Famous Weddings
Lord Mountbatten
1922 British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple's daughter Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret's in Westminster, London
Jack Dempsey
1933 American heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (38) weds American Broadway singer and actress Hannah Williams (22); divorce in 1943
John Bardeen
1938 Physicist and Nobel laureate John Bardeen (30) weds Jane Maxwell
Louise Fletcher
1959 American actress Louise Fletcher (25) weds producer Jerry Bick (36); divorce in 1977
Tammy Wynette
1976 American country singer Tammy Wynette (34) weds real-estate mogul Michael Tomlin, divorced, later in 1976
Whitney Houston
1992 American R&B singers Whitney Houston (28) & Bobby Brown (23) marry
- 1992 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith
- 1992 Helen Windsor, daughter of British Duke and Duchess of Kent weds art dealer Timothy Taylor at Windsor Castle
- 1994 "The Cranberries" lead singer Dolores O'Riordan (22) weds Don Burton (32) in Ireland; divorce in 2014
Nelson Mandela
1998 Nelson Mandela marries 3rd wife Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
Jimmy Johnson
1999 Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson (56) weds longtime girlfriend Rhonda Rookmaaker (45) in the Florida Keys
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