Adam Sandler Gets Personal In 20th Wedding Anniversary Post

Siri, play “I Wanna Grow Old With You” from The Wedding Singer. OK, cool, let's get into it. 

Adam Sandler took a break from his usual goofy bits on Thursday to share an earnest tribute to wife Jackie Titone on their 20th wedding anniversary. The entertainer took to Instagram for a rare personal post on the platform, gushing about his spouse. 

“Happy 20th my sweet Jackie!” he wrote alongside a snapshot from the pair’s wedding day. “Your ‘I do’ was the best gift of my life. My heart has been yours since the first second I saw you and I love and appreciate your devoted soul more and more each day. Us. The kids. Lets keep going and going babe. Lots of love to give you. Always.”

Titone, 48, met Sandler, 56, on the set of Big Daddy, which Sandler starred in and co-wrote, in 1999. The pair got married in June 2003 at Dick Clark’s estate in Malibu, California in front of friends like frequent Sandler collaborator Nick Swardson, who commented on the post, “When you said ‘I saba doo' everyone wept’ congrats. Love you both. ❤️ Jackie is amazing. You sometimes smell. Blessings. 🙏” Jennifer Aniston attended, as did comedian Rodney Dangerfield. A very special guest was Sandler’s beloved English bulldog Meatball, who reportedly wore a yarmulke and tiny dog tux to serve as ring-bearer in the Jewish ceremony. (Meatball went to the big dog run in the sky the next year after a heart attack.)

Another surprise guest was legendary musician Tom Petty, who wasn’t on the receiving end of an engraved invite. Instead, according to Sandler, Petty got into a car accident nearby and came into the venue to use the phone. 

“He was like oh, I know Adam, so I’ll get some help over there,” Sandler said of Petty’s surprise pop-in. Petty didn’t perform, but as a surprise for his ailing father, Stan, who died a few months later, Sandler arranged for Leon Redbone to perform at the celebration. Sandler himself also sang at the reception.

“I sang 'House of the Rising Sun' like I always do,” Sandler joked on the Dan Patrick Show in 2020. “A very romantic tune. I wrote a song for my wife, I sang that too. I don’t remember everything, but back then it was to the tune of ‘Grow Old With You’ from The Wedding Singer, I wrote all the words for Jackie, yes.”

Titone and Sandler have two teenage daughters (who apparently mercilessly roast their dad non-stop, if Sandler’s Gotham Awards speech last year was anything to go off of), and continue a professional partnership as well as their personal one: Titone has appeared in almost all of Sandler’s films since that fateful first Big Daddy role. Talk about growing old with you, right?