Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salenger have announced they’re engaged.
Salenger, an actress who’s lent her voice to Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, posted about the engagement on Thursday. The couple appeared together at the premiere of Baby Driver in June.
It's official. I'm the luckiest happiest girl in the universe!!!!💖 I love you @pattonoswalt I love you Alice Oswalt! pic.twitter.com/6V6JnQ0XKJ
— Meredith Salenger (@MeredthSalenger) July 6, 2017
Oswalt, a noted Star Wars fan, elaborated on how he asked.
I put the ring in a marzipan Slave I replica and said, "Will you be my Padawan of Love?" She maced me but said yes later. https://t.co/9gIr2yxfP5
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) July 6, 2017
Congratulations @pattonoswalt & @MeredthSalenger-2 of my favorite people… Now under one roof! #SWNerdJoinsForcesWithPadawanOfLoveAtLast! https://t.co/jyH2DyBgbH
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) July 6, 2017
It's a great day for Disney shippers who had longshots in the pool. Congratulations to @MeredthSalenger & @PattonOswalt on their engagement! pic.twitter.com/4WJujLuDgj
— Hollywood Palms Cinema (@HollywoodPalms) July 6, 2017
"Friends of the Force to the right side please. Friends of the Empire on the left."
— ʞɔiwbɿɒH ꙅiɿʜƆ (@hardwick) July 6, 2017
Carvel tried to get in on it, too, a nod to Oswalt’s longstanding obsession.
@MeredthSalenger If you need a ring bearer, I take the cake. CONGRATS to two of the best! pic.twitter.com/9yojnccEAq
— Carvel Ice Cream (@CarvelIceCream) July 6, 2017
Oswalt was married to and has a daughter with writer and author Michelle McNamara, who unexpectedly passed away in April 2016. He wrote a touching remembrance of her on the anniversary of her death.
In the last month, however, Salenger and Oswalt became more public with their relationship.
Aw, it's like we're already married! https://t.co/pgeF869i88
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) July 4, 2017
H/T the Hollywood Reporter