Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Married: Couple Ties the Knot in Beverly Hills County Clerk Office

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are officially husband and wife.

TMZ reported the longtime couple, who have been engaged for four years, finally said "I do," at the Beverly Hills County Clerk office in Los Angeles.

According to reports, the 33-year-old "Veronica Mars" actress and her "Parenthood" actor-beau were merely going to the office to get their marriage license but a court employee offered to marry them right then and there and the couple went for it.

There was reportedly a photographer on site to capture their special moment, and Bell cried during the ceremony. Bell and Shepard are parents to daughter Lincoln, born in March 2013.

Bell and Shepard, 38, who have been engaged since 2009, withheld from marrying for mostly political reasons and were publicly outspoken about their decision to wait until same-sex marriage became legal in their home state.

"We've been very vocal about not wanting to be married in a state that doesn't allow that right to all of its citizens," Bell told Celebuzz in 2012. "We'll wait until California gets on the right side of history."

After the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and refused to hear the objections to legalizing same-sex marriage in California, Bell went ahead and re-popped the question to her fiancé via Twitter.

Earlier this year, Bell said she and her fiancé had not set a date because of "mutual laziness."

"I have to unfortunately report that we just haven't gotten it together on a Saturday to get to the courthouse," Bell said. "But we have every intention to. We have every intention to. We wanna sign those papers.

"And I think we just found out that you can do it online now. What if we got married online? Print it out: 'You guys, married! Married, everybody!' It's just out of laziness that we haven't actually done." 

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