Coco Jones is embracing her “inner lover girl” at the 2026 Grammy Awards.
Stopping by the PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly red carpet pre-show on Sunday, Feb. 1, the Grammy winner exclusively says she’s stepped into her “romantic, girly” persona for this year’s awards show as a newly engaged woman.
Jones, 28, and Donovan Mitchell announced their engagement in July 2025 after two years of dating. On the red carpet, she reveals what she’s hoping their big day will look like, saying it’ll be “intimate.”
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While the engagement process has been “amazing,” Jones notes that planning a wedding is “definitely so new.”
“I’ve worn dresses, and I’ve planned events and all of those things before in my job, but this is like an indescribable feeling to be planning a whole wedding,” she says. “It’s amazing. I’m really excited.”
Asked if there are any non-negotiables, she says, “I need my glam to be sickening.”
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She adds how she “really” wants the festivities “to be intimate.”
“Like, ever since I was a little girl. I knew I was going to be this performer, but I really wanted that moment to be just for me, me, not about views or clicks or sales,” she says. “So I hope that it can be really intimate, really special.”
That intimate setting will allow Jones to “feel really safe,” she says, and create space for her to feel “vulnerable with all the people around.”
Jones was nominated for two Grammys at the 2026 ceremony, including Best R&B Song for “YES IT IS” and Best R&B Album for Why Not More? In response to her nominations — and her 2024 win — she previously told PEOPLE that receiving an album nomination feels “like the biggest compliment to keep people’s attention.”
As for where she keeps her Grammys, she told PEOPLE they’re currently at her mother’s house — despite Mitchell’s hope to keep an award at their home.
“I keep all my stuff nowhere that I live just because, I don’t know, looking at awards of mine makes me feel weird. I’m like, “What?” I don’t know. I just feel like I have so much more to go that I don’t like to see them,” Jones told PEOPLE.
“But my fiancé is like, ‘I want to keep some of them,’ so he has some of them now. He wants to put them up so he can see them.”