The 22 Most Beautiful Celebrity Weddings Inline
Photo: GAB Archive / Redferns1/22Priscilla Ann Beaulieu and Elvis Presley
The couple married on May 1, 1967, eight years after meeting, while he was stationed in Germany with the Army and she was living with her family on a nearby military base (her father was an Air Force captain). Priscilla was just 14 when the pair met in 1959 (he was 24), though she alleges that they “had morals, high standards” during their courtship. She wore a beaded chiffon gown of her own design, and he wore a black brocade silk tuxedo and Western boots for their Las Vegas wedding. Nine months later, she gave birth to their daughter, Lisa Marie. The couple divorced six years later.
Photographed by Mario Testino, Vogue, August 20112/22Kate Moss and Jamie Hince
“Jamie’s amazing. Basically, he turned up. I was at my friend’s house in the South of France and we were Googling men. And I went, ‘Ooh, I like the look of him,’ ” Moss told Vanity Fair. “A friend set us up. He turned up, and we spent the next four days together.” Two years into their relationship, the two took a trip to Thailand, where Hince asked Moss to marry him “every day,” she recalls in Vogue. But they formally decided to get married while watching Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and sitting together on the sofa. On July 1, 2011, the two married in the Cotswolds, with Moss in a couture Jazz Age–inspired gown from friend and designer John Galliano.
Photo: Simpson / Getty Images3/22Yoko Ono and John Lennon
Shortly after finalizing his divorce from his first wife, Cynthia (with whom he had one child), in 1968, Lennon married Ono in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969—an event immortalized in the autobiographical song “The Ballad of John and Yoko.” Ono embraced the style of the decade in a white miniskirt, knee-high socks, white hat, and oversize sunglasses. The couple then staged the now-famous “Bed-In for Peace” for their one-week honeymoon at the Hilton Amsterdam. “We decided that if we were going to do anything like get married that we would dedicate it to peace,” Lennon told Rolling Stone in 1971. The two were married until Lennon’s untimely death in 1980 and had one son together, Sean Lennon.
Photo: Courtesy of Kim Kardashian West / @kimkardashian4/22Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
At first glance, things seem to have moved quite quickly for Kardashian and West: They began dating in 2012 (shortly after Kardashian’s divorce from Kris Humphries); welcomed daughter North West in June 2013; were engaged in October 2013 (with her now-famous 15-carat Lorraine Schwartz ring); and were married on May 24, 2014. But the pair had known each other for nine years—first meeting in 2004 when Kardashian was married to Damon Thomas—before tying the knot. “I just dreamed about being next to her,” West reportedly said. After a rehearsal dinner at Versailles, the pair married at Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy, with Kardashian sporting a custom Givenchy gown.
Photo: Mondadori / Getty Images5/22Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio
In 1952, the New York Yankee asked a friend to arrange a dinner for him with Monroe. The two tried to keep a low profile during their courtship, and to keep their wedding day quiet, but were mobbed by reporters while they wed at the San Francisco City Hall on January 14, 1954. Monroe eschewed the white-dress convention, opting instead for a dark skirtsuit with a white fur collar. The pair’s marriage began to unravel almost immediately, with DiMaggio increasingly uncomfortable with his wife’s alluring persona. They were divorced just nine months later, in October 1954.
Photo: Courtesy of Gisele Bündchen / @gisele6/22Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady
The two met on a blind date set up by friends in 2006 and were engaged in January 2008. “We planned [the wedding] in, like, 10 days, and it was perfect,” Brady told GQ. The couple were married on February 26, 2009 in Santa Monica, California [pictured above], with only immediately family in attendance, and then dined on aged New York strips grilled by Brady at the couple’s home. Later, on April 4, the couple had a follow-up wedding at Bündchen’s Costa Rican estate with a larger guest list. “I knew Tom was the one straightaway,” Bündchen told British Vogue. “I could see it in his eyes that he was a man with integrity who believes in the same things I do.” The pair now have two children together and one son from Brady’s previous relationship with Bridget Moynahan.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, October 20147/22Amal Alamuddin and George Clooney
While details of the September 27, 2014 Venice, Italy, wedding of the famous pair were reported worldwide, details about their courtship are scant. The two were first photographed dining together in London in October 2013; Alamuddin was first seen wearing her engagement ring on April 23, 2014; and the wedding festivities famously kicked off in Venice in late September, with many of the events taking place at Hotel Cipriani. The bride wore a custom Oscar de la Renta gown for the ceremony but was also spotted around the floating city in stunning outfits from Alexander McQueen, Dolce & Gabbana, and Giambattista Valli.
Photo: Courtesy of Chrissy Teigen / @chrissyteigen8/22Chrissy Teigen and John Legend
The couple began dating in 2007 after meeting on the set of Legend’s “Stereo” music video. While Legend told Los Angeles Confidential magazine that it wasn’t love at first sight—“I’m the kind of person who needs to grow into that feeling”—he made his love known when he proposed in December 2011 while on holiday in the Maldives. For the Lake Como, Italy, wedding, Teigen wore not one, but three Vera Wang gowns: two white, one a fittingly bold red.
Photo: Express / Getty Images9/22Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias and Mick Jagger
Though she would later tell the New York Daily News in 1986, “My marriage was over on the wedding day,” in May 1971, the 26-year-old Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias married the Rolling Stones front man to great fanfare in St.-Tropez. Jagger, in a green suit, and his bride, in a sleek Yves Saint Laurent white suit, made it official in a civil ceremony in the town hall and a second Roman Catholic ceremony in the 17th-century St. Anne Chapel. The two had one child together five months later, and in May 1978, Bianca filed for divorce.
Photo: Keystone / Getty Images10/22Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad “Nicky” Hilton, Jr.
At their May 6, 1950 wedding, Nicky Hilton had the dubious honor of becoming Elizabeth Taylor’s first of seven spouses—though the 18-year-old Taylor had already broken off an engagement to William D. Pawley, the 22-year-old son of a former ambassador to Brazil. Twenty-three-year-old Hilton and Taylor were married by a priest and hosted a grand 700-person reception at the Bel-Air Country Club. Taylor’s satin dress was designed by MGM costumer Helen Rose, took three months to produce, and fit her 22-inch waist. The two divorced less than a year later and she took back her maiden name. “The honeymoon in Europe lasted two weeks,” she wrote in her 1965 memoir. “I should say the marriage lasted two weeks.”
Photographed by Steven Klein, Vogue, March 200611/22Dita Von Teese and Marilyn Manson
Few things were certain about the November 28, 2005 wedding of Von Teese and Manson other than that it would be wholly unconventional. The couple began with a small civil ceremony at home in Los Angeles and a grand wedding in Ireland the following weekend. And though Von Teese wore creations by Moschino, Stephen Jones, and Dior throughout the various wedding events, it was the showstopping purple Vivienne Westwood gown made from 17 meters of Swiss silk that really turned heads. Just more than a year later, on December 29, 2006, she filed for divorce. “Let’s just say that it must have been something pretty bad for me to move out of the house after six years together and to pack up my stuff on Christmas Eve,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.
Photo: WireImage12/22Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
The couple met in 2005 at a gala dinner honoring noted Australians, and respected their roots when they married a year later on June 25, 2006 at the Sydney Chapel after only one month of dating. “I’m spontaneous. I jump in,” Kidman told Elle magazine. “I kind of like getting married and then getting to know each other. I know that sounds incredibly strange, but to me, it’s a more natural process.” Kidman, who arrived in a vintage Rolls-Royce, wore a delicate and detailed dress by Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga. The couple have two children together.
Photo: Josh Brasted / WireImage13/22Solange Knowles and Alan Ferguson
The singer debuted her striking Humberto Leon for Kenzo wedding dress on Replica Hermes Bag Reviews.com just after her November 16, 2014 nuptials—a sleek, modern dress that was quite a departure from the traditional strapless gown she wore for her first wedding to Daniel Smith in 2004. Knowles and Ferguson, who were first spotted together at an art gallery in 2008, married in New Orleans before a group of family and friends—including Jay Z and sister Beyoncé—all dressed in shades of white.
Photo: Ernst Haas / Getty Images14/22Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer
Prior to her September 25, 1954 marriage to Mel Ferrer—the thrice-divorced actor-director-producer—Hepburn had broken off an engagement to industrialist James Hanson. Ferrer and Hepburn had met at a party hosted by Gregory Peck and married later that year in Switzerland, with Hepburn wearing a sweet crown of roses in her hair and a tea-length dress designed by Pierre Balmain. They had one child in 1960, and divorced in December 1968.
Photo: Courtesy of Allison Williams / @aw15/22Allison Williams and Ricky Van Veen
“I was completely surprised,” Williams told Seth Meyers of Van Veen’s proposal. “A total surprise, the best kind of surprise.” The couple, who met through mutual friends, dated for more than three years before their February 2014 engagement and September 20, 2015 wedding. Though no pictures of the nuptials held at Brush Creek Ranch in Saratoga, Wyoming, have been released, Williams did share an Instagram photo of her elegant long-sleeved couture Oscar de la Renta gown.
Photo: WireImage16/22Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger
The couple met in 1976: “We all got in the limousine . . . He pressed his knee next to mine and I could feel the electricity,” she wrote in her 1985 autobiography, Jerry Hall’s Tall Tales. And though they had already been together for more than a decade, Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger decided to make it official on November 21, 1990 in a Balinese ceremony where the bride wore a knee-length off-the-shoulder lace dress by Anthony Price. Allegations of Jagger’s infidelity followed the couple, and in 1999 Hall filed for divorce, only to be met by claims from Jagger that the two were never legally married in Bali to begin with.
Photo: Keystone France / Gamma-Keystone17/22Julie Andrews and Tony Walton
Andrews met her first husband, English set and costume designer Tony Walton, when he was 13 and she was just 12, acting in local theater. The two married 12 years later in 1959, with Andrews wearing a dress of his creation. The pair divorced in 1967, just before Andrews met Blake Edwards, the man who would become her husband for more than 40 years until his death in 2010.
Photo: Courtesy of Thomas Rabsch / WireImage18/22Keira Knightley and James Righton
The pair began dating back in April 2011 after being introduced by Alexa Chung and announced their engagement in May 2012, although Knightley spoke to Ellen DeGeneres on her show later that year and admitted that she hadn’t done much planning: “I’m just not one of those girls that’s had the kind of fantasy wedding thing.” Plans or no, the couple quietly married near Nice, France, on May 4, 2013 with just a dozen close friends and family in attendance. Knightley wore a strapless tulle dress created by Karl Lagerfeld, a cropped Chanel jacket, a daisy chain garland in her hair, and sunglasses.
Photo: Foundation Gilles CARON / Gamma-Legends19/22Raquel Welch and Patrick Curtis
For Welch’s second marriage, to producer Curtis—who was instrumental in launching her career—the couple chose quite the romantic date for their Paris nuptials: February 14, 1967. Welch, never one to shy away from showing off her famous physique, wore a short crochet dress topped by a three-quarter-length white fur coat. As Zsa Zsa Gabor reportedly put it, “It’s a wonderful beach dress.” Welch and Curtis divorced in 1971.
Photographed by Joshua Bright, Vogue, October 201320/22Alexi Ashe and Seth Meyers
The couple met at Meyers’s fellow SNL alum Chris Kattan’s wedding in June 2008, and they announced their engagement in July 2013. “I tied [the ring] in a bow around our dog’s collar,” Meyers told Jimmy Fallon. Later that year, on September 1, 2013, with 150 guests in attendance, the pair married at Chickemmoo Farm in Martha’s Vineyard under a chuppah that Ashe helped to build from logs found on the property. But the ceremony almost didn’t come to pass: The bride was hospitalized with food poisoning and was still so ill on the big day that the nurses advised her not to get married. But Ashe still made it down the aisle in a custom Carolina Herrera gown.
Thomas Rabsch / WireImage21/22Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale
The couple dated for six years before Rossdale proposed on New Year’s Day in 2002. Nine months later, on September 14, they were married at St. Paul’s Covent Garden in London before hosting a second wedding in Los Angeles two weeks later. The singer made headlines for her white-and-pink Dior wedding gown by John Galliano and has said that she wanted to have two ceremonies so she could wear the stunning dress twice. The two were married for 13 years and had three children together before divorcing in October 2015.
Photo: Getty Images Publicitiy22/22Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres
“What can I say? I’m the luckiest girl in the world,” said DeGeneres in People magazine after her August 16, 2008 nuptials to De Rossi at their Los Angeles home. It was an intimate ceremony with only 19 guests. The pair met in 2004 backstage at an awards show and became engaged in 2008 when DeGeneres proposed with a 3-carat diamond ring. Both brides wore Zac Posen—De Rossi in a pale pink tulle skirt and DeGeneres in a white pants ensemble.
