Two Vampire Diaries Stars Reconnected Years Later Now They Are Married

Candice Accola at San Diego Comic-Con in 2015. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

The Vampire Diaries ran for eight seasons on The CW, ending in 2017 and leaving behind one of the most devoted fan bases in the history of American genre television. The cast dispersed. The characters said their goodbyes. The mythology was closed.

And then, five years after the finale, some of the cast gathered for a reunion. Two of them – Steven Krueger, who played the werewolf Josh on The Originals spin-off, and Candice King, who played Caroline Forbes across all eight seasons of The Vampire Diaries – met each other differently than they had before.

They got married in February 2026 in a small chapel near their home in Nashville. They told Vogue about it in April – quietly, warmly, and without turning a private thing into a publicity event.

A Love Story That Started at the Right Time

The Vampire Diaries universe operated for years as a vast network of interconnected people – actors, writers, crew – who had built something together and then, when it ended, moved on to separate lives. Krueger and King were part of that network. They knew of each other. But the moment that changed things came at the reunion, years after the cameras had stopped.

There is something particular about relationships that begin when the professional context has ended – when the shared project is complete, the pressure is gone, and two people are simply themselves rather than the characters or roles they were playing. The reunion created exactly that space.

Sources confirmed to Vogue that the couple kept the wedding small and private, a chapel near their Nashville home with the people who mattered most. Nashville, which has become a genuine cultural hub for entertainment industry figures who have chosen life at a slightly different pace than Los Angeles, suited the occasion.

Who They Are

Candice King, 34, is one of the most beloved figures in the Vampire Diaries fandom. Caroline Forbes – her character – evolved across eight seasons from a peripheral figure to one of the show’s emotional cores. King’s performance in the role made her a fixture in fan culture that has not diminished in the years since the finale. She has continued acting, released music, and maintained a public life shaped by the warmth that characterized her most famous role.

Steven Krueger, 33, brought Josh – a loyal, often heartbreaking character in the spin-off universe – to life with a specificity that earned him his own devoted corner of the fandom. His Nashville presence predates the wedding; the city has clearly been part of his life for some time.

Why the TVD Fandom Responded the Way It Did

There is a specific quality to the Vampire Diaries audience – the segment of viewers who came of age watching the show, who formed communities around it, who still talk about it years after it ended. For that audience, news of a genuine love story emerging from the people who made the show is not just celebrity gossip. It is a continuation of something they invested in.

The reunion where Krueger and King met was, in a sense, a gift to that audience too – a gathering of people who shared something, revisiting what they built. That something real grew from it has the feeling of the show’s best episodes: unexpected, earned, and more romantic than anyone planned.

A Quiet Nashville Wedding

They chose a small chapel. They told Vogue, not a press release machine. They have kept the details appropriately their own.

What the Vampire Diaries fandom knows – and what they have been celebrating since April – is that two people from a show they loved found each other, took their time, and got married in a city they chose because it felt like home.

The show ended in 2017. This part of the story started at a reunion and ended at a chapel in Nashville. The fans, it turns out, were right to keep caring about these people after the cameras stopped.

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