--- title: Kristen Bell Shares Wedding Photos With Dax Shepard description: Kristen Bell shared pictures of her 2013 wedding to husband Dax Shepard this weekend, finally giving fans a glimpse at the private ceremony. canonical: https://time.com/4422116/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-wedding-photos/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-25T18:04:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:35.860Z og:title: Kristen Bell Shares Never-Before-Seen Wedding Photos With Dax Shepard og:description: The couple tied the knot in a private ceremony in 2013 og:url: https://time.com/4422116/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-wedding-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kristen Bell Shares Never-Before-Seen Wedding Photos With Dax Shepard twitter:description: The couple tied the knot in a private ceremony in 2013 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kristen Bell Shares Never-Before-Seen Wedding Photos With Dax Shepard > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 25, 2016 6:04 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 25, 2016 6:04 PM UTC [Kristen Bell](http://time.com/4419780/kristen-bell-frozen-game-of-thrones-anna-arya/) shared pictures of her 2013 wedding to husband Dax Shepard this weekend, giving fans a glimpse at the private ceremony. The 36-year-old actress — who previously won the Internet with her [reaction to meeting a sloth](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/31/kristen-bell-adorably-breaks-down-over-seeing-a-sloth/) and a [lip-sync video](http://time.com/4197988/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-lip-sync-video-totos-africa/) for Toto’s Africa — revealed the adorable photos during an interview for _CBS Sunday Morning_. “We got married in a tiny room in the Beverly Hills courthouse, and it was still one of the best days of my life,” she said of the nuptials. The selection included shots of Bell and Shepard reciting their vows…  Signing the marriage license…  And sharing a smooch.  The _Bad Moms_ star also [opened up](http://motto.time.com/4421268/kristen-bell-opens-up-about-husband-dax-shepards-difficult-past/) about how she feels Shepard’s past [struggle with addiction](http://motto.time.com/4390317/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-addiction/) has made him a better father to their two daughters, Lincoln, 3, and Delta, 18 months. “He’s a wonderful father,” Bell said. “He knows the value of things. He was an addict for many, many years and he pulled himself out of it, and he’s been sober for 11, 12 years now…And he knows how many times he’s messed up and how many times he’s been really closing to losing everything.” Watch the full interview below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4422116/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-wedding-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4422116/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-wedding-photos/"},"headline":"Kristen Bell Shares Never-Before-Seen Wedding Photos With Dax Shepard","datePublished":"2016-07-25T18:04:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:35.860Z","description":"The couple tied the knot in a private ceremony in 2013","url":"https://time.com/4422116/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-wedding-photos/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Kristen Bell"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4422116/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-wedding-photos/","name":"Kristen Bell Shares Never-Before-Seen Wedding Photos With Dax Shepard"}}]}] ```