It’s Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.’s silver plate wedding anniversary!
Twenty-three years ago, the darling duo got married on Sept. 1, 2002, and Gellar has kept track of everything. “23 years, 276 months, 1,196 weeks, 8,395 days, 201,480 hours, 12,088,800 minutes and 725,328,000 seconds give or take…. But who’s counting,” she wrote on Instagram.
The caption also included a previously unseen snapshot of her and Prinze Jr. walking up a staircase with her long veil cascading behind her. They were married at the El Careyes resort in Mexico and it was the relationship InStyle described as a “Y2K love story [that] Hollywood dreams are made of.”
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Gellar wore every bride’s go-to wedding designer in that era, Vera Wang, while her Buffy the Vampire Slayer director, Adam Shankman, officiated the ceremony. Naturally, Gellar’s bestie, the late Shannen Doherty, attended, as did That ’70s Show star Wilmer Valderrama.
Now, the duo are parents to two children, Charlotte, 15, and Rocky, 12. As one of the longest-running power couples in Hollywood, Gellar had very simple advice for other celebrity marriages.
“Take the 10 minutes — put the phone down. Have a cup of coffee together. Walk the dog at the end of the night. Read a story with your kids,” she shared with People in December 2020. “Make the most of the time that you have. We are all pulled in so many directions, so make sure that, whichever one you are focusing on, you’re present.”
It was a match that probably didn’t look like a fit on paper, and even Prinze Jr. admitted their differences were vast. Their friendship began on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer in 1997, but didn’t turn romantic until much later.
“I started driving her, and that’s when her and I became friends,” Prinze Jr. told Us Weekly in 2020 about driving her to the gym while they were filming in North Carolina. “And we just would talk about life and stuff like that, and we had completely different philosophies on just about everything. ‘Cause she was a born and raised New Yorker and I was a born and raised L.A. kid, and we just looked at everything like night and day.”
Still, their preference for staying out of the spotlight to focus on their family has worked well for them in the long run. Work has a time and a place, but their love is forever.
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