By Camille Lamblaut
Published
December 19 at 7:02 a.m.,
updated December 19 at 11:02 a.m.
On December 17, the Quebec singer paid tribute to her late husband and former impresario, by publishing a photo of their wedding on her Instagram account.
Thirty years ago, on December 27, 1994, the young Céline Dion married her impresario René Angélil. She was 26 and he was 52. Together, they will go through twenty-two years of life, stage and immense success. The one who made the little Quebecer from a family of 14 children a star died on January 14, 2016, following throat cancer, at her family home in Las Vegas. He was 73 years old. Eight years later, on their wedding anniversary, his famous widow paid tribute to him.
“My love !”
Almost ten years after the death of René Angélil, Céline Dion is still celebrating the day they said “yes”. On the anniversary, the singer published a photo of them taken on their wedding day on her Instagram account. “You always fill our hearts, every day. You are everything to us. We miss you very much,” she wrote in the caption of her publication. “Happy 30th birthday, my love!”, she added, signing with her first name but also those of their sons René-Charles, Eddy and Nelson.
Three boys were born from this marriage. The eldest, René-Charles, was born on January 25, 2001. Nine years later, on October 23, the couple welcomed twins Eddy and Nelson thanks to a surrogate mother.
Céline, René and the tiara
The black and white photo shows the newlyweds face to face, eye to eye. Céline still holding her husband’s face in her hands. She’s wearing this gigantic tiara that doesn’t seem to bother her in the photo, and yet. In a video published by Voguethe 56-year-old singer spoke about this sparkling tiara made of more than 2,000 Swarovski crystals, which weighed almost three kilos.
“When we took the tiara off, I got a cut because the pressure was too much,” she said. “The next day, I wake up, I look in the mirror, I have the size of an egg in the middle of my forehead… It’s so huge that it makes me squint my eyes,” she said. added. And since everything had been chosen in excess, the bride’s silk dress was adorned with an immense train six meters long. And they lived happily.
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