Inside Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's romance celebrate wedding anniversary

Actors Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are celebrating their 11th wedding anniversary,

Blake had ended her three-year romance with her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley, while Ryan was newly divorced after calling time on his marriage to Scarlett Johansson. As they both found themselves single, Ryan and Blake decided to team up and hit the dating scene.

"We were buddies for a long time, which I think is the best way to have a relationship, to start as friends," Ryan explained. During an appearance on SiriusXM, the 46-year-old added: "About a year after Green Lantern had come and gone and we were both single we went on a double date.

"She was on a date with another guy and I was on a date with another girl. And it was like the most awkward date for the respective parties because we were just like fireworks coming across."

After nearly a decade of marriage, Hollywood It couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are still just as strong as ever. With the duo's 10-year anniversary right around the corner in September 2022, and three daughters James, Inez, and Betty to show for it, a source recently confirmed to Us Weekly that the actors are still "very much in love."

Blake and Ryan have this unbreakable bond as a couple," the source shared. "They're still very much in love. Usually being married for almost 10 years, couples change or grow apart, but not them. They are still head over heels for each other."

Although both A-listers have full schedules at the moment — Lively is gearing up to make her feature directorial debut with Seconds while Reynolds continues to work on developing projects and business endeavors to allow for more time with their kids — the couple is still "very secure in their relationship" and remains "committed to each other for life," according to the source.

The Internet’s favorite couple is celebrating their 10-year (!) anniversary this year—a rarity in Hollywood so it's something to be celebrated. And with Blake Lively's latest pregnancy news (their fourth baby is on the way!) there's almost too much Lively-Reynolds excitement to handle.

are known for their adorable banter, snide IG comments, and stunning red carpet looks. But they’ve also built a family and a life together that has lasted a whole decade now. Plus, they're clearly still very much in love.

Here's a quick walk down memory lane, and a full timeline of the famed Lively-Reynolds love story:

This iconic duo began as so many Hollywood romances do—working together on a movie set. Blake and Ryan met each other when they both starred in the 2011 film, Green Lantern.

Blake was firmly in her Gossip Girl era and was even still dating her co-star Penn Badgley at the time. While filming the movie, Ryan was still married to actress Scarlett Johansson, but the pair filed for divorce later that year.

After long and careful consideration on both our parts, we've decided to end our marriage. We entered our relationship with love and it's with love and kindness we leave it,” they wrote in a 2010 statement,

Things didn't start out steamy.

​​"We were buddies for a long time, which I think is the best way to have a relationship, to start as friends," Ryan told Jess Cagle on SiriusXM's Entertainment Weekly Radio Deadpool special in 2016, according to People.

As legend has it, Blake and Ryan really started feeling each other while they were out on a double date. The only problem was...they were on the date with other people.

Less than a year later, Blake and Ryan tied the knot at Boone Hall Plantation in a small South Carolina ceremony. The wedding was pretty much a secret, but a local radio station filled everyone in on the deets.