Listicle: 10 celebrity weddings that gave everyone goals

Lakeside vows, pastel palettes, bayous, backyards and boats. These celeb weddings are what modern fairytales are made of

Listicle: 10 celebrity weddings that gave everyone goals

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  Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma (2017)

  Their pink-pastel palette, gleaming in the soft Tuscan light, looked so good, couples are still copying it in 2024. The actor and cricketer had just 40 guests at the medieval villa. She wore Sabyasachi, kept her makeup simple. He wore ivory silk and a gleaming turban. The best part was thet they seemed delighted to be part of their own wedding – no posed photos, no stuffy expressions. Even the guests were so chill.
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  Chrissy Teigen and John Legend (2013)

  Legend proposed at a beach in the Maldives. Of course, the wedding had to be the stuff of dreams. The All Of Me singer said “I do” to the supermodel at Lake Como in Italy, which became a celebrity favourite immediately (even for Deepika and Ranveer; and Virat and Anushka). Stevie Wonder performed. They cut a four-tier carrot cake. Teigen wore three Vera Wang wedding gowns. A decade on, though, what she remembers are the little moments. “John’s uncle was officiating our wedding, and I dropped the ring,” she told People magazine last year. “I, of course, said ‘Oh, s***,’ into the mic.” It ended up being a cherished memory.
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  Dia Mirza and Vaibhav Rekhi (2021)

  An intimate celebrity wedding in Mumbai? Sounds impossible. The actor and businessman pulled it off. She wore a red Raw Mango sari. They married just as Covid lockdowns were lifting, right in her garden, under her favourite mango tree. “The garden where I have spent every morning for the past 19 years was an absolutely magical setting and the most intimate and perfect space for our simple and soulful ceremony”, she posted on Insta.
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  Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Bieber (2019)

  The Baby singer and his Favourite Girl married twice. Once, in a private courtroom ceremony in 2018; next, at Somerset Chapel in South Carolina with just 154 guests. Everyone arrived on speedboat. A string quartet played as she walked down the aisle. The champagne came in Swarovski crystal-encrusted bottles for guests. And she wore three wedding dresses too: One by Virgil Abloh (off-white, so chic), one by Ralph & Russo (crisp white) and a soft-white slip dress by Vera Wang.
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  Kat Dennings and Andrew WK (2013)

  How many celebrities can pull off a tasteful wedding in their own backyard? The actor and musician had a cosy, intimate wedding, with only 15 people in attendance at their LA home. It was kind of designer DIY–Dennings wore a vintage Alexander McQueen dress and did all the wedding florals and aisle pieces herself. She also made the ceremony arch, which took three days. We love a unique goal.
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  Aditi Rao Hydari and Siddharth (2024)

  They married at the 400-year-old Sri Ranganayaka Swamy Temple in Srirangapur, Telangana. Hydari was in a handwoven Maheshwari tissue lehenga and Benarasi tissue dupatta, and had mogras in her hair. Siddharth wore a white silk kurta with subtle embroidery and a veshti. Perfect down to the last stitch.
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  Lana Del Rey and Jeremy Dufrene (2024)

  She’s a world-famous singer. He’s an alligator swamp tour guide on the bayou. They married only a month after they went public with their relationship. Why wouldn’t their Louisiana waterfront wedding, at the spot they first met, be anything but dreamy? Rey’s floor-length wedding gown with a ruffled neckline was custom-made by Cinq, but looked like it was thrifted from a vintage rack. There were tents, family, friends. No paparazzi. Sounds like she said Yes To Heaven.
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  Athiya Shetty and and KL Rahul (2024)

  If you have a summer home in the Sahyadris, why get married anywhere else? The actor and cricketer had a small but stylish wedding at the Shetty farmhouse in Khandala. Only 70 people attended. The courtyard had a canopy of jasmine flowers. Shetty chose a soft pastel lehenga by Anamika Khanna which had chikankari, zardozi and jaali work. No shade of peach or cream was left unexplored. Everything looked like a carefully curated fantasy.
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  Josh Radnor and Jordana Jacobs (2024)

  Ted from How I Met Your Mother married his longtime girlfriend at Cedar Lakes Estate in New York. It was -6 degrees Celsius. The light blizzard only added magic to the moment, and dusted all 164 guests with snow. The background worked wonders for Jacobs’s princess-style sheer snow-white gown.
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  Randeep Hooda and Lin Laishram (2023)

  The setting: Imphal in Manipur. The ceremony : garlands, pheras and traditional Meitei wedding rituals. The guests: just close friends and family. Laishram wore a potloi skirt made with fabric and bamboo. The couple later hosted a wedding reception in Mumbai, where she wore a red outfit with motifs from her hometown. The couple posed with horses for a shoot, so unusual, so effortless. No wonder the pictures went viral.