In this day and age, most celebrities can’t even make it to the grocery store without the whole world knowing about it, much less get married in secret.
But every now and again, a high-profile couple pulls off a top-secret wedding — like Adele. Adele never officially announced her marriage to Simon Konecki. Instead, she just started casually mentioning that she is married and has a husband. How very un-diva-ish of her!
Check out all these other celebs who had under-the-radar nuptials.
Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux
Aniston’s love life has been seriously scrutinzed for decades, so it’s not a shocker that she wanted to keep her wedding on the DL.
After a pretty long engagement, Aniston and Theroux held a surprise ceremony at their home in Los Angeles in August 2015.
Margot Robbie & Tom Ackerley
Robbie dropped some serious social media hints in December 2016 that she might be walking down the aisle — but she didn’t post anything until after she and her now-husband (who works in entertainment behind the scenes) had already said “I do.”
They pulled off their secret wedding by keeping things small (rumor has it that there were only about 50 guests) and confiscating guests’ phones and cameras.
Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis
When it comes to family, these two like to keep things private — so it’s not that surprising they didn’t alert the media for their July 4, 2015, event.
Details of the wedding were so private that even guests were not told the time and location until 24 hours before the couple exchanged vows.
It’s been nearly two years, and neither Kunis nor Kutcher have provided too much insight into their day.
Leighton Meester & Adam Brody
Meester and Brody managed to keep their marriage out of the headlines for a few days, but they got busted when Brody took a photo with a fan with his wedding band on display.
Shortly after, E! News confirmed that the couple had married over the Valentine’s Day weekend at a resort in Mexico.
Mary-Kate Olsen & Olivier Sarkozy
Olsen tied the knot with Sarkozy over Thanksgiving weekend 2015 in a small, intimate ceremony in New York.
The famously private Olsen has remained tight-lipped about her wedding to this day, but a guest told Page Six that there were “bowls and bowls filled with cigarettes, and everyone smoked the whole night.”
Beyoncé & Jay Z
All hail the King and Queen of keeping things cryptic.
These two probably loved keeping their April 2008 wedding a secret, as much as they love riling everyone up with rumors that they’re divorcing.
Allison Williams & Ricky Van Veen
Williams was totally on a mission to keep paparazzi away from her September 2015 wedding.
According to reports, Williams and Van Veen asked guests to fly to Denver, where they would be driven about three hours to the location. But until they got there, no one knew where the wedding was taking place.
Details about the ceremony leaked after the fact, but Williams succeeded in keeping her big day private.
Rachel Weisz & Daniel Craig
There were only four guests at Weisz and Craig’s June 2011 wedding, according to the Daily Mail.
Now that is how you do things if you want to keep your ceremony private.
Carey Mulligan & Marcus Mumford
Did you know Mulligan was married to the guy from Mumford & Sons? Yeah, not many people do.
Mulligan and Mumford — who apparently were pen pals as children — have been married since 2012. They welcomed a daughter in 2015.
Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds
Unless you were a guest at Lively and Reynolds’ September 2012 wedding, you probably didn’t find out about it until the day after.
But don’t feel bad. Rumor has it that Penn Badgley — who dated Lively for three years — didn’t either.
Benji Madden & Cameron Diaz
There were tons of rumors leading up to the big event, but Diaz and Madden were able to keep everyone guessing until a rep for the couple confirmed their marriage the day after it happened.
Diaz and Madden tried to confuse the public by holding their January 2015 nuptials on a random Monday and telling people the event was actually a party for the Golden Globes.
Gisele Bündchen & Tom Brady
This power couple pulled off two secret weddings in 2009.
They had a formal ceremony at a Catholic church in Los Angeles and another event at their vacation home in Costa Rica.
Kerry Washington & Nnamdi Asomugha
Besides the fact that it went down in 2013, pretty much zilch is known about Washington and NFL player Asomugha’s wedding.
Alexis Bledel & Vincent Kartheiser
Bledel and Mad Men star Kartheiser got married in June 2014 — and no one caught wind of it for more than two months.
The couple pretty much don’t talk about each other in interviews at all, but Jon Hamm did offer this back in 2014: “I did know he liked her from a very early point. I was a supporter of that union.”
Javier Bardem & Penélope Cruz
Cruz and Bardem had been dating for three years when they got married at a friend’s house in the Caribbean back in 2010 — but you’ll probably never hear them talk about it.
They never confirmed that they were engaged and, in fact, never even really confirmed they were dating. The only info we really have about their big day is that Cruz wore a gown designed by John Galliano.
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