United Kingdom, Sept. 27 -- Selena Gomez launched her wedding weekend with a lavish rehearsal dinner -with her close friend Taylor Swift arriving in a convoy of three SUVs.

The actress, 33, is set to exchange vows with music producer Benny Blanco, 37, at a 70-acre clifftop plantation called Hope Ranch estate in Goleta, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, this weekend, with contractors seen preparing marquees on Friday (26.09.25.)

Her rehearsal dinner took place on Friday night at a 10-bedroom mansion built in the 1930s, owned by insurance executive Greg Econn.

Guests including Selena's Only Murders in the Building co-stars Martin Short and Steve Martin, as well as Paul Rudd, were chauffeured to the property in a fleet of Mercedes buses.

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