July 31, 1999
Patrick Dempsey & Jillian Fink

Eleven years ago today, actor Patrick Dempsey married makeup artist, Jillian Fink.

The actor, who shot to fame as a teen star in such films as Can’t Buy Me Love and Loverboy, met his wife during a dry spell in his career. Although, he’s now revered as McDreamy on Grey’s Anatomy, Dempsey spent several years in acting limbo.

During the time in which he struggled just to get auditions, Dempsey met Fink, who is the founder of Delux Beauty Cosmetics. According to Britain’s Cosmopolitan Magazine, Dempsey knew Fink was special from their very first meeting.

“I knew as soon as I saw her. She’s beautiful but, more importantly, we had a connection,” he told the magazine.

The couple have three children together — a daughter born in 2000 and twin sons born in 2007.

Dempsey, who has been married once before, is the first to admit that marriage isn’t easy.

“I am romantic but I think it takes more than just flowers. Marriage is great and blissful, but it takes work and understanding. You have to make time to spend together and to work through your issues. The more we grown and learn, both as individuals and as a couple, the closer we get.” Dempsey told a reporter last year.

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. We hope that their marriage continues to be a Mcdream come true!

July 30, 2004
Nicolas Cage & Alice Kim

Today marks six years since Nicolas Cage married his third wife, Alice Kim. The two tied the knot at a Northern California ranch only six months after they first met.

Kim caught Cage’s eye in February at the Los Angeles restaurant Le Privé, where she was a waitress. Two months later, they were engaged.

A year later, Kim gave birth to their son, Kal-El Coppola Cage. Kal-El is the birth name of Superman, a figure that Cage supposedly has an obsession with (he was even attached to star as Superman in a film at one time).

Despite their 20-year age difference and Cage’s previous failed marriages (to Patricia Arquette and Lisa Marie Presley), the couple are still going strong. Perhaps producer Jerry Bruckheimer summed up their relationship best.

“He loves her and that’s really nice to see. She makes him very happy,” Bruckheimer told People Magazine in 2005.

The couple celebrated their sixth anniversary last night, dining with their son at Botafumeiro, a restaurant in Barcelona (pictures can be seen here).

July 29, 1981

Charles, Prince of Wales & Diana Spencer

750 million people tuned in to watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. The beautiful event took place at St. Paul’s Cathedral on July 29, 1981.

Diana and Charles had known each other for sometime before they began courting in 1980.

On February 6, 1981, after one year of dating Charles proposed to Diana and for weeks they kept the engagement a secret before announcing their upcoming wedding to the press.

Diana wore a ring consisting of a sapphire surrounded by 14 diamonds. Diana was only 20 years old when she married the Prince of Wales and once she became his wife, her world changed drastically. Her schedule became filled with public engagements and royal responsibilities and she grew frustrated with the royal demands and Charles’ adultery.

Diana & Charles divorced in 1996 but Diana continues to be remembered as the People’s Princess to this day.

July 26, 1995
Mick Fleetwood & Lynn Frankel

On this day in 1995, Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood married his longtime girlfriend, Lynn Frankel (a PR executive) in New York. It was his third marriage and the bride’s first.

The couple originally planned to marry in April of that year in Laughlin, Nevada. They canceled the wedding when Frankel’s father passed away from a heart attack the night before the ceremony.

Three months later, they married on a Wednesday at Tavern on the Green in New York’s famous Central Park. They celebrated with a star-studded reception at the club Downtime with guests including Pat Benatar, The Beastie Boys and REO Speedwagon.

Fleetwood, who has a history of drug and alcohol abuse credits Frankel for getting him sober. In 2002, Frankel gave birth to twin daughters. The family lives in Hidden Hills, just outside of Los Angeles, CA.

A happy 15th anniversary goes out to the couple from us at PROPOSAL!

July 25, 1895

Pierre & Marie Curie

Pierre Curie and Marie Sklodowska met in Paris in 1894. Sklodowska, 27, had recently attained her physics and mathematics degree at the Sorbonne. She planned to earn her teacher’s diploma and return to Poland. Curie, 35, was already an established French physicist and devoted to his scientific work. Strangely enough, the two bonded over their interest in magnetism, and that bond eventually became something more.

They married in 1895 at the town hall in Sceaux, where Curie’s parents lived. The money they were given at their wedding was used to buy bicycles; riding would be one of their favorite hobbies outside of the lab throughout their marriage. The couple would eventually go on to discover two new elements, polonium and radium, and would coin the term “radioactivity” to describe the emission of uranic rays after experimenting with uranium. They would win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

July 25, 2009
Kendrick Perkins & Vanity Alpough

He may have not won a 2009-10 NBA championship ring with the Boston Celtics (they fell just short in Game 7 to the Lakers), but Kendrick Perkins and his wife Vanity exchange wedding rings within the last year. The couple, who have been together for years, wed in style at the Carlton Woods Country Club in Texas.

The bride arrived via a horse drawn carriage and after the ceremony, the couple enjoyed a ride along the lake on the buggy. Other ceremony details included trumpet players, a dove release and a groom’s cake made to look like a box of cigars. You can look at the breathtaking photos of the ceremony taken by photographer Holly Anne on her website.

The Perkins have a son, Kendrick Perkins II, born in September of 2007.

July 19, 1966

Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow

Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow married in 1966 at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas after two years of courtship. The couple met during the filming of Von Ryan’s Express. The coupling surprised many since Farrow was 21 at the time and Sinatra was 50, making Farrow younger than two of her stepchildren. There was much adoration between the two however. Mia called Frank “Charlie Brown” after the famed Peanuts character, and he called her “my 22-year-old wife with the 45-year-old mind.”

The couple divorced two years later.  After realizing that working on Sinatra’s 1968 film The Detective would overrun what would be one of her most famous films, Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, she broke her agreement with him and decided not to quit her current film. Sinatra came on Polanski’s set and served  her with divorce papers.

Wedhead Update

July 10, 2010, country star Carrie Underwood married hockey player Mike Fisher in Greensboro, Georgia at Reynolds Plantation. Carrie & her bridesmaids wore gowns designed by Monique Lhuillier. Even Carries little dog was custom in a pink tuxedo with Swarvoski crystals!

On Saturday July 10, 2010 star of “The Office” John Krasinksi married the beautiful actress Emily

John & Emily

Blunt. The two A-Listers married at the Villa D’este in Como, Italy and stayed with actor George Clooney at his private estate prior to their wedding.

Javier & Penelope

This month actress Penelope Cruz married longtime boyfriend Javier Bardem. The two has kept their relationship so hush-hush that even their actual wedding date is under wraps! People Magazine has reported however that Penelope & Javier married in a private ceremony at a home in the Bahamas and Penelope wore a John Galliano gown. Thank goodness we have the important info!
Congrats to this weeks happy couples!

July 16, 1989
Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan

Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan

Twenty-one years ago, on a wooded hillside in rural Vermont, Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan exchanged vows.  Surrounded by family and a few close friends, they began a life together based on love, strength, and a sense of humor.

In fact, they claim the secret to their successful marriage is the ability to laugh, especially when things get tough.  Michael adds to this, “We give each other a break. It’s not how our similarities work together; it’s how our differences work together.”
Michael and Tracy met on the ’80s sitcom Family Ties.  He played the conservative teenager, Alex P. Keaton; she played Ellen Reed, Alex’s girlfriend for two seasons.  But in real life, both actors were romantically involved with other people.  Two years later when Tracy auditioned for a part in one of Michael’s film, they learned that they both were single and the rest is history.

They were engaged within the year.  Michael is quoted as saying “When we married, we married, and that was it.  We were in love then, as we are now, and we planned to stay married.”

Michael and Tracy’s marriage is a source of inspiration to any couple.  They both have busy, successful careers.  They’re devoted parents to their son and three daughters.   And they are activists in helping people, like Michael, who battle Parkinson’s disease.  The Michael J. Fox Foundation has raised over  $100 million dollars to help patients receive better treatments and, ultimately, find a cure for this neurodegenerative disorder.

The Fox family lives on a 100-acre estate in rural Vermont.