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| Reverend Jim Hamilton poses next to Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton after marrying them at the Little Church |
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas is bound to resurface later — especially if you're one of the most famous movie stars on the planet. It was May 5, 2000, when Angelina Jolie flitted off to that famed Nevada city to marry Billy Bob Thornton, but snapshots from their wedding have just surfaced for the first time now. (You can thank the minister who performed the ceremony for the trip down memory lane.)
Just to refresh, 15 years ago, Jolie was still more of a wild child than a maternal goddess, which might explain her ultra-relaxed garb for the big event. Clad in baggy jeans, a sleeveless gray tank, and… umm… are those clogs?!, the actress completed her wedding day style with a bare face and her signature dark locks tied back in a ponytail. Her groom was equally casual, sporting a printed shirt and a trucker hat.
The Reverend Jim Hamilton remembered his surprise when the Hollywood couple strolled into the Little Church of the West on a Friday afternoon.
"They walked in and I recognized her immediately," Hamilton explained to the Daily Mail. "She was really big at that time, of course, she still is, and Billy Bob, I didn't recognize him at first. He had a John Deere hat on. I looked at the marriage certificate and I turned around and said, 'Billy Bob, I loved you in Sling Blade.'"
So, once the small talk was out of the way, what was the actual ceremony like?
"Angelina walked down the aisle to 'Here Comes the Bride' carrying a rose and carnation bouquet," the minister remembered. "They slipped in and out. That's what they wanted to do. There wasn't anybody else there other than our chapel photographer and one of their videographers [Harve Cook]. He was the best man and he signed their license."
"We just had a ball, it was very quiet, very peaceful," Hamilton recalled before adding, "They were both very composed and neither one of them were nervous." He also noted that Angelina was "very calm in her voice" while saying her vows. According to the minister, Jolie and Thornton opted for the "Beginning Package" at the church, said the "regular vows," and exchanged "very plain" rings. "They weren't anything fancy," Hamilton said.
The minister didn't get the impression that the pair had put much thought or planning into this little detour, bet he felt confident they "were very, very sober" as they entered into holy matrimony.
"They'd been at a movie shoot up in Utah and they were actually on their way back to Beverly Hills," he explained. "Personally I don't think they had really planned it out for long, I think it was a spur of the moment deal but I'm not sure. I didn't ask, 'Oh what made you decide to get married?' It was my job to marry them."
After the service, the minister believes the Billy Bob took his fifth wife for one quick night at the Four Seasons at Mandalay Bay before heading back to California.
The marriage, which Thornton recently referred to as "a crazy time," ended less than two years later and, shortly after that, Jolie moved on to her Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Brad Pitt. Considering that she and Brad have now clocked a decade together, share six kids, and wed last summer in a lavish ceremony in France (that was pretty much the polar opposite of this Vegas affair), we think it's a safe bet that in the world of Angelina Jolie, these vintage pics are but a blip on the romantic history radar.
Meanwhile, Thornton married wife No. 6 in October 2014.
Culled from Yahoo
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