I’m obsessed with celebrity wedding photos — especially when they’re from the past and reveal the weird and wonderful wedding trends of the time (not to mention iconic pop culture moments). Here are a bunch of old-school celebrity wedding photos that are kind of wild to look at now…
1. Shirley Temple and her many bridesmaids at her wedding to her first husband, John Agar, whom Shirley met when she was 15 and he was 22, and married when she was 17 and he was 24.
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2. Rock Hudson watching as his new wife, secretary Phyllis Gates, phones friends to announce their surprise marriage, which Rock’s agent (and Phyllis’s boss) allegedly arranged in an attempt to cover up Rock’s sexuality.
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3. Sammy Davis Jr. at his wedding to Loray White, who he allegedly paid to marry him in an attempt to distance himself from his interracial relationship with Kim Novak after her boss, Columbia executive Harry Cohn, allegedly threatened to “bury him in a hole if he didn’t marry a black woman right away.”
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4. Betty White, aged 41, at her wedding to third and final husband Allen Ludden, then 45, who had been proposing to her for two years before she finally agreed to marry him.
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5. Iconic Hollywood couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward showcasing their palpable white-hot chemistry on their 1958 wedding day.
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6. British actors Judi Dench and Michael Williams at their 1971 wedding when they were both in their mid-30s.
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7. Ginger Rogers at her wedding to her second husband, Lew Ayres. According to the original caption on the photo, “The bride is carrying lillies and is wearing the costume that was rushed from New York.”
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8. Broadway star Marilyn Miller at her wedding to her second husband, actor Jack Pickford, kissing her new sister-in-law, silent film superstar Mary Pickford, while Charlie Chaplin looks on and laughs in the background.
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9. Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh — aka the parents of Jamie Lee Curtis — celebrating their 1951 wedding, a year after they first met.
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10. Bette Davis at her wedding to her second husband, Arthur Farnsworth, a former high school friend with whom she had reconnected and fallen in love.
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11. Joan Crawford, then in her early or mid-20s, at her wedding to her first husband, and OG Hollywood nepo baby, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who was 19 at the time.
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12. The wedding of Jane Fonda’s parents, actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Ford Seymour — at which Henry’s “flapper” fans apparently lined up to get a glimpse of him, according to the original caption.
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13. Josephine Baker kissing her fourth husband, French conductor Jo Bouillon, on their wedding day at Château des Milandes in France.
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14. John Wayne at his 1933 wedding to first wife Josephine Saenz at the home of their friend, actor Loretta Young.
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15. James Stewart kissing his bride Gloria Hatrick McLean, who he described as “the sunshine of my life.”
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16. Angela Lansbury at her 1949 wedding to second husband Peter Shaw, when she was 23 and he was 30.
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17. Mickey Rooney, then 21, and Ava Gardner, then 19, on their wedding day in 1942. It was the first of many marriages for each of them.
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18. Ava Gardner, 22, on her wedding day with second husband, bandleader and musician Artie Shaw, 35, who Ava said was the “first intelligent” man she’d ever met.
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19. Ava Gardner, 28, and Frank Sinatra, 35, in 1951 on the first day of their famously tumultuous marriage — her third and final, and his second of four.
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20. Frank Sinatra on his 1966 wedding day with third wife Mia Farrow — he was 50 at the time, and she was 21.
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21. Cary Grant with his new wife, heiress Barbara Hutton, and her former governess Mademoiselle Tocquet, at their 1942 wedding. The pair were nicknamed “Cash and Cary.”
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22. Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield, parents of Mariska Hargitay, on their 1958 wedding day.
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23. Julie Andrews marrying her first husband, costume designer Tony Walton. The pair were teen penpals before getting together.
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24. Vanessa Redgrave, then about 30, congratulating her sister Lynn Redgrave, then 24, and Lynn’s new husband John Clark, then 34, on their 1967 wedding day.
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25. Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles on their wedding day in 1943. It was the second marriage for each of them (and not the last, for either).
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26. Rita Hayworth cutting the cake at her wedding to third husband Prince Aly Khan in 1949. Rita was scandalously already pregnant at the time of their marriage.
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27. Rita Hayworth at her 1953 Las Vegas wedding to fourth husband **** Haymes, who had secured a divorce from his previous wife less than 24 hours before.
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28. Humphrey Bogart, 45, and Lauren Bacall, 20, chasing a turkey at the Ohio farm where their wedding took place.
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29. Marlon Brando, then 33, on his 1957 wedding day with Anna Kashfi, then 23.
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30. Audrey Hepburn in her Balmain-designed dress on her 1954 wedding day to first husband Mel Ferrer.
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31. Judy Garland, 23, with second husband Vincente Minelli, 43, at their wedding at Judy’s mother’s house in 1945.
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32. Judy Garland congratulating her daughter with Vincente, Liza Minelli, and Liza’s new husband Peter Allen at their 1967 wedding.
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33. Judy Garland, 46, dancing with her fifth and final husband Mickey Deans, 34, at their 1969 wedding, just three months before she died.
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34. Dorothy Dandridge with her second husband, restaurateur Jack Denison, at their 1959 wedding.
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35. Paul McCartney at his wedding to Linda Eastman, which was apparently surrounded by crying fans who had to be moved on by police.
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36. Anthony Perkins on his 1973 wedding day to Berry Berenson, with his dog that acted as his best man. The wedding featured a picnic feast and trip to the beach.
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37. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz at their second wedding ceremony in 1949, nine years after they initially eloped in 1940.
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38. Bee Gees member Maurice Gibb marrying singer Lulu in 1969, when he was 19 and she was 20.
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39. Stevie Wonder, then 20, and Syreeta Wright, then 24, on their wedding day in 1970.
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40. Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, parents of Carrie Fisher, at their 1955 wedding.
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41. Elizabeth Taylor and third husband Mike Todd at their 1957 wedding reception, with their friends Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher (aka Elizabeth Taylor’s next husband) behind them.
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42. Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher at their 1959 wedding, after having an affair amidst their grief over Mike Todd’s death in 1958.
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43. Crowds trying to get a glimpse of Bianca and Mick Jagger at their 1971 St. Tropez wedding, nine months after they first met.
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44. Farrah Fawcett showing off her ring at her 1973 wedding to Lee Majors.
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45. Aretha Franklin kissing her new husband Glynn Turman, with her son Kecalf by her side. Aretha designed the 1978 wedding to be the “party to end all parties.”
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46. Tippi Hedren and her new husband, agent and producer Noel Marshall, giving Tippi’s daughter Melanie Griffith some cake on their wedding day.
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47. Ann-Margaret marrying Roger Smith in 1967, in a Las Vegas ceremony that she said was “not the way I envisioned my wedding,” adding, “I think everyone thought I was pregnant because I was crying though the whole thing. But we did it!”
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48. Finally, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson at their 1988 wedding rocking some truly spectacular ’80s fashion.
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