14 Celebrities Who Canceled Their Weddings At The Absolute Last Minute

Celebrities fall in and out of love just like the rest of us — sometimes, right up until the very moment they’re meant to be getting married. Here are some stars who called off their weddings at the last minute…1. Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland were set to marry in June 1991 on the 20th Century Fox soundstage, but Julia called off the wedding just three days before it was meant to take place.

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Julia had actually previously been engaged to Dylan McDermott and broken up with him to be with Kiefer. It was rumored she called off her wedding with Kiefer over concerns he had cheated on her.

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On the date of the wedding, Julia was reportedly spotted having lunch with Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland’s best friend who was also meant to be best man at the wedding. Julia and Jason dated for a brief time afterwards.

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2. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, aka Bennifer, were one of the defining celeb couples of the 2000s, and were due to wed in September 2003. They canceled the wedding in the days leading up to the event, with Ben later saying it was due to the “massive amount of scrutiny” on their relationship. Jennifer added that they “crumbled under the pressure.”

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The pair initially stayed together after their canceled wedding, but broke up in January 2004 before reconciling much later, in 2021, and finally getting married in 2022. They divorced in 2024.3. Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow had been together for two years when their planned 1997 wedding was meant to take place — but the pair broke up instead. Gwyneth, who is nine years younger than Brad and was only 22 when they met, later said of the split, “I was too young and didn’t know what I was doing.”

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4. Usher and his then-pregnant partner Tameka Foster reportedly only decided to get married two weeks before their July 2007 Hamptons wedding was set to take place, but they called it off the day of, allegedly partly because Usher’s mother, Jonetta Patton, disapproved.

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Usher and Tameka went on to get married the following month in a civil ceremony, and then held a larger wedding in September 2007. They were together until 2009.

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5. House costars Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer got engaged at the Eiffel Tower in 2006 and were meant to get married in 2007, but broke up in the months before the wedding. “After much consideration, we have decided not to get married,” the pair said in a joint statement.

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They continued to work together on House, and their characters even got married onscreen. Ironically, Jennifer’s character, Allison Cameron, was written out of the show in 2009 after divorcing Robert Chase, Jesse’s character.

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6. Nikki Garcia postponed her wedding to John Cena just weeks before it was meant to happen in May 2018 due to differing desires around having kids.

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They briefly broke up before reuniting to work on their relationship after John reportedly agreed to have his vasectomy reversed so they could try for children, but the relationship ended for good in July 2018.

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7. Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney were expected to get married in 2016, but in July 2016, Gaga revealed on Instagram that the pair had actually split, mostly due to long distance and “complicated schedules.”

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8. Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus were originally meant to get married in Australia in mid-2013, but postponed the wedding in April that year. In September, they announced that they had ended their engagement altogether. Miley was only 20 at the time, and Liam was 23.

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The pair got back together in late 2015 or early 2016 and seemed to be engaged once again. They got married in December 2018, but broke up for good in 2019.

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9. Pride and Prejudice director Joe Wright and star Rosamund Pike got together while making the 2005 Jane Austen adaptation and planned to marry in Italy in 2008, but canceled the wedding in the lead-up, with Rosamund later sharing that Joe had fallen out of love with her and that it was “devastating.”

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10. Alec Baldwin and Janine Turner were both in the “aspiring” phase of their acting careers when they met in their early 20s and got engaged. “Everything was planned,” Janine later said of their wedding, but she decided to call it off because she was “repeating cycles” that weren’t healthy.

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11. Reality star Kristin Cavallari and footballer Jay Cutler had everything booked for their 2011 wedding when they called it off in the months prior because, according to Kristin, “something wasn’t right.”

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The pair actually got back together in 2012 and married in 2013, but went on to divorce in 2022.

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12. Teen Mom stars Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra began dating in middle school and, after Catelynn became pregnant and the pair decided to put their baby up for adoption, they got engaged while they were still in high school. They had a date set for July 2011, but it was confirmed just days beforehand that the wedding would not be taking place, with Tyler worried he’d be “stuck in this rut forever.”

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The pair stayed together, and got engaged again in 2014. They had another baby in January 2015, which they kept, and then got married in August 2015, when they were both 23. They went on to have two more kids, and are still married.

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13. Crystal Harris, then 25, was set to marry Hugh Hefner, then 85, in 2011, but just days before the wedding she “had a change of heart” and called it off.

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While Hugh said in the months afterwards he may have “missed a bullet,” and Crystal said she was “not turned on by Hef,” the pair actually got back together in June 2012 and got married in December that year, staying together until Hugh’s death in 2017.

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14. Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry were one of the many, many couples who had to cancel wedding plans in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic. They’d been set to get married in Japan in the summer of 2020, but called it off in March.

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While the pair had a baby in that same year and remained engaged, they never got around to getting married, and broke up in 2025.

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