Nick Corelli and April Ramirez
Date: 1990
Location:
Wedding Party:
Wedding Attire:
Pre-Wedding Events: Nick was in love with Eve Donovan but he knew that she deserved better so he tried to make himself unavailable. April was the likely candidate because, she was in love with Mike. Robin Jacobs had just returned to town to tell Mike about their son. April believed that Mike should be with the mother of his child and to distance herself from him she agreed to marry Nick. The relationship was strictly platonic.
The Ceremony:
Reception:
Honeymoon:
Status: It was a marriage of convenience, they never slept together. Slowly but surely, they began to really fall in love, but the arrival of Nick's brother, Johnny halted it because he took an interest in April.
Date:
June 4, 1990
Location: St. Luke's Catholic Church, Salem
Wedding Party: Steve was best man, Kayla matron of honor
Wedding Attire:
Pre-Wedding Events: Adrienne thought they were going to have a small simple wedding, but Justin surprised her with a big church wedding
The Ceremony: Justin sang "Let It Be Me" as Adrienne walked down the aisle
Reception: at the Curtis mansion, Melissa sang "When I Fall In Love": as a present to them
Honeymoon: Tahiti, where they met Carly
Manning
Date: August 13, 1990
Location: the garden of St. Luke's
Wedding Party: Jack was best man, Marcus & Bo were ushers, Kimberly was maid of honor and Adrienne was a bridesmaid
Wedding Attire: Kayla wore the same dress she wore during her first wedding to Steve, but this time her hair bangs were pulled straight back. The bridesmaids wore long pink dresses that had diamonds and sparkles on them, along with flowers in their hair, also pink.
Pre-Wedding Events: Jack was late to the wedding when he threw Harper off the bell tower when he tried to kill Steve
The Ceremony: Bo read a passage from the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 (Love is patient, love is kind)
Reception: at the Johnson house
Honeymoon:
Lawrence Alamain and Jennifer Horton (posing as Katerina vonLeuschner)
Date: November 5, 1990
Location: Lawrence's villa
Wedding Party:
Wedding Attire:
Pre-Wedding Events: Jennifer posed as Carly to save her from getting married to Lawrence. She couldn't go through with it at the last minute. He kidnapped Frankie Brady (Carly's brother, Francois vonLeuschner) and told her he would kill him unless she married him.
The Ceremony:
Reception:
Honeymoon: Knowing Jennifer was not Katerina, Lawrence wanted to teach Jennifer a lesson for getting involved in the situation, so he raped her.
Status: The marriage was annulled in 1991.
Jack Deveraux and Eve Donovan
Date:
Febraury 12, 1991
Location: Jack's penthouse
Wedding Party: none
Wedding Attire: Eve was in a form fitting white valentine-ey dress
Pre-Wedding Events: Eve convinced Jack to marry her so they could collect her inheritance from Nick. Jack agreed to it when he thought Jennifer was getting involved with Frankie
The Ceremony: They were drunk through most of it but took pictures so Julie would think they were in love
Reception: none
Honeymoon: none
Status:
Carly Manning and Victor Kiriakis
Date:
May 6, 1991
Location: Kiriakis Garden
Wedding Party: Jennifer was maid of honor, Bo was best man
Wedding Attire: Carly wore a swooping victorian dress
Pre-Wedding Events: Bo almost stopped the wedding, since he was still in love with Carly
The Ceremony:
Reception: Bo toasted them "to calm waters and smooth sailing", which was his saying with Carly (also on the bell he gave her)
Honeymoon: They didn't consummate the marriage. They took a trip which Bo followed them on, and they went camping
Status:
Jack
Deveraux and Jennifer Horton
Date: July 2, 1991
Location: Wild West Arena--Salem
Wedding Party: Maid of Honor--Carly Manning; Bridesmaids--none; Best Man--Marcus Hunter (who was chosen to represent Steve, since he was Steve's best friend and Steve couldn't stand up for his brother); Groomsmen--none; Bill Horton walked his daughter down the aisle
Wedding Attire: Jennifer's dress was made on short notice by someone in Salem. Actually, costume Designer Richard Bloore created Jennifer Deveraux's dress. The bride wore a simple princess-line sheath made out of a cotton lace, which Bloore ordered from Switzerland. The lace was hand-beaded with crystal bugle beads and seed pearls. The beading was done in New York. The lace fabric is overlaid on a piece of off-pink silk satin. The shoulders are surrounded by off-pink satin fabric flowers, which Bloore enhanced with aurora borealis lochrosen (a sew-on crystal) and small butterflies made of net and pearls. The neckline is trimmed with baroque pearls. "I scattered some of the lochrosen over the bodice and the sleeves," Bloore explains. "The five-yard train is a Watteau back [the name comes from the manner in which the 18th century painter depicted dresses in his paintings] in silk satin. The train is gathered in a fan-like shape at the shoulders. I put some more of the fabric flowers and the butterflies where the train drops off the back." Jennifer's headpiece is a halo shape of the off-pink satin, which has been gathered. To this, Bloore sewed the motif of fabric flowers, lochrosen and butterflies for detail. The veil is short - three layers of sparkle illusion. The bride wore off-pink satin pumps. She wore something blue (from Alice): a blue garter she wore at her own wedding to Tom, something old: a pearl necklace that belonged to Laura that Bill gave to her, something new: the Groom, and something borrowed (from Carly): Jennifer's first pair of earrings that she got after she had her ears pierced, and wore non-stop for days, which Carly promised to save for her on her wedding day.
Pre-Wedding Events: Jack and Jennifer were waiting for Lawrence's rape trial to end in order to get married. The wedding date was set when Jack announced to Jennifer in front of the WATB news camera (at the courthouse) that she could invite whomever she wanted to the wedding. All of Salem ended up being invited (and 4000 attended), as well as other noted personalities, including Raisa Gorbachev, Jane Pauley and Nancy Reagan. In the days leading up to the wedding, Jack and Eve's marriage was annuled so he was free to wed Jennifer. Jack developed hysterical laryngitis days before the ceremony, leaving him without a voice. He also had a nightmare at the Wild West Arena before the ceremony. When Jack was awakened at the Wild West show, he remarked to the man who saved him that there was to be a wedding, "Miss Horton's wedding!" and then he ran off. Jennifer's father, Bill, was able to return to town for the ceremony to walk his daughter down the aisle. Jack was also able to arrange his mother's release from the sanitarium for the day to be at the ceremony.
The Ceremony: Jennifer recited a poem to Jack called "Marriage." During the ceremony, Jack was asked to repeat, "I, Harper Jack, take thee Jennifer Rose." Jack recited, "I, Harper Jack, take thee Miss Horton ..."
Reception: on The riverfront, inside and outside of The Sandollar restaurant. The couple danced to their song, "All I Have"
Honeymoon: Hollywood, California, where they visited Universal Studios (with tickets Jack won in a Spectator raffle) and toured LA. It was on this trip that they met up with Hawk and Desiree
Status: The couple divorced after Jack
left Jennifer and Abby in 1993.
John Black and Isabella Toscano
Date: May 19, 1992
Location: St. Luke's Catholic Church, Salem
Wedding Party: Carly was maid of honor, Bo was best man, Shawn walked Isabella down the aisle
Wedding Attire: a very large dress for a very pregnant bride
Pre-Wedding Events: Despite the best efforts of Danielle Stevens, who tried to convince John that SHE was his wife, and his arrest as jewel thief Romulus, John and the very pregnant Isabella prepared to head to the altar. Isabella was having labor pains most of the day
The Ceremony: Isabella wound up giving birth to the couple's son, Brady Victor Black, before they could finish their vows! Afterward, she felt well enough to be wheeled back to the altar to complete her vows, with the baby quietly sleeping in her arms. By the time John was told to kiss the bride, both mother and child were in a deep sleep.
Reception: they went to the hospital with the baby
Honeymoon: none
Status: The Blacks hardly had adjusted
to those family-style dinners when Isabella was diagnosed with an
advanced case of pancreatic cancer. The two returned to her native
Italy, where she passed away in John's arms in October of 1992.
Tony and Kristen DiMera
Date:
February 18, 1994
Location: St. Luke's Catholic Church, Salem
Wedding Party: Peter was best man, Jennifer maid of honor
Wedding Attire:
Pre-Wedding Events: Kristen put off her first wedding to Tony because she was upset that Belle got kidnapped. She wanted to help John find her. They eventually found her with Sami and returned her to Marlena on Christmas Eve 1993. On the day of the wedding, John shot Stefano's car and it exploded, making it look like he killed him
The Ceremony: they ended up in a private ceremony after Peter pressured her to go through with it
Reception:
Honeymoon:
Status:
Date:
February 5, 1990
Location: Steve and Kayla's house on Ardmour
Wedding Party: Best Man--Jack, Matron of Honor--Kimberly
Wedding Attire: Kayla was pregnant with Stephanie, so the dress was large
Pre-Wedding Events:
The Ceremony:
Abe
Carver arrived as the wedding began to arrest Kayla for the murder of
Marina Toscano. Despite protests from the groom, among others, Kayla
willingly went with the police.
Jennifer Horton and Emilio Rameriz
Date: April 20, 1990
Location: Salem Presbyterian Church
Wedding Party: Bridesmaids--Melissa Anderson (maid of honor) and Sarah Horton, Scott Banning was best man
Wedding Attire:
Pre-Wedding Events: Emilio proposed to Jennifer on the air and they were married the following week. With Vern's help, Jack planned to kidnap Jennifer from her wedding, so she wouldn't marry Emilio. He enlisted Bradley to drive the fire truck for them to leave the church on.
The Ceremony:
Wearing
a fireman uniform and an oxygen mask, Jack Deveraux carried Jennifer
Horton out of the Church bridal room before the ceremony began with
the pretext that there was a fire. While Emilio waited at altar, Jack
and Jennifer boarded a classic fire engine, where he finally revealed
his identity. Jack and Jennifer rode through Salem on a fire engine,
with the song
"Rescue Me" playing in the background.
Emilio later found a forged note written by Jack from Jennifer to
Emilio, telling him that she couldn't go through with the wedding
because her heart was with Jack.
Bo Brady and Carly Manning
Date:December
10, 1991
Location:on top of the Mayan pyramid in Chichen Itza
Wedding Party: Marlena and Isabella were bridesmaids, Roman and John were best men
Wedding Attire: They wore traditional Mayan wedding garmets that they got from a local anthropologist
Pre-Wedding Events: Although she was still married to Victor, the couple decided to pledge their love to one another atop the Mayan pyramid in a traditional Mayan wedding. They learned about the ceremony from a local anthropologist
The Ceremony: Carly recited the poem "I Know Not"
Reception: at the professor's house
Honeymoon: they stayed in Mexico
Bo Brady and Carly Manning
Date:
December 11, 1992
Location: St. Luke's Catholic Church, Salem
Wedding Party: Matron of Honor--Jennifer Deveraux; Best man--Roman Brady, John and Marcus were ushers, Shawn-D was ring bearer. Vivian was initially a bridesmaid, until Carly learned she kidnapped Nikki. She then told her that she was out of her wedding and out of her life.
Wedding Attire: Carly wore a dress with a 1940s Hollywood glamour look. It was designed by Richard Bloore. The dress was off-white and made from four-plied silk, and had a slight, puddle train. The off-the-shoulder bodice was long-sleeved and had a layer of re-embrodered applique lace over silk. Small wax flowers were used for the headpiece.
Pre-Wedding Events: Carly and Lawrence discovered that the son they thought they'd lost was alive and living in Salem. However, Carly did not inform Bo of this revelation and continued to go along with their wedding plans.
The Ceremony: Just as the lovely doctor
was about to exchange vows with rebel-turned-cop Bo Brady, her
ex-lover, Lawrence Alamain, stormed the chapel with a devastating
announcement. Naturally, the groom was surprised when Lawrence
crashed the ceremony, announced the boy's parentage, and informed
Carly that their child had been kidnapped by his adoptive mother
(Vivian). Carly left Bo holding the rings and raced away with
Lawrence to retrieve their offspring.
Kate Roberts and Victor Kiriakis
Date: September 6, 1993
Location: Penthouse Grille
Wedding Party: Marlena was the Maid of honor, John was the Best man
Wedding Attire: Kate got ready at her Titan office. Kate wore a simple suit while Victor and John wore tuxes with boutonnieres.
Pre-Wedding Events: It was a marriage of convenience, more of a business merger than a wedding. Kate and Victor's wedding was very spur of the moment. He came to her bedside one morning carrying a single red rose and a diamond bracelet. She accepted his proposal &endash; she was already wearing a giant diamond engagement ring - and they were married that same night.
Victor was still curious about Kate's past, which she wouldn't share with him. He'd even done a little research and was carrying around some newspaper clippings with info about his betrothed's back story. Kate spent the day of her wedding working. Before they left Titan, Kate and Victor signed the prenuptial agreement. Vivian, of course, was stunned to learn that Victor was marrying Kate and she warned her nemesis that someday she would be Mrs. Victor Kiriakis.
The Ceremony: The ceremony was quick. A judge presided over the nuptials and Carrie, Austin, Kristen, Brandee, Peter, Lucas and Marie were in attendance.
Reception: Penthouse Grille--Vivian crashed the wedding and caught the bouquet, then warned the happy couple that they wouldn't make it until Thanksgiving. After they tied the knot, Kate handed the deed to the Spectator over to Victor, much to Jack's chagrin.
Honeymoon: There was no honeymoon for this happy couple, but the wedding night wasn't a total loss. Carrie and Lucas arranged a champagne supper for the two of them. Kate, however, was still unsure about how she felt about her new husband, while he was too busy with business to pay much attention to his new bride. They finally succumbed to their passion and Kate even managed to tell Victor that she loved him. They decided to put the past behind them and start over fresh.
Status: The marriage was invalid because Kate was still married to Curtis. Victor found this out in April of 1994. They planned to remarry, but never did because of Vivian's interference
Tony and Kristen DiMera
Date:
December 10, 1993
Location: St. Luke's Catholic Church
Wedding Party: best man--Peter Blake
Wedding Attire:
Pre-Wedding Events:
The Ceremony: John interrupted the ceremony to inform Kristen that Belle had been kidnapped. Kristen backed out from the wedding shortly after the ceremony began. She felt that she needed to find the kidnapped Belle Brady, whom she felt attached to, before marrying. The excuse for this was to clear the DiMera family name in the Bradys' eyes. Her strong feelings for John Black, however, also influenced her decision. She left the church to search for Belle.
There is still a lot more to add to this page and many weddings I haven't yet included. If you would like to help fill in the blanks, please send an email to: beth@bethsdayspage.com with "weddings" in the subject. You will receive credit for anything you contribute.
All pictures on this page were scanned in by me from Soap Opera Digest, Soap Opera Update, and Daytime TV specials, such as Inside Days of Our Lives. Thanks to Stacy Krugman for the Jack and Eve photo and lots of information. Some info came from SOU and SOD.
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