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While soap operas are known for their over-the-top stories and hot and heavy romances, there's one more thing these daytime dramas are best for: iconic weddings. Each and every episode is filled with plenty of vile villains, spicy bedroom scenes, and dramatic cliffhangers, but on very special occasions — typically falling on a sweeps month — viewers get to attend the weddings of supercouples.
Soap weddings have been making history since the 80s for their unexpected twists, doomed-from-the-start disasters, and epic love stories that get to be celebrated for one divine day — or usually an entire week in soap world.
Spinelli And Maxie (General Hospital)
It's up for debate whether this one has any business being considered an iconic soap opera wedding simply because there were no actual nuptials during this memorable General Hospital moment.
In 2009, Spinelli and Maxie committed to their love in what they referred to as a "non-wedding." Just as unexpected as their relationship, the couple nicknamed "Spixie" got as far as the alter until Spinelli ultimately decided that their love was enough for him, and they didn't need a marriage to prove it.
Jack And Jennifer (Days Of Our Lives)
This Days of Our Lives one-true-pairing found themselves star-crossed from the 80s all the way up to the present day in Salem, but one fateful day in 1991, Jack Deveraux and Jennifer Horton finally made their shipper's dreams come true by tying the knot.
Before their Hollywood honeymoon, the couple got married surrounded by cowboys and cowgirls in a Wild West-themed ceremony, despite the bride and groom dressing in traditional wedding attire.
Hayley And Mateo (All My Children)
Hayley and Mateo soapy love story included a deathbed proposal and a hospital room wedding that included an unofficial marriage ceremony, but that's not the All My Children wedding that everyone remembers.
The couple finally made it down the aisle in 2000, officially marrying in front of all of Pine Valley, as well as an unexpected wedding crasher. Interestingly, Hayley's and Mateo's portrayers Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are a couple in real life and married two years before their characters did.
Liam And Steffy (Bold And The Beautiful)
Bold and the Beautiful's famous on-again-off-again couple Liam and Steffy have been married three times, but nothing tops their first wedding — literally.
While waiting on a hilltop in Aspen for his ex-girlfriend Hope, Liam got an unexpected surprise when a woman approached him, wearing a wedding dress and removing her veil to reveal herself to be Steffy, and the two married on the spot. The best part was the way Steffy had arranged for Hope to get trapped on a gondola above them, forced to watch the entire ceremony.
Patch And Kayla (Days Of Our Lives)
Steve "Patch" Johnson and Kayla Brady's epic love story on Days of Our Lives hit its peak in what was considered the wedding of the summer in 1988.
Despite having already exchanged vows privately, Patch gave Kayla her dream wedding with a ceremony on a yacht, where the force of their love allowed her to speak her first words since an accident left her deaf and mute: "I, Kayla, take you, Steven, to be my husband."
Will And Sonny (Days Of Our Lives)
After a heartwrenching coming out storyline led Will and Sonny to date, fall in love, and have a cheesy Valentine's Day proposal, the couple wed in 2015 in what was daytime's first-ever same-sex male wedding.
Stood in the Kiriakis mansion in front of friends and family with Will's grandmother Marlena as their officiant, Will and Sonny pledged their love to each other in one of Days of Our Lives' most beautiful wedding ceremonies where the soap kept the drama to a minimum for just a day.
Cruz And Eden (Santa Barbara)
Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo were considered the number one supercouple of NBC's Santa Barbara, who — after typical soap drama postpones their wedding time and again — finally say "I do" during a 19th Century-themed ceremony.
Unlike the dated dresses of other famous soap weddings in the 80s, the old-timey costumes make this memorable Santa Barbara wedding timeless, with Eden in taffeta with lace and Cruz in a navy captain outfit.
Nikki And Victor (Young And The Restless)
While Nikki and Victor got married in the 80s then again in the early 2000s after multiple affairs between the two of them, the couple wed for their third and last time in 2013.
What was advertised as a "killer wedding" took place at the Neman Ranch in front of their friends and family, and while the ceremony couldn't end without a shot being fired, the episode was made extra special because this wedding coincided with Young and the Restless' 40th-anniversary celebration on CBS.
Bo And Hope (Days Of Our Lives)
Days of Our Loves' Bo and Hope were considered the equivalent of General Hospital's Luke and Laura. And while the latter's wedding gained real-life royal attention, Bo and Hope's fictional wedding turned into a royal ceremony.
After the two brought a killer to justice in England, the English government rewarded the couple with a royal wedding. Their friends and family back in Salem flew abroad for the nuptials, and Bo and Hope wed during an on-location shoot for the Days cast.
Luke And Laura (General Hospital)
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Luke and Laura's 1983 wedding on ABC's General Hospital has gone down in history as being one of the biggest, most memorable weddings, not only in soap opera history but in television history.
The couple initially wed without a hitch, exchanging their vows for all of Port Charles to hear. But being a soap wedding — especially one of the iconic Luke Spencer and Laura Webber — things took a turn when Laura's ex Scott Baldwin punched the groom and villainess Helena Cassadine, played by Elizabeth Taylor, put a curse on the couple.