There are some couples who can’t wait to tie the knot. These are not those couples. On the contrary, these stars took their time and didn’t rush down the aisle. Because you do tend to be a little wiser as you get older — especially when it comes to matters of the heart. 19745

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Amal Alamuddin and George Clooney
With one marriage under his belt and a vow that he would never remarry, George surprised everyone when he put a ring on the finger of the beautiful barrister in April 2014. To top it all off, we're not sure what was more surprising: the fact that after a string of actresses and models, he ended up as one of the token celebs who are in relationships with normal people or that the marriage happened when he was 53 and she was 36.

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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
Ellen was 50 and Portia was 35 when they married in August 2008, shortly after the Supreme Court overturned the same-sex marriage ban in California.
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Benji Madden and Cameron Diaz
Cam dated a lot of famous dudes but it took a real rock star to win her heart for good. Diaz was 42 and Madden was 35 when they surprised their loved ones with an intimate ceremony at their home back in 2015, after the briefest of engagements.

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Jessica Chastain and Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo
Chastain has always kept her love life locked up tight but it eventually came out that she and her longtime boyfriend got hitched in June 2017, shortly after her 40th birthday.

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Elton John and David Furnish
Elton was 67 and David was 52 when they married right before Christmas in 2014. Their two sons made the big day complete.

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Jim Parsons and Todd Spiewak
They were together for nearly 15 years before making it official in May 2017 when Jim was 44.

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Keith Lieberthal and Julianna Margulies
Margulies waited until she was 41 to tie the knot for the first time, in November 2007, to attorney Lieberthal, who is six years her junior.

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Darren Le Gallo and Amy Adams
Celeb couples who endure seven-year engagements don't always get married, but Adams and Le Gallo finally tied the knot in May 2015, when both were 40.

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Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault
While it was Pinault's second marriage, Hayek was 42 when she finally wed for the first time, on Valentine's Day in 2009 in Paris.

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RuPaul and Georges LeBar
RuPaul was 56 when he and LeBar secretly married in January 2017, after 23 years together. Aww.

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Christian Horner and Geri Halliwell
The former Spice Girl married the former race car driver in May 2015, less than three months before her 43rd birthday.

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Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston
Theroux's 2015 wedding to Aniston was his first, when he was 44. (And we all know this was her second marriage.) Sadly, the two called it quits after two years.

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Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka
Neil and David dated for 10 years and had two children
before making it official in September 2014. NPH was 41 and Burtka was 39 when they got hitched in Italy.

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Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart
While Ford had been married twice before he met Flockhart, Calista was 45 when she and Harrison, 76, exchanged vows in June 2010.
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Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann
Hargitay made it official with Hermann in August 2004, when she was 40 and he was 37.

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Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni
Nixon was 46 when she married her longtime love, education activist Marinoni, in May 2012 — once it was legal for them to marry in New York.

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Marcia Cross and Tom Mahoney
It was the first marriage for the actress and stockbroker, who tied the knot in June 2006, when she was 44 and he was 48. Their twin daughters came a year later.

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Vince Vaughn and Kyla Weber
Vince was 39 and Kyla was 31 when they married in January 2010, marking the first marriage for both.

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James Brolin and Barbra Streisand
The two had each been previously married twice but found one another in 1996. They got married in July 1998, when she was 56 and he was 58.

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George Takei and Brad Altman
They were together for 21 years before making it official. In fact, they were the first same-sex couple to apply for a marriage license in West Hollywood, back in 2008. George was 71, Brad was 54 when they made awesome history.
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