Celebrities Who Said 'YES' on Valentine's Day: Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Harrison Ford and More!
Valentine's Day has been one of the most popular days for couples all over the world to propose or get married. The romance that surrounds February 14 makes expressing love beautiful and eternal, just like it has for some of our favorite celebrity couples who decided to get married or engaged on Valentine’s Day.
Lady Gaga, Harrison Ford, and Katy Perry are just some of the stars who have chosen the special holiday to take their relationship to the next step. If you are wondering if it is cliché to get engaged or married on February 14, then you can take inspiration from these celebrities who chose this day to embark on a new journey of love and friendship. Some of these celebrities made their Valentine’s Day unforgettable by going to great lengths and heights to pop the question or get married.
Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom
In 2019, Bloom got engaged to pop star Katy Perry. According to Hello! Magazine, The Lord of the Rings actor had a romantic plan in place, involving a helicopter ride, some champagne, a ring, and a family dinner at the end. And he executed it to perfection except for a slight comical stumble. Bloom accidentally knocked the champagne bottle over, just as he was about to take out the ring, Perry remembers fondly.
According to US Weekly, the Fireworks singer, for her part, raved over Orlando Bloom’s extravagant and heartfelt proposal. “It was Valentine’s Day,” she said during a February 2019 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “We went to dinner, and I thought we were gonna see some art after dinner, but we pulled up to a helicopter…It was really sweet. He asked me to marry him in a helicopter.”
Lady Gaga & Taylor Kinney
Actor Taylor Kinney surprised singer-songwriter, Lady Gaga, with a heart-shaped ring and proposed in 2015. However, they called it quits in 2016.
“I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have,” the A Star Is Born actress said during a November 2016 appearance on CBS Sunday Morning. “And sometimes I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with. You know, we’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you."
Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart
Indiana Jones star, Harrison Ford, 80, and Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart, 58, have been together since 2002. They met at the 2002 Golden Globes where Flockhart spilled wine on him, and later, the pair's mutual friend, James Marsden set them up, according to People.
On Valentine's Day in 2009, Ford proposed while on vacation. The pair got married in June 2010 in Santa Fe, Mexico.
Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault
Salma Hayek, 56, married French businessman and billionaire François-Henri Pinault, 60, on February 14, 2009. They privately tied the knot in the Saint Germain town hall in Paris. They had a larger reception in April 2009 in Venice, Italy, according to Wonderwall.
"It's such a romantic, amazing story, but it is mine. I don't want to vulgarize it by making it into a story to make myself interesting," Hayek said. Speaking to Town & Country in 2019, Hayek refused to divulge how the pair met.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter
Benedict Cumberbatch and his theater director wife, Sophie Hunter got married in an intimate ceremony and reception on Britain's Isle of Wight. Prior to their wedding, the Sherlock star and Hunter announced their engagement in the Times of London.
"It's what I would have done if I wasn't sort of famous. It's what we do. It's a kind of traditional thing to do," Cumberbatch told People in 2014. He also admitted, "I thought it was just all about us declaring that we were in love and getting married, but actually it's the world going, 'We love you too!'"
