Do Valentine’s Day marriages last? 6 celebrities who tied the knot on February 14 – Salma Hayek, Harrison Ford and Benedict Cumberbatch’s romances are strong, but whose ended when he came out as gay?

Feb 14 , 2024

Celebrity couples who tied the knot on Valentine’s Day (from left): Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, Sophie Hunter and Benedict Cumberbatch, and Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein. Photos: Getty Images

Benedict Cumberbatch made a low-key announcement of his engagement to Sophie Hunter in the Marriages column of The Times – and they now have three children

Elton John and Renate Blauel met in 1983, quickly became close friends and married a year later – but it ended as soon as the singer-pianist came out as gay

If only there was a way to make February 14 an even more romantic day than it already is … Celebrity couples like Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter must have had this question in mind when they tied the knot on Valentine’s Day.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter are among the celebrity couples who chose Valentine’s Day for their nuptials. Photo: EPA

However, as lovey-dovey as a Valentine’s wedding might seem, a recent survey conducted by CouponBirds showed that out of 21 American celebrity couples who got married before 2020, only seven of them are still together. That makes for a divorce rate of 66.7 per cent.

But who’s to say the longevity of a marriage has anything to do with having a legendary wedding day? Keep scrolling to see how these celebrity Valentine’s marriages really panned out …

1. Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault

Salma Hayek, Valentina Paloma Pinault and François-Henri Pinault at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, in 2021. Photo: Getty Images

Married since 2009, these Valentine’s lovebirds have been together for over a decade. The actress-CEO power couple dated for two years before taking the plunge after welcoming their baby daughter in 2007.

While Hayek recalls the Paris courthouse wedding as a complete surprise in a 2023 Glamour interview, the pair is still going strong all these years later.

2. Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan at the premiere of Hurlyburly in Los Angeles, in 1998. Photo: Getty Images

Nineties romcom sweetheart Meg Ryan first met Dennis Quaid when she starred with him in the 1987 sci-fi film Innerspace, but they only started dating on the set of D.O.A. in 1988. The pair got married on V-Day in 1991 and welcomed their son Jack a year later. Ryan adopted her daughter Daisy in 2006.