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Get inspired by a celeb grooms! If a woman can get inspiration from a celebrity bride, why can’t a guy get ideas from famous groom?
If a woman can get inspiration from a celebrity bride, why can’t a guy get ideas from famous groom?
In a high-profile wedding, the groom must know, at least in this current age of tabloid frenzy, that magazines like People, US Weekly and the Bauer rags are going to chronicle as many details as they can. They’ll tell you that when rose petals were thrown, if they landed up or down, and, of course, what the groom wore.
Granted, there’s always going to be more attention to that bridal gown, its girth and its worth. There’s the proverbial question, “who are you wearing?” but if a groom plays his cards just right, he’s going to get the same question asked of him, too.
Take a cue from these famously wed guys. They may not even still be with the one they loved on that day, but what they wore…ah, what they wore will live on in photographic infamy.
Surprisingly Sedate
Expect the unexpected, “they” say. Here are some grooms who might have been expected to be flashier or more avante garde.
Canadian rocker Deryck Whibley wore a black Hugo Boss suit with a Brioni tie to his wedding to Avril Lavigne July 15, 2006 Montecito, Calif.
New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza and actress Alicia Rickter got married in Miami on January 29, 2005. Piazza wore a suit by Valentino.
R&B singer Kelis and hip-hop artist Nas, married January 2005 and the groom wore a wool Yves Saint Laurent tux.
When Britney Spears married her backup dancer Kevin Federline on September 18 2004, Federline traded in his usual backwards hat, plain-white T and baggy shorts for a Kiton tuxedo.
Heather Locklear loves her rockers. When she and second husband (and now ex) Richie Sambora married on December 17, 1994 atThe American Cathedral in Paris, she wore a Nolan Miller, and he wore not one, but two classy ensembles. For the ceremony, he chose
a white stand-up-collar dress coat and for the wedding dinner, Sambora changed into traditional black tie.
Bruce Springsteen’s on-stage wear has changed little from his early days in Asbury Park in the early 1970s (think Levis, and t-shirts or plaid shirts). But for both his 1985 lavish Lake Oswego wedding to model-turned-actress Julianne Phillips, as well as his 1991 follow-up nuptials with long-time love and back-up singer Patti Scialfa (by then already mother to the couple’s first child), the boss wore a traditional black tuxedo. Whether it was the same tux, it’s not known for certain.
When he moved in with her, he characteristically brought along with him life-size likenesses of Winston Churchill and a cow. They said it would never last (and it’s still going strong), but it was a surprise to when usually goofy (and younger) David Arquette wore a Valentino morning coat at his June 12, 1999 San Francisco wedding to Courteney Cox.
Rap and R&B royalty BeyoncE and Jay-Z married in quite the unexpected traditional wear. She wore a voluminous white gown, and Jay-Z wore a black tux.
Troubled singer Scott Stapp seemed to put his “issues” behind him when he married model Jaclyn Nesheiwat at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens on Miami's Biscayne Bay (he told reporters the wedding cost $1 million). In their Vera Wang gown and his elegant Armani tux, they made it through the ceremony, reception and wedding night, but the next morning, Stapp partied a little too much and was refused boarding on their honeymoon flight. A surly Stapp was arrested for public intoxication.
Notoriously angry Russell Crowe married the infinitely patient Danielle Spencer wearing a custom Armani tuxedo. Crowe actually consulted with Giorgio Armani and then had to have the tux altered when he lost weight. Crowe, in production for Master & Commander, also wore his long locks in a pony tail with a ribbon tie.{mospagebreak}
Famously edgy Spike Lee married NYC attorney Tonya Linnette Lewis at Manhattan's Riverside Church. For the 7 p.m. ceremony, on Oct. 2, 1993, Lee wore a sedate dark tuxedo.
When Hugh Hefner, then 63 married Kimberley Conrad, then 26, married at the Playboy Mansion in 1989, he wore a black tux and a silk bow tie.
One would expect a supermodel like Liz Hurley to go all out (and she did – she wore a cream-colored Versace with a two-foot train), but fans were less certain about groom Arun Nayar. The couple married March 3, 2007 and Nayar, usually seen in traditional xx
Wore a Versace black morning suit with a bow tie; Patrick Cox patent-leather shoes.
Super smile Tom Cruise wore a navy two-button Armani tux, at his Nov. 18, 2006 Italian wedding to Katie Holmes.
Sentimental
At their fabled September 21, 1996, John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, were, in keeping with their mythology,. She wore a pearl-colored bias-cut silk crepe slip dress by Narciso Rodriguez for Cerutti 1881, and JFK Jr. chose a single-breasted, midnight-blue wool suit with a white pique vest by Bessette’s friend Gordon Henderson. Kennedy accessorized with a pale blue tie, a boutonniere of cornflowers, and his father's watch. The couple, who died in a 1999 plane crash were married in a Catholic Mass at the tiny First African Baptist Church on Cumberland Island, Georgia. The wood-frame church was built in 1893 by former slaves.
TV’s Sabrina, Melissa Joan Hart, and Mark Wilkerson (who just became parents for the second time), were married July 19 2003 Wilkerson wore an ivory tie made from the same fabric as the bride's dress.
CSI Miami star David Caruso married Margaret Buckley in her parent’s Texas backyard on May 4, 1996. He chose a classic Armani tux with globe cuff links, a travel-theme gift from Buckley.
Still gathering no moss, Rolling Stone Keith Richards married model Patti Hansen in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in 1983. It was the groom’s 40th birthday and he accessorized his black tuxedo with a rock n’ roll staple, new blue suede shoes.
It was a candle-light evening wedding at Baltimore’s the Cloisters, a medieval-style mansion near Baltimore for actors Will Smith & Jada Pinkett on December 31, 1997. The couple, expecting a baby, wore coordinating garb designed by Badgley Mischka - Pinkett wore a champagne silk-velvet gown and Smith, a matching suit and ascot.
When Lisa and Dustin Hoffman renewed their wedding vows (14 years later) on July 12, 1994, it was in a Polynesian ceremony on Moorea. They each canoed to different areas of the island. Hoffman got his body painted and Lisa had an oil rub. The couple, whose first wedding was a quiet one in Connecticut, then dressed in full native garb with exotic flowers in Tiki, a village and wed again by a Tahitian priest in front of their four children.
They aren’t a couple any more, but when Matt LeBlanc and former model Melissa McKnight married in a much-magazine covered ceremony on May 3, 2003, the groom wore a black suit and lilac shirt, and instead of a tie, he wore a yellow and white ginger-flower lei.
Rocker Tico Torres got just what he wanted on Sept. 7, 1996: supermodel Eva Herzigova and an exact replica of the tux Humphrey Bogart wore as Rick in Casablanca. They married on the beach in Sea Bright, New Jersey.
Un-Sentimental
Controversial couple Woody Allen & Soon-Yi Previn were married by the Venice mayor on December 23, 1997 in a quiet civil ceremony in Italy. Allen was typically dressed down, in a tie-less shirt.
They Wed With their Boots On
Country singer (and prominent mullet) Travis Tritt wed Theresa Nelson at his Georgia country estate. He wore tails, black jeans, and pricy alligator boots.
Another country singer, Clint Black married then-TV star Lisa at his Texas ranch. She wore traditional satin and yup, he wore boots.{mospagebreak}
Over-the-Top?
Not exactly costumed, per se, but here’s a look at couples who put a lot of energy into their wedding wear.
In their first wedding ceremony (one wasn’t enough) Celine Dion wed manager Rene Angelil (who she first met when she was 12) on December 17, 1994. Angellil’s eight groomsmen wore charcoal-gray morning suits, with top hats and gloves the bride wore: An Age of Innocence-inspired French marquise gown, hand-pearled, with a tiara and 20-foot veil, created by Montreal's Mirelle Gentile (detail opposite) the groom wore: A custom-made black morning suit, top hat and gloves conceived by his tailor, Roger Giunta, of Montreal
After a decade together and three children, Sting and Trudie Styler finally got married on Aug. 22, 1992 in an 11th-century church near their Wiltshire, England, estate. Their elaborate brocaded Versace wedding garb alone cost a reported $80, 000
On a warm evening on Aug. 17, 1996 actors Tisha Campbell and Duane Martin got married in their backyard. Campbell got her “Gone With the Wind” styled dress at the very old school Beverly Hills bridal shop, Renee Strauss. Martin wore a five-button white breakaway jacket by Troy McSwain II, chiffon shirt with long Edwardian cuffs, satin vest and ascot.
It cost more-than $1 million (a drop in the bucket) for Bill Gate’s New Year’s Day 1994 wedding to Melinda French at the Manele Bay Hotel on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. French supported the locals by wearing a dress by Seattle designer Victoria Glenn. The silk-face organza dress cost $10,000. Gates went “Rat Pack” and wore a white dinner jacket and black trousers.
Model Rachel Hunter and pop star Rod Stewart must love weddings (he’s actually only had three, despite the fact that he has seven kids with five different women) because they had two, the second exactly five years to the day of their first. The second ceremony, held Dec. 15, 1995, at the Victorian All Saints Parish Church in Marlow, England with their two children, Renee and Liam in the audience. Hunter wore a corset with matching fur-lined cloak by British designer Suzanne Neville. Meanwhile, Stewart wore gold thigh-length Edwardian jacket by Dolce & Gabbana, white ruffled shirt and black pants
Maybe their daughter Lisa Marie’s wedding to Michael Jackson overshadowed the memory of their May 1, 1967 Viva Las Vegas Aladdin Hotel nuptials, but the wedding of Priscilla Beaulieu & Elvis Presley still remains in infamy as iconic. She wore a traditional gown, but what may be most familiar is her super-high bouffant topped with a frothy veil. The King wore a brocade tuxedo jacket designed by one of his posse (and best man) Marty Lacker. Las Vegas's Aladdin Hotel, with a reception following. Guests snacked on the six-tier five foot high wedding cake.
Wacky Wedding Wear
They were the epitome of Euro swingers, so when four-months pregnant Bianca Rosa Perez Moreno and Mick Jagger married May 12, 1971 at Chapelle Sainte-Anne, in Saint-Tropez it seemed like a true love match. She wore large-brimmed rose-trimmed hat and an ivory plunging Yves Saint Laurent suit. The sock-less groom wore a green three-piece suit, and sneakers. They have one daughter, Jade, and divorced in 1980.
Model/actress Jane Stuart may have been eight months pregnant, but she wore white and her groom, Entourage star Kevin Dillon wore jeans. They were married by a gold-lame wearing Elvis impersonator at Las Vegas's Elvis Chapel, April 22, 2006.
Classy. Not. American Idol runner-up Bo Bice, wore a three-piece suit and flip flops when he married Caroline Fisher in suburban Birmingham, Ala.
Both were barefoot, and the wedding, now legend in celebrity matches, was impromptu. Pamela Anderson wore a white bikini sunglasses, and a turquoise scarf around her waist Her groom, Tommy Lee wore a pair of beige knee-length cut-offs, and of course, his multiple tattoos. The wed on the beach in Cancun on Feb. 19, 1995
Kimora Lee and Russell Simmons chose the Caribbean island of St. Bart's, for their Dec. 20, 1998 wedding that was very much “them.” She and her bridesmaids wore Susan Lazar gowns, Simmons and his groomsmen wore Adidas and khakis, sweater vests and white button-downs from Simmons's Phat Farm label. (They have two daughters and separated in March 2006).
Getting married on her Taos, New Mexico ranch on July 4, 2002 didn’t ensure Julia Roberts the privacy she hoped for when she married Danny Moder. She wore a pale pink halter-dress embroidered with pearls, antique beads and hand-painted flowers.{mospagebreak}
Richard Gere and Carey Lowell had a civil wedding ceremony on Nov. 9, 2001 in a field on their 27-acre estate in Westchester County NY with only their 2-year-old son Homer and Lowell’s daughter Hannah witnessing. Lowell wore pants and a long top. Gere wore an overcoat.
The much-married Larry King and fiance Shawn Southwick had an elaborate outdoor wedding planned, but two days to the date, chest pains felled King and he landed in the hospital, with angioplasty surgery. So on September 5, 1997 King and Southwick married at dawn in his hospital room at UCLA Medical Center. King wore his hospital gown.
Jon Bon Jovi did not (did not) give love a bad name, when he married his long-time girlfriend (his high-school sweetheart!) in 1989. They chose Vegas’ Graceland wedding chapel and wore matching outfits: black leather.
When Duran Duran front man Simon Le Bon married model Yasmin Parvaneh in Oxford, England on Dec. 27, 1985, they thumbed their noses at convention. She wore gray, and Le Bon wore baggy pants and spiked hair. They’re still married and have three daughters, Amber Rose Tamara (born August 1989), Saffron Sahara (born September 1991) and Tallulah Pine (born September 1994).
Le Bon’s band mate Nick Rhodes married department-store heiress Julie Anne Friedman, on Aug. 18, 1984 at a London registrar's office. Both bride and groom wore make up (he reportedly wore almost as much as the bride) and color-coordinated clothes. They also wore matching lavender eye shadows. They have a daughter Tatjana Lee Orchid (born August 23, 1986) but divorced in 1992 after several attempts at reconciliation.
Guns n’ Roses ax man, Slash (Saul Hudson) married actress model Renee Suran in Marina del Rey, Calif. On Oct. 10, 1992. She wore fishnet tights, they smoked matching cigarettes and he wore a belly-button revealing leather. Slash and Suran divorced in 1997 and on Oct. 5, 2000, he married Perla Ferrer in Maui. She wore a traditional gown, and he wore new black leather pants, a white shirt, his standard black-leather jacket and a floral lei that coordinated with Ferrer’s bouquet. The couple now have two children.
For her second marriage, on May 1, 1982, to plastics mogul David Greenwald, Kate Jackson and her groom wore matching jogging suits at their wedding, held poolside at her Beverly Hills home. (Jackson divorced actor Andrew Stevens after two years of marriage, and subsequently divorced Greenwald in 1982. She married a third time in 1991, only to divorce two years later. She has not remarried.)
Classically Attired
It was perfectly fitting that when Kevin Costner married Christine Baumgartner married outdoors in Colorado on September 25 2004, she chose a strapless peau de sole gown by Monique Lhuillier and Costner wore Ralph Lauren.
He may have played many a goofy character on screen, but Judge Reinhold wore a Ralph Lauren cut-away tuxedo when he married Amy Miller in 2000. It was his second marriage.
It may be hard to believe, given the tremendous animosity between them now, but Charlie Sheen was a man in love – he even flew to Milan to meet Giorgio Armani and was impressed that the designer got on his knees to customize a tux for him. Armani also custom designed a bridal dress for Denise Richards, too.
JAG star Patrick Labyorteaux married Tina Albanese on October 3, 1998, on the grounds of the Hotel Bel-Air in Beverly Hills. He wore a Valentino tux and platinum cuff links set with square-cut diamonds, on loan from David Orgell jewelers.
Sure, she’s married to Carpooler’s star Jerry O’Connell now, but when Rebecca Romijn married John Stamos at The Beverly Hills Hotel on September 19, 1998, they went all out. She wore Badgley Mischka gown and veil. Stamos wore a Richard Tyler tuxedo.
Reviled he may be, but Barry Bonds knew how to dress at his January 10, 1998 wedding (his second) to Liz Watson at San Francisco’s Ritz Carlton. He wore a tuxedo made to order by Cedric Harris of D.C. Custom Apparel in Atlanta, Georgia.
She’s now happily married to ginger haired Chris Henchy (complete with two ginger-haired daughters), but on April 17, 1997 at Monterey's St. John's Episcopal Chapel, Brooke Shields married tennis champ Andre Agassi, who wore a classic Alfred Dunhill tuxedo. They divorced in April 1999. Agassi married Stefi Graff on Oct. 22, 2001; their first child was born four days later. Their daughter was born in October 2003.{mospagebreak}
Sunset in Montego Bay, Jamaica on May 4, 1996. Actor Forest Whitaker and Keisha Nash married. She wore Vera Wang, and Whitaker wore an elegant Donna Karan shawl-collared tuxedo with Versace tuxedo boots.
Their daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, finished third in MTV’s Rock the Cradle. After four years of dating, Oliva Newton-John' married Matt Lattanzi in the living room of her five-acre Malibu Canyon mansion The 25-year-old groom wore a Giorgio Armani tux.
Proving that supermodel and singer go arm-in-arm, Jill Goodacre and Harry Connick Jr. are still going strong. They married April 16, 1994 at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans
They had sixteen attendants (eight bridesmaids wore white linen; eight groomsmen wore morning suits). Goodacre collaborated with Valantino on her gown. Connick wore an Armani morning suit
“One Tree Hill” co-stars Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray had a teary (him) wedding on April 16, 2005 at Santa Monica's Hotel Casa Del Mar. Bush wore a strapless silk tulle gown by Vera Wang, and Murray wore a custom-made Ralph Lauren Black Label tux. Five months later, the couple separated and their divorced finalized on Dec. 29, 2006. Murray became engaged to another “One Tree Hill” star, Kenzie Dalton on April 4, 2006.
Vera Wang was the wedding dress designer of choice for Jennifer Lopez in her wedding (her third, his second) to singer/actor Marc Anthony, who wore Armani for the June 5 2004
Well-Suited
Less than three weeks after her divorce from her first husband, Charlie Shanian (her wedding dress for the that first ceremony cost $50,000), Tori Spelling married actor Dean McDermott on the private island of Wakaya in Fiji. For their May 7, 2006 beach wedding, McDermott wore a Dolce & Gabbana suit. Both bride and groom were barefooted. Since Spelling was expecting, that made her barefoot and pregnant. Tehir second child is due this summer. She recently suggested that Shanian read her new book,Tori’s Telling. She says that by reading the story of how she fell in love and slept with McDermott within hours of meeting him, will help Shanian understand why she cheated on him, and why McDermott cheated on his wife.
A Mexican destination wedding was the setting for Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze. He wore a custom-made Sy Devor white linen suit. Gellar wore Vera Wang for their Sept. 1, 2002 ceremony.
Of course, their wedding was over-the-top. When Victoria Adams aka Posh Spice married David Beckham, she wore a strapless Vera Wang gown with a five-foot train, that supposedly cost $100,000. A corset squeezed her waist to 18”. Gorgeous footballer Beckham wore an ivory suit by designer Timothy Everest.
Julia Roberts’ one-time beau Benjamin Bratt married actress Talisa Soto in his hometown of San Francisco. She bought a dress off-the-rack and wore flip-flops. Bratt wore a black Calvin Klein suit. They exchanged hand-written vows on April 13. 2002.
Actress Amanda Peet, heavily pregnant married, Corbin Bernsen on Nov. 19, 1988. They both wore dark blue, she a dress that had to be altered to accommodate her tummy, and he a suit. The couple now have four sons (Oliver, b. 14 March 1989; twins Henry and Angus Moore, b. 19 March 1992, and Finley, b. 9 June 1998).
The Love Boat’s Gopher, Fred Grandy, married reporter Catherine Mann on March 28, 1987. Grandy served four consecutive terms as a republican congressman from Iowa, Grandy wore a pin-striped suit and a red tie. This was the second marriage for both. The couple have one child; Grandy has two from his previous marriage. Fun fact: Grandy was a magna cum laude Harvard grad.
Today’s Gloria Vanderbilt or Doris Duke, Athina Roussel married the 12-years-older Alvaro Affonso de Miranda Neto on Dec. 3 2004. She wore a $70,000 Valentino gown but Neto chose a black suit instead of a tux.
Clint Eastwood’s wedding suit (to his March 31, 1996 wedding to Dina) was made of some very special fabric. The dark blue suit was made with a special stretch fabric, designed by Nino Cerruti who explains that you have the elegant look of tux, but the comfort of a jogging suit.{mospagebreak}
Kilted
Champion race-car driver Dario Franchitti may have a name that doesn’t sound Scottish, but that’s where he was born. So it makes perfect sense that when he wed actress Ashley Judd on Dec. 12, 2001 at Scotland's Skibo Castle (read on to see who else was kilted and married there a year before) he wore a traditional kilt. Judd wore Armani.
Late-night talk-show host and charmer Craig Ferguson married Sascha Corwin on July 18, 1998, Los Angeles’ Biltmore Hotel. The bride walked down the aisle to the sounds of bagpipes, wearing a Vera Wang dress. A rabbi officiated, and Ferguson wore a kilt and a yarmulke.
There are currently rumors of marital dissent between iconic Madonna and her husband, director Guy Ritchie, but on Dec. 22, 2000 at Scotland’s Scotland's Skibo Castle, Ritchie wore a vibrant teal blazer, a Hunting Mackintosh plaid kilt of navy and green and antique diamond cufflinks, a wedding gift from Madge. Then four-month-old son Rocco, a guest, wore a kilt to match daddy’s.
Model/actor/musician Donovan Leitch married Scottish supermodel Kristie Hume on the banks of Loch Lomond on Sept. 23, 1997. Leitch, son of the legendary singer Donovan, arrived at the church in a 1920s Rolls-Royce (guests arrived via a two-mile ferry ride). The couple’s theme was decidedly Arthurian – she wore an ivory satin brocade gown by Arkivestry and coronet headpiece of amethyst and silver. Their reception featured traditional gala featured a Celtic bagpiper, Highland dancers, a folk-flavored ceilidh band. The groom, who told a weekly magazine, "I did go the full monty underneath,” wore a custom-made kilt of MacDonald tartan.
Royal
Nearly everyone remembers Princess Diana’s crushed, crinkly David and Elizabeth Emanuel wedding gown. But what of Prince Charles? For his more recent wedding to his long-time Camilla Parker-Bowles, he opted for a traditional grey morning tux. But at his first royal wedding, his valet had laid out his Royal Navy commander's uniform the night before. Both Charles and his younger brother Andrew married (for the first time, at least) in military uniforms. Meanwhile, youngest brother Prince Edward, married his Duchess, Sophie, in a morning suit.
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