Famous Weddings
- 1830 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (20) marries her cousin Prince Albert of Prussia (20) (marriage dissolved 1849)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1835 American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Frederick Douglass
1838 Newly escaped slave Frederick Douglass marries free woman Anne Murray in New York
Sigmund Freud
1886 Neurologist Sigmund Freud (30) weds Martha Bernays (25) in Hamburg, Germany
Amadeo Giannini
1892 American banker Amadeo Giannini (22) marries Clorinda Cuneo
Jerry Stiller
1954 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marry
Harold Pinter
1956 British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (26) marries 1st wife actress Vivien Merchant (27)
Stevie Wonder
1970 American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder (20) marries American singer-songwriter Syreeta "Rita" Wright (24); divorce in 1972
Quincy Jones Jr & Peggy Lipton
1974 American composer-arranger-producer Quincy Jones Jr (41) weds American "Mod Squad" actress Peggy Lipton (28) in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 1990
- 1984 Figure skater Marina Klimova (18) weds her partner Sergei Ponomarenko (23)
Gene Wilder
1984 Stage and screen actor Gene Wilder (51) weds "Saturday Night Live" actress-comedian Gilda Radner (38) in France
- 1996 Actress Liz Keifer (33) weds Robert Convertino (41) at Rihga Royal Hotel in New York City
Gwen Stefani
2002 American "No Doubt" singer Gwen Stefani (42) weds British "Bush" singer and guitarist Gavin Rossdale (46) at St. Paul's Church in London, England; divorce in 2016
- 2006 Former B*Witched member Lindsay Armaou weds former "911" member Lee Brennan at St. Mary's Parish Church in County Wicklow, Ireland
Ioan Gruffudd
2007 "Fantastic Four" actor Ioan Gruffudd (33) weds actress Alice Evans (36) in a small ceremony at the One and Only Palmilla Hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico
George Takei
2008 Actor George Takei (68) weds Brad Altman at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles
John Legend & Chrissy Teigen
2013 American singer-songwriter John Legend (34) weds model Chrissy Teigen (27) at Villa Pizzo in Lake Como, Italy
LeBron James
2013 NBA player LeBron James (28) weds longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson at the Capella Chapel in San Diego, California
Famous Divorces
Janet Leigh & Tony Curtis
1962 American actress Janet Leigh (35) divorces American actor Tony Curtis (37) after 10 years of marriage
John Carpenter
1984 Film director John Carpenter (36) and actress Adrienne Barbeau (39) divorce after 5 years of marriage