In August 2025, Cristiano Ronaldo finally proposed to his girlfriend after almost ten years together. Georgina Rodríguez’s cute Instagram announcement and enormous engagement ring rocked the internet, and had everyone asking, “Why did it take them so long?”
However, they are not the only couple to wait a decade or more to tie the knot. Some celebrities have waited for over 40 years, and some of their reasons for doing so are truly bizarre.
So, click on to find out which couples took a long time to get hitched.