Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. Celebrate 22 Years of Marriage with Cuddly Photo

Mar. 15, 2025

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. celebrate 22 years of marriage.Photo:Sarah Michelle Gellar/Instagram

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Instagram

Sarah Michelle Gellar/Instagram

Sarah Michelle GellarandFreddie Prinze Jr.are still slaying after more than two decades of marriage!

On Sunday, Sept. 1, the ‘90s and 2000s pop culture icons — who met thanks toI Know What You Did Last Summerand wed in 2002 — celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary with a lowkeyInstagram post.

Alongside a smiley and cuddly photo of the couple — in which Prinze, 48, wraps his arms around Gellar’s waist — theBuffy the Vampire Slayeralum, 47, penned a simple caption.

“22 @realfreddieprinze,” Gellar wrote, adding a few wedding-themed emojis: “🥂💍👰🏼.”

Gellar and Prinze first crossed paths on the set of their 1997 slasher film—but it wasn’t love at first sight. While chatting with PEOPLE back in 2001, theShe’s All Thatactor admitted thathe and Gellar “really didn’t dig each other” at first.

But things changed once the actors got to know each other more. “One day I gave her a ride to the gym,” Prinze said at the time. “We talked on the way up, and she was a cool chick.”

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2000.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar during 2000 MTV Movie Awards at Sony Studios in Culver City, California, United States.

After forming a strictly platonic bond, the pair’s relationship grew into something more. “We were friends for a good two years before we went on a date. She knew what kind of guy I was,” Prinze Jr. previously toldE! News. “She knew what my morals were, what my priorities were and vice versa.”

“We already kind of knew all the faults in the other person,” he added.

Andtheir first date together was actually an accident, Gellar revealed to PEOPLE Now in 2020. “We were friends for a very long time. We’d had many dinners before. And we were supposed to go with someone else, and the third person didn’t make it out, and we decided to still go,” the star recalled.

“We were just two people at dinner catching up,” she added. “We had a long car ride and a long dinner and things just happened.”

And after their first date, Prinze said that he knew Gellar was the one. “I didn’t go on dates with other girls,” he explained, “nor did I even want to pursue dates with other girls.”

Freddie Prinze Jr, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillipe in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.James Bridges/Mandalay Ent/Kobal/Shutterstock

Freddie Prinze Jr, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipe in I Know What You Did Last Summer

James Bridges/Mandalay Ent/Kobal/Shutterstock

The couple — who sharetwo children, daughter Charlotte, 14, and son Rocky, 11 — appeared on screen together multiple times afterI Know What You Did Last Summer.

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Whilecelebrating their 20th anniversaryin 2022, the couple took a walk down memory lane, posting photos of their nuptials — and calling outHoward Sternfor saying their marriage wouldn’t last.

Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2000.Ron Galella / Getty

Freddie Prinze, Jr. and actress Sarah Michelle Gellar attend the “Boys and Girls” New York City Premiere on June 13, 2000 at Kips Bay Theatre in New York City.

Ahead of the pair’s 2002 wedding, Stern, 70, asked Prinze, “So you’re going to marry Sarah Michelle Gellar, even though you know that won’t last?” to which the actor said, “Oh, absolutely it will last.”

While celebrating 20 years, Gellar reposted a screengrab of the moment, tagged Stern and joked, “I think you owe us.”

Plus, Prinze piled on to Gellar’s post, “She will not forget.”

source: people.com