Wedding Bells
From his pros and cons list, you can guess which outnumbered which. On January 1, 1994, the two tied the knot. They held the wedding ceremony in Lanai, Hawaii, with an impressive guest list including Warren Buffet. After working together for slightly under six years and dating for much less time than that, they were officially Bill and Melinda French Gates.
To keep their wedding as private as possible, the two booked the entire hotel and hired all helicopters on the island. The bill for the wedding ceremony and everything else ran him a measly $1 million, relative to his net worth.