Married in 1997 in a secret wedding away from the media, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick now have three children and busy careers. Here is information about how they met, their wedding, and more.
Born:
Matthew Broderick: March 21, 1962 in New York City, New York.Sarah Jessica Parker: March 25, 1965 in Nelsonville, Ohio.
How Sarah and Matthew Met:
Sarah's brother introduced Matthew and Sarah to one another in November 1991 when they were all at the movies. Matthew was directing two of her brothers in an Off-Broadway play. Sarah and Matthew started dating in February 1992.Laurie Winer: "Three months later -- in a phone call Parker remembers vividly -- he finally asked her out. Over dinner at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan, she talked "a mile a minute," she has said. "He just stared at me. It was like I was on a talk show. I started telling goofy stories." The couple quickly became inseparable."
Source: Laurie Winer. "Sarah Jessica Parker." Redbook. 10/1999. pg. 125.Sarah: "He's probably the funniest fellow I've met in my entire life," she told the Los Angeles Times in 1996, four years after they started dating. "I'm mad for him, totally."
Source: Source: Michael A. Lipton, Sue Miller, Natasha Stoynoff, Tom Cunneff. "City Limits: Happily wed, Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker swings only on the set." People Weekly. 11/8/1999. pg. 143.
Wedding Date:
Matthew and Sarah were married on May 19, 1997 at a former synagogue in New York City. The officiant at their wedding ceremony was Matthew's sister, the Reverend Janet Broderick Kraft. Peter Duchin provided music at their wedding.Sarah's wedding dress was a simple black dress with a moss-green crinoline underneath. Her dress was made at Morgane Le Fay. The approximately 140 guests thought they were attending a party -- not a wedding. They were all given a piece of wedding cake with a note from Sarah: "Put this under your pillow and dream of your true love."
Source: "Love and Stealth." People Weekly. 6/2/1997. pg. 62.
Sarah: "I wanted to do the wedding without electricity, with just candelabra, so the lighting would be perfect and you would see the parts of the building that were still gorgeous, but you wouldn't notice the parts that were less so ... I knew exactly what I wanted ..." That vision included lots of food ... chunks of Parmesan with balsamic syrup. fresh shucked oysters, and fresh figs with prosciutto for appetizers, and trays of ethnic specialties for dinner, including Tandoori chicken with mango-nut chutney, tiny lamb chops. and huge piles of grilled shrimp with dried-apricot salsa and yellow ginger rice. It was a buffet instead of a sit-down dinner because, Parker explains, "I didn't want people to feel uptight, and I didn't want to tell them where to sit and who to sit with."
Source: Martha Frankel. "How Sarah Jessica Parker found happiness ever after." Redbook. 9/1997. pg. 114.Sarah: "I got married in a black dress. I hope I don't live to regret that, but I get uncomfortable thinking about wearing white."
Source: Martha Frankel. "How Sarah Jessica Parker found happiness ever after." Redbook. 9/1997. pg. 114.Laurie Winer: "In deference to the groom's privacy fetish, many of the guests did not even know they were attending a wedding until they arrived. "Matthew doesn't feel that marriage is anecdotal talk-show material," Parker has said. "The irony is, one of the things I like best about Matthew is his sense of privacy."
Source: Laurie Winer. "Sarah Jessica Parker." Redbook. 10/1999. pg. 125.Michael Lipton: "It was one of those supersecret-to-avoid-the-paparazzi weddings," recalls Frankel. "I literally did not know [the location] until hours before." It turned out to be an out-of-use synagogue in lower Manhattan. The couple, who are both half-Jewish, were wed in a civil ceremony by Broderick's sister Janet Kraft, an Episcopal minister. And, says Frankel, "the bride wore black. I think it says she's a true New Yorker." The next day Broderick went back to work on 1998's Godzilla and Parker on Broadway's Once upon a Mattress."
Source: Michael A. Lipton, Sue Miller, Natasha Stoynoff, Tom Cunneff. "City Limits: Happily wed, Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker swings only on the set." People Weekly. 11/8/1999. pg. 143.
Sarah and Matthew later honeymooned in Ireland.
Children:
Sarah and Matthew have three children.- James Wilkie Broderick: Born in 2002.
- Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick: Born in 2009 to a surrogate mother.
- Tabitha Hodge Broderick: Born in 2009 to a surrogate mother.
Occupations:
Matthew: Actor, director, and producer.Sarah: Actress, entrepreneur, and producer.
