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Look, Up in the Sky! It's Superhubby!

Superman is feeling weak in the knees--and for once, neither kryptonite nor Lois Lane is to blame.

Brandon Routh, the newest spandex-donning Man of Steel, is engaged to marry his actress girlfriend of three years, Courtney Ford, publicist Kacey Spies confirmed Wednesday to E! News.

No date has been set, though the duo plan to wed sometime next fall.

"They are very happy," Spies said of the nuptial news to People, which first reported the betrothal.

The 26-year-old heir to the cape popped the question earlier this month with a sparkler from jeweler to the stars Neil Lane.

"She brings me to my knees," Routh told People.

Surprisingly, the Superman Returns star told People he met Spies "not through acting."

"I used to work at Lucky Strike," Routh said, referring to the trendy Hollywood bowling alley. "I was a bartender. And her brother was having his [wedding] rehearsal dinner party there."

Routh wasted no time in getting chummy with his future in-laws.

"He met my whole family the day he met me," Ford told the magazine.

The camera-ready couple said they've managed to maintain their relationship despite Routh's recent Hollywood ascendance and the subsequent publicity blitz surrounding his big-screen role.

The duo said they got through their extended time apart--like when Routh was doing his best up, up and away Down Under--by relying on nightly phone calls to each other.

While Routh recently burst onto the Hollywood scene with his role as Clark Kent this summer, prior to the casting coup, he appeared on Will & Grace, Gilmore Girls and Cold Case and also had a brief stint on One Life to Live. He's expected to reprise his super alter ego in a sequel tentatively set for 2009.

As for Ford, she has yet to receive her big break. She's appeared sparingly in a handful of now-defunct shows, including Moesha, Profiler and the short-lived Threat Matrix.

Aside from couplehood, Routh and Ford's other recent joint project, the short thriller Denial, premiered to little fanfare but decent acclaim this June at the CineVegas Film Festival.

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