Hawaii: Today in History 11/30
11-30-1996 “All My Children” actress-model Eva LaRue (29) weds John Callahan (42) under a 500-year-old banyan tree at Koele in Lanai, Hawaii
They didn’t realize how much the tabloids would care. But after Eva LaRue and John Callahan, already married for three years on ABC’s All My Children as Dr. Maria Santos and Edmund Grey, announced their engagement in October, they read in the Star where the wedding would be before they had even chosen the location. Then a photographer from The Globe crashed the nuptials at the five-star Lodge at Koele in Lanai, Hawaii. Swift-thinking hotel security guards nabbed the intruder and locked him up, but he was released after the ceremony and managed to snap a few frames. The bride and groom sealed their bond in front of a waterfall and picnicked with their 15 guests under a 500-year-old banyan tree. For all the hullabaloo, LaRue, 29, and Callahan, 42, remained unshakable. “I was really calm, and John played the best round of golf in his life the morning of the wedding,” LaRue says.
