Just like Lana Del Rey, remember celebrities who married ‘normal people’

Pop superstar Lana Del Rey has tied the knot with longtime boyfriend Jeremy Dufrene, an alligator swamp tour guide in Louisiana.

Del Rey, 39, and Dunfre, 49, registered a marriage license at the Lafourche Parish Clerk’s Office in Thibodaux, Louisiana, on the 18th, according to the Associated Press, which reported obtaining the document.

A Sept. 26 ceremony was officiated by celebrity pastor Judah Smith, best known as a spiritual advisor to Justin Bieber and chief theologian at Churchome, a megachurch outside Seattle, according to the document cited by the AP.

Questions about whether the couple said “I do” have reached a fever pitch online and on social media in recent weeks, and photos from the wedding have flooded the internet. According to AP, the singer-songwriter exchanged vows with Dunfre in Des Allemands, Louisiana, where Dunfre works as a captain at Airboat Tours by Arthur.

It was unclear exactly when the couple started dating, but photos posted on Del Rey’s Facebook page show the “Video Games” singer on one of Dunfre’s boat trips in 2019.

Here are some other celebrities who married someone they met out in the world with no connection to their work or fame.

DOLLY PARTON

Dolly Parton’s husband, Carl Dean, a retired asphalt contractor, has long stayed out of the spotlight despite Parton’s rise to fame.

The two were married in 1966 on Memorial Day in Georgia, and the only family member in attendance was Parton’s mother, according to the singer’s website. Parton was 18, and Dean was 21 at the time. The couple met two years earlier at a laundromat in Nashville.

“I was surprised and delighted that as he spoke to me, he looked at my face (a rare thing for me). He seemed genuinely interested in finding out who I was and what I liked,” she wrote on the site.

The two are still married, almost 60 years later.

TAYLOR LAUTNER

Taylor Lautner met Taylor Dome, a nurse, during a game night hosted by his sister, according to an interview on Live with Kelly and Mark.

The couple married in 2022 and became Taylor and Taylor Lautner (sometimes referred to as the “Taylors”). Taylor (Dome) Lautner now hosts a podcast called The Squeeze about mental health, with occasional appearances from her husband as well.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

In 1991, actress Elizabeth Taylor married Larry Fortensky, a construction worker, in an elaborate ceremony at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in Santa Ynez, California, where celebrity guests mingled with Jackson’s giraffes, zebras and llamas. .

Taylor, one of the most famous women in the world at the time, met Fortensky in 1988 at the Betty Ford Clinic, where they were being treated for substance abuse, according to the New York Times.

Five years later, the couple divorced. The divorce was Fortensky’s third and Taylor’s eighth.

Taylor promised not to marry again.

MATT DAMON

Like a scene from “Good Will Hunting,” Matt Damon met his wife, Luciana Barroso, in a bar.

In 2003, while filming the comedy “The Turn On” in Miami, Barroso said Damon and his crew went to a bar in South Beach where she was bartending one night, according to a 2018 interview he gave to Vogue Australia .

Damon’s version of the night is that he saw her across the room and wanted to talk to her, although Barroso said he hid behind the bar because he was being recognized by other patrons. She put him to work, and he began making drinks, a skill he learned while training for a previous role. They raised good tips, she said.

“It was a really fun night,” Barroso told the magazine. The couple married in a small, private ceremony in New York City in 2005.

WANDA SYKES

In an interview with the Guardian in 2018, Wanda Sykes recalled seeing Alex Niedbalski for the first time on a ferry to Fire Island in New York. “Something really said to me — like, like I could actually hear it — ‘Wow, this is what you need, Wanda,'” he said.

The next day, a friend introduced the two women. Niedbalski, from France, was a businesswoman who sold granite countertops, and Sykes was renovating her kitchen. They married in 2008, and Sykes came out publicly in a speech weeks later at a Las Vegas rally in support of same-sex marriage.