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Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Brosnan are celebrating 23 years of marriage!
Keely, 60, marked the special occasion with a post shared on Instagram on Sunday, Aug. 4.
Sharing a series of photographs from her wedding to Pierce, 71, she began her caption by highlighting their 2001 marriage date and the location where they wed.
“✨ “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest person I have ever known.” FSF ✨ Happy Anniversary my love @piercebrosnanofficial ✨,” Keely continued.
She added: “Here’s to the next 23 years together. May they continue to be creative, adventurous, loving, inspiring, and joyful. ✨ Time [flies] on love’s wings.”
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Keely first met the James Bond star while at a party in Mexico on assignment as a TV correspondent in 1994.
She would later describe her first impression of the actor as “tall, dark and handsome — everything that everybody would immediately be attracted to” in an interview with PEOPLE in 2001.
“He had this mischievous sparkle in his eyes. I thought, ‘Wow! Wow!’ ” she added.
The two shared their first date days later under the stars, staying up and chatting until 3 a.m. “There were fireworks going off over our heads,” Keely recalled.
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In the years to follow, the pair welcomed their two sons — Dylan in 1997 and Paris in 2001.
“We’ve been down the road, and we’ve seen many, many hardships as families do, as we all do,” Pierce told Fox News of his decades-long marriage. “But watching someone grow up with you and grow old with you is a very spiritual journey.”
Marking 30 years since they met in Mexico, Keely wrote on Instagram earlier this year, “How could I have known as I walked around the corner and into your life that my destiny was about to change forever?”
She added, “Thanking my lucky stars that I had the courage to introduce myself to you and forever grateful for the connection and family we share 3 decades later.”
