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Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello
The Modern Family star married her hunky Magic Mike actor in a glamorous, star-studded wedding at The Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida on November 22, 2015.
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27 Celebrities Who Said "I Do" with a Winter Wedding
Published on November 24, 2015
From Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden to Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra, see which celebrity duos have tied the knot in the chilly winter months.
At first blush, winter weddings may evoke thoughts of everything that can go wrong with a formal affair: Cathedral-length trains dragged through gray snow; barren, indoors-only portrait sessions; and guests whose teeth chatter as they commute in the cold between your ceremony and reception. But winter weddings have a way of winning you over. Because while the weather outside may be frightful, brides and grooms will make their celebrations utterly delightful with warming fires, fur stoles, white flowers, and even seasonal treats, such as s'mores piping hot cocoa.
Winter weddings are so fanciful, in fact, that dozens of celebrities have held their own November, December, January, and February fêtes. Several embraced the season: Snow-capped mountains served as the backdrop for Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado, where the couple kept guests warm with an outdoor fire, while others — including Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting, Kellie Pickler and Kyle Jacobs, and Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter — wed on one of winter's many holidays, from Christmas Eve to New Years Day and even Valentine's Day.
Some used winter as the perfect reason to escape to warmer weather for their weddings. Solange Knowles and Alan Ferguson said "I do" in New Orleans for more temperate winter weather, while couples from Johnny Depp and Amanda Heard to Shania Twain and Frederic Thiebaud escaped to faraway islands to exchange vows with their toes in the sand and the ocean breeze in their hair.
So read on to see 27 celebrities who claimed the coldest season for their wedding days and made them magical.
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Solange Knowles and Alan Ferguson
They may not have had winter flurries for their November 14, 2014 wedding in New Orleans, but the singer-songwriter and music video director honored the season by asking their guests to dress in various shades of white.
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Nicole Richie and Joel Madden
The daughter of Lionel Richie said "I do" to Good Charlotte's front man and a custom-made Marchesa gown on December 11, 2010.
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Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson
The New Year's Eve 2000 nuptials of the actress and rocker were warm, thanks to the couple exchanging vows in front of an outdoor burning fire in Aspen, Colorado.
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Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden
BFFs Drew Barrymore and Nicole Richie served as Diaz's bridesmaids when the actress tied the knot January 5, 2015 to Madden in an intimate, backyard ceremony.
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Kate Winslet and Ned Rocknroll
Winslet's wedding to the nephew of Sir Richard Branson was super-secret. Held December 5, 2012, Winslet's Titanic costar Leonardo DiCaprio walked her down the aisle.
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Christina Applegate and Martyn LeNoble
The actress wed the Porno for Pyros rocker in their living room on February 23, 2013. The no-frills nuptials were witnessed by the couple's daughters and five guests.
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Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
The actress and actor tied the knot November 18, 2006 in a star-studded fête held at the uber-romantic Castello Odescalchi in Bracciano, Italy.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brian Hallisay
The actress and actor tied the knot just five days before Hewitt gave birth to their baby girl, Autumn James.
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter
Sophie Hunter may have envisioned silver bells — or at least silver lace — when she commissioned a custom, glitzy Valentino gown for her Valentine's Day 2015 wedding to Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Brigitte Nielsen and Sylvester Stallone
Dressed in an 80s-appropriate long-sleeved gown and beaded headdress, Nielsen tied the knot to Stallone on December 15, 1985.
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Leighton Meester and Adam Brody
The Gossip Girl alum married the actor in a super-secret wedding on February 15, 2014, just months after the couple announced their engagement.
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Johnny Depp and Amanda Heard
Because they tied the knot in the Bahamas, this duo had sand, not snow, for their winter wedding on February 7, 2015. Their romantic beachside ceremony saw Heard in a long-sleeved dress and Depp in a white tuxedo jacket.
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Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra
The onscreen beauty and crooner tied the knot at a friend's Philadelphia home on November 7, 1961. Gardner's ruffled halter top dress seemed to match the ruffled white cake the couple famously sliced after they said, "I do."
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Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady
The model sparkled in a sequin wedding gown on February 26, 2009, when she wed the New England Patriots quarterback in Santa Monica, California.
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Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting
Just six months after meeting, The Big Bang Theory's Cuoco and tennis player Sweeting said "I do" on December 31, 2013. Their New Year's Eve wedding was marked with Cuoco's blush pink ball gown and white branch and candlelight décor — oh-so-appropriate for the season.
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Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio
The blonde bombshell actress and New York Yankees legend eloped on January 14, 1954 in San Francisco. Monroe wore a stylish suit trimmed in a winter-appropriate fur collar.
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Kellie Pickler and Kyle Jacobs
Jacobs popped the question to the American Idol alum on the beach, so it came as no surprise the country singing duo tied the knot in a surprise January 1, 2011 ceremony on a private Caribbean island.
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Kyla Weber and Vince Vaughn
Baby, it was surely cold outside when Vaughn wed Weber, a real estate agent, on January 2, 2010 in a historic mansion just beyond his hometown of Chicago.
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Fergie and Josh Duhamel
Fergie and Duhamel's January 10, 2009 was a fairytale, down to the couple's wedding cake designed to look like a castle.
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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
Queen Elizabeth II tied the knot to Prince Philip on November 20, 1947 in the only venue fit for a queen: Westminster Abbey. Though she wore a custom Norman Hartnell gown for the big day, Queen Elizabeth II reportedly applied her own makeup for the wedding.
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Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault
While the actress and French businessman tied the knot in a low-key civil ceremony held February 14, 2009, the couple held a second, more lavish affair in Venice, Italy, with guests that included Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz, Bono, Stella McCartney, and former French president Jacques Chirac.
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Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise
The infamous acting duo wed on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado, where snow-capped mountains surely served as a backdrop to the couple's intimate fête.
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Madonna and Guy Ritchie
Gwyneth Paltrow served as maid-of-honor to Madonna, who tied the knot to movie director Ritchie on December 22, 2000 at Skibo Castle near Dornoch in Sutherland, United Kingdom.
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Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere
The supermodel and actor said "I do" in a Las Vegas wedding chapel — The Little Church of the West — on December 12, 1991.
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Jada Pinkett and Will Smith
The actress and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air actor-rapper married on December 31, 1997.
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Shania Twain and Frederic Thiebaud
This couple's New Year's Day 2011 nuptials took place in Puerto Rico. The country singer and Swiss businessman wed in front of 40 guests, including Twain's son, who gave her away.
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