15 best weddings in pop culture ranked by how memorable they’d be to attend

“November Rain” Wedding, Guns N’ Roses

If you’ve read the Del James short story Without You, on which Axl Rose based the epic music video for Guns N’ Roses’ epic hit “November Rain,” you already know that this wedding is doomed.

In the story, a rock star mourns the death of his girlfriend by suicide. Similarly, the music video cuts back and forth between the wedding of fictional versions of Rose and his then-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour and the bride’s funeral. Presumably, the Seymour’s character committed suicide not long after the wedding; if you watch closely, she looks troubled during the wedding ceremony and when the couple leaves in the convertible, and at the funeral, a mirror covers part of her face.

If you had attended this wedding, you would have been host to a slew of memorable events, from Slash forgetting the rings at the ceremony to the torrential downpour during the reception; from MTV’s Riki Rachtman diving through the wedding cake to Slash shredding on his guitar in a desolate field outside the church. (Or perhaps it’s a different church. The timeline is a little jumpy.)

Unfortunately, however, you also likely would have been attending the bride’s tragic funeral not long after.

The music video for “November Rain” is one of the most expensive of all time, with an estimated budget of $1.5 million, per MTV. It won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography and is arguably the most famous depiction of a wedding in any music video (sorry, Billy Idol).