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Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks celebrate 37th wedding anniversary

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Happy Anniversary Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
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ByYi-Jin Yu
Video byBrittany Berkowitz
May 01, 2025, 5:30 PM

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks are celebrating 37 years together.

The actors, both 68, shared Instagram tributes to one another on Wednesday.

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson attend SNL50: The Anniversary Special on February 16, 2025 at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.
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"Happy 37th Anniversary my love!!!" Wilson captioned a photo of her and her husband bundled up in hats and jackets.

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks are celebrating 37 years together.
Rita Wilson via Instagram

Hanks, meanwhile, shared a warm-weather selfie his wife took of them while out for a swim.

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks are celebrating 37 years together.
Tom Hanks via Instagram

"37 years married. Today! Love you, Mrs. -Mr.THanks," Hanks wrote, capitalizing the first two letters in "thanks" as a play on his own initials.

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Back in 2013, Hanks opened up about his marriage to Wilson in a CNN interview, calling "every day" with her a "blast" and "fun."

"I must say that when I met Rita, I thought, 'Oh, this is what it's supposed to be like when you are married to somebody," Hanks said. "It's supposed to be this carefree and easy and, you know, oddly enough, weighty."

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Over the years, Wilson has expressed her gratitude for Hanks as well, writing in a 2019 Instagram post that her song "The Spark" was inspired by her relationship with her husband.

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"In any long term relationship, if you're lucky, you started with a spark, that beautiful glimmer that ignites into a lasting love," Wilson wrote in part. "Fires need to be tended to, stoked, added to, watched. As long as there is a spark you'll always have a fire. I love you, Tom."

Hanks and Wilson married back on April 30, 1988, and share a blended family, including their sons Chester "Chet" Marlon Hanks, Truman Theodore Hanks, and Tom Hanks' son Colin Hanks and daughter Elizabeth Hanks, whom he shares with ex-wife Samantha Lewes.

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