Jim Carrey and Lauren Holly met on the set of Dumb & Dumber and married in a small mountain-top ceremony in September 1996, even taking a group honeymoon with friends. Less than a year later, they filed for divorce, with Holly having quietly moved on with another costar, Edward Burns. Carrey didn't stay single for long either; he was soon linked to Renée Zellweger, who, as it happens, also has her own entry on this list. | © Universal Studios
Jennifer Lopez married her former backup dancer Cris Judd in September 2001, just one month after getting engaged. The quick turnaround didn't do them any favors, and by the summer of 2002 the two had quietly and amicably gone their separate ways. It was one of several high-profile relationships for Lopez around that era, and certainly not the last time her love life would make headlines. | © Netlix
Colton Haynes and Jeff Leatham went all out for their October 2017 wedding in Palm Springs: Kris Jenner officiated, and the guest list included Sofia Vergara and Chelsea Clinton. Six months later, both filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. They seemed to briefly reconcile after that, but by December 2018, they were moving forward with the split for good. | © ABC
Now, Drew Barrymore makes her first appearance on this list, this time with comedian Tom Green, whom she married in July 2001 after a year-long engagement. By December of that same year, the two had called it quits. Green's statement at the time was surprisingly warm, saying he loved her and wished the marriage could have worked, which at least made for a more graceful ending than some others on this list. | © The Drew Barrymore Show
Kenny Chesney and Renée Zellweger had a very public beachside wedding in May 2005, which made the annulment filing four months later all the more surprising. The legal paperwork cited fraud as the reason, which set off a wave of speculation that Zellweger quickly tried to put out, clarifying that the wording was a legal formality and not a knock on Chesney's character. The explanation didn't stop people from talking, and the real reason behind the split has never been fully spelled out. | © Oscars / YouTube
Before Bradley Cooper became a household name, he had a quiet wedding with NCIS actress Jennifer Esposito in the South of France in December 2006. By May of the following year, Esposito had filed for divorce, and Cooper's rep noted they had already been separated for quite some time. Cooper later reflected on it without much drama, saying they both recognized early on that it wasn't working, which, all things considered, is probably the healthiest way it could have gone. | © 20th Century Studios
Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock had an on-and-off relationship for years before finally making it official with a yacht wedding in July 2006. It didn't stick – Anderson filed for divorce just four months later in November. She revealed in 2018 that the two hadn't spoken a single word to each other since the split, which says plenty about how things ended. | © How To Fail with Elizabeth Day / YouTube
Colin Farrell and Amelia Warner had a romantic ceremony in Tahiti in July 2001, but like a few others on this list, they never made it legally official. That turned out to be a lucky break when they split four months later, skipping the divorce process entirely. Farrell summed it up pretty simply years later: too fast, too young. | © Netflix
Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley married in August 2002, and by November of that same year, Cage had already filed for divorce. The actual marriage lasted just three months, but the divorce proceedings dragged on until May 2004, meaning it took them significantly longer to untangle the marriage than it did to end it. It also marks the second time Cage appears on this list, which is a distinction all its own. | © 60 Minutes / YouTube
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries gave their wedding its own TV special in August 2011, and 72 days later, Kim filed for divorce. The split immediately sparked rumors that the whole thing had been staged for ratings, a narrative that followed Humphries for years. He has pushed back on it firmly, insisting that whatever else was going on around them, his feelings were completely real. | © Call Her Daddy / YouTube
Drew Barrymore was just 19 when she married bar owner Jeremy Thomas in March 1994, after only six weeks of dating and a night out that apparently ended at the altar. She told People at the time that everything about them felt like fate. That fate ran its course in just over a month, and the two went their separate ways shortly after. | © The Drew Barrymore Show
Mario Lopez and Ali Landry dated for six years before finally tying the knot in Mexico in April 2004, and then filed for divorce just over two weeks later. For years, the reason stayed under wraps until Lopez came clean in his 2014 memoir, admitting he had cheated on Landry during his bachelor party. He also revealed that walking down the aisle, he already knew he wasn't in love, which made the whole thing that much harder to read about. | © Hollywood Today Live / YouTube
Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds rang in 2008 with a sunset wedding ceremony on a private island in French Polynesia. Two weeks later, they announced they were done. Luckily for both of them, they had never actually filed for a marriage license in the U.S., so there was no divorce to deal with, just a "symbolic ceremony" they quietly decided to forget. | © Jimmy Kimmel Live / YouTube
Most people didn't even know Nicolas Cage was dating makeup artist Erika Koike before news broke that they'd already gotten married and separated. The two had a quiet ceremony in Las Vegas in March 2019, but things unraveled fast, with the couple spotted having a very public argument just days later. Cage filed for an annulment only four days after the wedding, making it one of the shortest marriages in recent memory. | © MGM
Britney Spears and her childhood friend Jason Alexander kicked off 2004 with a spontaneous Las Vegas wedding, showing up to the chapel in jeans and a trucker hat. Her team moved fast to shut it down, and the marriage was annulled just 55 hours later because Britney hadn't fully understood what she was agreeing to. Spears later brushed it off as a rebellious moment, and was engaged to Kevin Federline by the end of that same year. | © The Jonathan Ross Show / YouTube
Hollywood weddings can be grand, expensive, and very, very short. These celebrity marriages ranged from a few hours to just under a year, proving that even the most romantic gestures don't always have staying power.
