15 Celebrities Who Secretly Married Without Anyone Knowing, Ranked

On February 26, 2009, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen exchanged vows at St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California. They planned the entire ceremony in 10 days with only 20 close family members present, then celebrated with a backyard barbecue at home.

Cameron Diaz and Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden married inside their Beverly Hills living room on January 5, 2015. To keep reporters away, rental trucks arrived under cover of a fake pre-Golden Globes party while security guards patrolled the neighborhood.

After six years of dating since meeting on the 2018 film "Mary Queen of Scots," Saoirse Ronan and Scottish actor Jack Lowden married on July 20, 2024. The pair tied the knot at the Edinburgh Central Registrar's Office with only a handful of closest friends.

After 10 years together, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka married in an intimate castle ceremony in Perugia, Italy on September 6, 2014. "How I Met Your Mother" director Pam Fryman officiated the service, and Elton John performed live at the reception.

On May 1, 2019, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas headed straight from the Billboard Music Awards to A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. An Elvis impersonator officiated the 600-dollar ceremony while country duo Dan + Shay sang "Speechless" and Diplo livestreamed the vows.

After falling in love on the set of "The Light Between Oceans" in 2014, Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender wed on October 14, 2017 in Ibiza, Spain. Guests stayed at the secluded Agroturismo Can Marti farm resort and surrendered all cameras at the entrance.

Scarlett Johansson and "Saturday Night Live" writer Colin Jost married in October 2020 at their home in Palisades, New York with only immediate family present. They broke the news days later through the Meals on Wheels America Instagram account to raise donations for seniors.

Former "That '70s Show" co-stars Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher married over the Fourth of July weekend in 2015 at the Secret Garden at Parrish Ranch in Oak Glen, California. Kutcher intentionally posted decoy social media updates to keep tabloid helicopters miles away.

On October 17, 2013, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard drove to the Beverly Hills Courthouse simply to pick up their marriage license. When the clerk offered to marry them right away in an empty courtroom, they said yes and spent a total of 142 dollars, including fuel.

Less than a year after they started dating, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds married on September 9, 2012 in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Only 35 guests attended the reception inside a white tent, where close friend Florence Welch performed three songs live on stage.

In early July 2010, Spanish screen icons Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem escaped to Little Hall's Pond Cay, Johnny Depp's private island in the Bahamas. With only immediate family members on the island, Cruz wore a custom gown designed by friend John Galliano.

Kerry Washington kept her romance with former NFL cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha so private that reporters had no idea they were a couple. On June 24, 2013, the pair married quietly in Hailey, Idaho with Washington's parents signing as official witnesses on the certificate.

Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig began dating while filming "Dream House" in 2010 and married in New York on June 22, 2011. Only four people witnessed the vows: Craig's 18-year-old daughter Ella, Weisz's 4-year-old son Henry, and two close friends who served as witnesses.

After meeting on the 2011 drama "The Place Beyond the Pines," Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes secretly married in 2016 with a small group of family members. They kept the marriage hidden for six years until Mendes casually referred to Gosling as her husband on television in 2022.

On April 4, 2008, Beyonce and Jay-Z married inside his 13,500-square-foot Tribeca penthouse in New York City. The couple decorated the loft with 70,000 white dendrobium orchids flown in from Thailand, asked all 40 guests to leave their phones behind, and wore matching "IV" ring tattoos.