Celebrities are often expected to have big lavish weddings, but those who don’t like mixing the spotlight with their personal lives know that keeping their nuptials private in a grand church or great hotel is pretty hard. That’s why some opt to keep it very intimate and have the ceremony in the privacy of their own home.
Here are some of the famous couples who got married at home.
Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma
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Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma had a simple garden wedding at the end of 2019. They married in the garden of their home which they share with their two children, surrounded by loved ones, with the reception in a marquee that had been decorated for the occasion.
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth
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The couple had a secret wedding at their Nashville ranch in an intimate Christmas-time ceremony. Their home was filled with flowers for the occasion and friends and family attended the intimate nuptials.
Zoe Kravitz and Karl Glusman
Zoe Kravitz and Karl Glusman got married in her dad, Lenny Kravitz’s, Parisian home. While not quite a down-to-earth affair seeing as how the home is an 18th- century mansion and the couple were surrounded by their A-list celebrity friends who flew out for the occasion, it still had a homey, simple feel.
Mandy Moore and Taylor Goldsmith
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Mandy Moore and Taylor Goldsmith also took their wedding to their back garden. The two married in Moore’s back garden in 2018 which was transformed with rugs and flowers matching her bohemian style wedding dress.
Julia Roberts and Daniel Modor
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This wasn’t just a wedding at their home, but a surprise for everyone involved. It wasn’t only because the guests thought they were going to a Fourth of July party, the couple weren’t even engaged before the wedding. Daniel Modor waited until midnight to propose to Julia and they decided to just get married on the spot! Seriously romantic.
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux
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Another surprise wedding! Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux didn’t tell their guests they were attending a wedding until they arrived. They thought they were coming over to Justin’s home for a birthday party but were asked to hand over their phones as they went to the back garden for the ceremony.
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi
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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi were married in their lavish Beverley Hills home in 2008. While the occasion was small and intimate, it was beautifully decked out with the couple saying their vows underneath a white tent.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
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This wedding was one the whole world seemed to have been waiting for. Brangelina, who had been notoriously secretive about their relationship, did not surprise when they said their I do’s in an intimate ceremony in their French estate Chateau Miraval in 2014. The ceremony is best remembered for Angelina’s touching veil which included pictures drawn by their children.
Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden
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What is with weddings being at-home and surprises? Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden had a surprise wedding they hid from guests as a pre-Golden Globes party in 2015. The guests arrived at Cameron’s Beverly Hills home to find a tented garden where the ceremony took place, followed by a reception with a performance by Ryan Adams and Lionel Richie.
Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth
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Love my Valentine! ❤️ #9years of love and putting up with all my picture taking ?
Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth tied the knot in 2011 on a ranch estate in Ojai, California. The ranch is private and far from the hustle of Los Angeles. Reese’s children were involved in the ceremony and the guest list was full of A-list celebrities.
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South African TV personality Minki van der Westhuizen and former rugby player Ernst Joubert recently celebrated their eight-year wedding anniversary.
The couple reportedly met in Stellenbosch in 2010 and married on June 8, 2012 at the Kleinevalleij Estate in Wellington. Fast forward to today, and they are as loved up as ever.
Van der Westhuizen took to Instagram to express her love for her husband. Her sweet Afrikaans message translates to, “This is by far the happiest and best season of my life. Eight years of marriage today. I am absolutely crazy about you.”
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Ernst also took to Instagram to share this collage and captioned it, “8 wonderful years later! To the future”
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The couple have three children together: Katerien, Elise, and Elsa.
Congratulations on reaching this milestone!
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Esteemed Vogue editor Anna Wintour is often considered a trailblazing visionary. While this is often in reference to her mark on the fashion world, it also refers to her wedding day.
According to famed American fashion journalist and former American editor-at-large of Vogue magazine, Wintour included her exes in her intimate, 40-person wedding to David Shaffer back in 1984.
In his memoir, The Chiffon Trenches, Talley wrote, “I wore my best gray Dior suit and left straight from the office, arriving at Anna’s Sullivan Street home at twelve-thirty p.m. … The banquet table was filled with family and, strangely, her ex-boyfriends. They all came over from England for her wedding. I guess it was some kind of English custom.”
Maybe it is a British thing. Various members of the royal family have also extended invitations to former lovers. Prince Harry famously invited exes Cressida Bonas, Chelsy Davy, and Ellie Goulding to his 2018 wedding to Megan Markle. The New York Times reports that Prince William invited four of his exes to witness his 2011 nuptials to Kate Middleton. And, of course, Prince Charles had ex (and future wife) Camilla Parker-Bowles front and centre when he wed Princess Diana in 1981.
Inviting your ex to your big day seems pretty awkward, unless you have continued to have a non-romantic relationship with them post break-up. Or, maybe it’s an elaborate power move to prove to them that you could do better. Either way, it’s a pretty polarising decision that one has to make for themselves.
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When you are part of a couple that falls somewhere on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, chances are, there are hardships you have had to deal with in expressing your love freely. As a result, most queer couples would like to incorporate one or more of the pride flags into their wedding decor, but how do you do this without it overwhelming the entire aesthetic of your big day?
There are a number of flags that can be incorporated, and each will depend on the couple getting married. These are the various flags:
The Gilbert Baker flag/original Pride flag:
In 1977, Harvey Milk challenged Gilbert Baker, a veteran who taught himself to sew, to come up with a symbol of pride for the gay community. This is how the original Pride flag was born, and it is inspired by Judy Garland’s Over the Rainbow.
The flag made its debut at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978. Each colour symbolises the following:
Hot pink = Sex
Red = Life
Orange = Healing
Yellow = Sunlight
Green = Nature
Turquoise = Magic/Art
Indigo = Serenity
Violet = Spirit
The revised Pride flag:
After Harvey Milk was assassinated, many in the LGBTQIA+ community wanted the Pride flag to commemorate all the hard work he did to uplift and build the community. The demand for the flag, however, was greater than the fabric at hand. This is how the original flag evolved into the flag we know today – if you pay attention, you will notice that the hot pink strip is missing.
The Bisexual flag
The flag was designed by Michael Page, and shows the heteronormative colours for boys and girls, and their overlap.
The flag was inspired by an older symbol for bisexuality, which is two overlapping pink and dark blue triangles, often called “biangles”.
The pansexual flag:
This flag was created on the web in 2010, and this flag represents the pansexual love and acceptance of all genders in partners. The pink represents women, while the yellow represents all non-binary and gender-nonconforming individuals. The blue at the bottom of the flag represents men.
The asexual flag/ace flag:
The asexual flag was also created in 2010, and was inspired by the logo of the Asexual Visibility and Education network. It represents the identity of asexual individuals, as well as those who are graysexual (individuals who find themselves in a fluid spot between sexual and asexual), and demisexuals (those who are only attracted to partners they share an emotional connection with).
The polysexual flag:
Polysexuality is the attraction to multiple genders but not all, and is often viewed as the middle ground between bisexuality and pansexuality. Polysexuality is widely believed to centre more around attractions to femininity and masculinity rather than gender itself. The pink represents attraction to females; the blue for males. The green is for an attraction to those who don’t conform to either gender.
Agender flag:
While genderqueer people bend the rules of gender, agender people reject a gender completely. For their flag, the black and white stripes represent the absence of gender, while green – the inverse of the gender-heavy purple – represents nonbinary genders.
The genderqueer flag:
Created in 2011 by Marilyn Roxie, the genderqueer flag highlights androgyny with lavender, agender identities with white, and nonbinary people with green. Some people refer to it as a nonbinary flag if they feel “queer” is a slur.
Here are some ideas on how the flag can be incorporated into you PROUD wedding:
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