As the song goes 'I love to cry at weddings, anybody's weddings.'

This is the wedding from the sound of music which I'm aware is not a real wedding but whatever!

 Ah Hollywood weddings, you have to love them, whether understated or outrageous they are always spectacular. Part of the reason I haven't been blogging aside from laziness is that I'm planning my wedding. Eek its all very lovely and exciting so I thought I would combine my two current favorite things weddings and old Hollywood so here's a little look at some of Hollywood's loveliest weddings before the days of lavish televised circus weddings that last 2 weeks (I'm looking at you Kim Kardashian.)

when you talk about Hollywood weddings you must of course talk about the grand dame of marriages, Elizabeth Taylor. Famously married a record eight times to seven men, Ms. Taylor was almost as famous for her tumultuous relationships as for acting. so here's a quick run through of some of her fabulous weddings and not so fabulous marriages.

she married  Conrad Hilton (Paris's great uncle) in a lavish ceremony staged by MGM may of 1950 . she filed for  divorce in January 1951 on the grounds of extreme mental cruelty from Hilton.

Her third marriage to mike Todd is the only one not to have ended in divorce sadly he died in a plane crash. I'm freaking over the hood and the fact that Debbie Reynolds and Eddie fisher are witnesses at the wedding because...

Eddie Fisher was husband number Four. and another hooded dress, I love this woman. this match didn't last long though

because Liz met Richard Burton. their famously tumultuous relationship is the stuff of legend and resulted in them being married and divorced twice.

La Liz wasn't the only serial marryer in Hollywood  though, it seems that those who stayed married long term were in the minority. here's a quick run of some of the lovely weddings that ended in divorce 

Ol blue eyes already on his second marriage of four to Ava Gardner who was on her third. he left his first wife childhood sweetheart and mother of his children, it was a huge scandal at the time. They were married for six years, another famously tumultuous relationship that fizzled out though Sinatra always hailed Ava as the love of his life.

and here's Frankie again with his third wife Mia Farrow. He was her first husband  of two but she was also famously in a relationship for many years with Woody Allen. Frank and Mia married in 1966, he was 51 she was 21. Their relationship was a barrage of game playing and battles for control. He cheated on her numerous times, she lobbed an ash tray at his head, he went bananas when she took rosemary's baby and she took off to an ashram in India to hang out with the Beatles  they divorced in 1968.

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer married in 1954 in what can only be described as a fairy tale wedding in a garden in Switzerland. it has been said that Mel was very controlling and jealous of Audrey's success. they divorced in 1968 after 14 years. Audrey was devastated by the divorce, she felt like a failure. she was married and divorced once more but spent most of her final years in a relationship with the extremely handsome Robert Wolders

I love this photo of the luminous Marilyn Monroe at her third wedding to playwright Arthur miller. Marilyn's quest for love has been written about way too many times but she was married three times most famously to Joe DiMaggio and was romantically linked to everyone from actors to mobsters and of course the president of the united states.  she was married to miller from 1956 to 1961.

Ah Bogie and Bacall, was there ever a cooler couple than these two? they married in 1945 having met on the set of 'to have and have not' Bogart left his third wife to marry Lauren, they went on to have two children and were married relativity happily it would seem until his death in 1957.I really feel they would have stayed married had it not been for his death they seemed to be perfect for each other.  Bacall was also engaged to Frank Sinatra or a short time and went on to marry and divorce the actor Jason Robards

Mick and Bianca Jagger on their wedding day in 1971. they were the golden couple of the 70's and the studio 54 scene but the marriage ended in 1978 when Bianca filed for divorce on grounds of micks many infidelities. Mick is pretty much the definition of a Lothario, he has been linked to pretty much every woman you can think of  and even some men too. He was in a relationship with the model Jerry Hall from the 70's to the 90's, the couple married in a Hindu ceremony but the marriage was later annulled due to questions over the validity of the ceremony  Mick has seven children with four different women.

And now on to some of the more long lasting marriages, Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman were married in 1958 and remained happily married until his death in 2008. The secret to their success seemed to be that they stayed away from the spotlight, making their home in Connecticut, also I think they were just crazy about each other which is pretty sweet.

And finally the wedding of the century, Hollywood's princess, Grace Kelly became genuine royalty when she married married Prince Rainier III of Monaco. they met in 1955 at the Cannes film festival and apparently when the time came for him to look for a wife he knew exactly who he wanted, the love story seems a little bit more of a business transaction then a romance but they remained married until Grace's tragic death in 1982 and Rainier never re-married. 

so there you have it folks being married in Hollywood is not an easy task but at least it gives us lots of gorgeous wedding photos to gawk at :)

here's the aformentioned song, from the musical sweet charity