Congratulations are in order for Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann, who last week celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary. The pair has been married for a long time now.
The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actress marked the occasion by posting a nostalgic snapshot from the pair’s wedding in 2004 on Instagram. The photo was a flashback to the year the couple was married. Hermann can be seen grinning throughout the photo as he is dancing with his new spouse. The photograph shows Hargitay in profile, gazing upward towards her spouse, with a bunch of garden flowers decorating her traditional chignon hairdo.
“Nineteen years. The best dance I’ve ever had. Only dance I’ve ever known,” Hargitay said in the description of this photo.
At the beginning of this year, the long-term couple attended the 21st annual Stuttering Association for the Young (SAY) Benefit Gala at the Edison Ballroom in New York City with all three of their children: August, 16, Amaya, 12, and Andrew, 11. 2006 was the year that the actress gave birth to August, and in 2011, the pair adopted Amaya and Andrew within a span of six months each other.
At the dinner, both Hargitay, 59, and Hermann, 56, were being honored for their ongoing work with SAY, a non-profit organization “that empowers, educates, and supports young people who stutter and the world that surrounds them.” SAY was being recognized for its mission to “empower, educate, and support young people who stutter and the world that surrounds them.”
The pair was recognized as the newest members to be inducted into the organization’s Hall of Fame, and Wayne Brady and John Hendrickson, journalist and author, were presented with the SAY: Hero Award during the event. The SAY: Budd Mayer Advocacy Award was bestowed to Joann Fabric and Craft Stores.
Because their son August stuttered when he was younger, Hargitay and Hermann have a particularly strong connection to this particular cause.
In 2018, ET had the opportunity to speak with Hermann and Hargitay, and during that conversation, the couple discussed how they manage to keep their marriage going strong for so many years.
“There is absolutely no mystery. “We’re all just working through it; regardless of whether it’s a relationship that exists in the public eye to some degree or doesn’t,” Hermann remarked at the time. “We’re all just working through it.” When it comes to relationships, I believe that the basics, in the end, are not that difficult. Our kid plays basketball, and his coach always emphasizes the importance of the fundamentals. “Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals” That does not imply that they are simple, but neither are they particularly difficult to understand. Kindness, good listening skills, and fighting fairly are the cornerstones.
