Famous Weddings & Divorces on October 1

Famous Weddings

1791 Prince William Frederick (later William V, King of Netherlands) marries his cousin Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia

1884 American politician William Jennings Bryan (24) weds writer and future suffragette Mary Elizabeth Baird (23)

1913 Writer and poet Vita Sackville-West (21) marries diplomat Harold Nicolson (26)

1949 Television host and comedian Johnny Carson (23) weds Joan Morrill Wolcott (23) at the North Platte Episcopalian Church

1984 Actress Sigourney Weaver (34) weds filmmaker Jim Simpson (28)

1994 Actress Whoopi Goldberg (38) weds labor union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg in California

2006 Baseball player Darryl Strawberry (44) weds Tracy Boulware

2008 "7th Heaven" actress Beverley Mitchell (27) weds Michael Cameron (27) at the Church of Santa Maria a Gradillo in Ravello, Italy
2011 KISS rock bassist Gene Simmons (62) weds actress and model Shannon Tweed (55) at the historic Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California

2014 Actress Scarlett Johansson (30) weds advertising agency owner Romain Dauriac in Philipsburg, Montana

2016 TV host Louise Roe (33) weds Mackenzie Hunkin at the historic Eton College Chapel in Windsor, England