Contrary to every Hollywood film ever, getting married doesn’t have to involve a pastry puff-inspired wedding dress, elaborate hair and makeup and a cringe-worthy posed photos.
In fact, often its the good people of Hollywood (AKA the movie stars we’ve grown to know and love) who shirk elaborate nuptials in favour of something more low-key.
Why? It’s likely they’re so accustomed to the glamour of the red carpet that simply donning a mini dress or pantsuit on their wedding day feels like a welcome vacation.
From courthouse ceremonies to glorified cocktail parties, stars have perfected the art of the low-key wedding, with the attire to match.
Keep reading to see our favourite casual, non-wedding celebrity wedding dresses.
Brigitte Bardot: The French film icon married Jacques Charrier in 1959 wearing a checked cotton sundress.
Lauren Bacall: When marrying Humphrey Bogart at a farmhouse in Ohio in 1945, Bacall wore a beige skirt-suit with leather belt.
Raquel Welch: For her 1967 wedding to second husband Richard Curtis, Welch wore a white crocheted mini dress and accessorised with a voluminous beehive hairdo.
Mia Farrow: When Farrow married Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas in 1966, it was while wearing a pink faille sheath dress with a matching jacket boasting rhinestone buttons.
Bianca Jagger: For her 1971 wedding to Mick Jagger in St Tropez, Bianca kickstarted the pantsuit-as-wedding-dress trend by wearing an eternally chic ivory set with a wide-brimmed hat and espadrilles.
Amal Clooney: For her courthouse marriage to George Clooney, Amal channelled Bianca Jagger and donned an effortlessly chic Stella McCartney outfit with matching hat.
Keira Knightley: The actress married musician James Righton in a town hall in France wearing this Chanel tulle dress, which she has since re-worn on the red carpet on several occasions.
Julianne Moore: The actress wore a lilac Prada slip dress when marrying husband Bart Freundlich in 2003.
Sophie Turner: When Turner married Joe Jonas in a surprise Las Vegas ceremony overseen by an Elvis impersonator, she did so in a white satin jumpsuit from Ukrainian label Bevza.
Emily Ratajkowski: Who could forget when the model married her boyfriend of only a few months, Sebastian Bear-McClard, in a courthouse ceremony while wearing a mustard-toned Zara suit?
Cindy Crawford: For her beach ceremony with husband Rande Gerber in 1998, the supermodel wore a simple mini slip dress.
Yoko Ono: When Yoko Ono tied the knot with John Lennon in a bureaucratic office in Gibraltar, Spain, she wore a casual mini dress, white sun hat and knee-high socks.
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