Famous Weddings
- 1469 Crown prince Fernando of Aragon (17) marries heir Princess Isabella of Castile (18), will unite the two Spanish crowns (not officially one country till 1707-16)
Johann Sebastian Bach
1707 German composer Johann Sebastian Bach marries for the 1st time his cousin Maria Barbara Bach
Samuel Adams
1749 US revolutionary Samuel Adams (27) weds Elizabeth Checkley
Thomas Carlyle
1826 Historian Thomas Carlyle (30) weds Jane Welsh (25)
Rube Goldberg
1916 Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (33) weds Irma Seeman
Ava Gardner
1945 American actress Ava Gardner (22) weds American bandleader Artie Shaw (35) in Hollywood; divorce in 1946
Hank Williams
1952 American country music legend Hank Williams (29) weds Billie Jean Jones in Minden, Louisiana
Quincy Jones Jr
1968 Jazz trumpeter Quincy Jones Jr (35) weds actress Ulla Andersson (22)
Maurice Gibb
1975 Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely
Robert Goulet
1982 American singer and actor Robert Goulet (48) weds his Macedonian business partner and manager, artist, and writer Vera Novak in Las Vegas, Nevada
Trent Reznor
2009 American musician Trent Reznor (44) weds Filipino American singer-songwriter Mariqueen Maandig (28) in Los Angeles, California
- 2015 Actress Bridget Moynahan (44) weds businessman Andrew Frankel at Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack, New York