Dick Van Dyke and Arlene Silver marked their 14th wedding anniversary over the weekend.
To celebrate the milestone, the couple — who married on leap day, Feb. 29, 2012 — talked about their relationship during an Instagram Live session. Silver later shared the recorded video on her Instagram page on Sunday, March 1, writing in the caption, “14 year anniversary with my very special guest ❤️❤️❤️.”
In the clip, Silver, 54, begins by saying, “I have a very special guest today to celebrate a very special day. My husband is here!” She then pans the camera to Van Dyke, 100, who is lying beside her on their bed. “I’m not really shorter, I’m just lying down on the bed,” he jokes before pointing to Silver and adding, “Hi, she’s mine!”
Silver continues reading comments, answering questions, and calling out fan names. She first met Van Dyke — who shares four children with his late ex-wife, Margie Willett — backstage at the 2006 SAG Awards, where she was working as a makeup artist. During the livestream, she encouraged him to recount how they met.
“I was sitting in the green room where everybody waits to go on, and the place is full of actors and actresses. One thing about Hollywood actresses, they’re pretty heads on stick figures. So I know them in a minute. I was sitting there just by myself, all of a sudden I see this vision approaching me. No stick figure, gorgeous!” Van Dyke recalled. “And I swear this, I never thought of getting up, I never thought of speaking, I found myself standing on my feet saying, ‘Hi, I’m Dick.’ I don’t know what hit me, but I just did it. I invited her to sit down, we chatted a while, turns out she was a makeup gal, so I hired her on the spot.”
After working together several times onstage and onscreen, the two married in Malibu, Calif., six years after they met.
“Neither one of us can think where the time went,” Van Dyke said. “We’ve had so much fun, been so many places. And I’ve fallen in love with her more every day. I do, I’m telling you. She gets better every day. I wouldn’t even be here, I wouldn’t be 100 years old if it weren’t for her, and that’s no kidding. She’s pulled me through a lot of things.”
He continued, “But I feel pretty good for 100. And she just keeps getting more and more gorgeous, doesn’t she?” Speaking with PEOPLE at the world premiere of Dick Van Dyke: 100th Celebration ahead of his centennial birthday in December 2025, Silver said she is “so grateful” not only to celebrate him publicly but also to share their everyday life together
She added, “I’m so honored to have him in my life, take care of him, and nurture this community that we’ve built, that he’s built over the years.”
While speaking with PEOPLE the month before, Van Dyke reflected on their marriage, praising Silver’s impact on his life and legacy.
“She’s responsible for keeping me in the moment,” he said. “She’s kept me happy every day of my life, every day. She’s a joy. She can get me singing or dancing, and she carries so much responsibility … I’m just lucky.”
