Brian Austin Green and Sharna Burgess are keeping it real about how much progress they’ve really made with wedding planning.
“We’ve been asked this about a million times just this week, and life is so busy with so many things,” Burgess, 39, exclusively told Us Weekly at the 2024 Pencils of Promise Gala on Monday, November 4. “We haven’t been able to plan or talk about options that we want or don’t want. I certainly go back and forth between big parties, small ones.”
From Green’s perspective, the pair have their hands full raising their kids, including 2-year-old son Zane. (Green, 51, also shares sons Noah, 12, Bodhi, 10, and Journey, 8, with ex-wife Megan Fox.)
“We have four young kids at home and honestly it’s the last thing on our mind,” he joked at New York’s The Ziegfeld Ballroom. “It’s way too much. We are concerned with sleeping right now and making sure we and the kids have all the food groups that we need.”
Burgess added, “Raising good humans is more our concern right now.”
Brian and Burgess’ love story began in December 2020 when they were spotted enjoying a PDA-filled vacation to Hawaii. The pair went Instagram official one month later and got engaged in September 2023.
“It was the most perfect, beautiful moment,” Burgess shared on her iHeartRadio “Oldish” podcast after the proposal. “He had all the opportunities to make it flashy throughout the day [but] it’s not his style and it wouldn’t have felt right for him to do it like that. … To have this beautiful intimate moment with my people standing right there, bringing me in with this gorgeous ring, that is a dream.”
As Burgess and Green — who is also the father of Kassius, 22, with ex Vanessa Marcill — continue enjoying their new relationship status as fiancés, the pair found time to step out and receive the PoP Humanitarian Award at Pencils of Promise’s annual gala.
The nonprofit organization helps teachers become more effective in the classroom while also helping students read with fluency and comprehension.
“I think what we try to instill in our kids is we have always had this desire to do good, to help people,” Burgess told Us while wearing Zian Couture. “We are certainly very privileged and lucky and because of that, so are our children. We always try to instill in them to help others around them.”
Green added, “I think what the organization does is fantastic and so aligns with the way we think and conduct ourselves. … Morally, this feels like the right place to be.”
With reporting by Veronika Collins
