‘Bachelorette’ and ‘Traitors’ star Gabby Windey elopes with Robby Hoffman to Las Vegas — like these other celebrity couples before them

Gabby Windey, of Traitors and The Bachelorette fame, announced — surprise — she secretly married her comedian girlfriend, Robby Hoffman, in Las Vegas.

Windey told Cosmopolitan that when the Los Angeles wildfires broke out in January and they evacuated, they decided, “if the world is ending, we want to be with each other.”

The couple drove to Las Vegas and tied the knot days later. They danced down the aisle to Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go!” The 20-minute ceremony, for which they had no guests, was overseen by Reverend Nature, who wore red sneakers and kept to the script. They also had a photographer named Big Nate, who captured their essence.

“It’s giving Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey when they [broke up] and came back together after 9/11,” Windey said about the timing. “They were like, ‘No, actually, we do want to be together because the world is ending.’ It was just us two. We did everything in two days.”

For Windey that included buying “the first dress I saw,” which was off-white lace, at a department store despite its being a “little tight” and making her “butt look huge.” Hoffman, who wore her own clothing at the wedding, handled the ring purchases at Cartier.

One of the best parts of their wedding story was their telling of how they shopped around for the right chapel based on past successful celebrity elopements in Sin City.

“I just looked up what couples, good couples, used,” Hoffman said. “I didn’t want to do the Britney [Spears] — and I love Britney! … But she was married 72 hours — that’s not the energy you want to bring.”

Hoffman looked for venues producing “longer-standing relationships,” picking One Love Wedding Chapel, where Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker wed.

They married there and the wedding cost $799, including photos and a limo. Windey said the venue was “giving Bachelor [vibes] because there were roses everywhere,” but it was a “beautiful night, I could cry. It was joy.” An incredible wedding gift turned out to be that they “got so lucky” and their house survived the fires.

Windey and Hoffman were hip to which celebrities had married in Vegas, and there have been a lot, but here are some of the most memorable — with mixed “ever after” outcomes.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck

After they called off a wedding two decades earlier, there was a lot of anxiety going into Lopez and Affleck’s July 2022 wedding. So much so that, amid stressful wedding planning, “Ben just said, ‘F*** it. Let’s just go to Vegas and get married tonight,’” Lopez said.

Affleck planned the whole thing at A Little White Wedding Chapel. Lopez, who had been married three times before to Affleck’s once, talked about how they showed up at the county clerk’s office just before midnight to get their wedding license, shocking the nonfamous couples also getting married.

They declined to have an Elvis impersonator, saying they’d take whoever was there at the moment “who can legally marry us.” Lopez’s kids were their witnesses and they all posed in the venue’s pink Cadillac. Bennifer had a formal wedding with family and friends that August in Savannah, Ga. The pair split in 2024 after less than two years of marriage.

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker

In Las Vegas for the Grammys in April 2022, Kravis, outfitted in leather jackets, got hitched by an Elvis impersonator at One Love Wedding Chapel. It was his third marriage; her first.

Kardashian has said she was so drunk, slurring her words during vows, that she blacked out and remembers nothing. She vomited shortly after. It was a trial run to the real deal because the couple failed to obtain a marriage license so it wasn’t legal. (You can only get a marriage license between 8 a.m. and midnight; they showed up at 2 a.m.)

Kardashian and Barker went on to have two more weddings, one in Santa Barbara to make it legal and another in Italy with their families, both in May 2022.

Britney Spears and Jason Alexander

At her height of pop stardom, Spears eloped to Vegas with her high school friend and they married at A Little White Wedding Chapel at 4 a.m. on Jan. 3, 2004.

The bride and groom both wore jeans — hers were ripped, and she paired them with a black crop top and white ball cap. Their marriage was famously annulled 55 hours later because her parents hit the roof because she had no prenup. Alexander was given a coach plane ticket back to Louisiana (after flying to Vegas on Spears’s plane).

Alexander went on to give countless interviews about the brief marriage. He later tried to crash Spears’s third wedding to Sam Asghari in 2022, getting arrested.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos

The Live With Kelly and Mark co-stars fell in love shortly after meeting on the set of All My Children and secretly wed at the Chapel of the Bells in May 1996, telling nobody.

Several months later, the news got out thanks to Wendy Williams, but they’ve had a long and happy union with three children. Ripa, who wrote in her memoir that she and Consuelos briefly broke up before they eloped, waited until 2013 to share a photo from their wedding day. In 2024, the duo visited the chapel where they were married to officiate a wedding.

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner

We know the end of this song, but the start seemed like a blast. The singer and Game of Thrones actress were madly in love and, while in Vegas for the Billboard Music Awards, tied the knot during a surprise ceremony at A Little White Wedding Chapel in May 2019.

Jonas’s brothers, Kevin and Nick, were groomsmen, and an Elvis impersonator did the honors. The bride and groom posed in the pink Cadillac too. Jonas and Turner went on to have a fancy wedding in France, two children and then a very bitter split in 2023. They’ve moved on — and they have “beautiful” memories.

Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton

Thornton was dating actress Laura Dern when he fell for his Pushing Tin co-star Jolie, 20 years his junior, and they eloped to Vegas in 2000 and wed at the Little Church of the West.

The bride (previously married to Jonny Lee Miller) wore jeans and a sleeveless shirt to show off her new “Billy Bob” tattoo, and the groom (married four times prior) wore a black outfit and matching baseball cap. Their wedding cost $120 and included organ music and photos.

They later had a ceremony at their home in Beverly Hills. While they were very much in love — becoming known for wearing one another’s blood in matching locket necklaces — they split in 2002. She said he felt alienated when she decided to adopt her first child, Maddox, and formalized the adoption as a solo parent. Thornton went on to marry one more time, and Jolie had a failed union with Brad Pitt. Thornton and Jolie remain friends.

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis

They were ’80s magic when they got together, and just three months later they tied the knot in their hotel suite at the Golden Nugget in November 1987. A Little White Chapel’s the Reverend Charolette Richards — who had previously married Judy Garland and Sid Luft (1952) and Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow (1966) — did the honors and said she had no idea who they were.

Moore wrote in her 2019 memoir that they were gambling “when Bruce said, ‘I think we should get married.’ We’d been joking about it on the flight there, but suddenly it didn’t seem like he was kidding.” The next month, they threw a big wedding with friends on a Warner Bros. soundstage in L.A. where Little Richard, an ordained minister, married them.

Willis and Moore went on to have their three daughters — Rumer, Scout and Tallulah — but separated in 1998 and divorced in 2000. They remained friends, hitting the red carpet with their blended families after he married Emma Heming Willis and she was briefly married to third husband Ashton Kutcher. Oscar-nominated Moore has also supported her ex during his struggle with aphasia.

Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley

In 1989, amid Bon Jovi’s huge success, the frontman asked his high school sweetheart if she wanted to elope. He told People that his band was on their “’New Jersey’ tour, and if you opened up the curtains of my hotel room, there’s a big billboard of the five of us staring into my window. … We had a night off, and I said [to my then-fiancée, Dorothea], ‘I need a higher high — I got an idea. Let’s go to Vegas now.’ And she said, ‘Now?’ I said, ‘Now.'”

They tied the knot at the Graceland Wedding Chapel but didn’t get the warmest reception after.

“It … shocked about everybody: the band, management, agents, lawyers, parents, you name it,” he said. (Fans were also unhappy.) “It’s a shame because it should have been a beautiful moment, but after we did it, people were trying to take it away, until I stood up and went, ‘Wait a minute, why are we living our life for anyone else?’ And 35 years later, we’re still married.”

They’re parents to four children, and now in-laws to Millie Bobby Brown, who married their son Jake Bongiovi in May 2024.