COURTESY OF INA GARTEN Jeffrey and Ina Garden
Ina Garten and her beloved husband Jeffrey are still happily married after 52 years.
On Tuesday, the Food Network star posted a sweet throwback photo on Instagram from their wedding in Connecticut, which took place on December 22, 1968. “Fifty-two years and still so much fun!” she wrote in the caption. “You gave me a life I never could have dreamed of. Happy anniversary, my love.”
“What was wrong with that cake?” she added, referring to the three-tiered white cake decorated with bells and flowers.
COURTESY OF INA GARTEN
At the time of their wedding, Ina was 20 and Jeffrey was 22. The ceremony took place at her parents’ house, which she described as “a very modern cliff in the woods of Connecticut.”
“It started snowing in the middle of the ceremony,” she told PEOPLE of the big day. “It was beautiful and romantic, but by the end of the party, the poor guys who were parking the cars had to dig them all out!”
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The couple now lives in East Hampton, NY, where Jeffrey regularly appears on Ina’s Food Network series Barefoot ContessaLike many other couples, they have spent more time together than ever over the past ten months due to coronavirus lockdowns and social distancing measures.
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“I feel like I’ve been preparing my whole life to be quarantined, or working toward getting to a place where we could be quarantined,” the Food Network star, 72, said in September. “Jeffrey writes and he teaches remotely, and I think (he) will look back on these days as the good old days. I make him lunch, I make him dinner, and he’s home all the time.”
Throughout their marriage, their unconditional support remained constant. “We were lucky to grow up together in a very harmonious way,” Jeffrey told PEOPLE in 2018. “We’re like two vines that have grown and wrapped around each other.”
