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In 1999, Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, introduced Madonna to director Guy Ritchie at a dinner party at their Scottish estate. The following year, when their son, Rocco, was born, Madonna and Ritchie honored their Cupids by asking them to be his godparents. And in 2001, when Ritchie and Madonna walked down the aisle, Styler read a poem at the ceremony while the former Police man sang "Ave Maria." "They're two wonderful people," Sting said at the time. "They're a great couple, and that's why they got together. It was their idea, really."

When it came time for Courteney Cox to select a godmother for her daughter, Coco, she chose her best friend, ex-Friend Jennifer Aniston. In a 2008 interview with The Daily Mail, Cox described the special relationship between the two: "Coco calls her Noona, which is Greek for godmother; they see each other and play together every weekend. The other day Jen came over with her yoga teacher and Coco stuck it out for an hour doing yoga with them!"

Rupert Murdoch may live in the United States, but the Australian-born mogul ensured that his daughters with wife Wendi Deng have solid Aussie godparents. In 2010, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, who starred together in Baz Luhrmann's Australia—a Twentieth Century Fox film—formalized the godparent relationship when they attended the baptism of Murdoch and Deng's daughters, Grace and Chloe, beside the River Jordan, which is believed to be the site of Jesus' baptism. After the ceremony, attended by Keith Urban, Ivanka Trump, and other celebrities, Jordan's Queen Rania told Hello! magazine: "I am happy to be sharing this land that I love with my friends. We're a small country but we're rich with history and culture."

For more than 20 years, Johnny Depp has been the muse for director Tim Burton—they have collaborated on seven films, most recently Alice in Wonderland. But in 2003, Depp took on a more personal role when he became godfather to Burton's son with Helena Bonham-Carter, Billy. In the foreword to Burton on Burton, Depp wrote of their friendship: "What more can I say about him? He is a brother, a friend, my godson's father. He is a unique and brave soul, someone that I would go to the ends of the earth for, and I know, full and well, he would do the same for me."