Stars Who Got Married on New Year’s Eve: Pics

A night to remember! Stars such as Maria Menounos, Helen Mirren, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith and more have more than one reason to celebrate New Year’s Eve: It also happens to be the date of their wedding anniversaries.

Scroll through to find out which celebs tied the knot on December 31 over the years — and who’s still together.

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Bubba Wallace and Amanda Carter

The NASCAR driver and Carter, who got engaged in July 2021, tied the knot in Charlotte, North Carolina, on New Year’s Eve 2022.

The blushing bride shared their sweet wedding photos via Instagram Story on December 31, 2022.

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Jacob Underwood and Chandler Bay

The O-Town band member married his longtime love nearly four years after he proposed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The pair said “I do” in front of their daughter, Everest, and friends and family during a San Diego ceremony on December 31, 2021.

“It has been the craziest last few months with the holidays, Jakes work schedule, one thing after the other,” Bay wrote via Instagram the following month. “I feel like we have been burning both ends of the candle for way too long! Getting married on New Years Eve felt like the best grand finale 🤣 I can’t help but laugh at the things that went unexpectedly on our big night but definitely makes for a great story.”

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Jenny Slate and Ben Shattuck

The Parks and Recreation alum married artist Ben Shattuck, with whom she shares daughter Ida, on December 31, 2021. Slate revealed that their living room wedding included just family and a few friends.

“We were planning on a [wedding] that ended up being almost 200 people, and then now, it’s just our parents and siblings. We each invited six friends,” Slate told Marie Claire in January 2022. “I actually like it. I like it better. I didn’t realize how the large thing was making me feel uncomfortable, a little bit. Just a little.”

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Kathy Griffin and Randy Bick

The comedian surprised fans when she wed her longtime boyfriend just after midnight on January 1, 2020. Lily Tomlin officiated the low-key ceremony, and Griffin shared a clip on Twitter. “We are in love and we cannot stop laughing,” she wrote.

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Luann de Lesseps and Tom D’Agostino Jr.

Us Weekly confirmed that the the Real Housewives of New York City star wed D’Agostino Jr. on December 31, 2016, in a romantic ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida. Castmate Dorinda Medley was a bridesmaid, and former RHONY city stars Jill Zarin and Kelly Bensimon, along with Real Housewives of Atlanta star Cynthia Bailey, attended the nuptials. Eight months later, however, the pair announced that they had split. “It’s with great sadness that Tom & I agreed to divorce,” the former countess wrote on Twitter on August 3, 2017. “We care for each other very much, hope you respect our privacy during this sad time!” 

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Brian McKnight and Leilani Malia Mendoza

The “Anytime” singer was joined in matrimony with wife Malia Mendoza in a romantic 2017 New Year’s Eve ceremony at the Oheka Castle Estate and Gardens in Huntington, New York. Mendoza stunned in  a one-of-a-kind Sabrina and Mannings gown embellished with 50,000 Swarovski crystals while the Grammy nominee was dapper in a black suit with a white shirt and black bowtie. McKnight later shared a video from the ceremony on Instagram on his wedding day. “Happiest day of our lives,” he wrote. 

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Maria Menounos and Keven Undergaro

After 20 years of dating, the former E! anchor and the TV producer tied the knot in New York City on live TV on New Year’s Eve 2017 shortly before the ball dropped. The wedding, which was officiated by Steve Harvey, was a surprise to even the couple’s closest friends and family members. Menounos announced the news to her father, Constantinos, and her mother, Litsa, who is battling stage 4 brain cancer, during the broadcast. “I will be the coldest bride ever but the happiest!” she said at the time. “Seeing my parents happy means everything.” Ten months later, Menounos and Undergaro said “I do” once more with a second ceremony in her parents’ native Greece. 

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Reimann

The race car driver and Reimann held their nuptials on the last day of the year in 2016. He announced the happy news to fans on Twitter with a photo of himself and his new bride on January 1, 2017. “Happily married!!! What an amazing experience,” he tweeted. “Looking forward to the rest of our lives @Amy_Reimann. #honeymooners.”

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Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting

The Big Bang Theory star first walked down the aisle on December 31, 2013, to marry Sweeting in a romantic ceremony at the Hummingbird Ranch in Southern California. Her costar and ex-boyfriend, Johnny Galecki, attended the nuptials, as did Bachelorette alum Ali Fedotowsky. Cuoco shared a sweet photo of herself sharing a smooch with her now ex on Instagram on January 1. “Yep. thesweetings @ryansweething,” she captioned the snap. They split less than two years later and Cuoco went on to marry Karl Cook in June 2018. 

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Christy Carlson Romano and Brendan Rooney

The former Even Stevens star walked down the aisle to marry Rooney on New Year’s Eve 2013, at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Alberta, Canada. Guests at the ceremony chowed down on tuna and avocado tartar, filet of beef tenderloin and grilled prawns, chicken, tomato soup and grilled cheese dunkers. Later, white chocolate cake with raspberry filling was served as dessert. Romano’s sister Jennifer Bayles served as maid-of-honor, and the groom’s brother Ryan Umphrey was his best man. 

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Tyson Ritter and Elena Satine

The All-American Rejects frontman and the actress exchanged vows on December 31, 2013. One day prior to the ceremony, Ritter tweeted about their nuptials, writing, “@ElleSatine and I have been working our butts off, and now all we have to do is wake up, and get hitched!”

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Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris

Us confirmed that the late Playboy mogul and Harris tied the knot at the Playboy Mansion in L.A. on December 31, 2012. The lingerie designer called off their first wedding in June 2011 days before the ceremony. ”When the wedding didn’t work out the first time, it was because of me. I needed to explore out there and take the time away [from Hef and the Mansion],” she told Us in June 2011. “The time away really helped make me realize that where I’m meant to be is here with Hef. Our relationship is better than it ever has been before. I’m very happy and Hef’s very happy and we’re excited.” The publishing mogul died in September 2017 at the age of 91. 

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Johnny Weir and Victor Voronov

The Olympic figure skater and Voronov had an intimate courthouse wedding on New Year’s Eve in 2011. It was a difficult transition for Weir, who told Access Hollywood in February 2014, “Being married is an adjustment, and I’m such an OCD, solitary, confined person that it was very hard to open my life and my home and in some ways my closet to somebody else … We both are constantly fighting to wear the pants in the relationship.” One month later, Weir announced the couple’s split on Twitter. “It is with great sadness that I announce that my husband and I are no longer together,” he tweeted. “My heart hurts, and I wish him well.” Voronov’s crisis manager, Wendy Feldman, told Us: “Victor is shocked by the abrupt ending of his marriage and is dealing with the trauma endured during the marriage including multiple things that he is only now becoming aware of.” 

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Bianca Kajlich and Landon Donovan

The Rules of Engagement star and the soccer player were married on December 31, 2006. During the 2010 World Cup, a British woman claimed that she was carrying his child (Donovan later announced that he was not the father). Though a source told Us that Kajlich was “extremely supportive” of her now ex-husband, she filed for divorce in December of that year.  

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Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson

The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days actress and the Black Crowes singer closed out the first year of the new millennium by tying the knot in a shamanistic ceremony on New Year’s Eve 2000, but ultimately wound up splitting: They finalized their divorce in October 2007. The former lovebirds share son Ryder. Hudson is also the mother of son Bingham with ex-fiancé Matthew Bellamy and daughter Rani with fiancé Danny Fujikawa. 

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Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford

The Oscar winner married the director on New Year’s Eve — which is also Hackford’s birthday — in 1997 after 10 years of dating. She reminisced about her wedding night in Scotland to Yahoo in January 2018. “We had very few people, only like 16 people because we only had room in the place we rented for 16 guests,” she recalled. “So, when I arrived at the church, word had gone out, because we got married in a really small fishing village … So when I arrived at the church, it was like 6 o’clock at night on New Year’s Eve … all the people who lived in the village had come to stand outside the church to watch me arrive and watch. And because I knew there were so few of us in the church, I said, ‘Why don’t you all come in? Come on in! Join in.’ They went, ‘Are you sure?’ I said, ‘Yeah, come on in.’ So when I walked in as the bride, they all came in, as I heard them all sort of shuffling very quietly and respectfully into the church, filling the church up.”

She continued, “Then the priest said, ‘We’re here for the wedding of Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford, but before we have the wedding, I just want to tell you all that it’s Taylor Hackford’s birthday today, so I want us all to sing him ‘Happy Birthday.’ So [the] whole church started [singing].” 

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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

Though they have been married for 21 years, their 1997 New Year’s Eve nuptials weren’t exactly picture perfect: Pinkett Smith revealed on October 22 2018 on her Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk, that she felt pressure from her mother to wed after getting pregnant with her first child, Jaden. (The couple also share daughter Willow and Will is also the father of son Trey with ex-wife Sheree Zampino.) “I was so upset that I had to have a wedding,” Pinkett Smith revealed. “I was so pissed. I went crying down the freakin’ aisle getting married.” Added her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, “It was a mess. Jada was sick, she was very unpleasant.”