Bette Midlerhad no pictures of her wedding day for years, she revealed this week.
While appearing on Tuesday night’s episode ofJimmy Kimmel Live,the Emmy Award-winning actress, 75, recalled her Las Vegas elopement to husbandMartin Von Haselbergin 1984.
“Apparently, there was a photographer there,” Midler told hostKimmel.“When the Starlight Chapel closed its doors about five years ago, they sent us the pictures. We had never seen the pictures [before].”
Midler and Von Haselberg, 72, wed in a “spur of the moment” ceremony just six weeks after first meeting. TheHocus Pocusstar said she was the one to ask the Argentinian actor to marry her.
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“He got all dressed up in this suit that I was like, ‘I’m not getting married to you in that suit!’ So he had to change his suit and then we went to one of the little churches and we went to get the license,” Midler recalled of their wedding day.
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The couple welcomed their daughter, Sophie, just two years later. Last year, they got to watch her walk down the aisleat her own wedding.
Midler told Kimmel, 53, that she and Von Haselberg were “over the moon” when they found out their daughter would be getting married. Both parents helped put together the small ceremony, with Midler securing the flowers and Von Haselberg organizing the food.
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“It was so sweet,“The First Wives Clubstar said of the wedding, which only had 11 people in attendance due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“They had a great time,” Midler said of her daughter and son-in-law. “They stayed up all night and they drank. They had a ball.”
source: people.com
