They Did! 13 Celebrity Couples’ Retro Wedding Snaps

Happily ever after? These stars may not want to remember how they looked walking down the aisle.

Happily ever after? These stars may not want to remember how they looked walking down the aisle.

1. David and Victoria Beckham

"It's such a special day for both of us," Victoria Beckham gushes of her wedding to David Beckham back on July 4, 1999. After getting hitched in a stunning ceremony at Luttrellstown Castle in Ireland, the couple changed out of their ivory clothes and put on purple outfits.

2. Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks

It was a mini marriage! Rita Wilson opted for a short skirt when she walked down the aisle with Tom Hanks in Los Angeles in April 1988, three years after the couple met while working on the set of Volunteers. "The only thing we argue about is who loves each other more," Hanks swears.

3. Courteney Cox and David Arquette

David Arquette set off fireworks after proposing to Courteney Cox nine months before their June wedding in 1999. Too bad their relationship eventually lost its spark and they finalized their divorce in 2013. "When you love someone, you want them to be happy, even if it's not with you," confesses Cox.

4. Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley

Christie Brinkley lifted Billy Joel's sails when she told him "I do" aboard a yacht in New York's Hudson River on March 23, 1985. The two called it quits nine years later.

5. Mariah Carey and Tommy Mottola

Mariah Carey thought she had found her dream lover in former Sony Music Entertainment executive Tommy Mottola, and the pair became husband and wife in June 1995. They ended up in a nasty divorce four years later and Mottola later wrote in his book Hitmaker: The Man and His Music that their union was "absolutely wrong and inappropriate" and that he's "truly sorry for any discomfort or pain" that he caused the singer.

6. Rod Stewart and Rachel Hunter

Rod Stewart and Rachel Hunter thought a wedding was so nice they had one twice! The couple first married in December 1990 and then renewed their vows five years later. The third time would never be the charm since they got divorced less than a year after their second ceremony.

7. Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger

Though Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger seemed happily married for nine years, their 2002 divorce and the subsequent custody battle they waged over daughter Ireland brought out their hateful sides. "The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse," Baldwin said of Basinger at the time. "If you had your own opinion, you were abusive."

8. Jean-Claude Van Damme and Gladys Portugues

It must be true love! Jean-Claude Van Damme and Gladys Portugues decided they weren't done with each other after ending their almost five-year marriage in 1992. The couple remarried in 1999 at the Sacré-Cœur in Paris — and they're still going strong!

9. John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal

Tennis legend John McEnroe threw waves instead of tennis rackets when he and Tatum O'Neal greeted well-wishers at their 1986 wedding. The smiles didn't last long into their drug-fueled marriage. "Too often there was anger and distance, instead of intimacy," confesses McEnroe.

10. Bruce Jenner and Linda Thompson

Bruce Jenner and Linda Thompson found wedded bliss in paradise when they married on the beach at the Hawaiian home of producer Allan Carr in January 1981. Their short-lived union ended two years later.

11. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver got married in 1986 in Hyannis, Maine. But ten years later the actor cheated and fathered a son with their housekeeper. "Instead of doing the right thing, I'd just put the truth in a mental compartment and locked it up where I didn't deal with it every day," says Schwarzenegger, who is in the process of getting a divorce from Shriver.

12. Kelsey Grammer and Camille Donatacci

Kelsey Grammer and Camille Donatacci-Grammer seemed over the moon at their wedding in the summer of '97. They divorced four days before Valentine's Day in 2011, not long after Donatacci-Grammer discovered her husband was cheating with stewardess Kayte Walsh, with whom he has just welcomed a son.

13. Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee

Appropriately, former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson married rocker Tommy Lee on the beach in Cancun, Mexico, in 1995. Though their relationship lasted just short of three years, they will always be remembered for their sex tape.