Adam Sandler Insists “Nobody Wants to Hear About My Secret to Marriage,” But He Is Dead Wrong

From their introduction to each other while making one of his movies in 1999 to their entire family appearing in his latest film in 2022, Adam Sandler and his wife Jackie Sandler “don’t ever think of not being together.”

It was during the making of Adam Sandler’s 1999 Big Daddy, an exemplary Sandler comedy concerning a lazy and silly law school graduate who adopts a little boy to impress his girlfriend, that the hard-working comedian shared a brief scene with actress Jackie Titone.

Well, he barely shared the scene with her. In her blink-and-you-miss-it role as a waitress in a Blarney Stone pub, Jackie exchanges a couple of lines with young Dylan or Cole Sprouse—we’re not sure which as the seven-year-old twins both portrayed the film’s little boy! Sandler does get a chance to walk by Jackie during the scene, though, commenting to his soon-to-be foster son, “It’s too bad you don’t like girls—I think you could have had her!”

It may have been a relatively unremarkable meeting in terms of memorable “meet-cute” first encounters, but clearly, just one look was all it took to ignite the enduring relationship between Adam Sandler and Jackie Titone.

Adam and Jackie Met on Sandler’s Film Big Daddy

Or as Sandler put it on his Instagram page in 2020 as a tribute to Jackie to acknowledge the 22^nd anniversary of the day they met, “We locked eyes and fell deep.”

As Sandler alluded to, the two immediately began seeing each other and within a year of their getting together, Jackie Titone (or Jacqueline Titone, as she was billed in Big Daddy) made the decision to convert from Christianity to Judaism. It was a clear sign that Jackie and the Jewish Sandler were getting very serious.

“I’m proud of being a Jew and that’s what I am,” Sandler once said in an interview with Howard Stern of his dedication to his faith “I get that from my father and mother.”

That’s not a surprising to hear from the writer and singer of the popular 1994 novelty number “The Chanukah Song!”

Adam and Jackie engaged shortly after her conversion and were married in an outdoor Jewish ceremony in the summer of 2003. A few years later, in May 2006, the couple welcomed their first child, daughter Sadie, followed by their second daughter, Sunny, in November 2008.   With a growing family at home and a thriving movie career at the office, Adam continued to crank out popular comedy films at the furious rate of nearly one per year, many produced by his own production entity, Happy Gilmore Productions.