It’s time to uncork the bubbly! Patton Oswalt and his fiancée, Meredith Salenger, are married, Us Weekly can confirm. 
 
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 The 48-year-old Veep actor and the 47-year-old Hollywood Heights actress tied the knot at the Jim Henson Company lot in L.A. on Saturday, November 4. 
 
 The pair, who made their debut as a couple at the Los Angeles premiere of Baby Driver in June, announced their impending nuptials via Instagram in July. 
 
 “I don’t wanna brag … but check out the size of The Rock on my finger,” Salenger captioned a playful snap of herself with a photoshopped picture of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on her ring finger while cuddling close to her love. 
 
 I don't wanna brag… but check out the size of The Rock on my finger! Hahahah (photoshop via @edwardderuiter) A post shared by Meredith Salenger (@meredithsalenger) on Jul 6, 2017 at 8:29am PDT 
 
 Hours later, the brunette beauty shared a collage of images from the proposal, which included a sweet snuggle between Salenger and Oswalt’s daughter, Alice, 8, from his first marriage. 
 
 “It’s official. I’m the luckiest happiest girl in the universe!!!!💖 I love you @pattonoswalt I love you Alice Oswalt! #YesYesYes” the Lake Placid actress wrote of the adorable moment. 
 
 It's official. I'm the luckiest happiest girl in the universe!!!!💖 I love you @pattonoswalt I love you Alice Oswalt! #YesYesYes A post shared by Meredith Salenger (@meredithsalenger) on Jul 6, 2017 at 9:26am PDT 
 
 The pair’s engagement came 15 months after the death of Oswalt’s first wife, Michelle McNamara, who died in her sleep from a mix of prescription medications and an undiagnosed heart condition in April 2016. 
 
 Shortly after announcing their engagement, the King of Queens alum shared a blog titled “A Widow’s Rage Defense Against Patton Oswalt’s Engagement,” written by Erica Roman, who lost her husband days before McNamara passed away. 
 
 Oswalt, who called the article “amazing,” thanked Roman for her gentle words. “I expected some bitter grub worms to weigh in (anonymously, always always always) with their much-needed opinions when I announced my engagement last week. I decided to ignore them,” he wrote on Facebook. “But yeah, I felt this rage. And Erica articulated it better than I could have ever hoped. So there you go. Thank you, Erica.” 
 
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 Salenger also took to social media to share her feelings. “Everyone has been so lovely to us… all of Patton’s family… ALL of Michelle’s siblings and friends and family… a few trolls have strong opinions,” she wrote at the time. “But I think for Patton, having met and found love after over a year of intense therapy and openly grieving and dealing with his pain… I am grateful to be the one who helps him climb out of the depths of grief and find some joy again. And most of all… Alice is happy and feels loved. I have waited 47 years to find true love.” 
 
 She continued: “Creating our family unit while honoring the brilliant gift Michelle has given me will be my life’s goal and happiness. I am deeply in love with both Patton and Alice and very much looking forward to a beautiful happy life having adventures together.” 
 
 Just months before the couple tied the knot, the Virginia native opened up about his relationship with Salenger in Playboy’s September/October 2017 issue. 
 
 “My fiancée and I started talking February 28, through Facebook,” he said of his relationship with the actress. “We have friends in common and we were messaging, and it just turned into every night for three months — February through May. We would talk about everything, writing these short novels to each other every night.” 
 
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 Oswalt continued: “It was as if I had known this person since we were teenagers and we both had unrequited crushes since we were 14 and now it was finally crashing together. Even though I’m at this level of joy I didn’t think I would ever feel again, I still wouldn’t recommend those extremes to anybody. I’d like people to have this joy without that despair.” 
 
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 On Saturday, the 48-year-old actor and comedian wed Meredith Salenger. The nuptials came over a year and a half after Oswalt’s first wife, Michelle McNamara, died unexpectedly in her sleep. 
 
 Here’s a look back at how Oswalt’s life has changed since last April. 
 
 A tragic loss 
 
 Oswalt wed crime writer McNamara in 2005, and the two welcomed a daughter, Alice Rigney, in 2009. 
 
 On April 21, 2016, McNamara died in her sleep at age 46. In an instant, Oswalt became a widower — and single parent. 
 
 Patton Oswalt and Michelle McNamara in December 2011 Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic 
 
 In an October 2016 interview with The New York Times, Oswalt recounted the last night he had with his wife, speculating that she may have accidentally overdosed. 
 
 McNamara, who was writing a book about a serial rapist and killer at the time, was working long days and nights and unable to sleep due to anxiety and nightmares. Worried about her health, Oswalt suggested she take a night to “sleep until you wake up.” McNamara took some Xanax and went to sleep — but never woke up. 
 
 The next morning, Oswalt remembered waking up early to get Alice dressed, packed and off to school. On the way home, he picked up an Americano coffee and left it on McNamara’s bedside table — around 9:40 a.m., he recalled. 
 
 Hours later, he checked to see if his wife was up yet. She was still in bed — not breathing. The paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. While a cause of death was not declared by the coroner’s office at the time, Oswalt said he believed the Xanax was to blame. 
 
 In February, Oswalt revealed McNamara’s cause of death: “We learned today the combination of drugs in Michelle’s system, along with a condition we were unaware of, proved lethal,” he wrote in a statement to the Associated Press. 
 
 Oswalt also explained that the couple had “no idea” McNamara had a heart condition that caused blockages in her arteries. According to Oswalt, the blockages, combined with her taking the medications Adderall, Xanax and the pain medication fentanyl, were responsible for her passing. 
 
 Learning to cope 
 
 On the one-year anniversary of her death, Oswalt remembered his late wife in a lengthy Facebook post — expressing a combination of grief, gratitude and perseverance. 
 
 “It’s awful, but it’s not fatal,” Oswalt began. “That’s the dispatch I’m sending back from exactly one year into this shadow-slog.” 
 
 He went on to say that he had removed his wedding ring and placed it in a box of keepsakes. 
 
 “I couldn’t bear removing it since April 21st, 2016,” he wrote. “But now it felt obscene. That anonymous poem about the man mourning his dead lover for a year and a day, for craving a kiss from her ‘clay cold lips.’ I was inviting more darkness. Removing the ring was removing the last symbol of denial of who I was now, and what my life is, and what my responsibilities are. But it’s not fatal.” 
 
 “I’m not making today any sort of dark ritual or painful memorial. No graveside visit. Those are for when Alice and I have something exciting to say to her. No candle lighting or balloon launching. We think of her every day — she’s still so tied into our worlds, in a way that’s encouraging, and energizing. So why light a flame that will die, or release a balloon that will disappear? Michelle’s gone but she wasn’t the kind of soul that disappears or dies out.” 
 
 A new beginning 
 
 In June, Oswalt stepped out for the premiere of Baby Driver with a very special guest by his side: his girlfriend Salenger. The couple held hands while posing for the cameras. 
 
 Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salenger at the Baby Driver premiere Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic 
 
 Salenger — a 47-year-old Harvard-educated actress with credits in TV and films including Lake Placid and Hollywood Heights, plus voiceover work for cartoons like Star Wars: The Clone Wars — also tweeted an adorable selfie with Oswalt in the theater. 
 
 At the time, a source close to the couple told PEOPLE the relationship was “new” and the two were “very happy.” 
 
 “They met through mutual friend Martha Plimpton,” said the insider. “They started chatting as friends and it blossomed from there.” 
 
 A month later, PEOPLE exclusively confirmed that Oswalt and Salenger were engaged. 
 
 “It’s official. I’m the luckiest happiest girl in the universe!!!!” she gushed on Instagram. “I love you @pattonoswalt I love you Alice Oswalt! #YesYesYes.” 
 
 “I put the ring in a marzipan [Star Wars] Slave I replica and said, ‘Will you be my Padawan of Love?’ ” Oswalt quipped of the proposal on Twitter. “She maced me but said yes later.” 
 
 I put the ring in a marzipan Slave I replica and said, "Will you be my Padawan of Love?" She maced me but said yes later. https://t.co/9gIr2yxfP5 — Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) July 6, 2017 
 
 Hitting back at critics 
 
 After facing harsh blowback on social media for getting engaged 15 months after McNamara’s death, Oswalt and Salenger defended their decision on social media. 
 
 On Facebook, Oswalt referred to his critics as “bitter grub worms,” thanking blogger Erica Roman for writing an article in their defense. 
 
 “This is so amazing. And SO well-written,” he wrote. “I expected some bitter grub worms to weigh in (anonymously, always always always) with their much-needed opinions when I announced my engagement last week. And I decided to ignore them. But yeah, I felt this rage. And Erica articulated it better than I could have ever hoped. So there you go. Thank you, Erica.” 
 
 Salenger also posted Roman’s article alongside her own defense of the couple’s engagement. 
 
 “Everyone has been so lovely to us… ALL of Michelle’s siblings and friends and family… a few trolls have strong opinions,” she wrote. “But I think for Patton, having met and found love after over a year of intense therapy and openly grieving and dealing with his pain…I am grateful to be the one who helps him climb out of the depths of grief and find some joy again. And most of all… Alice is happy and feels loved.” 
 
 “I have waited 47 years to find true love,” she continued. “Creating our family unit while honoring the brilliant gift Michelle has given me will be my life’s goal and happiness. I am deeply in love with both Patton and Alice and very much looking forward to a beautiful happy life having adventures together.” 
 
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 Staying strong for Alice 
 
 Since McNamara’s death, Oswalt’s top priority is taking care of their daughter. 
 
 “If I hadn’t had a daughter and my wife died, we wouldn’t be talking right now. I’m not saying I would be dead, but I would be a shut-in alcoholic,” he told Playboy in August. “Everything would have shut down. I wouldn’t have been about anything. But with Alice, it was and is ‘You got to get up.’ ” 
 
 “There were times when I had to get her to play a game on her iPad or start a little project, and then I would say, ‘Oh, let me go upstairs,’ and I would go put my head in a pillow and just scream and cry because I didn’t want to break down in front of her,” he confessed. 
 
 Still, the father-daughter duo opted to stay in their family home, admitting that a move “would have been more painful,” and have felt like they were “running away from Michelle’s ghost.” 
 
 And at the end of the day, Oswalt said he chose to move forward with his life for the sake of his daughter. 
 
 “I’m moving forward — clumsily, stupidly, blindly — because of the kind of person Alice is,” he wrote in a December 2016 first-person essay for GQ. “She’s got so much of Michelle in her. And Michelle was living her life moving forward. And she took me forward with her. Just like I know Alice will. So I’m going to keep moving forward. So I can be there with you if you need me, Alice. Because I’ll need you. 
 
 “I can do it,” he added. “I can do it. I can do it. Because of you, Alice.” ||||| Patton Oswalt married his fiancée Meredith Salenger on Saturday. 
 
 The couple posted pictures of their ceremony on Sunday confirming the news. 
 
 “True love,” Salenger captioned a snap of her walking down the aisle holding her step-daughter Alice’s hand and new husband Oswalt on the other side. “True happiness. Forever and Always. The Oswalts. November 4, 2017. Jim Henson Studios.” 
 
 Oswalt, 48, posted the same photo to Instagram with the quirky question, “What’d you guys do yesterday?” 
 
 In October, the couple announced they would be exchanging vows in November, but kept the details to themselves. 
 
 Oswalt’s journey to finding love again hasn’t been easy. His first wife, Michelle McNamara, suddenly died in April 2016 at age 46. He wasn’t able to remove his wedding ring until a year after McNamara’s passing. 
 
 By July 2017, Oswalt had proposed to Salenger one month after taking their relationship public. 
 
 “It’s official. I’m the luckiest happiest girl in the universe!!!!” Salenger said at the time. “I love you @PattonOswalt I love you Alice Oswalt. #YesYesYes.” 
 
 A request for additional wedding details wasn’t immediately returned. ||||| type Book genre True Crime publisher Harper pages 352 publication date 02/27/18 author Michelle McNamara 
 
 Patton Oswalt still can’t recall the aftermath of his late wife’s death. 
 
 He’d been married to Michelle McNamara for more than a decade when she suddenly died in her sleep on April 21, 2016. They had a young daughter, Alice, born in 2009, and worked successfully in different areas: Oswalt being an acclaimed actor and comedian, McNamara an accomplished armchair detective who ran the popular cold-case website True Crime Diary. Yet when she passed, Oswalt immersed himself in her space — he became committed to completing I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the true-crime book McNamara had been researching and writing for nearly as long as they were married, and bringing it out into the world. 
 
 How did he do it? Manage to push himself through such an intense grieving period? “I wish I could tell you some moment of epiphany when I realized that I was going to finish it, but I don’t have it,” Oswalt tells EW, trying to recall the steps he took to get the book done. “That whole year is just this really painful blur.” 
 
 I’ll Be Gone in the Dark marks McNamara’s greatest achievement, a fitting cap to a career of investigative writing. It’s the product of her nearly decade-long hunt for the Golden State Killer, who committed at least 50 sexual assaults and 10 murders from 1976 to 1986, but is fashioned as her own story too: a personal account of what it means to track down a killer, intermixing conventions of memoir and short-story writing for a wholly innovative true-crime read. At the time of her death, she’d written much of the book, but (spoiler alert) was unable to unmask the killer, with handwritten notes and thousands of computer files left unassembled. 
 
 With regard to completing the book, Oswalt can only describe what happened in the broadest of terms: how he, while wading through shock, grief, and chaos, assumed the mentality of, “I’m going to get this book done.” Reflecting on that unimaginably difficult time, Oswalt apologizes repeatedly for having no specifics to draw on, only that he started “sending emails,” “making calls,” and encouraging all involved to “get this done.” He does remember being nervous about getting the book right, however. “Absolutely, yeah,” he says when asked. “It was her book and it’s an amazing book. I wanted to do right by her.” 
 
 HarperCollins Publishers; Jim Spellman/WireImage 
 
 Jennifer Barth, McNamara’s editor at HarperCollins who acquired I’ll Be Gone in the Dark in the summer of 2013, says that Oswalt took great, necessary steps to ensure he did just that. She recalls how he recruited McNamara’s researcher Paul Haynes and crime journalist Billy Jensen to compile the book. (The pair wrote the slim third and final section; other subsections are versions of articles previously published by Los Angeles magazine, and clarifying editor’s notes are sprinkled throughout.) Barth explains that through his profound memory of McNamara, Oswalt guided them all through the process of doing right by her. “He’s just been leading the way,” she says. “He knows the book: He just got how Michelle thought about it.” 
 
 Barth, Oswalt, Haynes, and Jensen would sit down periodically as they put the book together, engaging in healthy debate over the late author’s intentions, often in regard to turns of phrases Barth now describes as “vintage Michelle.” There would be disagreements, inevitable given the sensitivity of the endeavor, but Barth recalls Oswalt being engaged throughout the process, avoiding “knee-jerk” reactions and instead providing thoughtful commentary and perspective. “If Michelle had been married to somebody else, I’m not sure that they would have pressed on with the book and been able to help make it happen in the way Patton did,” Barth says candidly. “It was a total commitment. … He’s just been a real champion.” 
 
 Because of McNamara’s frank approach to storytelling, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark provides small, revealing glimpses into what her family life looked like: How she’d scour the web in a playroom after her husband and daughter were sound asleep, or how while attending a film premiere for Oswalt, she’d lurk in the background, eyes glued to her phone, as case clues kept rolling in. Oswalt says the random nature of facts “crashing in” meant that McNamara “was always writing,” and that it was important for him to leave her to her process, noting, “I was very conscious of giving her time alone to write.” Even at a distance, though, he saw what motivated her — what her obsession was rooted in. 
 
 “She was a very logical person with a lot of compassion,” Oswalt says. “When she saw someone act with such cruelty, the logic part of her brain would kick in and go, ‘Well, that kind of cruelty should be met with justice, and there should be someone to answer for the victims.’ To have all of those threads and have it be open and unresolved for so long really ate away at her sense of order. She took on the pain of the survivors and of [those] that lost family members because of this guy. That’s what drove her.” 
 
 Barth remembers what Oswalt brought to the process: He’d speak openly about losing McNamara and the difficulty of moving forward, in effect “giving insight into how involved she was in this book and this story, and just the humanity of the victims and even the killer.” He’d tell stories and provide photos that had a stinging intimacy, of the kind that scattered notes and research could only hint at. Oswalt’s main goal, Barth adds, was to keep things “in Michelle’s voice.” 
 
 I’ll Be Gone in the Dark publishes Tuesday, concluding a nearly two-year journey to completion. Time has passed and life has changed for the family: Oswalt has remarried, tying the knot with actress Meredith Salenger late last year. But he’s no less committed to honoring McNamara’s memory. He checks in with Haynes and Jensen about once a week, and they talk about showcasing more of her writing. Oswalt particularly hopes to get True Crime Diary back “up and running,” and, together with Haynes, form a nonprofit in her name to aid investigative journalism. 
 
 Yet with the book’s release right around the corner, Oswalt reveals that it’s difficult for him — even, or perhaps especially, given the praise being heaped on it. He can’t help but look at things from McNamara’s perspective, as both her longtime partner and a fellow writer, and realize that this isn’t precisely the story she wanted to tell. “It’s very painful,” he admits. “I think other people are going to really love the book, but to me, there’s so much that’s left unsaid and unfinished.” 
 
 I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is available for purchase. You can also listen to the companion podcast about the making of the book, featuring contributions by Oswalt and others involved.
– When Patton Oswalt tweeted on Sunday, "What'd you guys do yesterday?," it was less a call to conversation and more to reveal what he did on Saturday: marry Meredith Salenger, per Page Six. His tweet showed him holding hands with his 8-year-old daughter, Alice, who in turn was holding hands with Salenger on the happy occasion. While Page Six didn't have much in the way of wedding details, which Us says took place at the Jim Henson Company lot in Los Angeles, Oswalt, 48, and Salenger, 47, offered some insight online, including an Oswalt tweet showing Aimee Mann and Michael Penn performing for their first dance. Oswalt also showed off a photo of his smiling daughter, with the caption "World Champion Flower Girl." Salenger gushed about becoming stepmom to Alice ("This little girl is MINE!!!!!!!!!," she tweeted), posted a pic of herself and Alice, and shared a poignant photo of Oswalt hugging his daughter, with the simple caption: "My family." People documents all that's happened since Oswalt's first wife, Michelle McNamara, died in her sleep in April 2016, including his grieving process, his first public appearance with Salenger in June, and their journey toward marriage, with Alice at the top of their priority list. "Creating our family unit while honoring the brilliant gift Michelle has given me will be my life's goal and happiness," Salenger wrote in July. "I am deeply in love with both Patton and Alice and very much looking forward to a beautiful happy life having adventures together."