Sami and Lucas’s Wedding Is Interrupted on Days of Our Lives and Other Big Moments From July 12

In 2004, Bold and Beautiful’s Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) and Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) wed for the fourth time. During the ceremony, the groom's twin daughters, Phoebe and Steffy, recited an original poem, and Ridge told Brooke that he would "thank God every day for the rest of my life for giving me you."

In 2006, the late Benjamin Hendrickson (c., pictured with Jennifer Landon as Gwen and Jesse Soffer as Will) made his final appearance as Hal on As The World Turns. The Daytime Emmy-winning actor, who joined the show in 1985, died by suicide on July 3, 2006. In Hendrickson's last episode, Hal agreed to let Parker, his son with Carly, move back in with his mother. Hal was ultimately written out when it was revealed that he had died off-camera, heroically saving a teenager's life during a robbery while he was in Washington, D.C. on assignment.

In 2007, General Hospital: Night Shift premiered on SOAPnet. The GH spin-off — described by the ABC network as "a story line extension about the lives and loves of General Hospital's favorite characters during the night shift at the hospital" — was executive-produced by Jill Farren Phelps and head-written by Sri Rao, and its original cast included Port Charles faves Robin (Kimberly McCullough), Patrick (Jason Thompson), Jason (Steve Burton) and Epiphany (Sonya Eddy), as well as notable guest star Billy Dee Williams as Toussaint.

In 2013, Rena Sofer, best known to soap fans for her Daytime Emmy-winning role as Lois Cerullo on General Hospital, debuted as Bold and Beautiful's Quinn Fuller, the mother of Darin Brooks's Wyatt Fuller (who, it was revealed, was the result of her former involvement with Bill Spencer). "You know, I never really thought about going to a different soap other than General Hospital," she told Soap Opera Digest about how she came to join the show. "But I have been a little sick of the nomadic lifestyle of nighttime television. I've got an 8-year-old at home and a husband [Sanford Bookstaver] who's a director and he's always out of town. I don't really leave town for any jobs unless it's a quick one, so I started thinking, 'Well, maybe I should go back to daytime.' [Digest columnist] Carolyn Hinsey sent me the breakdown of what they were looking for on B&B, and little did I know that my name was already being batted around for it. I looked at it and Carolyn said the show is great. It's a half-hour. It airs all over the world. It's about fashion, and the people there are the nicest people. It was like a lightning strike. It's funny. It was my 10-year wedding anniversary and my husband and I were trying to enjoy our weekend away and I was on the phone the entire time talking to everyone at Bold and Beautiful [laughs]." Quinn, a jewelry designer, found happiness for a time in her marriage to Eric Forrester, but the union ended in divorce and Sofer exited the show in 2022.

In 2022 on Days of Our Lives, Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney) and Lucas Horton's (Bryan R. Dattilo) wedding day arrived and the nuptials, attended by the couple's family and friends, started off on a hopeful note. The ceremony was officiated by Eric Brady, the bride's twin. During her vows, Sami told Lucas, "You're my knight in shining armor. And you love me with passion and dignity and honor. And maybe we didn't start out a storybook romance, given I tricked you into asking me to a dance, wearing a dress as red as Johnny's suit, but we got better from there. And here we are now. And right now, standing here, I just feel like this is finally my happily ever after." But just as Eric was going to pronounce them husband and wife, Chad DiMera barged into the church. He accused Lucas of killing his wife, Abigail, since Abby knew Lucas's "dirty little secret." Sami was horrified when Chad went on to reveal what the secret was: Lucas had kidnapped Sami months prior, and had been lying about it ever since!