August 21, 1959

Walter Matthau & Carol Marcus aka Carol Grace

Today in wedding history lovable actor Walter Matthau married writer & actress Carol Marcus. Known to the world as Carol Grace, this elegant socialite was the inspiration for Truman Capote’s famed character Holly Golightly!

This social couple met on Broadway in 1955 while they were both acting in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter. They married four years later and went on to have one biological child, however their family included children from both of their previous marriages as well.

Carol & Walter were loved not just by fans but by many colleagues, friends and family. Today we celebrate their love!

August 20th, 1992

Sting & Trudie Styler

One day a working class girl met a talented musician and actor named Sting. The girl, an actress herself, was named Trudie Styler, and although they couldn’t have a relationship, (Sting was married) when he became single years later they reconnected and fell in love.

They married on August 20th, 1992. Trudie told People Magazine, “We make each other royally laugh, and yes, we have a great sex life”.

The two have been known to talk openly about their romantic side and they aren’t afraid to share some of their intimate details with the press. However, their passions don’t end with each other! These two are avid philanthropists, and they have three children. Though their family shares multiple estates they live primarily on a farm in Wiltshire, England.

Congratulations Sting & Trudie!!

August 19, 1989

Denis & Ann today

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Today in wedding history actor & comedian Denis Leary married writer Ann Lembeck. They both attended the Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating, Denis taught comedic writing for five years and it was in one of his classes where he met his future wife.

According to Ann’s website Denis asked her for a date and afterward he stayed the night! She adds, “and then he stayed over the next night and the next, and still, twenty-five years later, we’re together.”

Denis & Ann have two teenagers and they live on a farm in Connecticut.

August 18, 2000

Newt Gingrich & Callista Bisek

Today in wedding history Former Speaker of the House married Callista Bisek. The two met in Washington DC while Callista was working as an aide for the Agricultural Committee. After keeping their affair very private the two wed in a ceremony in Alexandria, Virginia at the Morrison House Hotel. Over 150 guests attended.

Callista is President of her own production company where she and Newt have produced historical films and documentaries. They also created the Gingrich Foundation. They currently live in McLean, Virginia.

August 17, 1964

Bruce Lee & Linda Emery

Bruce Lee was a student at Washington University, and was giving a Kung Fu demonstration at Garfield High School when he met Linda Emery. They went out on their first date on October 25th, 1963, where he took her to the Space Needle Restuarant in Seattle for dinner. They hit it off very quickly and in less than a year, on August 17th, 1964, the couple were married. During the time they were dating, Linda had become one of Bruce’s Kung Fu students.

Later on, Lee became a famed actor and martial artist thanks to his starring roles in Enter the Dragon and Game of Death. The couple were married until Lee’s untimely death in July of 1973 at the age of 33. Their relationship is portrayed in the film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.

August 13, 1943

Billy Graham & Ruth Bell

In 1940 two Wheaton College students were introduced by a friend and began a courtship that would last 67 years. The two students were Ruth Bell and now famous Evangelical Billy Graham. Though some say it didn’t get serious until Ruth told Billy she loved him, Billy has been quoted as saying, “I saw her walking down the road towards me and I couldn’t help but stare at her as she walked. She looked at me and our eyes met and I felt that she was definitely the woman I wanted to marry.” He proposed in June of 1941.

On August 13, 1943 the two were married in Montreat, North Carolina and lived there in a log home that Ruth designed. Billy became the spiritual advisor to presidents and  and his growing popularity made him create the “Billy Graham Rule” which meant that he would never let himself be alone with a woman other than his wife.

They went on to have five children, nine grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren.

Ruth passed away in 2007 and it has been said that Billy Graham now has a deeper understanding to those he counsels on grief. Billy and Ruth were best friends, lovers and partners and today we honor their love.

August 10, 2000
Dave Matthews & Jennifer Ashley Harper

Singer/guitarist Dave Matthews married his longtime sweetheart Jennifer Ashley Harper ten years ago today. the couple had been together before Matthews had tasted any fame in the world of rock’n'roll.

Back in 1993, he told a reporter, “I’m insane for this woman.”

Matthews met Harper when she was a studying to become a doctor at Sweet Briar College. Years later, they wed on a Thursday at his mother’s farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. It was a family-only ceremony.

Ten years later, the couple have twin daughters and a son. They reside in Seattle.

August 7, 2004
Fred Savage & Jennifer Stone

Before he played a child of the ’60s on The Wonder Years, Fred Savage was a kid living outside of Chicago. He met a young girl named Jennifer Stone then moved to Los Angeles to become a famous actor.

Ten years later, Savage and Stone reconnected at his 22nd birthday party. They soon began dating and four years later, while on a trip to Italy, Savage proposed. Stone’s engagement ring was designed by famed jeweler Neil Lane and was engraved with the words: “I must have done something good.” This line is from a song from The Sound of Music.

A year later, they wed at L’Orangerie restaurant in Los Angeles, CA. The couple have two children.

August 6, 1947
Fats Domino & Rosemary Hall

Fats Domino is known as a pioneer of R&B and Rock’n'Roll, with countless hits, including, “I’m Walkin’” and “Blueberry Hill.” But before the fame, he was just a kid named Antoine, growing up in New Orleans.

In the summer of 1947, the 19-year-old piano player was introduced to a neighboring family who had an upright piano. He immediately sat down to play and upon finishing the woman of the household, Rita LaPage Hall burst into applause. She wasn’t the only woman in the household who was a fan of his. Rita’s 17-year-old daughter Rosemary took to the young man, as he did her.

Domino courted the beautiful, shy girl and finally invited her to see him play a gig. According to his biography Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock’n'Roll, Miss Hall wore her Sunday best to the club and coughed on the club’s cigarette smoke.

Before the summer was over, the two were exchanging vows in her family’s house. She wore a long, white gown with puffy sleeves and a ring borrowed from her sister. Their first “home” was a room in her parents’ house.

Interestingly, Domino’s mother-in-law also adored him and was very supportive of his career. According to Blue Monday, “She was crazy about me and I was crazy about her,” Domino said.

Over the years, Domino wrote several songs for his wife, but he said “We never did talk too much about music.”

In fact, the show that she went to shortly before they were married was the last time she ever saw him perform. They were determined to keep his business life and their relationship separate.

After 63 years of marriage, the Dominos raised eight chilren and still make their home in New Orleans. That’s a Rock’n'Roll marriage made in heaven.

August 4, 1994
Faith Evans & Christopher Wallace (The Notorious B.I.G.)

When 21-year-old singer Faith Evans showed up at a photo shoot for Bad Boy Records in the summer of 1994, she probably had know idea that she’d meet a rapper named Christopher Wallace, and that within three weeks, the two would be married.

Turbulent would be a nice way to describe their marriage. Notorious wasn’t just Wallace’s rapper name. It’s been widely publicized that Biggy had affairs with several women, including singers and groupies.

In her autobiography, Keep the Faith, Evans even recalls finding fellow rapper Lil Kim in bed with her husband.

In 1996, some  good news came to the young couple when Evans gave birth to a son, Christopher. Unfortunately, their happiness would not last long. They separated in the beginning of 1997 and  a few months later, Notorious B.I.G. was murdered. He was 24 years old.

Evans helped keep the memory of her late husband alive by recording several tribute songs. In 1998, she married a record executive, with whom she has two children and continues to record albums.