Neil Patrick Harris marries long term partner David Burtka

We are so excited to report that actor Neil Patrick Harris has married his long term love, David Burtka in a private ceremony in Italy.

Neil Tweeted:

Guess what? @DavidBurtka and I got married over the weekend. In Italy. Yup, we put the ‘n’ and ‘d’ in ‘husband’.

The pair have been together for over 10 years and were engaged in 2011 after the Marriage Equality Act was passed in New York. The pair mentioned they had been engaged secretly for 5 years before announcing it publicly.

The couple are also the parents of gorgeous 3-year old twins, Harper Grace and Gideon Scott, pictured below with their Dads earlier in the year:

Neil Patrick Harris announced the engagement on Twitter back in 2011 and speculation on when and where has been mounting ever since.

As for the details on exactly where and what went down, there hasn’t been too much revealed, though Kelly Ripa made an appearance on “Live with Kelly & Michael” saying:

“I went to a destination wedding — the wedding of Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka, breaking news!” she revealed. “It was a very quiet, very private, very family affair … I probably wasn’t even supposed to talk about it, no Neil said I could talk!”

Ripa also mentioned that the wedding singer was the one and only Sir Elton John! I don’t think anyone could top having Sir Elton as your wedding singer.

Sounds like a beautiful wedding for a beautiful couple – we wish them lots of love and joy!

Main image courtesy of Twitter

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21 Comments

- - tam_watters said
  - 18 Oct 2014
    8:21 am
What a gorgeous family, they look so happy. Wishing them all the best.

- - mom56842 said
  - 25 Sep 2014
    12:28 am
All the best to them, hope they have a long and happy marriage.

- - Lov'n'Life said
  - 24 Sep 2014
    10:24 am
good on them Elton Jon that is special!!

- - rovermum said
  - 10 Sep 2014
    9:31 am
Congrats to them both. What a lovely family. Wishing them all the best.

- - rachkap said
  - 10 Sep 2014
    2:28 am
Wishing them lots of joy and happiness!

- - cloverstorm said
  - 10 Sep 2014
    1:32 am
That family pic of them on the couch with their kids is perfect. They all look so happy & natural, bless.

- - meedee said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    10:40 pm
Its so lovely to see these couples finally being able to have the weddings …im sure in years to come people will look back and wonder what all the fuss was with the antigay marriage stance

- - crystalangela said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    9:59 pm
Oh my gosh. So happy for this lovely couple.
Congratulations.

- - deangunna said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    9:39 pm
Those two little ones will keep them on their toes. Elton…now that’s cool.

- - mom57522 said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    5:54 pm
‘Barney’ is officially off the market. Best of luck to them both.

- - sambii said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    4:06 pm
This is a lovely article!

- - BellaB said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    4:02 pm
Congratulations – I have a soft spot for this very talented man.

- - buggeritliz said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    1:06 pm
Just wonderful news of two loving people making their bond official. Good on them! Lovely family photo’s too!

- - Missie said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    1:05 pm
Yay!! Congratulations to an absolutely gorgeous couple and their equally gorgeous twinnies!! xx

- - damish70 said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    1:05 pm
Lovely news. Mind you it took me a few moments to work out what he meant with the comment ‘we put the N&D into husband’

- - twinmum83 said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    12:55 pm
Congratulations to the 4 of them! Such wonderful news, I really love seeing these sorts of stories – makes my heart all warm!

- - mom72550 said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    12:53 pm
I love that photo of their family – so cute!

- - mom77016 said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    12:51 pm
What a lovely story about NPH and his partner marrying in Italy. Good n you for reporting on it. They have a lovely family. Congrats to both of them.

- - sisterhood27 said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    11:35 am
Great news there children are so cute

- - cherz said
  - 09 Sep 2014
    11:30 am
Congrats to the both of them, I wish all four of them health and happiness as a family.
I love Neil’s character in ‘How I met your Mother” he will always be Barney to me. Yummm.