25 vintage photos of iconic celebrity weddings

In her first of three marriages, Ingrid Bergman wed Dr. Petter Lindstrom on July 10, 1937, according to Harper's Bazaar. The Swedish-born actress would leave the neurosurgeon after an affair with Roberto Rossellini, the director of one of her movies, "Stromboli."

In the second marriage for actress Judy Garland and the first of four for Academy Award-winning director Vincente Minnelli, the couple wed in 1945. "The Wizard of Oz" star had one child with Minnelli, daughter Liza Minnelli, before their divorce in 1951.

Sporting a tailcoat tuxedo to marry who would become baseball's first lady, Jackie Robinson wed Rachel Isum in Los Angeles at the Independent Church in 1946. As noted by USA Today, the couple would remain married for 26 years until Robinson's death in 1972.

MGM Studios paid for the extravagant affair Elizabeth Taylor threw for her nuptials to hotel heir Conrad "Nickie" Hilton, Jr in 1950. According to Harper's Bazaar, the reception that followed their service at Church of The Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills included a guest list of Old Hollywood's biggest stars, from Ginger Rogers to Fred Astaire.

The entire marriage would span just eight months.

Sinatra left his first wife, Nancy Barbato, for actress Ava Gardner. The couple married once the divorce proceedings were finalized in 1951. The pair divorced six years later, but according to Biography.com, Gardner referred to Sinatra, who was her third husband, as the love of her life and they remained friends until her death in 1990.

Long before the Hollywood star couple became president and first lady, Ronald Reagan and Anne "Nancy" Robbins said "I do" in a small ceremony at the Little Brown Church in Los Angeles on March 4, 1952. The doting pair celebrated 52 years of marriage and, according to Vogue, had a love that "played out like a film they might have once auditioned for."

Taylor's second of eight marriages was to British stage actor Michael Wilding, a man 20 years her senior. The Hollywood actress, then 19, traded the glamour of a traditional white gown for a demure dark suit with a wide white collar. Her low-profile ceremony, which lasted just 15 minutes, was held in London at a register office in 1952.

Surrounded by members of the Kennedy family, John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier tied the knot at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island, in September 1953. The elegant reception, which had 1,200 guests and featured a 4-foot-tall wedding cake, was held at Hammersmith Farm, the bride's Rhode Island estate, according to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The pair remained married until Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963.

Audrey Hepburn's first wedding ceremony was conducted in secrecy at a lodge in Switzerland in 1954. She married Mel Ferrer, whom she divorced in 1968, and they had one child together. For the outdoor event, she wore a high-neck tea-length Balmain dress, according to Vanity Fair, topped off with a crown of roses.

Wearing a diamond eternity band DiMaggio had proposed with, Monroe eloped with the Yankees player after a whirlwind romance in January 1954 at the San Francisco courthouse. According to the History Channel, news of the no-frills affair was leaked by Monroe's studio, leading to swarm of press at the courthouse. However, the nuptials did not lend toward a happy marriage, as it was over nine months later.

Monroe married her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, on June 29, 1956. The New York Times reported that the ceremony took place at Westchester County Courthouse in New York and lasted less than five minutes. Two days later, they also had an intimate Jewish ceremony, according to Life. They were married for five years.

In a lavish affair heralded the wedding of the century, Grace Kelly joined the ranks of royalty. According to Town and Country, she bid adieu to her Hollywood career on April 19, 1956, with her nuptials to Prince Rainier of Monaco. The pair stayed married until her death in 1982.

Brando's elopement to British-Indian actress Anna Kashfi in 1957 was his first of three marriages. The duo tied the knot in Eagle Rock, California. According to The Los Angeles Times, the couple separated a year later after welcoming their son, Christian Devi Brando, and a lengthy custody battle ensued, only resolving when Christian was 13.

Brigitte Bardot married her second husband, Jacques Charrier, on June 18, 1959. According to Good Housekeeping, the ceremony at Louveciennes City Hall was led by the mayor, after which the 23-year-old newlyweds celebrated the occasion in the garden of Bardot's parents' villa.

Set designer Anthony Walton and budding actress Julie Andrews married on May 11, 1959, at St. Mary's Church in Surrey, England. The childhood sweethearts divorced in 1968, People reported, but they had a daughter, Emma, and remained close until Walton's death in 2022.

Sammy Davis Jr. married Swedish film actress May Britt despite race relations forbidding interracial marriage in over half of the US states at the time, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The couple married on November 13, 1960, in a ceremony held at Davis' Hollywood home. They divorced eight years later.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's tumultuous love story lasted through an impressive 11 movies the pair would star in together. Taylor's fifth time down the aisle was at The Ritz-Carlton in Montreal, Canada, on March 15, 1964. The pair divorced for the first time in 1974. They remarried a year later before calling it quits — this time, for good — in July 1976.

In a shocking move, the 50-year-old singer married 21-year-old then-up-and-coming actress Mia Farrow in 1966 after a brief courtship. The New York Times reported that the Las Vegas ceremony lasted just five minutes, and Sinatra joked that they'd decided to get married just 20 minutes prior. The singer and actress were divorced two years later but remained friends until his death in 1998.

As Insider previously reported, Priscilla Ann Beaulieu was only 14 years old when she met Presley while he was serving in the US Army in 1959. Nearly a decade later, the longtime couple wed in 1967 at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. They amicably separated in 1973.

Wearing a Victorian-style wedding dress, Liza Minnelli married Australian musician Peter Allen in a New York City wedding ceremony on March 3, 1967. Their marriage dissolved seven years later, and although Allen never married again, Minnelli went on to walk down the aisle three more times.

Five years after the assassination of her husband John F. Kennedy, Jr., the former first lady married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Their intimate ceremony was held in Scorpios, Greece, with an equally small reception aboard Aristotle's yacht afterward. They remained together until Onassis died in 1975.

Hepburn wore a pale-pink dress and headscarf for her wedding to Dr. Andrea Dotti at a town hall in Switzerland in 1969, Harper's Bazaar reported. The "Breakfast at Tiffany's" star later welcomed a son with the Italian psychiatrist, but they divorced in 1982.

Wearing white ensembles, Lennon and Ono married in a civil ceremony at the British Registrar's Office in Gibraltar in 1969. According to Harper's Bazaar, this was in lieu of the cross-channel ferry they initially intended to marry on because Ono wasn't a British citizen. They stayed married until Lennon was killed in 1980.

The Beatle married his longtime girlfriend, Linda Eastman, in 1969. They remained married until Eastman died from breast cancer in 1998. McCartney told BBC Radio Scotland in 2019 he cried "for about a year on and off" following her death at just 56 years old.

Singer-songwriter duo Stevie Wonder and Syreeta Wright were married in 1970 in Detroit, Michigan. According to Good Housekeeping, the pair continued collaborating on several hit tunes, such as "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," despite divorcing two years later.