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This is the gown Mary Pickford wore to marry her fellow actor Douglas Fairbanks in 1920.

Silent film star Buster Keaton married Natalie Talmage in 1921 and they had two children. She was allegedly really into fashion, and spent around a third of his fortune on clothes. Whoops.

Wallis Simpson and Edward, Prince of Wales, 1937.

Edward abdicated the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson in a royal scandal. For their wedding in France, Simpson wore a “Wallis blue” Mainbocher wedding dress.

In 1948, singer Nat King Cole and musician Maria Hawkins Ellington married just six days after his divorce to his first wife, Nadine, was finalized.

They would go on to have five children together (including singer Natalie), and though Maria eventually left Nat over the multiple affairs he had during their relationship, she came back to take care of him when he was dying of lung cancer.

Elizabeth Taylor’s first marriage to Paris Hilton’s grandfather, hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, in 1950, lasted only nine months.

Ava Gardner called Frank Sinatra the love of her life.

They moved into a crazy house in Palm Springs with a piano-shaped swimming pool, but even a novelty pool couldn’t make their love last. They divorced just six years later.

Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding, 1952 - For her marriage to Michael Wilding (Taylor’s second), Taylor went a bit more demure, and dressed in a suit dress and pearls. The Wilding-Taylor union actually lasted much longer than her marriage to Hilton and produced two sons.

Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy, 1953

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, 1954

Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, 1956

Look how happy these two look, right? WRONG.

Actors Reynolds and Fisher were married for just four years before he stepped out on her with Elizabeth Taylor and became Taylor’s fourth husband.

Actors Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood were actually married twice. The first time, in 1957, Wood was just 19 years old. Their first marriage lasted five years. Both went on to other relationships before reconnecting in 1972. After a brief courtship, they remarried and had a child.

Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt, 1960

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 1964 Burton and Taylor liked getting married to each other so much they did it twice — first in 1964 and again in 1975. Burton was Taylor’s fifth and sixth husband.

Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim, 1965Director Roger Vadim and Fonda were apparently way into group sex and threesomes. Their marriage lasted eight years and the making of the movie Barbarella before she divorced him and married activist Tom Hayden.

Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow, 1966

Mia Farrow was just 21 when 50-year-old Frank Sinatra wooed her and asked her to marry him.

George Harrison and Patti Boyd, 1966

Liza Minnelli and Peter Allen, 1967

Liza was just 21 when she married her mother Judy Garland’s protegé, Peter Allen. The marriage lasted seven years, though Minnelli said, “I married Peter and he didn’t tell me he was gay. Everyone knew but me.

Priscilla Beaulieu and Elvis Presley, 1967 Priscilla was just 14 when she met Elvis on an Army base in Germany, where she was living with family. The couple married when she was 22 and Priscilla made her own dress for the ceremony.

Audrey Hepburn and Andrea Dotti, 1969Hepburn married Dotti, an Italian psychologist, in this gorgeous empire waist getup. The marriage lasted 13 years and the couple had one child together.

Lulu and Maurice Gibb, 1969Singers Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees were basically ’70s pop music royalty, which is why their bizarre wedding outfits make total sense.

Mick Jagger and Bianca Jagger, 1971

Bianca was actually four months pregnant with daughter Jade when she and Jagger wed in St. Tropez.

She divorced the Rolling Stones singer seven years later, claiming that he’d cheated on her throughout their marriage (and after catching him with model Jerry Hall).

Faye Dunaway and Peter Wolf, 1974

They divorced five years later.

Julio Iglesias and Isabel Preysler, 1971

Aretha Franklin and Glynn Turman, 1978 Franklin’s marriage to actor Glenn Turman was actually her second (she’d previously been married to Ted White). The Franklin-Thurman union only lasted four years before they divorced.

Alana Hamilton and Rod Stewart, 1979

Princess Diana and Prince Charles, 1981

Diana wore a dress created by David and Elizabeth Emanuel that included a 25-foot train, and very puffy sleeves.

Renata Blauel and Elton John, 1984

Did you know that Elton John was once married to a woman? Well, he was!