Sarah Michelle Gellar celebrates 24 years of marriage to former costar Freddie Prinze Jr with sweet throwback snaps

Sarah Michelle Gellar commemorated 24 years of marriage to former Freddie Prinze Jr in a very sweet way as she took fans on a walk down memory lane.The 49-year-old actress took to Instagram on Tuesday morning to share several throwback snaps from the beginning of her relationship with the 50-year-old hunk.The happy couple who have been married for nearly two-and-a-half decades are now cemented in status as one of Hollywood’s longest lasting love stories.The longtime couple were friends first and then dated for two years before going on to tie the knot in 2002. The pair first met on the set of the 1997 horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer and Gellar included several snaps seemingly from that era.  The actress captioned the gallery: ‘@realfreddieprinze can you imagine telling these kids where they would be 24 years later (well tech 26… but 24 married) #happyanniversary’  Sarah Michelle Gellar commemorated 24 years of marriage to former Freddie Prinze Jr in a very sweet way as she took fans on a walk down memory lane The youth-defying couple have been married for over two decades and are beloved as one of Hollywood’s longest lasting romances; pictured in July 2025It has been a wonderful year of celebrating milestones for the couple as Prinze Jr celebrated his 50th birthday in March. Prinze Jr. previously recalled the early days of their relationship at the premiere of the reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer last year.In an interview with Access Hollywood, he said: ‘We were friends for a good couple of years before any sort of date happened. ‘We met on that movie and became really close, really good friends,’ he explained.  ‘We lived ten minutes away from each other, so we made it a point to maintain the friendship and it turned into something else.’He also previously revealed that their first date was accidental after a group dinner unexpectedly became a dinner for two.’We were supposed to go out with a group of people, and everybody else bailed… so it was just the two of us,’ Prinze Jr. said on The Howard Stern Show. They dated for a few years before Freddie popped the question in 2001.  The 49-year-old actress took to Instagram on Tuesday morning to share several throwback snaps from the beginning of her relationship with the 50-year-old hunk The pair first met in 1997 on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer, in which they starred alongside Ryan Phillippe and Jennifer Love Hewitt; pictured in 1997 portrait The longtime couple were friends first and then dated for two years before going on to tie the knot in 2002  The actress captioned the gallery: ‘@realfreddieprinze can you imagine telling these kids where they would be 24 years later (well tech 26… but 24 married) #happyanniversary’ The couple share two children — daughter Charlotte Grace, 16, and 13-year-old son Rocky JamesThe couple has never revealed the details of the proposal with Gellar previously saying: ‘I didn’t want a big public proposal. I wanted something private.’ After getting married, the pair also worked together on a number of projects including the live-action Scooby-Doo movie, which was released in 2002, as well as the 2004 sequel, Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed. The pair also both voice acted in the 2006 animated film Happily N’Ever After. A few years later, they expanded their family, welcoming their first child in 2009 and their second in 2012. The couple are parents to daughter Charlotte Grace, 16, and son Rocky James, 13.