Marie Osmond Rewore Her Garage-Stored Wedding Dress To Marry The Same Man Twice 29 Years Apart

Being a part of a large fam­i­ly is noth­ing new for Marie Osmond. She grew up with all broth­ers, the eighth of nine chil­dren. And show­biz has remained a con­stant, as the clan sang and danced togeth­er pub­licly at young ages. Although Marie was nev­er in the fam­i­ly’s singing group offi­cial­ly, she and her broth­er, Don­ny Osmond, would even­tu­al­ly co-host the vari­ety show “Don­ny & Marie” from 1976 to 1979.

Marie is a solo music artist and is best known for her coun­try-pop hit “Paper Ros­es.” She was orig­i­nal­ly encour­aged to record her own album by her moth­er, and both the album and lead sin­gle went gold. “Paper Ros­es” also reached num­ber one on the coun­try music charts and num­ber 5 on Bill­board­’s pop music list. The song “In My Lit­tle Cor­ner of the World” made it into the top 40 on the coun­try charts.

In 2007, Marie showed off her danc­ing skills as a celebri­ty con­tes­tant on “Danc­ing with the Stars,” where she placed third along­side her dance part­ner, Jonathan Roberts.

Marie, as the matri­arch of her own large band of chil­dren and grand­chil­dren, has lov­ing­ly and seam­less­ly ful­filled her moth­er­ly role. The singer-actress-phil­an­thropist has a total of eight chil­dren and eight grand­chil­dren. Her chil­dren are Stephen, Jes­si­ca, Rachael, Bran­don, Bri­an­na, Matthew, Abi­gail and the late Michael Blosil. Her grand­chil­dren are Stephen Jr., Rock­et Jade, Chris­t­ian, Maxwell, Maude, Wolf, Mabel and Olive.

Keep read­ing to learn more about how Marie found love with her first hus­band again after a dif­fi­cult sec­ond mar­riage and why they chose to remar­ry before their son’s wed­ding.

Despite being mar­ried for 20 years, Marie and her sec­ond hus­band, Bill Blosil, were not hap­py togeth­er. Marie shared: “I just went, ‘I can’t do this any­more,’ and my chil­dren came to me and said, ‘Mom, please leave. We got­ta get out of here.’ ”

A defin­i­tive sign that it was time to sep­a­rate came after the cou­ple’s house caught fire in 2005. “It was prob­a­bly one of the most free­ing things that ever hap­pened to me,” Marie explained. “Because I real­ized this home I had cre­at­ed was a facade to a mar­riage that was­n’t hap­py for 20 years. I real­ly believe it was God — they say, ‘The burn­ing with­in.’ So some­times these things hap­pen to wake us up.”

Marie claimed that part of the rea­son she had issues with Blosil was that she was still griev­ing over her rela­tion­ship with Stephen Craig. “You have to be so care­ful not to jump into a rela­tion­ship after you’ve been through a sad one,” she said. “You real­ly need time on your own. And you need to know that you’re a good per­son in order to find a good per­son.”

Anoth­er life-chang­ing event in Marie’s life was her recon­nec­tion with Craig. After her mar­riage to Blosil was over, the singer had a dif­fer­ent out­look on her past rela­tion­ship with her first hus­band. “The thing about a sec­ond mar­riage is that you real­ize things you thought were so impor­tant, aren’t,” Marie stat­ed. “I love being with my hus­band. He is the sweet­est man I know. He lives to serve and real­ly lis­tens to peo­ple’s needs.”

Craig and Marie were remar­ried in 2011 after orig­i­nal­ly divorc­ing in 1985. Life, after her first mar­riage end­ed, wasn’t easy. “All of a sud­den I’m a sin­gle mom and I don’t know how I’m going to pay my rent, let alone feed my kid,” Marie said. “So I decid­ed I had to get back to work.”

Ini­tial­ly, after every­thing she went through with Blosil, Marie wasn’t sure she want­ed to try mar­riage a third time. “I nev­er want­ed to be mar­ried again,” Marie shared. “I was like, ‘I’m fine, I’m good!’”

Through the help of their son Stephen, Marie and Craig rekin­dled their romance. “It was our son who got us to kind of be back togeth­er, but (my hus­band) has been there for me and he’s just my best friend, you know, and loves my kids,” the singer explained. 

Since their son was also head­ed down the aisle, Marie and Craig decid­ed to tie the knot for a sec­ond time so they could attend Stephen’s wed­ding as a mar­ried cou­ple. “Stephen was get­ting mar­ried and we (real­ized) we can’t go to our son’s wed­ding and not be mar­ried,” Marie said. “So we got mar­ried a few months before he did. He joked that he nev­er thought it would hap­pen, but it did!”

Because of the rushed cer­e­mo­ny, Marie wore the wed­ding dress she wore to her first wed­ding with Craig. Marie shared, “I was clean­ing out my garage and all of a sud­den this box showed up in this pile of stuff … and it was this dress and it was five days ago. I’m not kid­ding. Isn’t that crazy?”

Despite get­ting mar­ried to her hus­band again near­ly 30 years after the first time she walked down the aisle, Marie’s dress still fit her! How­ev­er, that doesn’t mean it was the com­fi­est of dress­es to wear. Marie told Enter­tain­ment Tonight:

“I can’t breathe, but I’m in it.”

The singer added, ”I had a dress all designed (for this wed­ding) and when it showed up it was not (right). I was so sad, I was actu­al­ly kind of in tears.” So when she found the box in her garage, it was almost as if it was com­plete­ly meant to be.

And it’s evi­dent that Marie feels that her love life with Craig was pure des­tiny. “Some things I guess were just always meant to be, and time makes you grow up and appre­ci­ate things,” Marie said. “Life is good, you know?”

Marie explained that she chose May 4 as her and Craig’s wed­ding day as it marked the birth­days of her late son Michael and her late moth­er. “It was impor­tant that both Michael and my mom were with us on this spe­cial day,” she said.

Marie has con­tin­ued to share heart­warm­ing and impor­tant moments with her fans over the years. In May 2023, she cel­e­brat­ed her and Craig’s anniver­sary and called him “the love of my life.” In June 2023, Marie post­ed a pho­to of her and her hus­band from their first wed­ding along­side anoth­er pho­to of the cou­ple from their sec­ond wed­ding 29 years lat­er.

The post’s cap­tion was filled with heart emo­jis as Marie gushed over her enjoy­ment of reliv­ing her romance with Craig. She wrote, “It’s seri­ous­ly so won­der­ful to be with my best friend!💖😘🥰”

Lat­er that month, she post­ed anoth­er series of pho­tos with the cap­tion, “I’m so grate­ful that we found each oth­er again!!!”