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18 Oct, 1997

Jindal, Jolly marry

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Jindal marries Jolly at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Baton Rouge. Jolly:

I didn’t know it at the time, but he had a crush on me. He used to try and find out where my classes were and come by and say hello.

22 Feb, 1998

Lopez, Noa marry

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Lopez marries Cuban waiter Noa after meeting in Miami. The two have a traditional marriage in Florida with their families before either are recognized celebrities.

Mar 1998

Marries Danielle Steel

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Danielle SteelAccording to reports Steel consoled Perkins after the death of his wife and he consoled her after the death of her 19-year-old son. A few months after Steel’s divorce from shipping executive John Traina, Perkins and Steel get married. For the wedding Steel buys Perkins a $400,000 Bentley, and a two-day affair is held at her 1913 beaux arts mansion in San Francisco. For the reception, she wears a white Yves Saint Laurent gown with a red satin bow and displays Perkins wedding present, an extravagant diamond and emerald necklace. The wedding cake was baked in the shape of a yacht with the married couple on the bow. They live in a $6 million Marin County mansion and collect antique cars.

12 Jun, 1998

Hudson, Robinson marry

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hudson-robinson-278x400Hudson and Robinson get married after a year of dating. The event takes place at the Aspen, Colo., ranch of Hudson’s mom, Goldie Hawn. The reception runs until about three a.m. in the new year and was held at the Aspen’s Elk Mountain Lodge.

Nov 1998

Father remarries

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Roof’s father Franklin (known as “Benn”) marries Paige Mann in Florida, when they were living together in Columbia, South Carolina. Dylann is four years old, and his half-sister Amber is 11. Mann:

[I] raised (Franklin’s) kids from a very young age, took them to all of their activities, and Benn’s kids have spent almost every weekend with me. After we moved to Florida our marriage really began to deteriorate when Benn became so controlling…Benn travels a great deal, usually four days a week, so I would always care for and raise his kids.

Mann tries working at Sears but Franklin says he wants her to be a stay-at-home mom, so she quits. Despite her reluctance, he moves the family to the Florida Keys, away from her friends and family.

After we moved to Florida our marriage really began to deteriorate when Benn became so controlling. He controlled my whereabouts, the checkbook and everything about my life.

Mann’s mother writes that her daughter ‘loved Bennett Roof’s other children Amber and Dylann unconditionally as her own’. Dylann stayed with Mann and Franklin far more often than with his own mother, who was supposed to have him every other weekend,

I was afraid that love for these children clouded her judgement in getting involved with Bennett Roof. Paige was there for Amber and Dylann on the occasions where their own (mother) chose not to be, including church, driving Dylann to and from school and extracurricular activities.

4 Jan, 2000

Kardashian, Thomas marry

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Kardashian marries Thomas in Las Vegas. Thomas asked Kardashian to elope in Las Vegas on a whim.

Damon decided what we would do and when we would do it. He was very much the King of the castle.

29 Jul, 2000

Pitt, Aniston marry

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aniston-hair-13jun13-02Pitt and Aniston wed after almost two years of dating. The private ceremony takes place at the Malibu mansion of TV producer Marcy Carsey, and is attended by 200 guests. The couple met in 1998 through a blind date set up by their respective agents. The bride wears a gown by Lawrence Steele, while the groom dons a tuxedo by Hedi Slimane.

27 May, 2001

Cruz, Nelson marry

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Cruz marries Nelson. The Couple met while working for George W. Bush’s campaign in 2000. Nelson:

Ted is very much a visionary. He is very strategic, and he’s very practical, and he does what needs to be done, not what everybody wants him to do.

29 Sep, 2001

Lopez, Judd marry

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jloLopez and Judd marry in a private ceremony in Calabass, CA. Judd:

It was love at first sight. I told myself I was going to marry this woman.

12 Jan, 2002

O’Brien, Powel marry

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O’Brien weds advertising executive Liza Powel in her hometown of Seattle, Washington. The couple met in 2000 during a skit rehearsal for the TV talk show host’s Late Night program and dated for 18 months before deciding to tie the knot. The ceremony is held at St. James Cathedral and officiated by the TV host’s friend and Harvard roommate, Fr. Paul O’Brien. On meeting his bride:

I did know very quickly. Somewhere in the vaults at NBC, there’s footage of me literally falling for my wife on camera. She’s incredibly beautiful. She’s very intelligent, and funny, and a really good person and so the nice thing is that, that was the basis of the relationship. So, I just knew.

4 Jul, 2002

Roberts, Moder marry

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JR DMRoberts exchanges vows with her cameraman boyfriend Moder during a midnight ceremony at her ranch outside Taos.  The bride wears pale pink cotton halter dress embroidered with pearls, antique beads and hand painted with flowers.

I hope that there are people who agree that I have done some good, kind things in my life, but to really, ultimately, stand fully in a moment of realizing that I was born to love and to be the wife of this man.

4 Jan, 2004

Spears, Alexander marry for 55 hours

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Spears invites her childhood friend, Jason Alexander, to Las Vegas and, shortly after partying at the Palms Casino hotel, they take a limo and get married at the Little White Wedding Chapel. Spears wears a baseball cap and jeans and allows the hotel bellman to walk her down the aisle. No friends or family attends.

Only 55 hours after the marriage Spears ends the marriage with an annulment which said Spears:

Lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to the marriage.

5 Jun, 2004

Lopez, Anthony marry

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jlopezLopez marries Anthony at her Beverly Hill home in a casual ceremony. Lopez wears Neil Lane jewelry from head to toe, including a necklace and bracelet. Lopez, mother, Guadalupe, is also  in attendance and embraces her son-in-law Anthony after the ceremony. Source:

She looked beautiful.

18 Sep, 2004

Spears, Federline marry

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britney-spears-kevin-federline-weddingSpears and Federline get married in Studio City, California. Spears and Federline originally planned to get married on October 18th but the stress of the paparazzi made the couple want to get married sooner. Their friends and family don’t know they are getting married until minutes before the ceremony.

I’m just kind of happy that we pulled off the whole thing.

5 Oct, 2004

Woods, Nordegren marry

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Woods and Norgedren marry after dating for four years. The couple wed in Barbados at the Barbados Resort Sandy Lane, in front of 200 family and friends. Source:

He didn’t act like he was going to get married. He was very relaxed, like this was any other day for him.

22 Jan, 2005

Trump, Knauss marry

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Trump Knauss marry imageTrump and Knauss get married in front of 350 guests at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, on the island of Palm Beach, Florida, followed by a reception at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Knaus wears $150,000 of diamonds. Rudy and Judy Giuliani, Hillary and Bill Clinton, P. Diddy, Katie Couric, Heidi Klum, and Gov. George and Libby Pataki are among the guests.

11 May, 2005

Klum, Seal marry

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Klum and Seal marry after one year of dating. The ceremony is conducted in front of 40 guests near Seal’s home on Mexico’s Costa Careyes. Klum wears a Vera Wang ivory chantilly lace gown with an empire waist. The cake is topped with a miniature Seal in a tux and Klum in a gown.