It’s been a year since songstress Ellie Goulding and Caspar Jopling tied the knot in one of Britain’s most lavish non-royal weddings to date.

The private pair married on August 31, 2019 with a grand affair fit for royalty. A-list guests who attended include Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, Ed Sheeran and Sienna Miller.

They exchanged vows at the York Minster Cathedral in England and held their reception at Castle Howard, a stately home a few miles away. In true Ellie style, she opted for not one but 5 show-stopping wedding looks, paving the way for ‘royal’ wedding trends to come.

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Her ceremony look consisted of a bespoke Chloé gown and a delicate silk tulle veil with an organza collar – featuring her and Caspar’s initials. The veil reportedly took 591 hours to make. The dress itself wasn’t shy of detail either – complete with hand-embroidered White Roses of York and subtle white glass bead embellishments, which took a further 640 hours to create.

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Fans speculate that the couple met through their mutual friend, Princess Eugenie. The English singer-songwriter has been engaged to the art dealer since August 2018. Caspar announced the engagement on Instagram.

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The pair are currently living apart as Goulding works on her upcoming album and Jopling continues his Masters degree at Oxford University.

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Great television can make us laugh, and it can make us cry. It makes us feel like we’re friends with fictional characters, encouraging us to celebrate the milestones in their lives.

Wedding episodes are always special as we see our favourite on-screen couples take the next step in their relationship. Over the years, there have been some truly iconic fashion moments on the silver screen.

Here are a few of the most memorable wedding dresses in television history.

Christina Yang – Greys Anatomy

Never one to follow the rules, Dr. Christina Yang ignored tradition and went for a deep-red dress to marry Dr. Owen Hunt. She even hosted the ceremony right in her living room.

Blair Waldorf – Gossip Girl

Ever the fashionista, Blair Waldorf stunned in a light blue embellished Elie Saab gown to tie the knot with on-again off-again love Chuck Bass. The dress screamed old world glamour mixed with contemporary high fashion.

Olivia Pope – Scandal

The long-awaited wedding of Olivia Pope and former President Fitzgerald Grant III finally arrived in the show’s Season 6 finale. Pope stunned in an off-the-shoulder Anne Barge wedding gown that featured a fitted bodice and full skirt. She accessorised with pearl pins in her bridal updo and a long veil.

Serena van der Woodsen – Gossip Girl

It-girl Serena van der Woodsen married Lonely Boy Dan Humphreys in the show’s final episode. For their nuptials, she went bold in a Georges Chakra couture strapless metallic gold gown.

Margaery Tyrel – Game of Thrones

While this wedding day was slightly eclipsed by the long awaited murder of King Jeoffrey, we have to shine a light on Queen Margaery’s gown. For her second (and not final) wedding, Margery wore a gown made of linen silk featuring woven leaves and hand rolled and stitched roses cascading down the back of the skirt. The roses honoured the Tryel family sigil.

Liz Lemon – 30 Rock

Liz Lemon’s wedding was just as quirky as her personality. After deciding to get married on a whim to be more attractive to adoption agencies, Liz took the concept of a princess gown quite literally. She wore a replica of Princess Leia’s wedding dress from Star Wars to marry Jack.

Cece – New Girl

After a few to many glasses of bubbly, Cece and pal Winston bought a dress their crew deemed the ugliest wedding gown in existence. Best friend Jess turned the dress inside out and transformed it into a stunning gown draped in gold lace. Her shawl had a red lace trim in honour of her Indian culture.

Leslie Knope – Parks and Recreation

As one of the most sentimental characters to ever grace the small screen, Leslie Knope’s wedding dress was never going to be dull. Her homemade knee-length dress was decorated with newspaper clippings from all the times Leslie had been written about for her accomplishments. The skirt also featured campaign flyers and portraits of her role models like Michelle Obama and Madeleine Albright.

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Famed Bring It On actress Gabrielle Union and retired basketball icon Dwyane Wade are celebrating six years of marriage. The beloved couple took to social media on Sunday, August 30 to write sweet tributes to one another on their special day.

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“Still floating from this day. When my BFF became husbae,” she wrote in another post.

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Wade shared his own video from their big day, captioning it “6 years and counting……”

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Union and Wade began dating in 2009 and tied the knot on August 30, 2014 in Miami, Florida. Union is stepmother to Wade’s three children Zaire Blessing Dwyane (18), Zaya (13) and Xavier Zechariah (6). In 2018, they welcomed their first child together, daughter Kaavia James (2) via surrogacy.

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The pair explained that being supportive of one another is the key to a successful marriage. Speaking to People Magazine, Wade said: “She is her own boss and has her own career, her own bank account and all that. She has her own life and she allows me to live my life and be me, and she doesn’t try to stop my growth or change who I am.”

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The world is mourning the loss of Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman, who inspired a generation as the first black Superhero. Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016 and fought through his illness to star in a host of  box office hits.

A few months before his passing, Boseman and his longtime girlfriend Taylor Simone Ledward secretly tied the knot.

The pair have been together since 2015. Ledward is a music industry studies graduate from California State Polytechnic University. She has been by his side ever since. In October 2019, they reportedly became engaged and were rumoured to marry in early 2020.

While there is no news on when exactly they tied the knot, their marriage was confirmed during the announcement of Boseman’s death.

“It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman,” the statement read. “Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016 and battled with it these last four years as it progressed to stage IV. A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much. From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy. It was the honor of his career to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther. He died in his home, with his wife and family by his side.”

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The quintessential reality TV show is The Bachelor/Bachelorette. A group of guys or girls live together in one villa and compete to win the same person’s heart, what could be better?

While it is highly entertaining, the show is essentially all about love and making lasting connections. The finale typically ends with an engagement but as we’ve seen, those engagements never really last that long.

The Bachelor is on its 23rd season, and The Bachelorette is currently filming its 16th season. Spin-off show Bachelor in Paradise has aired six seasons. While most of the romances have wilted much like the roses that always feature on the show, there are a handful of Bachelor Nation couples who have beaten the odds and ended up walking down the aisle.

Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter

This couple is the show’s first ever real success story. Trista Rehn, the very first Bachelorette to head a season got engaged to firefighter Ryan Sutter in the finale. Their wedding was televised in 2003 and 17 years later, they are still together. They live in Colorado and share two children.

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Ashley Hebert and J.P Rosenbaum

Season 7’s Bachelorette Ashley Hebert chose J.P to be her final love. The pair married in 2012, and their televised wedding was officiated by Bachelor host Chris Harrison. They have been married for eight years and have two children.

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Hannah Godwin and Dyan Barbour

The Bachelor Nation rejects met on spin-off show Bachelor in Paradise, where former contestants spend a summer of love together in a romantic destination with the goal of getting engaged at the end. They immediately hit it off and became engaged in the show’s 2019 finale. A year later they are still together and seem to be going strong throughout the lockdown.

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Rachel Lindsey and Bryan Abasalo

The first black Bachelorette Rachel Lindsey stunned in her season, and ended up with contestant Bryan Abasalo. After a two year engagement, the pair tied the knot in August 2019 and recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary.

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Jojo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers

Season 11’s Bachelorette Jojo knew from a very early stage that Jordan was the one. He won the first impression rose in the first week of the show, and made it all the way to the finale where he went down on one knee. The pair have been engaged since 2016 and were meant to marry in 2020 but the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to cancel their wedding day.

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Chris Siegfried and Desiree Hartsock

Hartsock and Siegfried fell in love in The Bachelorette‘s ninth season. Their engagement came with some questioning as the original frontrunner Brooks Forester famously quit the show after telling Harsock he wasn’t invested in the relationship. Luckily for Siegfried, the Bachelorette accepted his proposal and the married in January 2015. Since then, they have had two children.

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Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon

Ashley and Jared had not one, but two shots at love. They starred in two seasons of Bachelor in Paradise together, and finally managed to make things work. They got engaged in June 2018 and married in July 2019.

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Sean Lowe and Catherine Guidici

Born-again virgin Sean Lowe shocked fans when he chose Catherine Giudici in The Bachelor‘s 17th season. Since then, the pair have tied the knot in 2014 and welcomed three children.

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Jade roper and Tanner Tolbert

Another Bachelor in Paradise couple made it to the finish line. Jade and Tanner met on the spin-off show’s second season, and got engaged in the finale. Their televised wedding aired in 2016. They have two kids and are expecting their third very soon.

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Carly Waddell and Evan Bass

Carly and Evan didn’t immediately hit it off on the third season of Bachelor in Paradise, but eventually they fell in love. They married in 2017 and have two children together, while Evan has three other children from a previous relationship.

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Raven Gates and Adam Gottschalk

This couple met on season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise back in 2017, and the connection was instant. While they didn’t get engaged in the finale, Adam did eventually go down on one knee in 2019.

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Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney

The controversial 13th season of The Bachelor saw Mesnick choose finalist Melissa Rycroft as his partner, only to end up breaking up with her and picking things back up with runner-up Molly Malaney. Luckily for them, their relationship has lasted. They tied the knot in a televised ceremony back in 2010 and have a daughter together.

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Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham

In another controversial moment, Season 22’s Arie Luyendyk Jr. asked not one, but two women to marry him. In the two part finale, he first popped the question to finalist Becca Kufrin before ending things and choosing runner-up Lauren Burnham the very next night. He proposed to Burnham in the ‘After the Final Rose’ reunion episode. Luckily, things worked out and the couple tied the knot in 2019 before welcoming their first child later that year.

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Any Selling Sunset fan knows a large part of the drama on the show came from real estate agent Mary Fitzgerald and her boyfriend Romain Bonnet as they dealt with conflict in their relationship before ultimately getting engaged and later married.

Fans were introduced to the couple as boyfriend and girlfriend, and followed their journey to the altar over the first two seasons of the show.

Turns out, however, that was all fake. Mary and Romain were actually secretly married months before the show even began filming.

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According to documents obtained by TMZ, Mary and Romain secretly tied the knot at a courthouse back in March 2018, a few months before the first season was shot and 19 months before their televised wedding was held in October 2019.

“Mary and Romain had a civil union a couple of months before the show began filming in June of 2018, but they chose not to tell any of their friends or family, as they were still trying to see if their relationship would work out in the long term,” A rep for the couple told Entertainment Tonight. “In their minds, they weren’t properly married until the wedding that was filmed during the show.”

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It’s been months since Netflix original Love is Blind blew viewers away as it posed the question, ‘Can people really fall in love without seeing each other?’

This science experiment saw couples connect while separated by a wall, never getting to see each other face to face. Six couples seemingly fell in love and got engaged. After their engagement, they met in person and began their relationship.

Here’s who is still together in 2020 and who has found new love after the reality TV show.

Cameron Hamilton and Lauren Speed:

As Cameron and Lauren fell in love, so did we. This couple’s story touched many as they grappled with being an interracial couple and how their families and the public would react to their love.

Their love is legit, as the pair are still together today. They appear as loved up as ever, and even adopted a puppy together. Fans can follow their journey on their Youtube channel, Hanging With The Hamiltons.

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Amber Pike and Matt Barnett:

Many fans doubted this couple would actually tie the knot, as Amber’s confession of financial troubles and her lack of stability seemed to trouble Matt during the show. However, the pair ended up saying ‘I do’ and are still married.

Since their wedding, Amber has admitted that they butted heads a lot but have now found a good flow.

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Kenny Barnes and Kelly Chase:

Soon after meeting in person, this couple’s engagement began to disintegrate on the show. Kelly was quite straightforward about not having a sexual attraction to Kenny. In the show’s finale, she said “I don’t” and left Barnes at the altar. The pair have since admitted that they had both agreed that they were not going to get married.

Since then, Kenny Barnes has found love again. The Love is Blind star recently popped the question to girlfriend Alexandra Garrison. Barnes and Garrison have been dating a little over a year, and they met after he appeared on the Netflix dating series. His younger sister Anna introduced the pair.

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Kelly is currently single, although she did date a close friend soon after the show’s filming wrapped. Both Kelly and Kenny have grown a lot from their experience of being on the show, and they appear to be on good terms.

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Jessica Batten and Mark Cuevas:

From the get-go, this couple was destined to fail. Jessica accepted Mark’s proposal after her main interest Matt Barnett displayed stronger feelings for future wife Amber. With Mark as her second choice, she struggled with leftover feelings for Barnett throughout her engagement, as well as a lack of sexual chemistry with Mark. This, coupled with their ten year age gap brought an end to their relationship. Mark said ‘I do’ but Jessica could not follow through.

Jessica has since found a new man. She is dating a doctor who, interestingly enough, looks a lot like Mark. She has also apologised to both Amber and Matt for interfering in their relationship during filming.

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Giannina Gibelli and Damian Powers

Damian Powers and Giannina Gibelli were another fan favourite, although their explosive relationship was often on rocky ground. The pair argued a lot during filming, and it appeared that Giannina would be the one to end things. However, fans were shocked when she said ‘I do’ and Damian said ‘I don’t’.

With their dramatic ending, it was even more surprising to find out that the pair are back together. During the reunion episode, they revealed that they got back together hours after their wedding, and they are still together today.

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Carlton Morton and Diamond Jack

This couple didn’t make it very far after their engagement. Soon after meeting in person and spending real time together, Carlton admitted to Diamond that he is bisexual. This lead to a massive fight because Diamond felt Carlton was keeping secrets while he felt that she didn’t accept him for who he is. Their fight ended with them breaking things off and Diamond tossing her engagement ring in the pool.

Since then, they patched things over and are on good terms. Carlton is spending time on himself, and Diamond is working towards her PhD.

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The Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsey and Bryan Abasalo have been married for one year. The couple is one of the franchise’s biggest success stories since finding love in the show’s 13th season. The pair became husband and wife at Mexico’s Royalton Suites Cancun on August 24, 2019.

“One year + FOREVER…I love you and I am beyond thankful for you,” Lindsey wrote on her Instagram in honour of the occasion.

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Abasalo was a bit more expressive with his post, writing: “I can’t believe it’s already been a year since we both said “I Do”! I consider myself beyond lucky to be able to call you my wife and truly blessed to be your husband. I wake up every single day a better man because you are always there to support, encourage, and love me no matter what. You are my rock and my best friend. Thank you for the memories we have shared together this year and I look forward to many many more. I love you @therachlindsay Happy Anniversary! ❤️?⁣”

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The world first fell in love with Lindsey when she was a contestant of Bachelor Nick Viall’s season. The attorney quickly impressed viewers with her intelligence and poise. She then became the first black woman to hold the title of Bachelorette, a massive feat for a show that has been heavily critisised for its lack of representation.

Miami-based chiropractor Abasalo won the season and Lindsey’s heart. While seasons of the show often end in engagements, the ratio of those engagements following through with an actual wedding is very low. Lindsey and Abasalo are one of a few couples in the show’s history to actually go through with tying the knot.

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Elton Jantjies has been named one of South Africa’s best rugby players and is known for his speed on the field, but not much is known about his life off the field. The fly-half from Gauteng has played for a host of teams from the Lions to the Stormers and of course, the Springboks when they won the Rugby World Cup.

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Jantjies met his fiance, model Iva Ristic online in 2011 and felt an immediate connection, but due to their careers involving a lot of travel, they only met in person in 2014.

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According to Ristic, it was love at first sight. The two soon began dating, and welcomed three children into the world before Jantjies finally decided to pop the big question in 2019.

According to Huisgenoot, he took her to a fancy restaurant and sneakily put the ring in her Cosmopolitan cocktail. “I was so busy taking pictures of the beautiful drink that I didn’t even see the ring!” Ristic said. Only when Jantjies actually went on his knee did she realise what was happening. Of course, she said yes!

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The two tied the knot shortly before the World Cup kicked off in 2019. On Ristic’s Instagram it seems the two had an engagement party with friends and family, but not a large wedding. According to Magzter, they had a small, intimate ceremony with close family, but are considering having a large celebration later on.

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