The Celebrity Wedding Everyone Was Talking About the Year You Were Born

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Will Smith and Jada Pinkett married on December 31, 1997, in a secret ceremony in Baltimore. Pinkett wore a Badgley Mischka gown and People described the ceremony as “the most lavish and secretive celebrity wedding of the year.” The couple share two children together, Jaden and Willow.

Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman got married on November 14, 1998, after dating for nine months. The pair eloped at Las Vegas’s Little Chapel of the Flowers, but the short-lived marriage ended when Electra filed for divorce in late March 1999.

Hollywood’s one-time golden couple, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, married on July 29, 2000, in Malibu. The wedding reportedly cost $1 million, and Aniston’s Friends co-stars were all in attendance. The bride wore a custom gown by Prada. The couple split in 2005.