( CNN ) -- Neil Patrick Harris is officially a married man . The 41-year-old actor revealed in a tweet on Monday that he and his partner of 10 years , David Burtka , exchanged vows in Italy on Saturday . `` Yup , '' Harris confirmed on Twitter . `` We put the ' n ' and 'd ' in 'husband ' . '' The couple , who are also parents of 3 1/2-year-old twins Harper Grace and Gideon Scott , have been engaged for years . When New York legalized gay marriage in 2011 , Harris said that he and Burtka , 39 , had proposed to one another at least five years prior and had `` been wearing engagement rings for ages . '' According to E ! , Harris and Burtka wore matching Tom Ford tuxedos at the wedding ceremony , which was officiated by their friend , `` How I Met Your Mother '' director and producer Pam Fryman , and included a performance from Elton John . Harris , who came out as `` a very content gay man '' in 2006 , told Details magazine in 2012 that he thought he 'd always be single -- until he came across fellow actor Burtka . Neil Patrick Harris , David Burtka share their love story . `` It 's all baby steps : You have to be OK with telling your friends you 're going on a date , you have to be OK with the people in your world meeting and judging them , you have to be OK with breakups , '' the `` How I Met Your Mother '' star said at the time . `` I 'm infinitely grateful all those steps led to Mr. Burtka -- once we started talking , we never stopped . '' Harris and Burtka were n't the only celebrity couple throwing a wedding this weekend . Another TV star , Fran Drescher , said `` I do '' to Shiva Ayyadurai on Sunday . According to People magazine , Drescher and Ayyadurai , who invented an email messaging program when he was a teenager , tied the knot in an intimate ceremony on the beach at their home . The couple met just over a year ago at an event hosted by Deepak Chopra , Ayyadurai told The Huffington Post in August . This is Drescher 's second marriage . Her first , to her high school sweetheart , ended in 1999 after her then-husband came out as gay .
Fran Drescher and Fran Drescher each had weddings this weekend . Harris married longtime partner Shiva Ayyadurai in Italy on Sunday . Drescher wed technologist Harris at their home on this weekend .