Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard first met in 2007 at a friend’s dinner party. In a 2019 interview, however, Bell revealed on “Today” that there were “no sparks whatsoever” when they met! Despite the lack of an instant spark, the couple met at a hockey game week later, then started dating shortly after.
Still, Shepard thought it might be too good to be true. The “Parenthood” actor joked with Good Housekeeping, “When I met her and her friends, I was suspicious of their unbridled happiness. I thought, ‘Something stinks here; they’re in a cult.’ But slowly I began to see her positive way of looking at the world. She gives people the benefit of the doubt.” Bell added, “We’re the Paula Abdul video ‘Opposites Attract’ personified.”
Shepard proposed to Bell in 2009 after his friend Jason Bateman gave him an expletive-laden nudge (viaYahoo!). The couple welcomed daughter Lincoln in early 2013 and officially tied the knot on October 17, 2013. “We got married in a tiny room in the Beverly Hills courthouse, and it was still one of the best days of my life,” Bell gushed to “CBS Sunday Morning” (via CNN). Interestingly enough, Shepard spilled on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that the whole wedding cost $142 … including gas (via Entertainment Weekly). According to Brides, the celebrity couple welcomed their second daughter Delta in 2014.