March 28th, 1987
Nora Ephron & Carl Bernstein

It was on this day in 1987 that Nora Ephron made her happiness official. After a painful breakup from previous husband Carl Bernstein (and writing a novel based on his affair), she married screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi. This would be her third marriage.

They are still married to this day. So what kind of advice can Ephron give us in order to maintain a happy marriage? She says: “One is marry a man who was unhappily married to someone else for 17 years; one is marry an Italian, that’s a very good secret; and one is never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from. Those are my three secrets of marriage.”

Not convinced? Ephron has claimed that her husband is also very romantic. “He used to bring me bags of subway tokens because I was always losing them in my handbag – I can’t tell you how romantic that was. I don’t think Italian men are more romantic, but I have done better being married to an Italian man than to the two who came before, who weren’t Italian.”

Happy (and hopefully very romantic) anniversary to you both!