15 Celebrity Weddings We Actually Didn’t Think Were Tacky
Celebrity weddings have everything they need to go spectacularly overboard. There are enormous budgets, designer dresses, famous guests, destination venues, and seemingly no one around willing to say, “Maybe that’s enough flowers.” Somehow, though, every once in a while, all that money produces something we’d actually want to attend. Some stars kept things surprisingly intimate, while others went big without making their wedding look like an awards show with a cake in the corner. From tiny chapels and courthouse ceremonies to glamorous weekends in Italy and France, these celebrity weddings managed to feel stylish, personal, or just genuinely fun. Against all odds, we couldn’t find much to cringe at here.
Carolyn Bessette and John F. Kennedy Jr.
Their secret 1996 wedding took place in a tiny wooden church on Cumberland Island, while Carolyn’s famously simple Narciso Rodriguez slip dress became one of the most influential bridal looks of the decade.
George and Amal Clooney
Yes, they got married in Venice, which could have become absurd very quickly, but Amal’s Oscar de la Renta gown and the old-school Italian setting kept the whole thing firmly on the elegant side.
Sofia Richie and Elliot Grainge
A three-day wedding at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc sounds like peak celebrity excess, but Richie’s succession of custom Chanel looks helped turn the 2023 celebration into one of the decade’s biggest bridal style moments.
Lily Allen and David Harbour
Vintage Dior, an Elvis impersonator, a Las Vegas chapel, and an In-N-Out reception should be tacky on paper. Somehow, committing completely to the bit made their 2020 wedding ridiculously charming instead.
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince
Kate Moss described the idea as “rock and roll Great Gatsby,” and somehow that’s pretty much what she achieved with her 2011 countryside wedding and John Galliano gown.
Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup
No giant destination spectacle here: the longtime actors married at a Manhattan courthouse in 2023, with Watts wearing a white Oscar de la Renta dress and carrying a simple bouquet.
Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse
The couple married in Hungary in 2023, incorporating Palvin’s Hungarian background into a celebration that felt much more personal than the standard celebrity destination wedding.
Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt
After an engagement that lasted nearly two decades, Yeoh and Todt finally married in Geneva in 2023 with an intimate celebration rather than turning the long-awaited event into a gigantic production.
Kate Bock and Kevin Love
The New York Public Library provided most of the drama this wedding needed, with the couple leaning into timeless black-and-white styling and Bock wearing a Grace Kelly-inspired Ralph Lauren gown.
Rita Ora and Taika Waititi
Instead of turning their wedding into an industry event, Ora and Waititi married in a small ceremony at their Los Angeles home with only a handful of people present.
Solange Knowles and Alan Ferguson
Solange arriving at her New Orleans wedding on a white bicycle before posing with an all-white wedding party could have looked painfully staged, yet the resulting photos became some of the coolest celebrity wedding images of the 2010s.
Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer
For their 1954 wedding in Switzerland, Hepburn wore a tea-length Balmain dress with a flower crown, creating a look that still feels refreshingly unfussy compared with plenty of weddings held decades later.
Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber
Crawford went barefoot for her 1998 beach wedding in the Bahamas, wearing a simple John Galliano slip dress and keeping the whole ceremony deliberately relaxed.
Bianca Jagger and Mick Jagger
Bianca’s 1971 Saint-Tropez wedding look, especially that white Yves Saint Laurent jacket worn with a long skirt and veil, was unconventional enough to become iconic without tipping into costume territory.
Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley
Okay, this one certainly wasn’t minimalist, but for a 1967 Las Vegas wedding involving Elvis Presley, the relatively brief ceremony and now-iconic outfits showed surprising restraint. Sometimes “not tacky” has to be graded on a curve.