Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk's Relationship Timeline

Gwyneth Paltrow has been living on cloud nine ever since she fell in love with her second husband, Brad Falchuk. If you’re not completely familiar with a timeline of the couple’s relationship, the Goop founder and the Glee producer’s romantic love story goes all the way back to 2014.

Gwyn and Brad first met on the set of Glee. At the time, the Shakespeare in Love actress was recently divorced from her ex-husband, Chris Martin, whom she wed in 2003. The former pair announced their separation in March 2014, while Brad also called it quits with his ex-wife, Suzanne Bukinik, in 2013.

Although sparks were flying between the Hollywood stars, they remained tight-lipped about the status of their relationship. Much of Gwyn and Brad’s romance was kept out of the spotlight until they stepped out at an event for friend Robert Downey Jr. the following year in 2015.

The beauty guru and the TV creator quietly dated for the next few years until the handsome hunk popped the question in early 2018. Later that year in September, the Goop Lab star and the American Horror Story producer tied the knot in a private wedding in New York.

Reflecting back on her journey to finding true love, Gwyn — who is the proud mom of daughter Apple and son Moses — said she actually considers her union with Brad to be her first true marriage. Though the actress doesn’t regret the time she spent with Chris, she pointed out the huge difference between their romances.

“I had two typical types of relationships. One where I was constantly chasing and trying to win someone over, and one where I was put off by the person’s capacity for the relationship — and those relationships were very short-lived,” she told People in 2018.

However, everything changed the moment she met Brad. “For the first time, I feel like I’m in an adult relationship that is sometimes very uncomfortable,” she explained. “Because he sort of demands a certain level of intimacy and communication that I haven’t been held to before.”

Despite having to make some minor adjustments, Gwyn said she couldn’t feel more “grateful” to have found love with the film director. She’s also elated about giving her children stepsiblings, as Brad is the dad of his two kids, Isabella and Brody, with his former spouse of nine years.

“I feel so lucky,” she gushed to Glamour U.K. weeks after their wedding. “It’s different to be in your mid-forties; do it again and bring all your experience, your pain, your happiness, suffering — everything. It’s actually very heartening, I feel very optimistic!”

Scroll through the gallery below to see a timeline of Gwyn and Brad’s relationship!

August 2014

Just three months after Gwyn split from her ex-husband, Chris, she started dating Brad in August 2014. The couple first crossed paths on the set of Glee in 2010, but they had yet to meet. At the time they were introduced to each other four years later, the two completely hit it off.

“We had similar enough backgrounds — a little bit Jewish, a little bit East Coast, her dad was a TV producer—and so we just sort of developed this really lovely friendship,” Brad told Harper’s Bazaar in January 2020.

January 2018

When fans started speculating about the status of Gwyn and Brad’s relationship, the movie star confirmed their engagement in January 2018. “We feel incredibly lucky to have come together at this juncture in our lives when our collective successes and failures can serve as building blocks for a healthy and happy relationship,” they told Harper’s Bazaar.

September 2018

Later that year in September, Gwyn and Brad tied the knot in a romantic and intimate ceremony at her Hamptons home in New York. We had a very small wedding,” the loving wife gushed on Good Morning America in January 2019. “We both have really old friends from elementary school and high school and that was really the bulk of our friends that were there.”

September 2019

“Married life has been really good. We took a year to let everybody [in the family] take it in and let the dust settle. And now we’re moving in together this month,” she explained at the time. “I adore my husband. He’s brilliant and deeply kind. I feel like he’s a real equal too. And he pushes me in the best ways. I really like being married. It’s fun.”

July 2021

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Gwyn and Brad were socially distancing at their beautiful Los Angeles home with their blended family. When they made one of their first trip overseas to Italy in July 2021, the Politician star celebrated the romantic getaway by uploading a selfie of the two in front of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. “Tourists at long last,” she wrote in the caption.