The 25 most influential marriages of all time – See who made the list (+Photos)

Romeo & Juliet

They married in passionate defiance of their feuding families. Though there had been other versions of the story—and would be more, in poems, ballets, and even the musical West Side Story—it was the indelibility of Shakespeare’s 16^th-century tragedy that made Romeo and Juliet the universal symbols of star-crossed fate and perfect love.