Outgoing Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg married former NBC News producer Tom Bernthal on Saturday.
The pair, who got engaged in February 2020 after starting their relationship a year ago, appropriately took to Instagram to announce the news. They each posted the same photo of themselves holding hands in the woods, with Sandberg succinctly captioning it, “Married,” adding a string of heart emojis.
Bernthal, founder of consulting firm Kelton Global and brother of actor Jon Bernthal, included a long caption in his post. Her message spoke of her own divorce, in addition to the 2015 death of Sandberg’s previous husband, former Yahoo executive Dave Sandberg.
Bernthal wrote, “After both facing the loss, @sherylsandberg and I weren’t sure we’d ever find love again.” “In the last three years, we have merged our lives and merged our families. Our wedding today was like a dream come true.”
The couple told PEOPLE that the wedding took place in Wyoming and that Dave’s brother, Rob Goldberg, who first introduced Sandberg to Bernthal, was a co-worker for the wedding. Sandberg, 50, has two children, while Bernthal, 52, has three.
Sandberg announced in June that she would be stepping down from her role at Meta this fall after running for 14 years with the company. She will continue to serve on the board of directors, and Meta’s chief development officer, Javier Olivan, will replace Sandberg as COO.
Meanwhile, as part of their wedding ceremony, Sandberg and Bernthal presented a $1 million gift to Girls for Girls in support of the nonprofit group’s mission to end child marriage, VOW said Sunday. The organization said the donation will allow her to “expand her important work to reach more girls around the world who may be at risk of early marriage so that they too can choose love on their own terms.