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The Most Unforgettable Moments in Soap Weddings, From the Romantic to the Bizarre
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020
Memorable soap opera weddings.
With June here and being a favored month for weddings, we decided to take a look back at memorable, romantic, unforgettable, and at times often bizarre soap opera weddings that could only happen on daytime. Soap opera weddings have done it all and then some. Bold & Beautiful’s Brooke Logan is one of the most married characters in the genre, having married a father and his son, and half-brothers. The CBS soap opera is also known for its beautiful on-location weddings, such as Liam Spencer and Steffy Forrester’s Australian wedding in front of the Sydney Opera House.
In the 1980s it was all about the super couples, and Days of our Lives Doug and Julie Williams were the first. Weddings on the NBC soap opera were full of romance, big gowns, and often bigger hair. They also featured the song hits of the day, which came to be the signature tunes of super couples, such as Chris De Burg’s Lady in Red which was Steve and Kayla Johnson’s theme song.
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When it came to soap opera weddings, General Hospital still remains the ultimate champ with Luke and Laura Spencer’s iconic wedding. The event was such a cultural phenomenon that people took off from work and stayed home from school to watch it.
Young & Restless has also seen its share of spectacular, and often questionable, marriages. From weddings based on business deals and organ donations to romantic elopements, the haves and have nots of Genoa City know how to throw a wedding.
Browse our gallery of memorable weddings below, and watch some video highlights.
This piece was originally published on May 25, 2018 by Dustin Cushman, and refreshed on June 2, 2020.
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<p>Eric Forrester and Brooke Logan married for the first time in 1991 on<em> Bold & Beautiful</em>, and present at the ceremony was not only Eric’s ex-wife and the mother of his sons, Stephanie Forrester, but his son Ridge who was the bride’s former lover. As if that wasn’t strange enough, Eric arranged for him and Brooke to depart the wedding reception and begin their honeymoon in a most unusual way, by hot air balloon.</p>
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<p>Brooke and Ridge Forrester eloped for their third wedding on <em>Bold & Beautiful</em>. The couple headed to South America in one of B&B’s most unique weddings where they married in the middle of the Amazon Jungle. Ridge wore an Incan inspired outfit, without a shirt or his trademark scarf, while Brooke donned a headdress and hot pink gown. Shortly after the ceremony, Sheila Carter kidnapped Ridge, who was later presumed dead.</p>
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<p>In 2006 Brooke Logan married Ridge Forrester’s half-brother Nick Marone on <em>Bold & Beautiful.</em> This came after trying to marry him once before, only that wedding was stopped by Ridge, who everyone thought had died while honeymooning the year before with Brooke in South America. </p>
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<p>Steffy Forrester married Liam Spencer for the first time in 2011 on <em>Bold & Beautiful</em>. The outdoor wedding was filmed on a mountaintop in Aspen, Colorado.</p>
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<p>In 2009 Brooke and Ridge Forrester were again married at Point Dume on <em>Bold & Beautiful.</em> Ridge had his and Brooke’s names carved out in the sand surrounded by a heart. The wedding was a private affair between the two of them.</p>
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<p>In 2015 on <em>Bold & Beautiful</em>, Ridge Forrester married Caroline Spencer. The private wedding took place overlooking the ocean at a gorgeous Malibu home.</p>
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<p>Eric Forrester married Quinn Fuller at his home in 2016 on <em>Bold & Beautiful</em>. Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, playing Reverend Murphy, married the couple while the portrait of Stephanie Forrester hung behind them above the fireplace mantel. </p>
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<p>Wyatt Spencer and Steffy Forrester married one another on the beach in 2016 on <em>Bold & Beautiful</em>. Chaz Bono, in a guest appearance, presided over the wedding. The couple recited personalized vows to one another. </p>
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<p>In 2016 on <em>Bold & Beautiful</em>, Bill Spencer and Brooke Logan made a second attempt at marriage. as Brooke walked down the aisle, her ex-husband Ridge Forrester stopped the wedding and professed his love for Brooke. It was the second time he had stopped a wedding between Brooke and Bill.</p>
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<p>In 2015 the Forrester mansion saw yet another marriage. This time <em>Bold & Beautiful’s</em> Rick Forrester and Maya Avant were married. Maya’s sister would later act as a surrogate for the couple to have a child. Sadly the marriage did not last and Rick left Maya.</p>
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<p>In 2019 on <em>Days of our Lives</em>, Tripp Johnson married Haley Chen, with Justin Kiriakis officiating the wedding. The marriage was an arrangement between the friends in order to try and keep Haley, who was in the country illegally, from being deported. </p>
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<p>While many remember Bo and Hope Brady’s <em>Days of our Lives</em> wedding shot on location in England, it’s hard to forget in 1984 when Bo stopped Hope Williams and Larry Welch’s wedding. Salem’s crooked DA Welch schemed to marry Hope, but Bo wasn’t having it. Bo’s friend Howie Hoffstedder dressed up in Hope’s dress and walked down the aisle, much to Larry’s surprise when he lifted her veil to find the scruffy-faced man pursing his lips for a kiss. Bo meanwhile kidnapped Hope, threw her on the back of his bike and took off as Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out For a Hero blared.</p>
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<p>John Black and Kristen DiMera’s 1997 wedding was one of the most unusual in<em> Days of our Lives</em> history. Nobody knew that John was actually marrying Kristen’s look-a-like Susan Banks, who had locked rivals Marlena Evans and Kristen DiMera in the DiMera secret room because she had fallen for John. Susan convinced John to have an Elvis themed wedding, complete with her own Priscilla Presley inspired wedding gown. Susan was exposed when Marlena’s good friend Laura Horton confronted who she thought was Kristen because she believed she had done something to the missing Marlena. During a fight Laura knocked out Susan’s false teeth, which flew across the backyard and landed in Vivian Alamain’s drink.</p>
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<p>In 2018 on <em>Days of our Lives</em>, Rafe Hernandez and Hope Brady were set to be married at Doug’s Place. The wedding was interrupted by Claire Brady, who revealed Rafe had cheated on Hope and slept with his ex-wife Sami Brady. Hope and most of the guests were stunned by the revelation, never expecting this from Rafe. </p>
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<p>In 2019, after returning from the dead and with amnesia, <em>Days of our Lives’</em> Jack Deveraux ran for mayor of Salem with Eve Donovan as his campaign manager. In an election stunt he proposed marriage to Eve, and the couple was reluctantly married by Jack’s sister Adrienne Kiriakis. </p>
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<p>In 2019, after finding their way back together, Chad and Abigail DiMera were remarried in a small intimate ceremony with friends and family at the Horton House. Julie Williams presided over the wedding. Right after, Abigail, Chad and their children moved to Paris where Chad ran an overseas division of DiMera Enterprises. This was spun off into the digital <em>Days of our Lives</em> series <em>Chad and Abby in Paris</em>. </p>
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<p>Luke and Laura Spencer’s 1981 <em>General Hospital</em> wedding was viewed by 30 million people and remains the highest-rated hour in daytime history. The part of Helena Cassadine was created for the late Elizabeth Taylor, who was a fan of the show, and the wedding was the character’s debut. She gifted the couple with her famous curse. Of course, many fans also remember the square dancing at the reception, the fistfight between Luke and Laura’s ex Scott Baldwin, and Laura’s larger-than-life dress and veil that set the standards for soap wedding dresses for the rest of the 80s.</p>
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<p>In 2016 on <em>General Hospital</em>, as Alexis Davis and Julian Jerome tied the knot in a church wedding all hell broke loose. During their first kiss as husband and wife, Landon Dixon, a black market gun dealer running from the law, burst into the church and took Alexis and Sonny Corithos’ daughter Kristina Davis-Corinthos hostage, only to be thwarted by Sonny.</p>
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<p><em>General Hospital’s</em> Curtis and Jordan Ashford were married in 2018, with Curtis’ Aunt Stella Henry giving them her blessing at the wedding. Stella had long blamed Jordan for the death of her nephew and Jordan’s first husband, Thomas Ashford. The couple celebrated on The Haunted Star, only to find Kiki Jerome murdered and left in their honeymoon suite bed.</p>
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<p><em>General Hospital’s</em> Frisco Jones and Felicia Cummings met when Felicia tried to rob Frisco of an Aztec artifact, which she claimed was part of her family’s treasure, and she was of royal Aztec heritage. He helped her recover her birthright, and the couple was wed in 1986 at the iconic Brownstone. Frisco wore his dress blues, having recently enrolled in the police academy, and Felicia a lace dress and veil inspired by her Central American heritage. At the reception, Frisco serenaded his bride with the song Lady of my Heart. Actor Jack Wagner had a huge radio hit around the same time with All I Need.</p>
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<p>In 2009, Sharon Newman and Adam Newman eloped for Christmas on <em>Young & Restless</em>. The couple was married in Lake Tahoe. On the way back to Genoa City, the Newman jet they were on crashed. As the plane was going down, Adam revealed to Sharon that her baby she thought had died was alive. However, a concussion left Sharon with no memory of Adam’s confession. </p>
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<p>On <em>Young & Restless,</em> Kyle Abbott and Summer Newman were married in 2019. Kyle was in love with Lola Rosales, who was in need of a liver transplant. Summer was a match, and Kyle agreed to marry her if she donated a portion of her liver to Lola.</p>
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<p><em>Young & Restless’</em> Kevin Fisher and Jana Hawkes’ romance began when Kevin hired Jana to work at Crimson Lights, but the old soap opera brain tumor reared its ugly head and caused Jana to try and kill Kevin while pursuing a Nazi treasure. However even the tumor couldn’t stop their love, and after all the craziness they endured the couple chose to be married in a tranquil ashram in Malibu, California in 2008. In true soap fashion the guru who married them turned out to be Michael’s long-lost father Lowell “River” Baldwin (Michael Gross, Family Ties).</p>
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