Five Things That Happened On December 23 In Soap History

In 1981, Rick Webber (Chris Robinson) and Lesley Webber (Denise Alexander) remarried on General Hospital. They had originally wed in 1977, and the union had crumbled when Rick strayed with Monica, and Lesley came to believe that their tryst had resulted in a pregnancy (in actuality, the baby, AJ, was actually Alan's son). Rick and Lesley remained connected to one another, and when Rick caught the garter at the wedding of Lesley's daughter, Laura, to Luke Spencer, it inspired him to pop the question once again to Lesley. They wasted no time, opting for a Christmastime wedding a month later.

In 1988, Sean Donely (John Reilly) and Tiffany Hill (Sharon Wyatt) tied the knot on General Hospital. In one of the funniest weddings in Port Charles history, the groom infamously did not find out until he was at the altar that his bride's real name was Elsie Mae Crumholtz, and he struggled to stop giggling long enough to get through the ceremony. Tiffany was not quite so amused!

In 1994, Days of Our Lives fans were in for a tremendous shock when it was revealed that Dr. Marlena Evans was The Desecrator — she had been possessed by the devil! In the episode, Marlena was shown levitating for the first time. In 2019, portrayer Deidre Hall told Soap Opera Digest that the storyline remains her all-time favorite. "It’s always going to be possession. You’ve heard me say that’s going to be on my tombstone. It was the most shocking story. It was the most forward-thinking story. I got called upstairs before our Christmas break. We had begun to see the Christmas tree had exploded and gifts had been stolen, missing and destroyed. But until Christmas Eve, in her own privacy of her own bedroom when she levitated, nobody had any idea what was going on. It was a mystery."

In 2003, Neil Winters (Kristoff St. John) and Drucilla Barber Winters (Victoria Rowell) remarried on Young and Restless. The nuptials were conducted by Reverend Tanaka, played by George Takei of Star Trek fame. Drucilla told Neil, "I am struck by the fact that despite all the years now that we have spent apart, I've never stopped loving you. And deep in my soul, I always knew something was mising, and that was the part of my heart that I gave to you."

In 2011, General Hospital's Lulu Spencer (Julie Marie Berman) and Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) wed in the groom's native Brooklyn, much to the delight of his loving mother, Olivia Falconeri (Lisa LoCicero). To pull off the impromptu ceremony, Dante enlisted the help of his cousin Tommy, a priest, as Olivia raced to Bensonhurst from Port Charles to bear witness to her son's big day. Stunning in a BCBG gown, Lulu told her Hugo Boss-clad groom, "You've changed me. You're everything that I could ever want." "I've loved you from the moment I saw you," Dante confessed. After being pronounced husband and wife, Dante and Lulu were surprised by the bum-rushing of the church by the extended Falconeri clan.