Hollywood power couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are celebrating 29 years of marriage. In honor of the milestone anniversary, Parker, 61, offered fans a rare glimpse into the early days of their courtship with three rarely-seen photos.
She shared photos capturing the lovebirds in the earlier years of their relationship to her Instagram account, along with a particularly intimate snapshot that showed their lives away from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. The Polaroid photo captured Broderick and Parker nestled together inside a home. Parker curled up to Broderick, 64, as he planted a tender kiss on her forehead and snacked from a bowl.
'May 19th, 1997-May 19th, 2026,' she wrote in the caption. '29 years. And counting. Here's to you my darling. With your favorite band joining me in serenading you. Us. Forever young. Xxx, Your wife Sarah Jessica.' The post quickly drew hundreds of thousands of likes and comments, including one from close friend Andy Cohen.
'And they said it wouldn't last!' he wrote.
Parker and Broderick met in November 1991, where they starred together on stage in Sarah's brothers Toby and Pippin's theatre company Naked Angels Theatre Company production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying on Broadway. The couple were both dating other people when they first met, however knew they had to end their relationships. Sarah said on The Howard Stern Show: 'We were both seeing other people, so it was illegal, and we stayed away from one another... We understood that we had to do right by the other people and break up officially.'
They went on to star together in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway in 1996 just one year before they tied the knot. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times prior to opening night, she said: 'He's the funniest fellow I've met in my whole life. He's so bright, so handsome. I think he's the most handsome man I've seen in my life and he inspires me. I'm mad for him.'
She recently shed light on how she met when they first met, saying: 'He's so smart, he's so funny, I like this choice of friends, the way he was living in New York, what was important to him, how he kind of travelled around the city... He was always travelling around on his bicycle, he's been riding bikes since he was 14. [He's] really smart and really talented. And he was, I thought, so beautiful and handsome and charming.'
Broderick meanwhile echoed that it was love at first sight, saying on Watch What Happens Live: 'The first time I met her. I saw her walking down the street, and thought, 'That's it.''
The couple married at New York's Angel Orensanz Synagogue on May 19, 1997, with 100 of their nearest and dearest filling the venue. Five years after tying the knot, Parker and Broderick welcomed their first child, son James Wilke Broderick, on October 28, 2002. In 2009, the couple welcomed their two twin daughters, Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick and Tabitha Hodge Broderick, via surrogate on June 22.
After 20 years as a couple, Parker spoke about her relationship with Broderick, detailing how they work together after so long. She told The Telegraph: 'We've been together for 20 years and you have good days, you have decent days, and you have bad days. That's a marriage. That's a relationship. That's a friendship even. Relationships outside of marriage run the same course... If you're in it for the long haul and you want meaningful relationships, you are going to go through lots of different periods.'
Celebrating their 20-year wedding anniversary in May 2017, Sarah shared a sweet snap of the couple on Instagram, writing: 'It flew by baby. Good golly I love you.'
