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Eddie Murphy’s Son, Eric, and Martin Lawrence’s Daughter, Jasmin, Celebrate ‘Destiny’ Engagement

The couple shared their engagement video three years after announcing their relationship.

Comedy legends Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy will soon merge families. 

Just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, on Wednesday, November 27, Murphy’s eldest child, Eric, 35, revealed in an Instagram reel that he proposed to Lawrence’s oldest daughter, Jasmin, 28.

The reel, soundtracked by Eric Benet and Tamia's ballad “Spend My Love With You,” shows a recap of the loving engagement, where Lawrence was surprised while entering a room filled with candles, rose bouquets, a heart sign backdrop, and floor overflowing with flower petals, before Murphy got on bended knee and proposed. “It’s beautiful. Oh my gosh,” Lawrence responded to the sight of the engagement ring before accepting her now-fiancé’s proposal.

“We’re engaged!! God truly blessed us with a love that feels like destiny,” reads the Instagram caption. “We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter ❤️❤️," continued the pair. "Special thank you to everyone who made this moment so beautiful!!”

Although Murphy and Lawrence starred together in the 1999 black comedy film “Life” and the 1992 romantic comedy Boomerang, Jasmin, who appeared in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” and “Bad Boys for Life,” revealed to InTouch Weekly in 2022 that an uncle had introduced her to Eric.

“We became really good friends, we bonded on a lot of things. Obviously, we have similar backgrounds so we understood each other on a certain level. Over time, it just, you know, became more,” she told the publication.

The couple confirmed their relationship the year before on Instagram. Around their second anniversary, Lawrence joked on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (around the 3-minute mark of the video below) that he’d try to convince Murphy to pay for the wedding. Murphy would respond via Etalk, playfully urging Lawrence to stick to the father-of-the-bride pays for the wedding tradition.

While their children make wedding plans, Lawrence and Murphy will reportedly keep themselves preoccupied with a remake of the 1963 comedy-adventure “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and a sequel to the 1999 action-comedy “Blue Streak,” which Lawrence announced on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” earlier this month.

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