23 Vintage Celebrity Wedding Day Photos
23 Vintage Celebrity Wedding Day Photos
Zoey Lyttle, Carson BlackwelderSun, March 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
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From left: Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley pose for a photo after their wedding in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967; Vincente Minnelli kisses Judy Garland at their wedding on June 15, 1945Credit: Bettmann Archive; Keystone/Getty
Old Hollywood weddings never go out of style.
When it comes to romance and timeless fashions, nobody did it better than stars such as Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.
These vintage nuptials range from small, private ceremonies to elaborate, event-of-the-year extravaganzas, but all have the same classic vibe of the period.
From the venue to the cake and, of course, the gown, the details of these celebrity weddings have etched a permanent picture in our brains — despite not all of their love stories having happy endings.
Take a look back at some of Hollywood's classic couples and what it looked like when they walked down the aisle.
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Julie Andrews and Tony Walton
Tony Walton and Julie Andrews cut the cake at their wedding in Weybridge, Surrey, on May 10, 1959Credit: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty
Julie Andrews married her first husband — award-winning set designer Tony Walton — in 1959, when she was 23 years old. The wedding took place at St. Mary's Church in the English county of Surrey, where both the bride and groom were born, per The New York Times.
According to Tatler, Walton, who died at age 87 in 2022, designed Andrews' high-neck, long-sleeve gown and her Cartier wedding band. The two divorced a decade later, but remained good friends.
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Shirley Temple and John Agar
John Agar and Shirley Temple are photographed on their wedding day on Sept. 19, 1945Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty
Shirley Temple was only 17 when she donned a satin gown for her wedding to John Agar in 1945. Having served in the armed forces, Agar wore his military uniform at the Hollywood ceremony at the Wilshire Methodist Church. They divorced in 1950.
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Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer
Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer are photographed on their wedding day on Sept. 25, 1954Credit: Ernst Haas/Ernst Haas/Getty
In 1954, Audrey Hepburn married Mel Ferrer, a Broadway and film star, whom she met just eight months before their wedding in Switzerland. She wore a tea-length gown with a high collar and billowy sleeves. Hepburn's romantic dress was designed by Pierre Balmain, founder and namesake of the iconic French fashion house.
Despite their whirlwind romance, Hepburn and Ferrer stayed married for 14 years — during which they welcomed their son, Sean — until their 1968 divorce.
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Josephine Baker and Jo Bouillon
Jo Bouillon and Josephine Baker sit during their wedding mass in the chapel of the Le Château et jardins des Milandes in France on June 3, 1947Credit: AFP via Getty
Josephine Baker married her fourth husband, composer Jo Bouillon, on her 41st birthday in 1947. Their ceremony was held at Baker's home, a castle in southwestern France called Château des Milandes. They remained together for 14 years before divorcing in 1961.
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Angela Lansbury and Peter Shaw
Peter Shaw and Angela Lansbury cut the cake at their wedding on Aug. 12, 1949Credit: Walter Bellamy/Express/Getty
Angela Lansbury wore florals from head to toe at her 1949 wedding to second husband Peter Shaw, to whom she remained married until his death in 2003. The Murder, She Wrote actress — who died at age 96 in 2022 — matched her flowery headband to the pattern of her V-neck dress. Even their wedding cake was topped with a bouquet!
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Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli kisses Judy Garland at their wedding on June 15, 1945Credit: Keystone/Getty
In 1945, Garland married filmmaker Vincente Minnelli, the second of her five husbands. The glamorous Hollywood duo met on the set of their Oscar-nominated Christmas musical Meet Me in St. Louis and remained together until their 1951 divorce. Nearly a year after their wedding, Garland and Minnelli welcomed their daughter, Liza Minnelli.
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Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad Hilton Jr.
Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr. pause on the steps of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, Calif., on May 6, 1950Credit: Bettmann Archive
In 1950, an 18-year-old Taylor married hotel heir Conrad Hilton Jr. — her first of eight weddings to seven different husbands, one of whom she wed twice. The actress wore a princess-style gown with a full veil at their Beverly Hills ceremony.
According to Vogue, her pearl-encrusted dress was inspired by the one she wore in the film Father of the Bride. In 2013, the elaborate number was auctioned off for more than £121,000, per Christie's.
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Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier
Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier embrace following their wedding day in France on June 18, 1959Credit: Bettmann Archive
Brigitte Bardot married her second husband, Jacques Charrier, in a gingham buttoned dress in 1959. The couple, who met on the French flick Babette Goes to War earlier that year, walked down the aisle in Louveciennes, France. Their June ceremony took place just a few months before their film premiered in Europe that September.
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Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds feeds Eddie Fisher a slice of their wedding cake following their marriage at the Grossinger Resort in the Catskills in Grossinger, N.Y. on Sept. 26, 1955Credit: Bettmann Archive
Debbie Reynolds looked lovely in lace at her 1955 wedding to her first husband, Eddie Fisher. After their wedding in New York's Catskill Mountains, the two performers welcomed two kids, Todd Fisher and Carrie Fisher.
Reynolds and Eddie remained married until 1959, when they split due to Fisher's extramarital affair with Taylor.
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Diana Ross and Arne Naess Jr.
Diana Ross is photographed on her wedding day in Switzerland on Feb. 1, 1986Credit: picture alliance via Getty
The Supremes frontwoman Diana Ross wed her second husband, Norwegian businessman Arne Naess Jr., in 1986, one year after they met. Ross wowed at their Switzerland ceremony in a silky dress layered with intricate lace sleeves and a matching cape. They remained together until their divorce in 2000, and Ross shares two of her five children with him.
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Raquel Welch and Patrick Curtis
Raquel Welch and Patrick Curtis pose for a photo on their wedding day in Paris on Feb. 14, 1967Credit: KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty
Befitting her bombshell status, Raquel Welch wore a crocheted minidress to marry her second husband, Patrick Curtis, in Paris on Valentine's Day in 1967. They would later divorce in 1972.
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Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles pose for a photo on their wedding day in Santa Monica, Calif., on Sept. 7, 1943Credit: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty
Rita Hayworth buttoned up in a chic suit for her wedding to Orson Welles in 1943. According to The Hollywood Reporter, their quick nuptials at the Santa Monica Courthouse took place during the actress' lunch break while she was filming the 1944 musical Cover Girl.
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Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres
Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres pose for a photo on their wedding day on Nov. 14, 1934Credit: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty
In 1934, Ginger Rogers married fellow actor Lew Ayres, her second husband. The Oscar-winning performer donned a hat to match her floor-length Chantilly lace gown. They divorced six years later in 1940.
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Bette Davis and William Grant Sherry
Bette Davis and William Grant Sherry cut their wedding cake on Nov. 30, 1945Credit: Bettmann Archive
Bette Davis and her third husband, William Grant Sherry, cut their decadent wedding cake in California in 1945. The All About Eve actress wore a checkered dress suit and a complementary brimmed hat for the occasion. They divorced in 1950.
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Aretha Franklin and Glynn Turman
Aretha Franklin and Glynn Turman kiss as her son, Kecalf Franklin, looks on during their wedding at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit on April 11, 1978Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
Aretha Franklin's white outfit matched second husband Glynn Turman's hat and youngest son Kecalf's white tuxedo at their wedding ceremony in Detroit. They were married in 1978 at Franklin's father's New Bethel Baptist Church and divorced in 1984.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono and John Lennon pose for a photo on their wedding day in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969Credit: Simpson/Express/Getty
John Lennon and Yoko Ono both wore white when they tied the knot in Gibraltar in 1969. The bride wore a mini skirt while her Beatles husband looked suave in a white blazer and turtleneck. According to Rolling Stone, John smoked a cigarette during their short ceremony.
The couple remained together until John's death in 1980 and welcomed one child together: son Sean Lennon.
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Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra pose for a photo on their wedding day on Nov. 7, 1951Credit: CBS via Getty
Sinatra and Ava Gardner got hitched in 1951, marking his second and her third marriage. The bride passed on classic white attire and wore a two-tone cocktail dress with a string of pearls around her neck.
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James Dougherty and Marilyn Monroe
James Dougherty and Marilyn Monroe pose for a photo on their wedding day in L.A. on June 19, 1942Credit: Getty Images
Before she became an international icon and sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe married her high school sweetheart, James Dougherty, just after her 16th birthday in 1942. The starlet-to-be was clad in a long-sleeve lacy number that matched her veil, her extravagant bouquet and her groom's white tux.
The duo stayed together for only four years before splitting in 1946 due to Dougherty's disapproval of her career trajectory.
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Nancy Kwan and Peter Pock
Peter Pock and Nancy Kwan are photographed on their wedding day in London on June 7, 1962Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty
Nancy Kwan looked darling in a cardigan and headband at her first wedding in 1962. The actress and her ski instructor paramour, Peter Pock, wed in London and stayed together until 1968.
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John Wayne and Josephine Saenz
John Wayne and Josephine Saenz are photographed at their wedding in Los Angeles on June 24, 1933Credit: Bettmann Archive
Western star John Wayne married his first wife, Josephine Sáenz, in 1933. Their floral-studded ceremony took place at actress Loretta Young's home in Los Angeles.
The pair had four children together before divorcing in 1945. (The actor later remarried twice and welcomed three more children with his third wife, Pilar Palette.)
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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall cut the cake at their wedding on May 21, 1945Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, two of the biggest stars of their time, wed at a friend's farm in Ohio in 1945.
The couple — who welcomed two children, son Stephen and daughter Leslie, during their union — remained married until Bogart's death in 1957.
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Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley pose for a photo after their wedding in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967Credit: Bettmann Archive
Elvis and Priscilla Presley first met in 1959 when he was serving in the army overseas in Germany; she was just 14 years old. They continued their romance when Elvis returned home and, after Priscilla moved to the United States in 1963, they eventually married in Las Vegas in 1967.
The couple welcomed one child together, daughter Lisa Marie, who died in 2023 at the age of 54. They divorced in 1972.
The King of Rock 'N' Roll died in 1977 at the age of 42.
"It was a good life," Priscilla told PEOPLE in September 2021 about her relationship with Elvis. "It was different, but it was ours."
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Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier
Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly exchange rings during their wedding ceremony in Monaco on April 19, 1956Credit: Gilbert TOURTE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty
Grace Kelly's romance with Prince Rainier of Monaco was a whirlwind. They got engaged mere days after meeting and tied the knot in 1956.
The royal couple welcomed three children during their 26-year marriage: Princess Caroline, Prince Albert and Princess Stéphanie.
Kelly and Prince Rainier's love story was cut short when she suffered a stroke while driving near Monte Carlo and later died of injuries and a brain hemorrhage in a Monaco hospital in 1982.
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