Celebrities who secretly got married: from James McAvoy and Emma Stone to Mary Kate Olsen and Beyonce
FAMOUS people essentially sign up for their private lives to become public once they make it to Hollywood.
Audience members and fans everywhere love to indulge in celebrity gossip, so it’s always a shock when something big goes under the radar.
A few celebrities, however, have managed to keep one of the most important days of their lives top-secret: their wedding ceremony.
James McAvoy and Lisa Liberati
The actor recently announced that he married Lisa Liberati in a small, secret ceremony.
The two met in 2016, on the set of the film Split.
McAvoy was the lead actor and Liberati was the personal assistant to the film's director.
Though he confirmed the wedding this week, he did not offer further details.
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Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy
The child star began dating Sarkozy in 2010.
While there were rumors swirling that they’d have a big Hamptons wedding in the summer of 2016, those rumors were false.
The public was shocked to learn that they actually had a secret ceremony over Thanksgiving the year before.
Though the wedding was surely filled with love, their divorce was finalized about five years later.
Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley
Robbie and Ackerley had been dating for years before tying the knot, so the public was thrilled to hear about their private Australian wedding ceremony in 2016.
The event was so secretive, that even the 50 attendees did not know the location.
They were instead told to meet at various spots around the town of Byron Bay and were then bussed to the actual location.
Phones and cameras were even taken away by security guards.
Jay-Z and Beyonce
Music’s power couple is famous for being private, so it’s no surprise that their wedding was kept quiet.
The simple ceremony was held in Jay-Z’s TriBeCa apartment.
Emma Stone and Dave McCary
The La La Land actress privately married SNL and Easy A director Dave McCary nine months after news of their engagement hit.
While they originally wanted a big wedding, COVID changed those plans.
Last year, the couple welcomed their first child: a daughter named Louise Jean McCary.
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher
The That ‘70’s Show alums managed to keep news of their engagement and their wedding under wraps for some time.
The couple didn’t even confirm that they were married until months after it happened.
They celebrated their union in July of 2015 at a super-secret garden party at Parrish Ranch in Oak Glen, California.
While on the talk show Conan, Kunis revealed that her wedding band cost only $90 and was purchased on Etsy.
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost
The couple had a pandemic wedding in 2020.
The intimate ceremony is reported to have taken place at the New York home that they share.
In August of 2021, the couple welcomed their first child: a son named Cosmo Jost.
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner
Before their extravagant Paris wedding, the singer and actress secretly tied the knot in Las Vegas after the 2019 Billboard Music Awards.
The small ceremony was held at A Little White Wedding Chapel and Diplo streamed the whole thing on Instagram.
The fun-loving couple ended the night in the pool, fully clothed.
Amy Schumer and Chris Fischer
The comedian surprised even her family and friends when she married Chris Fischer only three months into dating him.
She sent out text-message invitations moments before the event took place in 2018.
The blonde actress wore a Monique Lhuillier gown, as her close pals like Jennifer Lawrence, Judd Apatow, and Jake Gyllenhaal watched her say “I do.”
Emily Ratajkowski and Sebastian Bear-McClard
The model shocked fans when she announced, via Instagram, that she had married film producer and short-term boyfriend Sebastian Bear-McClard.
They tied the knot at City Hall in New York, with Ratajkowski wearing a mustard-yellow Zara pantsuit and Bear-McClard in a casual lilac one.
They celebrated afterward at a restaurant with close friends.
It was especially surprising because news of Ratajkowski’s breakup with her previous boyfriend Jeff Magid had been announced only months before she married Bear-McClard.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
The adorable couple made it official in a secret South Carolina ceremony.
Since getting married in 2012, Lively and Reynolds have apologized for holding the event on a former slave plantation called Boone Hall Plantation.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Although the two recently went through a nasty divorce, there was nothing but love at their 2014 intimate wedding ceremony.
After being together for nearly 10 years, they secretly got married at their home in France, with all of their children in attendance.
Jolie even wore a Versace gown customized by her kids’ drawings.
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem
Known for being low-key, Cruz and Bardem said “I do” in a tiny Bahamas wedding in 2010.
They had known each other for 15 years before beginning a romantic relationship.
Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady
The supermodel and football star were dating for three years before they made it official with two secret weddings in 2009.
The first private ceremony was held in a small Catholic Church in Santa Monica, and the second took place at their home in Costa Rica.
It wasn’t until 2014 that fans got to see a photo of their nuptials—with Bündchen sharing an adorable post on Instagram.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Lauren Hashian
The actor and former pro-wrestler married singer Lauren Hashian in an intimate Hawaii ceremony in 2019.
Though they had been dating for a while, the wedding news came as a surprise to fans.
He made the announcement on Instagram, sharing adorable beachside photos, shortly after.
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux
Like her famous ex Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston also had a secret wedding.
Hers was in 2015.
She and fellow actor Justin Theroux held a 70-person wedding in their backyard, with only family and close friends in attendance.
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The two have since separated.
Some other stars who have pulled off secret weddings include: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz, Jessica Alba and Cash Warren, and Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder.
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