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Take a look back at some of the most lavish celebrity nuptials through the years. 1. 1953 In one of the most high-profile weddings of the 20th century, Jacqueline Onassis and former President John F. Kennedy were married on September 12, 1953, in St. Mary's Church. They were married until Kennedy's assassination in 1963. huffingtonpost.com 2. 1954 Breakfast at Tiffany's actress Audrey Hepburn wed actor Mel Ferrer in a secret wedding on September 25, 1954, in Switzerland. They had one son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, and divorced in 1968 after more than a decade of marriage. vogue.com 3. 1956 Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a widely publicized two-day event that took place on April 18 aboard the SS Constitution, with a civil ceremony taking place the day after. The royal couple had three children and remained married until Kelly's death in 1982. gettyimages.com 4. 1957 Elizabeth Taylor married her second husband, Mike Todd, after divorcing Michael Wilding. The couple got married in Mexico and had one daughter together, but in 1958, Todd was tragically killed in a plane crash. 5. 1958 Hollywood siren and the mother of Isabella Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman married her third husband, Lars Schmidt in 1958. The couple stayed together for nearly two decades before divorcing in 1975. pinterest.com 6. 1959 Elizabeth Taylor was still coping with the death of her third husband, Mike Todd, when she found herself in the arms of actor Eddie Fisher, who was married at the time to her longtime friend Debbie Reynolds. Taylor and Fisher married in 1959 and divorced in 1964. yourtango.com 7. 1960 Actor Marlon Brando wed Movita Castaneda in 1960 after they met in the 1950s. They starred in Mutiny on the Bounty together and had two children, Miko Castaneda Brando and Rebecca Brando. They parted ways in 1962. pinterest.com 8. 1961 Martha Stewart married then-Yale Law student Andrew Stewart in 1961. Martha wore a dress that she designed herself with her mother. They had one daughter together named Alexis, but the couple eventually separated in 1987. gettyimages.com 9. 1962 Beatles legend John Lennon met Cynthia Powell in art school in 1957. Powell got pregnant and they married in 1962, but Powell had to pretend that she wasn't married to her own husband in order to keep up his image for the band. Powell filed for divorce in 1966, with Lennon leaving Powell for Yoko Ono. pinterest.com 10. 1963 Elliott Gould was the leading man in a musical and was singing opposite actresses for a new play when Barbra Streisand walked in. Gould was immediately smitten and the pair got married in 1963. They had a son named Jason, but their marriage dissolved in 1971. gettyimages.ae 11. 1964 Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times and two of them were to Richard Burton. The two met on the set of the 1963 film Cleopatra, and they divorced their previous spouses to marry each other. They split in 1974 and remarried in 1975, only to divorce again a year later. telegraph.co.uk 12. 1966 Actress Mia Farrow married Frank Sinatra when she was 21 and he was 50 in Las Vegas in 1966. Two years later, Sinatra handed her divorce papers when she was on the set of Rosemary's Baby vanityfair.com 13. 1967 Priscilla Wagner first met Elvis Presley in 1959 when she was 14 years old. The two stayed in contact and eventually dated, getting married on May 1, 1967, in Las Vegas. The couple had one child together, Lisa Marie, and eventually divorced in 1972 because Priscilla had fallen in love with her karate instructor. countryliving.com 14. 1968 June Carter and Johnny Cash often performed country duets together. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in Ontario. The wedding took place on March 1, 1968, and they stayed married until her death in May 2003. pinterest.com 15. 1969 John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966, when he was still married to his first wife Cynthia. After his divorce was finalized, Lennon and Ono married in 1969 in a 10-minute ceremony at the British Consulate office. They have one child together, Sean Lennon, and remained married until Lennon's death in 1973. usmagazine.com 16. 1970 David Bowie met Angelina Barnett in 1969 when Barnett was 19. They were married on March 20, 1970, and had one son together, Duncan. Angie was responsible for helping Bowie conceptualize his outfits and image during his "Ziggy Stardust" phase. They divorced in 1980 after nine years of marriage. gettyimages.com 17. 1971 Rock's glamour couple, Rolling Stone frontman Mick Jagger married Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias in 1971 when she was already four months pregnant. They were married in a Roman Catholic ceremony and word got out about the wedding, leading over 100 photographers and reporters to swarm the scene. They had one child together named Jade, and Bianca filed for divorce in 1978, reportedly because Jagger had been unfaithful. gettyimages.com 18. 1972 Birgitte Eva Henriksen married Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester on July 8, 1972, at St. Andrew's Church in Northamptonshire. Birgitte wore a dress designed by Norman Hartnell. Six weeks after their wedding, Prince Richard's older brother was killed, making him heir apparent. The couple have three children together: Alexander, Davina, and Rose. Pinterest.com 19. 1973 Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett wed Lee Majors in 1973 and they were married for nine years before separating in 1982. After almost two decades of silence, the pair reconnected shortly before Fawcett's death in 2009. youtube.com 20. 1974 Socialite Peggy Lipton married musician and producer Quincy Jones in 1974. The couple had two daughters together, Rashida and Kidada Jones, before parting ways in 1990. elle.com 21. 1975 The former president and first lady met at the library at Yale Law School. "I noticed that he kept looking over at me," Hillary said. "I said 'If you're going to keep looking at me, and I'm going to keep looking back, we might as well be introduced. I'm Hillary Rodham," she said. They were married in Arkansas on October 11, 1975, and have one daughter together, Chelsea. theknot.com 22. 1976 Elizabeth Taylor married her sixth husband John Warner on December 4, 1976. Warner was a Republican politician from Virginia and Taylor helped him during his campaign. The two eventually divorced in November 1982. pinterest.com 23. 1978 Meryl Streep's marriage to Don Gummer has withstood the test of time, lasting just as long as her own career. The couple married in September 1978 after Streep's former partner, John Cazales died from bone cancer. Streep and Gummer have been married for almost four decades and have four children together. imdb.com 24. 1979 Eric Clapton married his best friend George Harrison's ex-wife, Pattie Boyd. Clapton and Boyd tied the knot on March 27, 1979, although the marriage didn't last. Clapton's infidelity caused them to divorce on 1988. gettyimages.com 25. 1980 Actor Mel Gibson met Robyn Moore when Moore was a dental nurse in the 1970s. They were married on June 7, 1980, in a Catholic ceremony in Australia. They pair went on to have seven children together but Moore filed for divorce on April 13, 2009, shortly after Gibson was arrested for drunk driving in Malibu. dailymail.co.uk/ 26. 1981 Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles were married on July 29, 1981, at St. Paul's Cathedral, in London. The traditional Church of England wedding was watched by over 750 million people worldwide. Diana wore a custom wedding gown and the couple opted to exclude "to obey" from the vows, causing a ruckus at the time. biography.com 27. 1982 Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne married Sharon Arden on July 4, 1982, and had three children with her: Kelly, Jack and Aimee. The couple briefly split in 2016 amid rumors that Ozzy had been unfaithful, but they recently patched things up and renewed their wedding vows for their 35th anniversary. elle.com 28. 1983 Late actress Carrie Fisher married singer Paul Simon in August 1983, only to get quickly divorced the next summer due to issues with substance abuse. The relationship between the two was turbulent, and they continued to date on-and-off after their divorce. people.com 29. 1984 Singer Janet Jackson eloped with childhood friend and R&B singer James DeBarge in 1984, but the marriage was annulled in 1985. Since they parted ways, DeBarge has claimed that he and Jackson have a secret daughter together. gettyimages.ca 30. 1985 Madonna and actor Sean Penn wed in August 1985, on Madonna's birthday. The pair has a tumultuous marriage often followed by the press, due to Penn's violent outbursts. Madonna eventually filed for divorce in 1989. vogue.com 31. 1986 In the closest thing to a royal wedding for Americans, Caroline Kennedy, the only daughter of the late John F. Kennedy, married Edwin Schlossberg on June 19, 1986. Kennedy wore a silk gown designed by Carolina Herrera, and the couple married in a Catholic ceremony in Cape Cod. They have three children: Rose, Tatiana, and John. theredlist.com 32. 1987 Lenny Kravitz and The Cosby Show actress Lisa Bonet eloped in Las Vegas in 1987, on Bonet's 20th birthday. They had a daughter named Zoë in 1988 before they eventually divorced in 1993. goodhousekeeping.com 33. 1988 Mike Tyson, then 22, and Robin Givens married in June 1988 — just 11 months after they met. Their marriage fell apart shortly after; their divorce was finalized on Valentine's Day in 1989. gettyimages.com 34. 1990 Late actress Natasha Richardson wed British producer Richard Fox in 1990. She wore a white pantsuit for the affair. The couple eventually ended their relationship in 1992, with Richardson going on to marry Liam Neeson. dailymail.co.uk 35. 1991 In one of the most lavish celebrity weddings to date, the nuptials between Victoria Beckham and David Beckham cost $800,000 and took place at Ireland's Luttrellstown Castle on July 4, 1999. Victoria wore a Vera Wang gown, but the couple also wore matching purple outfits for the cake-cutting ceremony. pinterest.com 36. 1992 Rocker David Bowie and Iman married on April 24, 1992, with only three people in attendance. The couple wed in a civil ceremony in Switzerland. They remained married until Bowie's death in January 2016 and have one daughter together, Alexandria Jones. slate.com 37. 1994 Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley tied the knot in a super-secret ceremony in the Dominican Republic in 1994. The vows were reportedly in Spanish and only took 15 minutes. The couple first met when Presley was just seven years old, touring with her father Elvis. Jackson and Lisa Marie eventually filed for divorce in early 1996. gettyimages.co.uk 38. 1995 Within a few days of the meeting, musician Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson got hitched in Cancun, Mexico in 1995. Anderson's parents reportedly had never even heard of Lee before. The couple has two sons together, Brandon and Dylan, and eventually divorced in 2008. thesaurus.com 39. 1996 Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller said "I do" in March 1996. Jolie reportedly wore rubber pants and a T-shirt with Jonny's name written on it with her own blood. "You're about to marry him," she told the New York Times. "You can sacrifice a little to make it really special." The pair eventually divorced in February 1999. news.com.au 40. 1997 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. Imgur 41. 1998 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. usmagazine.com 42. 2000 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. Screenrant.com Credits: elle.com Share this story on Facebook with your friends.