{"id":474948,"date":"2026-02-18T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:00:09","slug":"james-van-der-beek-renewed-wedding-vows-with-wife-days-before-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474948\/","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek Renewed Wedding Vows With Wife Days Before Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260217_8521f82dc557409889948d16e4fd6f27\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6580c7ef-c2cd-4501-9f4c-ea2a8145c47c\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8521f82dc557409889948d16e4fd6f27_md.jpg\" alt=\"james van der beek kimberly van der beek\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/james-van-der-beek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Van Der Beek<\/a> passed away Feb. 11 &#8230; but not before professing his love for his wife Kimberly one last time.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/james-van-der-beek-renewed-his-wedding-vows-with-wife-kimberly-before-his-death-exclusive-11905781\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>, the couple renewed their vows from bed just days before James&#8217; death.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260217_f64bfd60c54241d484191ce8d5f07ed9\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6580c7ef-c2cd-4501-9f4c-ea2a8145c47c\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f64bfd60c54241d484191ce8d5f07ed9_md.jpg\" alt=\"james van der beek kimberly van der beek getty sub 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The publication reports James and Kimberly&#8217;s family and a few close friends gathered in their bedroom for the &#8220;simple and beautiful and moving&#8221; ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>More friends watched over Zoom as instrumentalist Porangu\u00ed played &#8220;Somewhere Over the Rainbow&#8221; to close out the occasion.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony came 6 months after the couple celebrated their 15-year anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260217_8194924286a6499ca56fd068f1c49392\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6580c7ef-c2cd-4501-9f4c-ea2a8145c47c\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8194924286a6499ca56fd068f1c49392_md.jpg\" alt=\"james van der beek kimberly van der beek getty sub\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>James posted on Instagram on Aug. 1, writing &#8230; &#8220;15 years ago today, this woman agreed to be my bride. @vanderkimberly you are the most extraordinary human I\u2019ve ever met. One day I\u2019ll tell the story of what you\u2019ve endured these last two years and how you\u2019ve shown up, time and time and time again. You have not only saved my life\u2026 you\u2019ve shown me what it is to live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<p>James and Kimberly first met in 2009 on a trip to Israel and a year later they were married.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/11\/james-van-der-beek-dead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke the sad news<\/a> &#8230; James died Wednesday morning, and his family swiftly confirmed his peaceful passing. He had been diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer in mid-2023, and he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/11\/03\/james-van-der-beek-battling-colorectal-cancer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went public with his diagnosis<\/a> in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Varsity Blues&#8221; star is survived by wife Kimberly and their 6 young kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek passed away Feb. 11 &#8230; but not before professing his love for his wife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-474948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}