Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding (1952)

On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Brigitte Bardot married director Roger Vadim in Paris. The couple met after the bourgeois Bardot appeared on the cover of a magazine and the director Marc Allégret, who Vadim was assisting, invited her to do a screen test. When her family forbade the teen from seeing the much older Vadim, she attempted suicide.

In the sixties, Bardot paved the way for the off-the-rack, no-fuss, leg-exposing bride. On her weddding to Vadim she wore a high-collared, bustled dress accessorized with muff and veil. According to the groom:

“Brigitte designed and chose the material for the white, handsewn wedding dress from Madame Ogive, the dressmaker on the Rue de Passy.” (source)

The couple divorced in 1957, but remained friends and collaborated in later work.

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via

Brigitte Bardot’s Wedding to Actor Jacques Charrier (1959)

On 18 June 1959 Brigitte Bardot married fellow actor Jacques Charrier, her costar in Babette Goes to War.

The wedding took place in Louveciennes, France. The bride wore a coquettish pink gingham shirtwaist by Jacques Esterel as her wedding dress. When the actual marriage was to take place photographers burst into the registry office and formally asked Brigitte for permission to photograph the ceremony. Brigitte allegedly stamped her foot and shouted ‘Non, non, non.’ Then buried her face in her hands and burst into sobs.

Bardot and Charrier divorced in 1962. They had one son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, Bardot´s only child, born in 1960. Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and did not maintain close contact with Bardot until his adulthood.

Brigitte Bardot’s wedding to actor Jacques Charrier, Louveciennes, France, 1959 via

Brigitte Bardot’s wedding to actor Jacques Charrier, Louveciennes, France, 1959 via

Brigitte Bardot’s wedding to actor Jacques Charrier, Louveciennes, France, 1959 via

Amazing Photos of Rita Hayworth & Prince Aly Khan Wedding (1948)

In 1948, at the height of her fame, Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth left her film career to marry Prince Aly Khan, a son of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, the leader of the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam. Because Hayworth was already one of the most well-known celebrities in the world, the courtship and the wedding received enormous press coverage around the world.

They were married on May 27, 1949. Rita Hayworth wore a Jacques Fath dress as her wedding dress. The wedding marked the first time a Hollywood actress became a princess.

On December 28, 1949, Hayworth gave birth to the couple’s only daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.

Though Hayworth was anxious to start a new life abroad, away from Hollywood, Aly Khan’s flamboyant lifestyle and duties proved too difficult for Hayworth. She struggled to fit in with his friends, and found it difficult to learn French. Aly Khan was also known in circles as a playboy, and it was suspected that he had been unfaithful to Hayworth during the marriage. In 1951, Hayworth set sail with her two daughters for New York. Although the couple did reconcile for a short time, they officially divorced by 1953.

Rita Hayworth on her wedding day, 1948 via

 Rita Hayworth wore a Jacques Fath dress for her wedding to Prince Aly Khan via

Rita Hayworth riding in a car with her husband Ali Khan after their wedding at Vallauris to the reception at Chateau de l’Horizon, May 27, 1949. Photo by Nat Farbman via

Prince Ali Khan and Rita Hayworth cutting into their wedding cake at Khan’s Riviera Chateau de L’Horizon, May 27, 1949. Photo by Nat Farbman  via

Rita Hayworth at Chateau de l’Horizon with Prince Aga Khan and his fourth wife, May 27, 1949. Photo by Nat Farbman  via

Rita Hayworth and Prince Ali Khan at Chateau de l’Horizon, May 27, 1949. Photo by Nat Farbman  via

During the wedding reception of Rita Hayworth and Prince Ali Khan at Chateau de l’Horizon, May 27, 1949. Photo by Nat Farbman  via

During the wedding reception of Rita Hayworth and Prince Ali Khan at Chateau de l’Horizon their initials float in the pool, May 27, 1949. Photo by Nat Farbman  via

Ernest Hemingway & Elizabeth Hadley Richardson Wedding (1921)

Ernest Hemingway and Elizabeth Hadley Richardson married after a courtship of less than a year, on September 3th 1921, in Horton Bay, Michigan. Hedley was 8 years older than Ernest, and the first of his four wives. Bernice Kert, author of The Hemingway Women, claims Hadley was “evocative” of the woman whom Hemingway met and fell in love with during his recuperation from injuries during World War I, Agnes von Kurowsky, but in Hadley, Hemingway saw a childishness Agnes lacked.

The couple spent their honeymoon at the Hemingway family summer cottage on Walloon Lake. The weather was miserable, and both Hadley and Hemingway came down with fever, sore throat, and cough. The couple returned to Chicago after their honeymoon, but within months they moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s “Lost Generation” expatriate community.

Of Hemingway’s marriage to Hadley, Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers claims: “With Hadley, Hemingway achieved everything he had hoped for with Agnes:

“the love of a beautiful woman, a comfortable income, a life in Europe.”

Their marriage disintegrated as Hemingway was writing and revising The Sun Also Rises.  In 1925 Hadley became aware of Hemingway´s affair with American journalist Pauline Pfeiffer. The couple divorced in January 1927, and Hemingway married Pfeiffer in May the same year. In 1933 Hadley married a second time, to journalist Paul Mowrer, whom she met in Paris.

Hadley on her wedding day in 1921 via

Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, on their wedding day in 1921 via

Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, on their wedding day in 1921 via

The Glamorous Wedding Of Cornelia Vanderbilt & John Cecil (1924)

Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900-1976) was born at the famous Biltmore Estate, a large (8,000 acre) private estate  in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore House, the main house on the estate, is a Châteauesque-styled mansion built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 square feet (16,622.8 m²)  of floor space (135,280 square feet (12,568 m²) of living area).

Cornelia was the only child of George Washington Vanderbilt and Edith Dresser Vanderbilt. Cornelia inherited the Biltmore Estate from her father.

Cornelia was married first to Hon John Francis Amherst Cecil in 1924. About 1932, Cornelia found life at Biltmore too dull to endure and moved to New York briefly to study art. After a few months she moved to Paris, divorced Cecil in 1934, changed her name to Nilcha and dyed her hair bright pink. That phase passed, and while living quietly and modestly in London, she met and married Vivian Francis Bulkely-Johnson about 1950.

At some point she adopted the name Mary. Her last marriage was in 1972 to William Goodsir, 26 years her junior. They lived very quietly; Cornelia never spoke of her past.
Her sons with Cecil, George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (b. 1925) and William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (b. 1928), eventually inherited the Biltmore Estate and land (source).

Cornelia Vanderbilt in her official wedding portrait, 1924 via

Cornelia Vanderbilt, 1924 via

Cornelia Vanderbilt, 1924 via

Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt and John Francis Amherst Cecil, 1924 via

Cornelia Vanderbilt and John Francis Amherst Cecil, 1924 via

Cornelia Vanderbilt and John Francis Amherst Cecil, 1924 via

 

Ingrid Bergman on her Wedding Day (1937)

In 1937, at the age of 21, Ingrid Bergman (1915 – 1982) married Petter Aron Lindström; a dentist at the time, he would later study to become a neurosurgeon. The couple had a daughter, Pia. The marriage lasted until 1950, when she fell in love with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini on the set of Stromboli.

Lindström sued for desertion and waged a custody battle with Bergman for their daughter, and Pia did not reunite with her mother until 1957.

Ingrid Bergman on her wedding day, 1937 via

Ingrid Bergman with Petter Lindström on their wedding day, 1937 via

Ingrid Bergman with Petter Lindström on their wedding day, 1937 via

Marilyn Monroe & Arthur Miller Wedding (1956)

On June 29th Marilyn Monroe  and Arthur Miller held a press conference at Miller’s house in Roxbury, Connecticut, whose local newspaper had dryly announced the day before that:

 ‘Local Resident Will Marry Miss Monroe of Hollywood’… ‘Roxbury Only Spot in World to Greet News Calmly’.

Once the 400 pressmen had gone away, the couple sneaked off to the Westchester County Court House in nearby White Plains, where they were married.  There was not a solitary pressman or flash camera in sight.

A traditional Jewish rite later went ahead on July 1st at the home of Miller’s agent, Kay Brown, near Katonah.

Marilyn was given away by her acting teacher Lee Strasberg. There were twenty-five guests and the ceremony was performed by Rabbi Robert Goldberg.

The writer George Axelrod made a witty speech congratulating the happy couple and adapting George Bernard Shaw to wish that their children would have Arthur’s looks and Marilyn’s brains.

The newlyweds soon went off to London for the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl.

The marriage lasted five years.

(source)

 Marilyn Monroe And Arthur Miller Wedding July 1st 1956 via

 Marilyn Monroe And Arthur Miller Wedding July 1st 1956 via

Marilyn Monroe And Arthur Miller Wedding July 1st 1956 via

Marilyn Monroe And Arthur Miller Wedding July 1st 1956 via

Marilyn Monroe And Arthur Miller Wedding July 1st 1956

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Marilyn Monroe And Arthur Miller Wedding July 1st 1956

Jean Seberg in her wedding dress (1958)

On September 5, 1958, Jean Seberg married François Moreuil, a French lawyer, age 23, in Marshalltown after having met in France 15 months earlier. They divorced in 1960.

Jane Seberg in her wedding dress, 1958

Jane Seberg in her wedding dress, 1958

Jane Seberg & François Moreuil, 1958

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer Wedding (1954)

The marriage of Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer took place in Burgenstock, Switzerland, where they made their home.They married at a private civil ceremony on 24 September 1954 attended by close friends and family, followed by a service at the local Protestant chapel the following day.

The couple had been introduced at a party hosted by Hepburn’s co-star in Roman Holiday, Gregory Peck.

Her next role in Sabrina, released shortly after her wedding in October 1954, established a life-long working relationship and close friendship with Hubert de Givenchy, who designed the vast majority of her wardrobe from then on. However, on the occasion of this, her first marriage, Hepburn wore a gown of white organdie by French couturier and costume designer, Pierre Balmain.

Hepburn and Ferrer had a son, Sean, and divorced, at Hepburn’s instigation, in December 1968 (source).

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on their wedding day on Sept 25th, 1954 © Bettmann/CORBIS via

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on their wedding day on Sept 25th, 1954

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Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on their wedding day on Sept 25th, 1954 by Ernst Haas via

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on their wedding day on Sept 25th, 1954 by Ernst Haas via

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on their wedding day on Sept 25th, 1954 via

Mia Farrow & Frank Sinatra Wedding July 19th 1966

Frank Sinatra and  Mia Farrow met on the set of Sinatra’s film, Von Ryan’s Express.

They married on July 19th 1966, at the Las Vegas casino of Jack Entratter. The bride was 21 and the groom 50. The wedding ceremony lasted four minutes, with no members of Frank’s family present. Movie producer William Goetz served as best man and and his wife as matron of honor.

They then flew to Palm Springs for a wedding party, with guests including Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Dean Martin and other faces from Hollywood.

Sinatra wanted Farrow to give up her acting career which she initially agreed to do. She accompanied Sinatra while he was shooting several films but soon tired of doing nothing and signed on to star in Rosemary’s Baby. She agreed to appear in his 1968 film, The Detective, but when she reneged as her filming schedule for Rosemary’s Baby overran, Sinatra served her divorce papers in front of the cast and crew.

Their divorce was finalized in August 1968. Farrow later blamed the demise of the marriage on their age difference and stated that she was an “impossibly immature teenager” when she married Sinatra.

In an interview for the November 2013 issue of Vanity Fair, Farrow said that she and Sinatra “never really split up” and answered “possibly” when asked if her son Ronan might be Sinatra’s.

 

Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow after getting married via

 

 Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow after getting married via

Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow after getting married via

Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow after getting married via

Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow after getting married . Image Credit: Rex Features via