Celebrity Weddings - Eloping & Secret Weddings

Even celebrities can feel overwhelmed by the burden of planning their enormously scaled weddings, even with the help of wedding planners. (Look at Ben and J.Lo – current rumors are that they're planning a much more scaled-down nuptial after being overwhelmed by the planned gala event.) With all of their resources, many celebrities still fall under the charms of eloping to Las Vegas. Kelly Ripa and her soap opera star husband Mark Consuelos ran away to Sin City, as did Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton (back when they were both sporting their tattoos of each other's names). Suvari and Brinkmann eloped to California’s Big Sur, supposedly disappointing her parents.

But in keeping with the typical celebrity desire to have it all, many are eloping for the more intimate vows, then returning for the media circus wedding. Ted Casablanca - the authority on celebrity gossip for E! Online - reported that Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar eloped to Mexico to tie the knot in a private ceremony, before returning to the U.S. for the "official" ceremony. Liv Tyler and Spacehog frontman Royston Langdon married in Barbados with only a few friends and no parents, then returned to plan a family affair at New York hotspot Pastis.

And in the newest celebrity fad, the paparazzi are thrown off the scent with a fake, mock up wedding. Again leading the pack are Affleck and Lopez, whose original plans included hiring several decoy brides and staging fake weddings. According to Mark Armstrong, celebrity reporter for E! News, Brooke Shields and her writer husband Chris Henchy have already pulled off this stunt. While they married in a private location, they prepared an elaborate fake wedding, complete with mannequins as guests.

Only in Hollywood…

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