All The Secret Celebrity Weddings: See Who Got Hitched (2024)

Niecy Nash and more stars were pros at keeping their wedding ceremonies private.

"Mrs. Carol Denise Betts," Nash wrote via Instagram in August 2020 alongside a photo from her wedding to singer Jessica Betts. In a separate post on her Instagram Story, the Rookie: Feds star joked, "#PlotTwist."

Niecy was previously married to Don Nash from 1994 to 2007 and to Jay Tucker from 2011 to 2019. In February 2020, Niecy tearfully confirmed the end of her second marriage, admitting that she and Tucker were "better friends than life partners."

"The one that made me laugh the most was an ode to him being attractive. [They said] 'Well, you never had to put a sack on his head to sleep with him,'" she recalled of her family's reaction to her divorce. "I replied, 'What about my happiness?'"

Niecy had not previously confirmed her relationship with Betts before hard-launching their relationship with surprise nuptials.

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In June 2024, Us confirmed that the twosome secretly tied the knot in December 2023 before Ashanti announced her pregnancy.

The pair confirmed to Architectural Digest in their March 2024 cover story that they were married. The Big Bang Theory alum also revealed in the article, published in February 2024, that he and Morgan welcomed their daughter, Oona Evelena, soon after their magazine photo shoot.

The Hogan Knows Best alum secretly married Oleksy, a pro hockey player, in June 2022. News broke of their wedding 18 months later in December 2023.

Stanfield revealed to People in July 2023 that he and Trice secretly tied the knot and welcomed a baby. The duo got engaged in December 2022.

“Being in the public eye can be something that’s amazing, but it can also be something that is very hard on you,” he explained. “There needs to be things that exist that are sacred and not for consumption for everybody. … We want to be the ones to tell our story.”

The Selling Sunset star revealed she and her partner secretly tied the knot via social media in May 2023.

“Love doesn’t always go as planned … Sometimes it’s immeasurably better,” she wrote via Instagram alongside a video of her and G Flip throughout their relationship, which included a photo of the happy couple celebrating their nuptials in a wedding chapel.

TheAmerican Horror Storyalum revealed in a December 2022 interview onLive! With Kelly and Ryanthat she and her love tied the knot in March 2021, four months after getting engaged. "I really don't like weddings," Sidibe said.

“My actual big news is that I got married,” the She-Hulk star said during an August 2022 appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “Nobody knows! So don't tell anyone! I married a wonderful guy named Brendan Hines. … There’s certain things you wanna kinda keep private. But we felt like you were the right person to tell it to.”

After calling off their 2003 wedding due to "excessive media attention," the pair opted for a secret ceremony in July 2022. The stars said "I do" in Las Vegas at the Little White Chapel, Lopez revealed in her "On the JLo" newsletter. “They both thought it was a fun and casual way to tie the knot,” the source exclusively told Us Weekly at the time.

A rep for Lohan confirmed in July 2022 that the actress and Shammas, who got engaged in November 2021, had secretly tied the knot.

The couple revealed in a May 2022 on SiriusXM’s "The Jess Cagle Show" that they'd gotten married in a hurry before Lynskey filmed Yellowjackets in spring 2021. The show was filming amid the coronavirus pandemic in Vancouver, which had very strict rules about who could visit at the time.

“I was going to Canada for Yellowjackets and I was on the phone with somebody and they said, ‘Oh, he won’t be allowed in,'" the actress explained. “I was like, ‘We have a child. What? I can’t leave for six months,’ so I was like, ‘We have to get married tomorrow.’”

She added that it was a small wedding with only two witnesses. “We got married on our front porch of our little rental house in Atlanta. Nice lady came and married us. We had two friends there," Lyskey revealed.

The Once Upon a Time alum sparked marriage speculation in April 2022 when she called Celasco her “husband” in a birthday tribute. Morrison also shared a photo of the couple with wedding rings on their left hands via Instagram.

The twosome, who got engaged in October 2021, had a ceremony in Las Vegas in April 2022 after Barker played the drums at the Grammys at the MGM Grand. It’s unclear if they are clearly married, however.

The Grammy winner and the author quietly tied the knot in February 2022, revealing the news two months later. "We got married the day before I was admitted to the hospital to undergo my bone marrow transplant," Jaouad told CBS Sunday Morning in April 2022. "We have known that we wanted to get married, I think, from the first week that we started dating. That's when Jon first brought up the topic of marriage to me. So we've had eight years. This is not, you know, a hasty decision."

The actors started dating in 2012 and kept their life together private as they welcomed three children without making huge announcements. They did the same for their wedding in November 2021, secretly tying the knot in a small ceremony. Hartnett's rep confirmed to Us that they exchanged vows the following March.

The Inventing Anna star revealed that he and Winningham had quietly tied the knot during a February 2022 interview with Esquire. The pair — who were friends for over three decades before they began dating in 2020 — eloped a year later with a friend who officiated the intimate ceremony. "We’re too old to throw weddings,” Edwards said, before describing his new wife as "just spectacular."

During an interview with The Guardian in February 2022, McAvoy revealed that he recently married his girlfriend after they originally met on the Split set six years prior.

The Gifted actress told Marie Claire in a January 2022 interview that after three canceled weddings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the pair married in their living room in front of family and a few friends on December 31, 2021.

The Help actress celebrated her one-year anniversary in December 2021, revealing her marriage to Andron on social media for the first time.

“Married [my] favorite person a year ago. Was a very good idea & a very good day ❤️‍🔥@daveandron,” O’Reilly captioned a series of photos from the couple’s special day.

The couple kept their marriage a secret for six months. They tied the knot in June 2021, and the newlyweds announced their relationship status the following December.

"On June 17th we hit the road from LA to Las Vegas in a black corvette and got married at midnight," the Band Perry front woman shared via Instagram at the time. "It was wild and wonderful and reminded me all over again that God is the most glorious creator and the master of the most beautiful blueprint for our lives! I love you Johnny and can’t wait for forever."

After the Pretty Little Liars alum gushed over his beau while celebrating their 18th anniversary together, Ross let it slip that the pair had secretly tied the knot.

The artist reshared footage of the pair’s nuptials via an Instagram Story in December 2021, writing, “We’re married too.”

“We’re already married,” the Slumdog Millionaire actress said during an October 2021 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, revealing that she and her now-husband eloped amid the COVID-19 crisis. “When we got engaged, we thought we’d have this most magical wedding. It was going to be something in Big Sur [in California]. Then COVID happened, and it’s still happening, and we just realized we’re going to be planning this for the rest of our lives and probably never doing it.”

The then-pregnant star continued: “So we decided one day to go to the Honda Center in Anaheim, [California], and [tie the knot]. This was perfect. We got married and then we got to go home and take an afternoon nap.”

The Succession alum and the Australian comedian got married in February 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “I got locked down in Melbourne with one of my best mates and we fell in love,” Snook revealed in an October 2021 interview with Vogue Australia.

The two had been friends since 2014 and had “lived together, traveled together, always excited to see each other, but totally platonic,” she said. “We’ve just never been single at the same time.”

After the Steve Jobs actress proposed to Lawson, the two married in her Brooklyn backyard. The small ceremony was attended by a few friends including her Succession costar Ash Zukerman, who was the couple’s witness.

The Orange is the New Black star revealed her wedding with a September 2021 selfie on social media, but her caption indicated that she married the filmmaker in 2020.

"For some, it feels like we wait our whole lives for our someone. My love, I’m so happy my life started last year with you ❤️," she wrote at the time.

The music producer confirmed that he married the American Horror Story actress, who is Meryl Streep’s daughter, in 2021. After rumors swirled about an engagement and secret wedding all summer, Ronson finally confirmed the news on his 46th birthday by sharing a snap from their secret ceremony.

“To my truest love...out of nowhere, you made 45 hands down the greatest year of my life,” he captioned the photo via Instagram in September. “And i'm sure it took me 45 years to become the man worthy of your love. I hope I spend every one of these birthdays by your side til my last day. And beyond. Forever and ever yours ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ (and yes, we got married).”

In August 2021, Us confirmed that the Pretty Little Liars alum wed his longtime girlfriend nearly two years ago. Fans began to speculate that the couple had secretly tied the knot after Harding posted an Instagram photo that showed him wearing what seemed to be a wedding band on his left hand. In March 2021, the Odd Birds author shared a photo of himself with Hart, calling her "the funniest talent bomb there ever was" in his caption.

In August 2021, Corbett revealed that he and his longtime partner tied the knot in December 2020 after nearly two decades together. “After 20 years we decided to get married," he said during an appearance on The Talk. "We didn’t want 2020 to be that thing that everybody looks back at and hated. We thought, 'Well, let’s get one nice thing out of it.'"

The Insecure star revealed she got married in July 2021, sharing multiple photos of herself in a Vera Wang wedding gown via Instagram. They tagged the location as France.

The “Unqualified” podcast host announced in July 2021 that she and Barrett secretly tied the knot.

“Everything about it just felt right. … It was,​​ San Juan Island up in Washington state … which is just the most magical place on earth,” Faris explained after blurting out the news on her show.

"Mr and Mrs Jones," the Spice Girls singer captioned her wedding reveal in June 2021, posing in white alongside her now-husband. The couple began dating in 1998 and got engaged in 2011. They share sons Beau and Tate.

The longtime couple, who began dating in 1992, confirmed in June 2021 that they secretly wed during the coronavirus pandemic. They share two daughters, Imani and Ayana.

Weeks after sparking speculation that she and the Milo Greene singer had privately tied the knot, Us confirmed in June 2021 that the couple exchanged vows one year prior. The duo got engaged in July 2019 after two years of dating.

The This Is Us star, 44, “recently” married the actress, 31, various outlets reported in May 2021. They were spotted wearing matching rings on their left hands earlier that month and made their red carpet debut on May 16 at the MTV Movie and TV Awards with the same bands. The two were first linked in May 2020, but they met years earlier in 2015 when they worked together on The Young and the Restless.

Us confirmed in May 2021 that the Grammy winner and her boyfriend tied the knot in a “tiny and intimate” ceremony at Grande’s home in Montecito, California, after getting engaged in December 2020. The ceremony included less than 20 people, the musician’s rep told Us at the time, adding, “The room was so happy and full of love. The couple and both families couldn’t be happier.”

The E! journalist played coy about her newly married status via Twitter in March 2021, teasing, "Oh ya so like," alongside a snapshot from her January nuptials. The duo got engaged in September 2020 after meeting at church two years prior.

The Bloodline alum revealed via Instagram in March 2021 that she exchanged vows with the Croatia native one year earlier. "Married on a Monday, March 9th 2020. Happy one year anniversary my love 💍," Sevigny wrote alongside a snap from the special day. The pair welcomed their first child together, a baby boy, two months after their wedding.

The National Treasure actor's rep confirmed to Us that he married Shibata in a "small" Las Vegas wedding on February 16, after about one year of dating. "The date was chosen to honor the birthday of the groom's late father," Cage's rep revealed in a statement.

Cage further confirmed the union, telling Us, "It's true, and we are very happy."

During a February 2021 interview on The Howard Stern Show, the Saturday Night Live alum revealed that she and Rothman had tied the knot amid the pandemic. "I'm very lucky about having these two babies and my husband. They make it all better. It's changed my life," she gushed at the time. Us confirmed in August 2019 that the pair got engaged after three years of dating. In June 2020, they welcomed twins via surrogate.

Surprise! In January 2021, the Nightcrawler actor told Louis Theroux on his “Grounded” podcast that he married the novelist in a quarantine ceremony. The couple initially met when they sat next to each other at a New York cafe years earlier. Although he kept her identity a secret at first, he later revealed her name during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

During a lengthy recap of his 2020 experience, Van Ness revealed via Instagram that he exchanged vows with his "best friend" in secret. "Yay!! That was a hard secret to keep!!
love you Mark and Johnny!
," Queer Eye costar Bobby Berk teased on New Year's Eve.

Taissa Farmiga secretly tied the knot to screenwriter and director Hadley Klein in August 2020, the pair revealed via Instagram in November. "Married my best friend. 08.08.2020," the American Horror Story vet at the time. Her husband posted the same photo on Thanksgiving Day, adding, "Still feeling thankful this year."

In October 2020, Meals on Wheels announced via Instagram that the Marriage Story actress and the comedian quietly tied the knot. “We’re thrilled to break the news that Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost were married over the weekend in an intimate ceremony with their immediate family and love ones, following COVID-19 safety precautions as directed by the CDC,” the post read. “Their wedding wish is to help make a difference for vulnerable older adults during this difficult time by supporting @mealsonwheelsamerica. Please consider donating to celebrate the happy couple.”

Us Weekly confirmed that the couple quietly tied the knot in Tampa, Florida, on October 12, 2020. One day before the news broke, the actor and former wrestler posted a message about happiness. “’I will be happy if I only get (x).’ This is a great way to mold an entire life spent chasing happiness and never finding joy,” he tweeted. The couple were first linked in March 2019.

The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and the producer wed in Southern California in October 2020. The couple met through mutual friend Sacha Baron Cohen at the Borat actor’s birthday bash in 2017 and dated for three years before exchanging vows. David was previously married to activist Laurie David from 1993 to 2007. The pair share daughters Cazzie and Romy.

In August 2020, Niecy Nash revealed she secretly married singer Jessica Betts. "Mrs. Carol Denise Betts," the Claws actress captioned a wedding still via Instagram. "#LoveWins."

The British royal and the property tycoon quietly married at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Windsor Great Park in Berkshire, England, in July 2020 after postponing their wedding due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their 20-person guest list included Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew.

The actor and the doctoral student tied the knot in front of only their pastor in Santa Barbara, California, on June 2, 2020, after one year of dating.

The Cheetah Girls actress confirmed via Instagram that she and her partner exchanged their vows in a low-key backyard ceremony in June 2020. "I got married to a woman who understands me from trigger to joy, from breakfast to midnight snack, from stage to home," Symoné captioned her first photo as a married woman. "I love you Mrs. Pearman-Maday!"

The former Insatiable actress and the Twenty One Pilots artist announced in May 2020 that they secretly tied the knot on New Year’s Eve in 2019. After dating off-and-on beginning in 2013, Dun proposed to Ryan in December 2018. The duo planned their Austin wedding in 28 days.

“We began to flirt with the idea of having a destination party celebrating the new decade,” she told Vogue at the time. “Then [we] decided in December to get married [in Austin] on New Year’s Eve, and just keep dancing until after the ball dropped.”

Us confirmed in March 2020 that the Dawson’s Creek alum and the director secretly wed as they awaited the arrival of their first child together. The news came three months after they announced their engagement.

30 years after they dated, split and got back together, Pamela Anderson and film producer Jon Peters tied the knot in a private ceremony in Malibu on January 20, 2020. The duo never even publicly revealed they were dating again. They split less than two weeks after the wedding.

The couple tied the knot in a low-key backyard wedding in December 2019, saying “I do” in front of close family and friends. Duff and the music producer first met in 2015 while working on her album Breathe In Breathe Out. Together, they share daughter Banks.

The Master of None alum announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in November 2019 that she quietly wed her longtime love at a San Fransisco courthouse. “We snuck and did it,” she said.

The couple surprised fans in October 2019 by announcing they secretly tied the knot after a decade of dating. Reports previously claimed that Burton and Morgan, who share son Gus and daughter George, wed in 2014.

“I’d say words... but there aren’t any,” the Walking Dead star captioned a photo from the wedding via Instagram. “Mrs Morgan.... I love you. Thank you for making me the luckiest man in the world. Xojd.”

After months of rumors, the singer finally confirmed that he quietly wed his longtime love. He called her his “wife” in his song “Remember the Name,” explaining in an interview that he actually wrote the track “before me and Cherry got married and I knew that we’d be married by the point that the song came out.”

Us Weekly confirmed in July 2019 that Klum and Kaulitz tied the knot after quietly obtaining a marriage license. The couple began dating in February 2018 and announced their engagement in December of that year.

The son of former vice president Joe Biden reportedly married the South Africa native in a secret Los Angeles ceremony on May 16, 2019. The news came shortly after his split from Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter’s late brother, Beau Biden.

The 100 costars kept their nuptials under wraps until June 2019 when they revealed they had already wed. "Recently I married my best friend and soul mate @WildpipM We are very happy and ask that you keep your comments kind and respect our privacy at this time," Taylor captioned a photo at the time, with her husband sharing a similar sentiment. "It is with such a full heart that I call @MisElizaJane my wife This is something we both cherish very deeply and are beyond happy," he wrote.

Us broke the news in May 2019 that the Big Little Lies star and the Love actor are “legally married.” The private couple got engaged in February 2018, but waited eight months to share the proposal story.

Us exclusively revealed in November 2018 that the Game of Thrones star and the Jonas Brothers member were planning to tie the knot in France in summer 2019. However, the duo decided to throw caution to the wind and get hitched in Las Vegas after the 2019 Billboard Music Awards on May 1. The pair said, "I do," in front of an Elvis Impersonator, who later revealed that he was booked for the ceremony a week prior. Jonas and Turner's French extravaganza will likely still take place, but will serve as a celebration for the newlyweds.

Not only was the country singer's wedding a surprise — the fact that she's even been in a relationship was a complete shock. After declaring herself "happily single" in August 2018, Lambert unexpectedly revealed on February 16, 2019, that she said "I do" to a mystery man named Brendan Mcloughlin. "In honor of Valentine's Day I wanted to share some news. I met the love of my life," she wrote on Instagram at the time. "And we got hitched!"

The Mission: Impossible – Fallout actress revealed in January 2019 that she and partner Rory — whose last name she has never shared publicly — secretly married in a cottage over the holidays. Ferguson wore a “wedding skirt” in lieu of a traditional dress while guests sported “Wellington boots and big woolly socks and big ruggy jumpers” and celebrated with games. The couple share a daughter. The Greatest Showman star is also the mother of son Isaac with ex-boyfriend Ludwig Hallberg.

2018 was a busy one for Ballinger. "This year i got pregnant, engaged and married, all in the same year. Yeah, we got married ... woops, forgot to tell you that one," she told viewers in an end-of-year review video posted on her YouTube channel in December 2018. The former Haters Back Off star didn't reveal any other details about her wedding to Stocklin, whom she met on the set of the now-cancelled Netflix show.

Cyrus and Hemsworth sparked wedding speculation on Christmas Eve in 2018 after photos of the twosome cutting a cake in front of “Mr. and Mrs." balloons surfaced. Two days later, the Disney alum confirmed that they’d tied the knot by sharing multiple black-and-white pictures of the couple dressed up in formal attire. Cyrus captioned one of the sweet snaps, “10 years later…” (Cyrus and Hemsworth dated on and off for nearly a decade after meeting on the set of The Last Song in 2009.)

The actress quietly married the entrepreneur at the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel, California, on August 28. She opened up about the "stunning private community" and shared wedding photos with Vogue. "It was timeless. There is just no other way to describe it. 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," she gushed. Her maid of honor was best friend Mariska Hargitay.

Williams tied the knot with the musician in a secret ceremony in the Adirondacks, the actress revealed in a Vanity Fair cover story published in July 2018. Only a small group of their friends and their two daughters were present for the exchange of vows. The Manchester by the Sea star said of falling for Elverum a decade after the death of partner Heath Ledger: “I never gave up on love.”

Comedian Daniel Tosh secretly married Carly Hallam — a writer on his Comedy Central show, Tosh.0 — at a private ceremony in Malibu, California, on April 15, 2016, TMZ reports. Hallam has written for the Comedy Central series since 2012 and also writes for NBC sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

The rappers secretly married in Atlanta on September 20, 2017, according to a marriage license obtained by TMZ the following June. The Migos member, who referred to the “Bodak Yellow” rapper as his “wife” at the 2018 BET Awards, did not publicly propose to Cardi until October 2017, one month after they wed.

The Grey's Anatomy star, 44, announced in a post on his website on March 2, 2018, that he and the private chef had wed and were expecting their first child together. "Arielle and I are so happy to announce our marriage and new baby, who is soon to join our growing family," theTrainspottingstar, 44, wrote. "Close friends and family came together with my Grey's family to share in our celebration day – an intimate, low key gathering culminating in a Scottish Ceilidh dance."

Surprise! Multiple sources confirmed exclusively to Us Weekly that the actress and chef tied the knot in Malibu on February 13, 2018. The pair first were spotted out as a couple while dining at Café Altro Paradiso in New York City just three months earlier.

A Blaine County, Idaho marriage license filing gave away the Scandal actress' secret wedding to San Francisco 49ers cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha. The couple tied the knot on June 24, 2013, but have yet to confirm the marriage themselves.

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The Green Lantern costars didn't give any warning when they said "I do" in a surprise, ultra-private ceremony on Sept. 9, 2012 at Boone Hill Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. A source told Us that Lively, who wore a custom-designed dress by Marchesa, "was a creative bride with a clear vision of what she wanted."

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A source confirmed to Us in April 2013 that Norton secretly wed his longtime love Shauna Robertson before they welcomed their first child together, a baby boy, in March.

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In late December 2012, the Titanic actress' UK rep confirmed that Winslet married Rocknroll in New York "earlier this month in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends and family." The two had been engaged "since the summer," but never made a formal announcement.

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Eight months after announcing their engagement, the Hunger Games actor revealed he secretly tied the knot with Blunt in August 2012. The couple is reportedly planning, however, a second, more formal wedding ceremony with their loved ones.

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The Canadian actress and British actor wed in a romantic, Valentine's Day ceremony at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara in March 2011. "We didn't tell our parents for a few days afterwards," Henstridge told the UK's Hello! magazine. "We wanted to be together and enjoy it for awhile. It was really spontaneous."

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Five months after the fact, Myers confirmed that he quietly married longtime girlfriend Tisdale in a private ceremony in NYC in March 2011.