What celebrities have had secret weddings? Pulling off a wedding in secret if you are an A-list celebrity is no easy feat. These are people, remember, who are literally stalked by the paparazzi virtually 24/7. Once the press gets wind of an engagement, the Great Wedding Watch begins. Some clever couples have managed to shock the world with their top secret nuptials.
Secretly married celebrities include some of the biggest names in film, television and music. Examples, you say? In 2008, two of the greatest musical minds came together in wedded bliss when Jay-Z married Beyonce, in secret. Months later, the world got its first glimpse of Bey's stunning wedding ring! And in June of 2010, Hollywood hottie Megan Fox married longtime boyfriend Brian Austin Green in a secret ceremony in Hawaii.
Some celebrities seem particularly adept at pulling off top-secret weddings. Case in point: Actor Ryan Reynolds secretly married Scarlett Johansson in 2008 in a remote part of Canada. Years later, Reynolds again married in secret, this time to starlet Blake Lively, in a quite ceremony in South Carolina. Their wedding was certainly among the biggest of 2012.
In case you were wondering, not all of the couples with secret weddings stay together forever. Some celebs will or have wound up on lists of celebrity breakups. That's not entirely surprising, now is it? That being said, it is possible that many of the famous couples listed here will see their relationships stand the test of time. They might even make a list of the longest lasting celebrity marriages some day!
On September 13, 2018, Bieber and his model fiancée, Hailey Baldwin, were spotted leaving a New York City courthouse. People confirmed the couple wed after two months of being engaged. At first, media outlets believed the two were simply obtaining a marriage license, but it turns out they had a secret ceremony.
Over the weekend of August 18, 2018, actress Hilary Swank married her longtime boyfriend, entrepreneur Philip Schneider, in a secret ceremony at the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel, CA. The two had been dating since a mutual friend set them up on a blind date sometime back in 2016.
“It was timeless. There is just no other way to describe it,” Swank told Vogue. “I was overwhelmed with such gratitude and thanks to be marrying the man of my dreams and to see all the people we love together in the middle of such a profound setting. It was truly a dream come true.”
Actress Michelle Williams and musician Phil Elverum, who performs music under the moniker Mount Eerie, wed in a private ceremony in the Adirondacks sometime in July 2018. A few close friends and their two daughters attended the wedding.
Offset called Cardi B his wife at the 2018 BET Awards on June 24, 2018. TMZ broke the news the next day that the couple – who were publicly engaged – had actually gotten married in Fulton County, GA, on September 20, 2017.
In April 2018, Page Six broke the news that Richard Gere married his girlfriend, Alejandra Silva, in a secret ceremony a few months prior. The pair had been dating since 2018.
In March 2018, the news broke that Michael Cera had secretly married his longtime girlfriend Nadine. The pair were seen out in Brooklyn sporting wedding rings, and some sources say the actor has been married since early 2017.
Barry Manilow secretly married his long-time partner and manager Garry Kief in 2014. The two have been together for 39 years, and met in 1978. Manilow publicly came out as gay in 2017.
Margot Robbie and her beau Tom Ackerley were married in December 2016 in a secret Australian ceremony. She and Ackerley met in 2013 after working on the film Suite Francaise. Ackerley, a Brit, works as a producer and director in Hollywood. Prior to their wedding the two dated for about three years.
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher
After being engaged for a little over a year, the two former co-stars of That 70's Show tied the knot during the 2015 Fourth of July holiday weekend.
The couple started dating back in 2012 and also have one daughter together who was born in 2014.
September, 2015: Usher and his DJ girlfriend, Grace Miguel, eloped after six years of dating. The two got engaged in January 2015, and had initially planned to wed in Atlanta in front of 100 guests. Instead, they secretly got married and flew to Cuba for their honeymoon. Usher has two kids from a previous marriage to Tameka Foster.
September 19, 2015:Girls star Allison Williams, 27, may have had the most star-studded wedding of 2015. Her surprise nuptials to College Humor founder Ricky Van Veen, 34, were attended by everyone from Lena Dunham and Katy Perry, to John Mayer and Tom Hanks. The two married in a secret location "out west" after getting engaged in February 2014. She wore a handmade Oscar de la Renta couture gown. After the ceremony, many guests flew to Los Angeles together to attend the Emmy Awards.
July, 2015: New Girl star Zooey Deschanel, 35, is thought to have secretly married her partner and baby daddy, producer Jacob Pechenik. The news came when Deschanel's rep announced that the actress had given birth to the couple's first child, a little girl. Zooey and Jacob first revealed news of their engagement in January of 2015.
Music legend Billy Joel married his girlfriend of more than five years, Alexis Roderick, in a surprise wedding over the July 4th holiday in 2015. The small ceremony was presided over by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. Roderick, 33, is an equestrian and former Morgan Stanley exec. She and Joel, 66, are expecting their first child together in the summer of 2015. It's the fourth marriage for Joel, who has a daughter, Alexa Joel, 29, with model Christie Brinkley.
After 40 (!!) years together, Harry Potter actor Alan Rickman and girlfriend Rima Horton made their relationship official. The two wed in 2012, but news of their nuptials didn't break until 2015.
In an interview, 69-year-old Rickman said, "We are married, just recently. It was great because no one was there. After the wedding in New York, we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and ate lunch."
He even bought Horton, 68, a wedding ring-- a $200 band that, according to Rickman, "she never wears."
12 years after divorcing Angelina Jolie, Billy Bob Thornton married his sixth wife, Connie Angland, in October of 2014. The news wasn't broken until months later when People magazine announced the nuptials in late February, 2015.
The couple have a daughter, Bella, who was born in 2004.
9/23/2014: Jeremy Renner, 43, and his girlfriend and mother of their child, model Sonni Pacheco were married in secret, in order to protect their privacy. The news broke only after Renner was spotted wearing a wedding band in Washington, D.C. at a screening.
He said, "I have tried to protect my family’s privacy, my wife’s privacy. I don’t need her to get hammered with my life. Privacy issues are important because I want her to go about her day without being bothered." The couple welcomed their daughter, Ava, in March 2013.
8/28/2014: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally tied the knot. After nine years together, the couple wed in secret in Correns, France on Saturday, August 23. They were photographed, with their children in tow, on Friday, arriving at the Nice airport, before their nuptuals at Chateau Miraval.
The private, nondenominational civil ceremony was attended by family and friends. Their children were involved as well. Maddox,13, and Pax, 10, walked Jolie down the aisle, while Zahara, 9, and Vivienne, 6, served as flower girls and Shiloh, 8, and Knox, 6, were ring bearers. Jolie, 39, and Pitt, 50, have been engaged since 2012.
Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser, who met in 2012 when Bledel guest starred on "Mad Men" as Kartheiser's love affair, tied the knot in August 2014 after a year-long engagement.
Chuck star Zachary Levi and Missy Peregrym tied the knot in a secret ceremony in Maui after an equally secretive period of dating, according to E! News.
Their fans probably wouldn't have been the wiser if they hadn't spilled the beans themselves via Twitter. On June 16, 2014, Peregrym, 32, posted a Tweet showing her and Levi, 33, wearing matching hoodies emblazoned with the words "MR" and "MRS."
Matt Bomer may have publicly came out as gay in 2012, but the actor recently revealed that he and his husband actually married a year earlier. Surprise! In April of 2014, Matt Bomer told Details Magazine that he and Hollywood power publicist Simon Halls got hitched in 2011.
The two are parents to three sons: six-year-old twins and an eight-year-old.
Beyoncé Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z got married in a private wedding ceremony at Jay-Z's New York apartment.
Megan Fox Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox had a secret wedding in Hawaii in 2010. The press found out about the wedding after the fact and got ahold of the photos.
Natalie Portman When Natalie Portman and fiance Benjamin Millepied were spotted wearing what appeared to be wedding rings at the Academy Awards in 2012, the press's feelings were hurt that they weren't invited. Rumors were confirmed that they had wed just days earlier in Big Sur, CA.
American Idol star Jordin Sparks eloped with Dana Isaiah in mid-July 2017, just a few months after the couple had met. They discovered they were pregnant with their first child soon after tying the knot.
Amy Schumer wed boyfriend Chris Fischer on February 13. The ceremony was reportedly informal and small; the guest list included Larry David, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Aniston, and Judd Apatow.
J. Cole J. Cole married his longtime girlfriend Melissa Heholt sometime after 2013, but never told any of his fans. The rapper was outed by Creed director Ryan Coogler at an MLKNow event in Harlem in January 2016. Oops!
