The celebration was long overdue.

Between their first meeting on the set of Disney's 2007 comedy The Game Plan—if not love at first sight, then certainly something, with Johnson later confessing to

The celebration was long overdue.

Between their first meeting on the set of Disney's 2007 comedy The Game Plan—if not love at first sight, then certainly something, with Johnson later confessing to WSJ Magazine, "Within 30 seconds, I thought, 'Wow, this girl's stunning'"—and those Aug. 18, 2019, vows on the cliffs of Kauai, was a love story nearly a decade-and-a-half in the making. 

Both coming out of serious commitments—a long-term romance for musician Hashian, 36; a marriage to college sweetheart Dany Garcia for 49-year-old Johnson—there were fears to work past and then a family to build before they could make that walk down the flower-lined runner toward the Pacific Ocean and their forever. 

"In Hawaii at the time it's beautiful," Johnson raved to DeGeneres of their seaside ceremony. Standing there with daughters Jasmine, now 5, and Tiana, now 3, "with my ancestors watching over us, it was truly a magical, magical time."