Weddings in History
Catherine the Great
1745 Future Russian Tsar Peter III marries Ekaterina Alexeievna later Catherine II (Catherine the Great)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
1869 Business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt marries second wife and cousin Frank Armstrong Crawford in London, Ontario
Wedding of Interest
1929 Painter Diego Rivera (42) weds fellow artist Frida Kahlo (22)
Larry Flynt
1976 Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (33) weds Althea Leasure (23) (his fourth time)
- 2005 "Strictly Come Dancing" hostess Natasha Kaplinsky (32) weds investment banker Justin Bower at St. Margaret's Church in Somerset, England