that determining nan impermanent count mightiness beryllium nan astir difficult part, arsenic they're presently "debating" what size their wedding should be.

"Right now, we are really debating if we want a big, traditional, fancy wedding aliases if we do a smaller point pinch family and friends location exotic," Krueger told nan outlet.

“I deliberation erstwhile we settee connected 1 of those, past we’ll person immoderate things to wound into," he added.

Of course, nan couple's costars from The Originals and The Vampire Diaries will make nan cut. King acted alongside Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Zach Roerig, Kat Graham, Steven R. McQueen and Matthew Davis successful The Vampire Diaries. Meanwhile, Krueger starred successful its supernatural spinoff bid alongside Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Phoebe Tonkin and Claire Holt.

Krueger assumes that "most of them" will be his nuptials.

“We are going to our friend Michael Trevino’s wedding, who is besides connected Vampire Diaries, successful a fewer weeks," he said. "So location will beryllium a batch of nan formed there, and we’ll person astir of nan group astatine ours."

King made her narration pinch nan Yellowjackets alum Instagram official successful December 2023, erstwhile she posted her 2023 recap montage, which included a video of her kissing him. Krueger told the New York Post that their engagement was "a agelong clip coming."

"We’ve been together for a mates of years now, and it’s thing I’ve been reasoning astir for a while," he said. "She has kids, truthful we wanted to make judge they were fresh arsenic well."

King was antecedently joined to The Fray guitarist Joe King. The erstwhile pair, who tied nan knot successful 2014 earlier splitting successful 2022, stock daughters Florence and Josephine.

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When nan connection yet happened, it was still a astonishment to nan bride-to-be.

“I deliberation she knew astatine immoderate point,” Krueger said, “but it was decidedly a astonishment connected nan time erstwhile it happened.”