Famous Weddings
Nathan Bedford Forrest
1845 Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi
Calamity Jane & Wild Bill Hickok
1873 Frontiersman and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok supposedly marries Calamity Jane according to the latter's daughter (disputed)
Robert Borden
1889 Future Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden (34) weds Canadian suffragette Laura Bond (27), until his death
Bonnie Parker
1926 American student and future outlaw Bonnie Parker (15) weds American student and petty criminal Roy Thornton (17); separate in 1929
- 1940 American "Sullivan's Travels" actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and set designer John S. Detlie (31); divorce in 1943
Mikhail Gorbachev
1953 Russian student and future statesman Mikhail Gorbachev (22) weds fellow student Raisa Maximovna (21) at a Komsomol wedding ceremony, until her death
Audrey Hepburn
1954 British "Roman Holiday" actress Audrey Hepburn (25) weds American actor Mel Ferrer (37) in Burgenstock, Switzerland; divorce in 1968
- 1959 American writer and future "Cosmopolitan" editor-in-chief Helen Gurley (37) weds American theater producer David Brown (43), until his death
Danielle Steel
1965 American romance novelist Danielle Steel (18) weds French-American banker Claude-Eric Lazard; separate in 1972, divorce in 1975
Paul Gross
1988 Canadian "Due South" actor Paul Gross (29) weds Canadian "Sings and Arrows" actress Martha Burns (31)
- 2003 Prince of Venice and Piedmont Emanuele Filiberto (31) weds French actress Clotilde Courau (34) at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome
Kevin Costner
2004 American Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Costner (49) weds second wife, American model and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner (30) at his 165-acre ranch in Aspen, Colorado; separate in 2023
- 2005 American "Gremlins" actor Zach Galligan (41) weds Ling-Ling Hu Ingerick at New York City's Yale Club in New York City; divorce in 2010
- 2010 American "Bones" actress Emily Deschanel (33) weds American "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" writer-actor David Hornsby (34) in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, California
- 2010 American actress and Charlie Sheen's daughter Cassandra Estévez (25) weds American high school sweetheart Casey Huffman (27) at Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California
Lena Dunham
2021 American "Girls" producer and actress Lena Dunham (35) weds English-Peruvian composer Luis Felber (35) at the Union Club in Soho, Westminster, England
