The lives of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, both on and off the big screen, make headlines around the world. A representative for Angelina Jolie confirms the couple were married Saturday in France in a small, private ceremony. The couple have six children together and have been together for nine years. They announced their engagement in 2012. Pictured here, Pitt and Jolie arrive at the Academy Awards in February 2012 in Hollywood. 
Pitt's wedding ring is visible as he arrives for a promotional photocall for his latest film, "Fury," at Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset, England, on Thursday, August 28. 
Jolie listens during to a speaker during the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London on June 12. 
Jolie and Pitt arrive at the premiere of Jolie's "Maleficent" at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on May 28. 
Pitt and Jolie (upper right) appear in a mass selfie with other movie stars during the Academy Awards in March. 
A woman poses with wax figures of Jolie and Pitt at Madame Tussauds in London in December 2013. 
Jolie takes a selfie with fans at the premiere of Pitt's "World War Z" in Paris in June 2013. 
Jolie meets with refugees at the Zaatari refugee camp outside of Mafraq, Jordan, on December 6, 2012, in this handout image provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 
Pitt and Kevin Bacon perform a one-night reading of the play "8," presented at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, in March 2012. 
Pitt attends a press conference for his film "Killing them Softly" at the Cannes International Film Festival in France in May 2012. 
Jolie visits a man in a hospital in Misrata, Libya, in October 2011 in this handout photo provided by UNHCR. 
Jolie and Pitt visit refugees in the village of Medjedja, Bosnia, in April 2010. 
Pitt, George Clooney, executive producer Jerry Weintraub and Matt Damon pose for a photo during their hand-print ceremony on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in June 2007. 
Pitt and Jolie get close in a scene from their first film together "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" in 2005.
- Angelina Jolie's six kids with Brad Pitt had a hand in the couple's wedding
- Jolie's Versace wedding dress featured her kids' drawings
- The six also helped their parents write their vows
- Pax, 10, baked the wedding cake
(CNN) -- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's marriage ceremony was the very definition of a family affair.
When the longtime partners wed at their estate in France on August 23, they made sure each of their six kids had a part to play in the event.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie marry in France
Despite being one of the most closely watched couples in the world, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie managed to get married in complete privacy. Their French wedding on August 23 was so secretive it took five days for the rest of the world to hear about it. Perhaps they took a few tips from these 19 other couples whose matrimony caught everyone by surprise: 
Beyonce and Jay Z are professionals in every sense of the word, especially when it comes to keeping their private life hidden. The couple, pictured here in 2008, dated for six years before secretly marrying in New York on April 4, 2008. They were so insistent on keeping it just between them that Jay Z pretended not to know what a reporter was talking about three days after tying the knot. 
Good luck guessing what Natalie Portman is going to do next. The star isn't known for sharing much about her private life, but when she does she drops some doozies. In December 2010, the actress caught fans off guard with her out-of-the-blue engagement to French dancer Benjamin Millepied, which was announced at the same time as her first pregnancy. Portman keeps her personal life so hush-hush that onlookers thought she and Millepied had wed months before they actually tied the knot in August 2012. 
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner declined to officially announce their engagement in April 2005, and they were just as elusive with their secret island wedding that June. 
Janet Jackson just isn't one to marry and tell. The pop superstar wed Rene Elizondo, Jr. in 1991, but no one knew about it until Elizondo filed for divorce around 2000. Jackson's so good at keeping secrets that she pulled off another hush-hush wedding in 2012, when she married Wissam Al Mana in a "quiet, private, and beautiful ceremony." 
Cutting down on the number of attendees is one way to keep your matrimony on the DL. In 2006, Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher swapped vows in Paris in front of just six wedding guests. 
Zoe Saldana appears to be the type who'd rather show than tell. The actress and her artist husband, Marco Perego, were spotted wearing gold wedding bands in September 2013, which led to confirmation that the couple had actually married earlier that summer in front of a small gathering of family and friends. And with the couple now expecting their first child, Saldana stayed quiet until she confirmed her pregnancy by getting her husband to take the ALS bucket challenge for her. 
Like Saldana, Kerry Washington has been extremely reluctant to talk about her husband or her baby. There were multiple reports that the "Scandal" actress had wed football player Nnamdi Asomugha in June 2013 in Idaho, but the actress refused to say whether it happened or not. She played it similarly close to the vest when she became very evidently pregnant toward the end of 2013. 
In 2012, we knew that Ryan Reynolds was romantically linked to "Gossip Girl" actress Blake Lively, but no one saw their Southern wedding coming. That August, Lively and Reynolds secretly said "I do" in South Carolina. Even though the wedding had Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine performing, somehow the couple managed to keep the ceremony so under wraps, we still don't know what the bride wore. 
The courtship of "Skyfall" star Daniel Craig and actress Rachel Weisz is a little hazy. As far as the public knows, the former "Dream House" co-stars became romantically involved following Weisz's breakup with director Darren Aronofsky in November 2010. But before anyone could get a good sense of the newest Bond's new dating life, the couple quietly married in upstate New York in June 2011. 
When Anne Hathaway wanted to create a low-key wedding, she made like Natalie Portman and headed for Big Sur in California. The Oscar winner didn't fully escape all eyes as she wed Adam Shulman in September 2012 -- paparazzi caught the bride in her custom Valentino dress -- but at least the walkup to her private affair wasn't publicized. 
When Britney Spears wants to get married, she doesn't hesitate. The singer first had a quickie wedding to childhood friend Jason Alexander in Las Vegas in January 2004. Then, after getting that 55-hour marriage annulled, she held a second surprise wedding in September 2004 to backup dancer Kevin Federline. Her secret there was the switcheroo: The ceremony was held a month prior to the date that was publicized. 
In 2011, LeAnn Rimes played a Britney Spears card and tricked the media. While friends and family thought they were attending an engagement party for Rimes and actor Eddie Cibrian that April, they were actually attending their wedding. 
It's hard to be inconspicuous when your husband-to-be's last name is Rocknroll, but Kate Winslet managed it anyway. After quietly getting engaged in the summer of 2012, Winslet and Ned Rocknroll had a super-private wedding in New York in early December -- and the rest of the world was none the wiser until the end of the month. 
Like Brangelina, Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell declined to get married until their gay friends could legally wed, too. But once that was accomplished, Shepard and Bell didn't make a big deal out of their ceremony. In October 2013, they went over to the Beverly Hills County Clerk's Office and had a "no-frills" ceremony that Shepard later said set them back just $142. 
Former Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland is just as secretive as her friend Beyonce. The singer kept her engagement to her manager, Tim Witherspoon, to herself for months before revealing the news in December 2013, and was just as private when it came to their wedding in Costa Rica that May. The couple is now expecting their first child. 
The world knew that Halle Berry was planning to marry French actor Olivier Martinez as of March 2012 -- when Martinez himself let the news slip -- but Berry didn't talk about it until weeks later. The couple's moves toward the altar were closely tracked, which meant that even though they didn't talk about it, we still knew they were tying the knot in a private affair in France in July 2013. 
At first, Kelly Clarkson tried to trick us into believing that she and Brandon Blackstock wouldn't have a wedding, and instead would just elope. But in October 2013, she shared photos of herself and her new husband getting hitched at Blackberry Farms in Tennessee. 
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren were so intent on keeping their marriage private that they did away with wedding guests altogether. The only other person present at the couple's uber-private ceremony at a Beverly Hills courthouse in May 2008 was the official who married them. 
In December 2003, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin happily shared their baby news, but tried to keep their status as newlyweds a secret. It didn't quite work. While fans were anticipating the arrival of Paltrow and Martin's first child, the press sniffed out the news that the couple had gotten married in a surprise, secret ceremony two days after announcing they were expecting. Surprise! We're married! According to People and the UK's Hello magazine, which have exclusive photos from the couple's intimate wedding, the young Jolie-Pitts helped write their parents' wedding vows and even inspired Jolie's bridal gown.
The 39-year-old actress wore a sleeveless, floor-length custom Atelier Versace gown with a veil that was covered in her kids' drawings. The dress was reportedly crafted by Luigi Massi, and it looks like the luxury label's Donatella Versace had a hand in it as well.
"Congratulations Angelina Jolie! You look sensational in my creation for your special day!" Versace tweeted.
Jolie and Pitt have been attached since 2005 and over the past nine years have become famous for their large, international family. At the couple's wedding, their eldest, 13-year-old Maddox, helped walk his mom down the aisle along with his 10-year-old brother, Pax, who also baked the wedding cake.
Shiloh, 8, and Knox, 6, were in charge of the wedding rings, while Knox's twin, Vivienne, and 9-year-old Zahara tossed petals they'd gathered from the garden.
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In the end, the budding wedding planners threw their parents a more traditional affair than Jolie anticipated. When she and Pitt, 50, discussed their nuptials with their kids, Jolie was left with the impression that the wedding would be either "Disney or paintball -- one or the other," she joked in May.
But what was most important, the newlyweds told People, is "that the day was relaxed and full of laughter. It was such a special day to share with our children and a very happy time for our family."
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