Sophia Michaels
Before Jamie Dornan, Amelia Warner was in a relationship with another famous Irishman. In late 2000, Warner met Colin Farrell at the premiere of “Quills,” in which she starred alongside Kate Winslet and Geoffrey Rush, The Guardian noted in 2005. Eight months later in 2001, Warner and Farrell jetted off to Tahiti and said “I do” at the beach. But they signed no papers. “It was just something for us,” she told the outlet.
The assumption that she had been married before annoyed her later on. “We didn’t actually get married — it’s not actually true … We had a ceremony on a beach in Tahiti that was by no means legal and we knew it wasn’t,” she told The Sun in 2011 (via Irish Central). Even though their intimate Tahitian ceremony wasn’t legally binding, Warner and Farrell did intent to wed. “We were properly engaged, we had a party with family and everything,” she told the Mirror in 2004.
At the time, Warner was only 19 and Farrell was 25, a fact that influenced their spur-of-the-moment decision. “Too fast, too young,” is how Farrell described their romance, according to the Mirror. Warner and Farrell broke up just four months later. They were together for just a year, but that was enough time for a fake wedding and a very much real tattoo of Warner’s name on Farrell’s finger. The relationship was good while it lasted. “We were just too young,” she said.
