Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart on their wedding day (1945, photo by Ed Clark for LIFE)

Bacall: “In the bathroom I could hear the start of the Wedding March. Oh God, why hadn’t they waited? Later George told me Bogie looked up and said, ‘Where is she?’ George’s romantic reply: ‘Hold it! She’s in the can!’ I emerged - [the piano player] started again - and George and I started our descent. My knees shook so, I was sure I’d fall down the stairs. Bogie standing there looking so vulnerable and so handsome - like a juvenile…

“When I reached Bogie, he took my hand - the enormous, beautiful white orchids I was holding were shaking themselves to pieces; as I stood there, there wasn’t a particle of me that wasn’t moving visibly…As I glanced at Bogie, I saw tears streaming down his face - his ‘I do’ was strong and clear, though. As Judge Shettler said, “I now pronounce you man & wife,’ Bogie and I turned toward each other - he leaned to kiss me - I shyly turned my cheek - all those eyes watching made me very self-conscious. He said, ‘Hello, Baby’. I hugged him and was reported to have said, “Oh, goody.’ Hard to believe, but maybe I did.”

“Everyone hugged and kissed everyone else and more tears were shed. Bogie said it was when he heard the beautiful words of the ceremony and realized what they meant - what they should mean - that he cried.”

-excerpted from By Myself and Then Some by Lauren Bacall

Catherine Deneuve (photo by her ex-husband, English photographer David Bailey, who described their seven-year marriage as being an exercise in ‘managing a Maserati when you’re used to a Ford’.)

Bailey on the wedding:

“The first wedding was funny. It was in England. Mick Jagger was the best man. Catherine’s English wasn’t very good. It caused a scandal because I wore jeans, and Catherine wore a black dress and smoked all through the ceremony. The priest kept saying, ‘Do you mind?’ And then they did all that nonsense about, ‘Do you take this man to be your… ’ and Catherine turned to me and said, ‘What’s he talking about?’”