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'The Wedding Singer' Gets Married

Actor Adam Sandler wed Jackie Titone on Sunday in an outdoor ceremony that was attended by celebrity friends and his pet bulldog dressed in a custom tuxedo.

"Sandler got married," the comic's Web site said. "Woopity Doo!" No other details were immediately available.

Calls to Sandler's publicist Cindy Guagenti were not immediately returned Sunday night.

Photographs of the nuptials showed the "Wedding Singer" star in a black tuxedo and white yarmulke, and Titone in a white gown with spaghetti straps, standing among hanging pale rose bouquets and chairs draped with pink satin.

Sandler's dog, Meatball, was shown in one picture in a black tuxedo jacket.

It was the first marriage for Sandler 36, and Titone, 28.

Titone has appeared in Sandler's movies, including as a waitress in "Big Daddy," and an angel in "Little Nicky."

"Almost everybody he works with, he's had a relationship with since college or at least for many, many years," said David Dorfman, screenwriter of "Anger Management," which co-starred Sandler and Jack Nicholson said. "He likes to work with his friends."

Sandler, who has become one of Hollywood's top box-office draws by playing infantile men prone to fisticuffs and tantrums, displays in real life a shambling politeness and faux-naive modesty.

With a shy smile, he often looks down as he speaks, while deflecting questions with self-deprecating jokes.

The 36-year-old comic's almost childlike behavior conceals his status as a Hollywood workaholic who's unwaveringly loyal to his friends.

While critics consistently trashed his work, Sandler's fan base has grown with hits such as 1998's "The Wedding Singer," which earned $80 million, followed by "The Waterboy" and "Big Daddy," which each collected more than $160 million. That gave Sandler the freedom to do as he pleased, and he chose to give a helping hand to Schneider, whose career had been reduced to a few supporting roles in some of Sandler's films. "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," which Schneider co-wrote and starred in as a hapless male escort, became a $65 million hit for Sandler's production company, Happy Madison.

Although Sandler's 2000 comedy "Little Nicky" was a step backward from his recent blockbuster hits — underperforming with a $39 million gross — he still persuaded Sony Pictures to gamble on a cartoon partially inspired by a line in "The Chanukah Song."

In an interview with "Entertainment Tonight" (like CBSNews.com, part of the Viacom family) in November 2000, Sandler said he thinks about what sort of a father he'll be "all the time.

"I just want to make the kid happy," Sandler said. "I want to be like my dad. I'll never be as good as my old dad...he was always around to hang out when you wanted to hang out."

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