Top 10 Celebrities Who Got Engaged Quickly

Top 10 Celebrities Who Got Engaged Quickly

 
Wait, they’re engaged already? Didn’t they just get together? Welcome to MsMojo and today we’ll be counting down the Top 10 Celebrities Who Got Engaged After Only Dating a Short While.
 
For this list, we’re looking at celebrity couples who had short engagements that created a media frenzy due to the popularity of the pairings. The couples included don’t have to still be together to nab a spot on our list. Note that due to the nature of celeb news, the numbers mentioned here are only what’s been publicly reported and may not be 100% accurate, but we’ve tried our best to verify them as much as we could.

 

#10: Amal Alamuddin & George Clooney
6 Months

George Clooney was Hollywood’s leading bachelor for decades. In a 1995 interview with Barbara Walters, he infamously said that he would never get married again because he wasn’t good at it, a claim referencing his marriage with Talia Balsam that ended in 1993. Those were famous last words until Amal Alamuddin entered the picture. The British-Lebanese human rights lawyer won over her his heart with her intellect and beauty, after they met through a mutual friend in Lake Como, Italy. After about a six-month courtship, the heartthrob proposed and the two were married in a lavish ceremony in Venice in 2014.
 

#9: Britney Spears & Kevin Federline
3 Months

No stranger to quickie marriages, Brit Brit at least waited 3 months before becoming engaged to K-Fed, her former backup dancer. Kevin famously left his pregnant baby mama, Shar Jackson, to get with Britney and the two clearly wasted no time. They were married three months after their engagement and became a tabloid staple with their lightning-fast union and reality show, “Britney and Kevin: Chaotic.” Their chaotic lifestyle got to be too much however and Britney called it quits after two years and two sons together.

#8: Katy Perry & Russell Brand

3 Months

These two (sometimes-) loveable weirdos were a pairing that had everyone scratching their heads. The loud-mouthed English comedian and the spirited American singer didn’t seem like they would have much in common; but after getting together in September 2009, they got engaged on New Year’s Eve of that same year - and were married in India not much more than a year after meeting. They seemed really into each other at the time; yet just when we were getting used to them as a couple, they announced they were splitting up and the divorce was finalized by mid-2012. The demise of their marriage was later chronicled in her documentary, “Katy Perry: Part of Me,” which made for some tough viewing.
 


#7: Alice Kim & Nicolas Cage
2 Months

Rich older man falls for a waitress? We’ve heard this one before. Like a plot right out of a rom-com, Nic met Alice when she was working as a restaurant waitress in Los Angeles. Instantly smitten by her, the couple began dating and were engaged after a mere 2 months. Now that’s a whirlwind romance. Their entanglement surprised many observers, since she was in her earlys 20 when they began dating and he was in his early 40s; but hey, they had made it to 12 years of marriage in 2016 when they sadly separated.
 


6: Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise
2 Months

The world will never forget how wild Tom was about Katie when they first started dating. If his interview with Oprah didn’t make it crystal clear that he was all in, Tom made his intentions known by proposing just 2 months after they began their courtship. For a while, TomKat was the celebrity couple the tabloids were obsessed with, and we got every detail of their lives from the speedy marriage to the birth of their daughter, Suri. And just as their courtship was tabloid fodder, so, too, was their divorce that happened after 6 years together.
 

#5: Angelina Jolie & Billy Bob Thornton

2 Months

Before there was Brangelina, the lovely and talented Jolie was glued to the hip of actor-musician, Billy Bob Thornton. These two were the talk of the town for their excessive PDA, matching tattoos, and vials of each other’s blood they wore as necklaces. With a love as hot and intense as theirs, it was no wonder they were engaged and married after, yes, only two months. The couple was eccentric  but fascinating to watch, since we never knew what to expect from them. Like a flame, their love burned bright and fast, only to get extinguished after 3 years of marriage.
 

#4: Nikki Reed & Paul McDonald

3 Months

Another seemingly random couple, Nikki and Paul were definitely a pairing probably no one saw coming in a million years. After meeting at the premiere of 2011’s “Red Riding Hood”, the “Twilight” beauty and the “American Idol” alum began dating and were engaged by their three-month anniversary. They took a few more months before being married at an intimate beach wedding in Malibu. Unfortunately, a few months after their second wedding anniversary, they announced their separation. Nikki has moved on, and is happily married to fellow vampire, Ian Somerhalder as of 2015.



#3: Khloé Kardashian & Lamar Odom
1 Month

The Kardashians aren’t like the rest of us, so we wouldn’t expect them to do marriage the same way either. After meeting Lamar at a party Khloé threw for his Lakers teammate, Metta World Peach, the duo fell hard and fast in love. Not only were they engaged VERY shortly after meeting, they were actually married on their one-month anniversary. By most normal societal standards, that was one crazy romantic whirlwind, but the Kardashians do tend to move quick; after all, Kim was engaged to NBA player Kris Humphries after only 7 months of dating. That’s not long at all, but it seems like decades in comparison to Khloé and Lamar.
 

#2: Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon

1 Month

This odd couple never made much sense to many people, but at the time, they sure were sure of each other. After about a month of dating, the singer and the funnyman eloped in the Caribbean. You can’t really get much faster than that in the romance game. And despite their 11-year age difference and, realistically, the gap in their celeb statuses, Mariah and Nick were able to make the marriage work for at least 6 years, producing two beautiful kids, Monroe and Moroccan. Even though they’re divorced now, they still seem to be friends with each other and make co-parenting work. That’s a pretty significant achievement.
 

Before we unveil our number one pick, here are a few honorable mentions:
 
Avril Lavigne & Chad Kroeger
1 Month
 
 

Cameron Diaz & Benji Madden
7 Months


Kaley Cuoco & Ryan Sweeting
3 Months
 
 


#1: Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee
4 Days

Rock stars are known for living crazy, fast lives but this marriage seems quick even by showbiz standards! After just four days, (you heard right, four days) the Playboy playmate and the Mötley Crüe drummer got married. The duo had a very chaotic union, infamous for a sex tape, domestic violence charges, and their again/off again relationship status. They managed to turn four days of knowing each other in 1995 into a marriage that produced two sons, before filing for divorce in 1998. Perhaps the title of the first Crüe album predicted it all: “Too Fast For Love”.