Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban celebrated their love with a romantic wedding in Australia nearly two decades before their separation.
Us Weekly confirmed on Monday, September 29, that Kidman, 58, and Urban, 57, split after 19 years of marriage. They originally met in 2005 following her divorce from Tom Cruise. After one year of dating, Kidman and Urban got married at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel church in Sydney, Australia, with their family and friends present.
“I remember being in Sydney and driving down the street and I was with my dad — who’s obviously not around now — and he was in the car with me,” Kidman recalled to People in 2004. “We were driving to the church and there were so many people on the street, sort of celebrating us.”
Kidman recalled opening the window of the vintage white Rolls-Royce and thanking locals as she and her father, Antony, made their way to the church for the candlelit ceremony.
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“It was just one of the most emotional things in my life,” she noted at the time. “It really was an extraordinary day.”
After trying the know, the then-couple expanded their family in 2008 with the arrival of daughter Sunday Rose. Two years later, Kidman and Urban welcomed daughter Faith via surrogate. (Kidman is also the mother of daughter Isabella and son Connor, whom she adopted with Cruise.)
Kidman later gushed about the partnership she developed with Urban.
“I have the most extraordinary partner in life. I will always say that about him,” she said in a 2019 interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I’m one of the very fortunate women in the world to have had a wonderful father, and I have a wonderful husband, and I’m just very — I love to be able to say that because to talk about the good men that have influenced me and affected me.”
During a CBS Mornings interview in 2022, Kidman called meeting Urban “later in life” the “best thing that’s ever happened” to her, adding, “We’re a mix. We’re very suited [for each other]. I’m incredibly lucky to have met him.”
Kidman was also honest about the work that went into her marriage.
“We’re always working through stuff, but it’s very much love-based, so there’s an enormous amount of give and take,” she explained in the September 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “I want him to have the best life he can have, and he responds the same way. We really love parenting together.”
At the time, Kidman recalled her high-profile split from Cruise in 2001 and how it affected her relationships moving forward.
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“I was young. I think I offered it up?” she recalled about sharing her personal life with the public. “Maybe I’ve gotten a bit more trepidatious, but I’m always trying to be as open as possible.”
She continued: “I just prefer to live in the world that way. I’m wary at times, and I’ve been hurt, but at the same time I much prefer a warm approach rather than a prickly shutdown approach. My husband, Keith, says that when he met me, he said, ‘How’s your heart?’ And I apparently responded, ‘Open.’”
Keep scrolling for the best moments from Kidman and Urban’s wedding day:
Arriving at the Chapel
Kidman had her father by her side when she arrived at Cardinal Ceretti Memorial Chapel in June 2006.
Beaming on Her Big Day
The actress smiled as she exited the car to exchange vows with Urban.
Officially Married
The pair drove off together after their nuptials, which featured a guest list with some familiar faces, including Hugh Jackman and his then-wife, Deborra-Lee Furness.
