Secret Celebrity Weddings: Will Forte, Anna Faris & More Stars Who Tied The Knot In Private Ceremonies

By:

Elissa Anderson

September 5, 2023 1:42PM EDT

See famous couples like Anna Faris, Scarlett Johansson and so many more who kept their nuptials away from the public eye & got married secretly.

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Secret Celebrity Weddings: Stars Who Tied The Knot In Private Ceremonies

Secret Celebrity Weddings: Stars Who Tied The Knot In Private Ceremonies — With so much of celebrities’ lives out there for public consumption, there are some elements they would rather keep private. While a number of stars love to share every aspect of their day, or even milestone moments, with their fans, there are certain celebrations that they keep close to their hearts. As such, a number of stars have had private wedding ceremonies over the years.

Some stars eventually share the news that they got married by chatting about it in an interview, or even making a fun social media post. But others prefer to keep things quiet. A few stars have gone through the difficult moments of their lives being so open. So, of course, they’d rather maintain some semblance of privacy!

We’ve rounded up a number of celebrities, their partners, and even celebrity couples, who chose to keep their ‘I dos’ totally under wraps. From Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson and so many more, take a look at the gallery to see more stars who had private wedding ceremonies.

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Liev Schreiber & Taylor Niesen

Liev Schreiber & Taylor Niesen — Taylor Neisen and Liev Schreiber reportedly tied the knot over the Fourth of July weekend in 2023. The pair held an intimate ceremony at their Hamptons home, while Taylor was pregnant with their first child.

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Gabourey Sidibe & Brandon Frankel

Gabourey Sidibe & Brandon Frankel — Gabourey Sidibe secretly married Brandon Frankel back in 2021. Gabourey didn’t tell anyone she got married until she appeared on Live With Kelly and Ryan in December 2022, where she revealed she was already married & that she & Brandon “got married at the kitchen table. It was just us.”

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Cherie Chan & Jessey Lee

Cherie Chan & Jessey Lee — ‘Bling Empire’ stars Cherie Chan and Jessey Lee secretly tied the knot at the Château de Saran castle in Champagne, France. They got married just one week after getting engaged for the second time.

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Will Forte & Olivia Modling

Will Forte & Olivia Modling — Will Forte revealed he and Olivia Modling wed on Jul. 31 2021 after welcoming daughter Zoe together that Feb. Talking about their impromptu wedding with People, the ‘MacGruber’ star said, “We had gotten engaged right before the first COVID lockdown. And so when we were just starting to talk to planners, people were having to shut down their weddings. At the time, we said, ‘We’re in no rush. We can figure it out later.’ So then COVID goes by and we’re quarantining for a long time. And then the baby is this wonderful news. We find out we’re having a kid. And so we were in no rush, but every once in a while we would think about, ‘Let’s just do it.'”

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Cameron Diaz & Benji Madden

Cameron Diaz & Benji Madden — Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden are all smiles during a rare public appearance on July 11, 2019 in Beverly Hills. The happy couple stepped out for a sushi date night at celeb hotspot, Sugarfish. Cameron and Benji wed with a private ceremony at her Beverly Hills home in Jan. 2015.

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Jason Momoa & Lisa Bonet

Jason Momoa & Lisa Bonet — Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa wow at the 2020 Golden Globes. The couple had their first child together in 2007 and waited a decade longer to marry. Jason admitted he had a long-burning crush for his now-wife during a 2017 appearance on ‘The Late Late Show With James Corden’.

“Finally,” he said of their wedding. “I’m a full-fledged stalker. I didn’t tell her that until we had two babies, otherwise, I’d be creepy and weird. But yeah, [I’d] just always wanted to meet her. She was a queen, always.”

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Zoe Saldana & Marco Perego

Zoe Saldana & Marco Perego — Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego cozy up at the ‘The Hand of God’ premiere at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival in Italy. The couple got engaged in summer 2013 and secretly wed 3 weeks later. Marco took his wife’s last name after they wed. The couple is parents to twins Bowie and Cy and son Zen.

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Freida Pinto & Cory Tran

Freida Pinto & Cory Tran — Freida Pinto and Cory Tran enjoy the US Open Tennis Championships Sep. 2 2018. The couple wed during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown. Frida revealed she was a Mrs. on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ in Oct. 2021.

While the couple had initially imagined their wedding as lavish, Indian-style nuptials in Big Sur, California, things changed when “COVID happened.”

“We just realized we were going to be planning this for the rest of our lives and probably never doing it,” she explained. “So, we decided one day to go to the Honda Center in Anaheim and just get married.”

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Lena Dunham & Luis Felber

Lena Dunham & Luis Felber — Lena Dunham gets a kiss from Luis Felber at a special screening of ‘Zola’ on Aug 1 2021. The pair secretly tied the knot at the end of Sep. 2021.

Luis – who plays music under the name Attawalpa — hinted at something special on Sep. 26 by posting The Zombies’ song “This Will Be Our Year” on his Instagram Story with heart and alien emojis. The couple went public just months earlier in June of that year.

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Aubrey Plaza & Jeff Baena

Aubrey Plaza & Jeff Baena — Aubrey Plaza glows besides Jeff Baena at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb 10. The ‘Parks And Rec’ star revealed they married while calling the screenwriter her “husband” in a May 2021 Instagram post.

The duo began dating in 2011 and are frequent creative collaborators. They worked on 2014’s ‘Life After Beth’ and 2017’s ‘The Little Hours’ together.

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Anna Faris & Michael Barrett

Anna Faris & Michael Barrett — After Michael Barrett was sported wearing a wedding band on his finger to a dinner in July 2021, Anna Faris shared the news: she and her fiancé quietly tied the knot when no one was looking!

‘Yes, we eloped. I’m sorry, honey. I just blurted that out, but it just feels [like] I can’t say fiancé anymore,’ she said on an episode of her podcast. ‘Thank you, it was awesome. It feels great.’

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Ariana Grande & Dalton Gomez

Ariana Grande & Dalton Gomez — Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez had a quiet wedding ceremony at her home in Montecito, CA. Only 20 guests were at the intimate affair. The couple began dating in Jan. 2020 and were engaged by December.

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Beyonce & Jay-Z

Beyonce & Jay-Z — Beyonce and Jay-Z have always been a relatively private couple. So, it makes sense that their April 2008 nuptials were kept under wraps. Keeping things very low-key, they tied the knot at his TriBeCa, New York apartment. Fans got a glimpse of her wedding in her visual albums. The couple kept things private again when they renewed their wedding vows in 2014.

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Scarlett Johansson & Colin Jost

Scarlett Johansson & Colin Jost — Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson tied the knot during the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020 with a ceremony at their Palisades, New York home. They revealed that they got hitched via the Meals on Wheels charity Instagram account.

Scarlett talked about the cozy nuptials with People in Apr. 2021, telling them, “We wanted it to feel like it had an intentional intimacy as opposed to being something that felt like we were restricted by all these things.” The pair welcomed a baby together in Aug. 2021.

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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt — It was only a matter of time before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie exchanged their wedding vows after nearly a decade together. The couple wed in an intimate ceremony in August 2014 in Château Miraval, France. Roughly two years later, Angelina filed for divorce.

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Mila Kunis & Ashton Kutcher

Mila Kunis & Ashton Kutcher — Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have a true Hollywood love story. After meeting on the set of ‘That ’70s Show,’ in the late ’90s, the two maintained a strong friendship before they started dating in the 2010s. The couple got hitched in July 2015 in Oak Glen, CA.

They continued to keep very private, with Mila only confirming they wed by donning a wedding ring to ‘The Late Late Show With James Corden’ in 2015. The pair had daughter Wyatt in 2014 and son Dimitri in 2016.

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Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux

Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux — Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux quietly got married at their Bel Air home in Aug. 2015. Pictures have never emerged from the soiree, which was reportedly attended by 70 guests and featured a performance by Sia. Two years later, the two made the difficult decision to go their separate ways.

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Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds

Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds — Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are also known for their privacy when it comes to certain aspects of their marriage. The couple, who started dating in October 2011, said their ‘I dos’ in September 2012.

The site of their nuptials, the Boone Hall Plantation in South Carolina, has drawn controversy, and the couple have since recognized and apologized for their lapse in judgment.

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Emma Stone & Dave McCary

Emma Stone & Dave McCary — Emma Stone and Dave McCary have also kept their private lives to themselves for years. The two quietly got married in September 2020 after three years of dating. They welcomed daughter Louise on March 13, 2021.

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Derek Jeter & Hannah Davis

Derek Jeter & Hannah Davis — Derek Jeter and Hannah Davis started dating in 2012. By July 2016, the couple was married in a private ceremony surrounded by beloved family and friends. They have since had three daughters, welcoming their baby girl River Rose on Dec. 2 2021 after keeping the pregnancy secret.

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Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell

Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell — Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell had been together for roughly six years before they finally tied the knot. In 2013, Kristen actually asked Dax if he would marry her via Twitter, which he accepted. The two exchanged their vows at the Beverly Hills County Clerk’s Office in October 2013.

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Margot Robbie & Tom Ackerley

Margot Robbie & Tom Ackerley — Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley were so secretive about their nuptials that fans didn’t even know they were engaged! The two quietly wed in a private ceremony in Byron Bay, New South Wales, in December 2016 before moving to Los Angeles. Only 50 guests were there for the celebration, where the couple reportedly banned attendees from using their phones.

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Amanda Seyfried & Thomas Sadoski

Amanda Seyfried & Thomas Sadoski — Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski also kept their nuptials tightly under wraps. The two wed in a private ceremony in March 2017.

Thomas talked about the elopement on ‘The Late Late Show With James Corden’ not long after, saying, “We just took off into the country with an officiant, just the two of us, and we did our thing.” Only days later after the wedding they welcomed their first child, daughter Nina. Their son Thomas was born in Sep. 2020.

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Amy Schumer & Chris Fischer

Amy Schumer & Chris Fischer — Amy Schumer and Chris Fischer wed in Malibu, CA, on February 13, 2018, the day before Valentine’s Day! Of those in attendance, Amy’s BFF Jennifer Lawrence showed up to offer her support and celebrate the couple’s love. They have since welcomed a son, Gene.

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