Nearly two years after their engagement, Sara Bareilles and her longtime love actor Joe Tippett are married. The couple announced the happy news on Tuesday morning (Oct. 7) in an Instagram post featuring snaps from the nuptials and the caption, “We did a big thing. I will just say I love this man and I love the community who came to hold us up. I am feeling so lucky and so grateful. ❤️.”
In the accompanying photo roll the happy couple are seen sharing a sweet kiss from what looks like a woodsy, backyard affair, with the Mare of Easttown actor wearing a white shirt with a burgundy tie, dark green dark vest and matching slim pants and brown boots and Bareilles, 45, holding a bouquet and wearing a floor-length ivory gown with a high thigh slit and plunging neckline. A candid shot captures Bareilles with a wide smile standing under a grove of flowering trees, followed by one of Tippett, 43, appearing to smile back at her while dressed in his three-piece suit.
Even the couple’s cute pooch got in on the action, as evidenced by a snap of the black and white dog walking down the aisle in advance of Bareilles while decked out in a miniature tuxedo.
In a separate post, Tippett is seen hugging and staring into his beloved’s eyes through a window, followed by a video of the pair talking and snogging, with their intimate conversation muted by the glass partition. “Marrying My Best Friend Today,” Tippett wrote on Saturday (Oct. 4), which appears to be the day they tied the knot. “May We All Be So Lucky.”
They got plenty of good wishes from their celeb pals, including Hilary Swank (“Congratulations, you two beauties!”), The Paper comedian/actor Alex Edelman (“SARAAAAAAAAAAA”), fellow musicians Brandy Clark (“Big congrats!!!!! You both look beautiful ❤️❤️”), Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles (“So beautiful!!!! The wedding and the people and the Love!!! ❤️”) and John Legend (“Congratulations! ❤️❤️❤️❤️”) as well as Reese Witherspoon, who added, “AHHHH! I love this love story.”
According to People, the couple met in summer 2015 while working on the musical adaptation of Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 movie Waitress, with Bareilles writing the score for the musical that earned her a Tony nomination and a Grammy for best musical theater album; they got engaged in January 2023.
In a post announcing the engagement news, Bareilles wrote, “Yes to marrying this man. It’s an easy, earned, relaxed YES. @joetipps you are exactly who I want. The more I know you the more I know I love you…and you have introduced me to parts of myself I was afraid to love. And now I love ME more because of you. So really this is all about me. Just kidding. What a gift you are. Let the games begin. Onward into absolutely everything with you.”
