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Whether you are married, divorced, engaged or permanently single, chances are good that you still enjoy watching or reading about a big, famous wedding. Sometimes that means the marriage of two fleeting Hollywood celebrities—which is usually fun and over the top—but not quite as amazing as truly historic weddings can be. Here are some of the 5 most memorable historical weddings.

1. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer: Who could forget the astonishing 25 foot train donned by Lady Diana Spencer during her July 29, 1981 wedding to Prince Charles? Although it did look like the attention paid to her train might have been better spent tending to her hair, it was an amazing event nonetheless as the future King of England took his first bride in front of 600,000 live viewers and 750 million television viewers.
2. King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Framed by forceful and selfish religious reforms and a suspicious beheading, the marriage of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one that has fascinated historians and Tudor-junkies alike for centuries. Their wedding, which took place in a small chapel during a secret ceremony in 1533, was done in spite of the fact that the King was already married to his deceased brother’s former wife Katharine of Aragon who was stripped of her title and forever called a Dowager Princess after his marriage to Boleyn.
3. Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu: Married in 1967 here in the wedding capital of the world, Las Vegas, these two had a very understated and traditional wedding. In this case, it wasn’t the wedding itself that was so memorable as much as it was the tying of a ball and chain around the ankle of the world’s most lust-worthy singer.
4. Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly: April 19^th 1956, Hollywood legend Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco. While it was technically their second wedding, it is more notable than the first–which they had the previous day–because of the majesty of the affair. With 600 guests packed into the St. Nicholas Cathedral and about 30 million more watching from the comfort of their own homes (an amazing number in 1956), Kelly glided down the aisle in 125 yards of silk and taffeta decorated with 125-year old lace sewn together by an MGM costume designer and 36 seamstresses over 6 weeks.
5. Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: On June 16^th 2008, in perhaps the most historic moment in wedding history, lesbian activist Phyllis Lyon married her long-time partner and fellow lesbian activist Del Martin in the first ever gay marriage. The ceremony itself was simple and held in the San Francisco Mayor’s office, but what is amazing about this wedding is the decades-long fight for equality waged by these two octogenarians who had been a couple for more than 50 years.