- These celebrity marriages are living proof that waiting for love can pay off.
- Kourtney Kardashian just became a first-time bride at 43 years old.
- Salma Hayek and Chloë Sevigny also got married for the first time after age 40.
Kourtney Kardashian, 43, married Travis Barker, 46, at a Santa Barbara courthouse. The pair later held a larger ceremony in Portofino, Italy.
Kardashian and Barker, who announced their engagement in October 2021, recently shared photos from their middle-of-the-night nuptials on April 4. The couple, who have been dating since early 2021, attended the 64th Annual Grammy Awards and an after-party at Delilah LV.
At the end of the night, the couple — wearing coordinated leather looks — made their way to One Love Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas and had an unofficial wedding ceremony, as they couldn't get a license at that time of the night.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker were officially married in Santa Barbara, the same town in which Barker proposed less than a year ago, in May 2022. Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker held their third wedding ceremony surrounded by their friends and family in Portofino, Italy, a week later.
This is Kardashian's first marriage following her longtime relationship with Scott Disick, who fathered her three children. This is Barker's third marriage. He was previously married to Melissa Kennedy from 2001 to 2002 and Shanna Moakler from 2004 until 2008.
Chloë Sevigny, 47, just celebrated her official wedding to Siniša Mačković, two years after they married in a New York City courthouse.
The "Russian Doll" actress married Mačković in 2020 while she was heavily pregnant with their son Vanja. They married at a New York City courthouse, with Sevigny wearing a long bodycon black dress for the occasion.
The pair later held a wedding ceremony at a quaint Connecticut church in May 2022. The bride wore a white Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture by Glenn Martins gown, followed by two other striking bridal looks.
Cameron Diaz, then 41, wed Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden in 2015.
The pair tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at their Beverly Hills home, although it wasn't all smooth sailing to the alter. According to the Daily Mail, Diaz and Madden's five-year-old ring bearer Sparrow Madden – the son of Benji's twin brother Joel and Nicole Richie – dropped one of the couple's wedding bands during the ceremony.
"We got married in our living room in front of our friends," Cameron told Andy Cohen. "Had a little party in our backyard on the tennis court. Otherwise, it would have been something else."
Salma Hayek was 42 when she tied the knot with French billionaire François-Henri Pinault.
Despite marrying one of the richest men in the world, Hayek's toned-down ceremony was held on Valentine's Day 2009 at a City Hall in Paris, France.
The pair later held a much more opulent ceremony at Venice's opera house La Fenice. Guests wore masquerade masks when they arrived at the black-tie ceremony, while Hayek stunned in a Balenciaga wedding gown, according to People.
Pinault, who was 47 when he married Hayek, has three children from previous relationships, including his ex-wife Dorothée Lepère.
Hayek and Pinault now share a daughter, 14-year-old Valentina Paloma Pinault, and have been married for over a decade.
"When there is conflict, we put all the energy [into] solving the problem — never finding who to blame or, 'You should have done this or that.' No," Hayek told Jada Pinkett Smith on "Red Table Talk" in June 2021. "All our energy goes into, 'How do we solve this?' "
Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo wed in 2015 after 15 years of dating. Adams was 40 at the time.
The pair were engaged for seven years before getting married in a small, intimate ceremony at a friend's house outside of Santa Barbara, California, according to People.
Adams and Darren Le Gallo were together for 14 years before they wed in May 2015. Adams said their wedding plans were continuously delayed as a result of her thriving acting career.
"He wants to be married," Adams told Allure in 2009. "He's sort of, you know, 'This is going to happen, right?' He understands I'm busy but he's ready."
"Once you have a great man in your life, it allows you—at least for me—to look at yourself and grow as an individual," she continued. "If I had known I was going to find this, my early 20s would have been completely different."
Adams and Darren Le Gallo have now been married for seven years and share a daughter, 12-year-old Aviana Olea Le Gallo.
Jessica Chastain wed Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo when she was 40. She previously said she wasn't interested in marriage.
Jessica Chastain wed fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo in his native Italy in June 2017. Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt were both in attendance for the luxurious Italian ceremony, held at the groom's family's stunning Villa Tiepolo Passi in Carbonera, according to Vogue.
However, Chastain said that prior to meeting her now-husband, she "never wanted to get married."
"When I first met my husband, he knew that marriage wasn't something I was interested in. And then as we got to know each other, the idea of marriage shifted for me," she told WSJ Magazine in 2018. "There are some things worth celebrating — and he's worth celebrating."
"I actually love being married. I never thought I would, but this is a spectacular human being, and I am celebrating that I get to share my life with him," she continued.
Julianna Margulies wed her husband Keith Lieberthal when the actress was 41 and pregnant with their first and only child, Kieran Lindsay Lieberthal.
Margulies, now 55, is six years older than her husband, who is a lawyer. Lieberthal also did not know who she was before the couple began dating, she told People in 2021.
"I mean, if he had seen my work, he didn't know. He was in law school. I was like, 'There's a couple movies I don't want you to see.'"
The pair wed in a small Massachusetts ceremony in 2007, when the actress was seven months pregnant with their first child.
"It was all traditional. It was very touching. She was radiant. It was beautiful," her father, Paul Margulies, who walked her down the aisle, told People at the time. "We're thrilled for her, and the young man she married is a wonderful person. We're proud to have him as a part of our family."
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