A courthouse wedding is a term for a civil marriage in a courthouse or city hall. Charli XCX and Dua Lipa paved the wayThat the courthouse wedding has now become a serious bridal moment is partly thanks to recent celebrity brides. Small wedding, big fashionAnd then there are the outfits—because they secretly make this trend really very cool. The courthouse wedding now has a complete bridal aesthetic: short dresses, suits, sharp tailoring, slingbacks, gloves, sunglasses, and pillbox hats. For celebrities, the courthouse wedding is often not an alternative to a big wedding but an extra part of it.