Applegate: Married...with Husband

Christina Applegate and Johnathon Schaech tie the knot in small ceremony in Southern California desert

By Victoria Withey Oct 22, 2001 9:35 PMTags
Married...with Children's Christina Applegate has got the married part down. Now she can work on the children.

The erstwhile Kelly Bundy tied the knot with fiancé Johnathon Schaech over the weekend.

Applegate, 30, and Schaech, 32, married Saturday during an outdoor ceremony in the resort town of Palm Springs, her manager confirmed today.

As E! Online columnist Ted Casablanca predicted two weeks ago, the couple exchanged vows in a small ceremony attended by close friends and immediate family in a location overlooking the mountains of the Southern California desert.

She wore a custom-made white off-the-shoulder low-back Reem Acra number. Her bridesmaids wore dresses by the same designer. Schaech went retro in a Hugo Boss black suit with a black tie.

It's the first marriage for both. The two have been coupled for the past four years. "We're best friends," Applegate once said of her beau. "And that spark is always there. I can't wait to see him, even though I saw him a few hours ago."

Before hooking up with Schaech (whose name rhymes with "deck"), Applegate briefly dated Christian Slater.

A 16-year-old Applegate shot to fame in 1987 as the airheaded, man-loving daughter of Married...with Children. After the Fox sitcom ended its 10-year run in 1997, she appeared in such forgettable flicks as Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, The Big Hit and Jane Austen's Mafia!.

Her sitcom Jesse ran for two seasons on NBC before being canned last year. She recently appeared in the time-travel comedy Just Visiting and has two films, The Sweetest Thing and A View From the Top, due out next year.

Schaech, 32, is a former model who had his acting breakthrough as the moody lead singer in Tom Hanks' That Thing You Do!. He has since appeared in several indie projects and was also in Jennifer Love Hewitt's ill-fated Party of Five spinoff, The Time of Your Life. He last appeared in the scary flick The Forsaken, opposite Brendan Fehr. His next film, Jesus and Judas, is slated for a 2002 release.

No word on where the couple plan to honeymoon.