Stephen and Ayesha Curry first met at a church youth group in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Stephen (Steph) and Ayesha Curry are one of basketball’s most longstanding couples — and the two never shy away from gushing about each other. They met as teens at their church youth group in Charlotte, North Carolina, their relationship slowly but surely evolved into something more.
Even after four children and 20-plus years together, this dynamic duo has managed to keep the spark alive in their relationship, “For us,” Ayesha tells PEOPLE, “it’s just not forgetting to date each other, make the time to get dressed up and go out and do all the things.” She continued, “That’s what keeps it spicy.”
Over the past two decades, the two have been by each other’s side to celebrate major milestones, including Stephen’s college graduation, his NBA Finals win, and, of course, the birth of four beautiful children. Here’s a complete look back at their relationship, starting from when they first met as teenagers.
2003: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry first meet.
While they didn’t officially couple up until 2008 — though more on that later — Stephen and Ayesha’s love story technically dates back to 2003, when the two first met as teens at a church youth group in Charlotte, N.C. Reflecting back on their first meeting, Ayesha told PEOPLE, “We were just kids. He was the cute boy at church that all of the girls were obsessed with, so I made a generalization that maybe he wasn’t for me.” Meanwhile, in the same interview, Stephen revealed that he doesn’t remember the “exact first day” he first met his future wife. “There was no wind blowing in her face with a backlight,” he quipped.
2008: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry reconnect — and eventually go on their first date.
About five years after their first meeting, Ayesha and Stephen reconnected. In 2008, Ayesha was living in Los Angeles to pursue as a career as an actress and model. While here, she reconnected with Stephen when he was in town to attend the ESPYs — BTW, he ended up winning the award for Breakout Athlete that year! Prior to going out with Stephen, Ayesha revealed to PEOPLE that she previously had a “no athletes” dating policy, which actually stems from her parents. “My parents found this paper from my high school theater class where you had to write down what you wanted in a significant other,” she said, before continuing, “At the bottom, it said, ‘No athletes because they’re arrogant.’ “
Shortly after reconnecting, Stephen and Ayesha went on their first date, with Ayehsa revealing on a 2019 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live that she picked him up in her “’98 Astro van.” From there, they went to Hollywood Boulevard, went to Madame Tussauds, and got chai tea lattes. In 2020, she opened up even more about their first date to PEOPLE, calling Stephen “so funny and silly. The absolute opposite of what I thought he was going to be.”
However, back in 2016, she told the New York Post that their first kiss was incredibly awkward. “He was mid-conversation and came flying at my face like a thief in the night,” she recalled. “So I was, like, ‘No.’ Then I thought, ‘Oh, I didn’t know this is what was happening.’”
July 2010: Stephen Curry proposes to Ayesha Curry.
In July 2010, Stephen popped the question to Ayesha, and he revealed to Parents magazine in 2016 that the proposal “was like The Notebook.” Further, he revealed, “The plan was to act like we were going to a family cookout. So we pulled up to the house and I stopped in the middle of the driveway, got down on my knee and went into my spiel. Little did I know the whole family was looking out the window.”
Ayesha also dished about the tender moment to the Charlotte Observer. “He asked me if I knew where we were standing. It was [in the driveway of my parents’ house] the spot where we had our first kiss.” Then, she says, ‘He pulled me close and started saying all these sweet things and then dropped.”
July 30, 2011: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry get married.
About a year after getting engaged, Steph and Ayesha tied the knot! The ceremony took place at the Charlotte, N.C. church where they met — adorable, we know!. Meanwhile, the reception was held at the nearby Ballantyne Resort, where the couple celebrated with around 400 guests.
July 19, 2012: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry welcome their first child together.
Nearly a year after getting married, Ayesha gave birth to her and Stephen’s first child, a daughter named Riley Elizabeth. The little girl is now a teenager, and she’s sometimes featured on her mother’s Instagram along with her adorable siblings.
June 12, 2013: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry get matching tattoos.
On June 12, 2013, Ayesha posted on Instagram that she and Stephen got matching tattoos. In a later interview with Parents magazine, Stephen explained that their matching ink “signifies the past is behind us and the future is in front of us, so we stay in the middle, in the moment. I smack my tattoo and she does the same.”
July 10, 2015: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry welcome their second baby girl.
About three years after welcoming daughter Riley into the world, the Curry family welcomes their second child, Ryan Carson, into the world. A few days after Ryan’s birth, Stephen posted an Instagram of his wife and their new baby with the caption, “I’m wayyyyy up I feel Blessed! God is Great. Thanks to the doctors and staff at Alta Bates for taking care of my girls, especially Dr. Poddatori. Healthy baby and @ayeshacurry is all I prayed for. #prouddaddy.”
September 20, 2016: Ayesha Curry publishes her first cookbook.
In late 2016, Curry published her first cookbook, The Seasoned Life, geared towards home chefs cooking for their families. The couple celebrated at a signing at William Sonoma. She’s since authored another bookbook, called Full Plate.
July 30, 2017: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry celebrate their 6th wedding anniversary.
The Currys took to Instagram to ring in their sixth wedding anniversary, with Ayesha posting, “Literal then and now! Happy 6th wedding anniversary my love! I don’t know where the time has gone. It definitely feels like just yesterday, except we have two babies and lack of sleep to show for it! Not to mention a ton of bomb memories. I love you so darn much that there’s not much I can say here because it won’t nearly amount to how I feel. 😘 “The man is the head, the woman is the neck and she can turn the head anyway she like.” 🎞📽 kidding! But goodness do you put up with my antics. And for that I love you 20x infinity.” Then, in his post, Stephen called his wife his “everything.”
February 2, 2018: Ayesha Curry announces that she and Stephen Curry are expecting their third child.
Curry, party of five, coming right up! Ayesha took to Instagram to reveal her baby bump and share the happy news that the couple was expecting their third child.
July 2, 2018: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry welcome their third child.
A few days after their third child — and first son, Canon’s birth — Stephen shared the news on Instagram. In her post, Ayesha shared that they “couldn’t be more excited and grateful. Family of 5!” A few months later, in November, Ayesha told PEOPLE that she and her husband actually picked out their son’s name on their honeymoon. “We had his name picked out and then we had another girl’s name picked out that we didn’t end up using for Riley,” she explained. “But,” she added, “Canon always stuck with us. France is one of our favorite places to vacation, and so his name’s actually French and it means young wolf, which Stephen loved because we kind of consider ourselves a wolf pack.”
July 30, 2019: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry celebrate their 8th wedding anniversary.
In 2019, Steph and Ayesha once again took to Instagram to celebrate another wedding anniversary. In the caption of her post featuring a sweet snap of the two, Ayesha gushed, “My baby, my love, my life. What can I say. This is us 8 years married in, loving each other for 11 and we somehow still find reasons and things that we love about each other every day. Each day with you is the ultimate blessing. Getting to do life with you is an infinite sea of bliss. Through our ups and downs we only become stronger and that is the ultimate key. When the trauma becomes the triumph you win! I love you for ever and always constantly giving the ultimate glory to God. Here’s to 8!” Stephen expressed similar sentiments in his post, too.
August 2, 2021: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry pay homage to each other in celebration of their 10th wedding anniversary.
A few days after their official anniversary, Stephen and Ayesha celebrated a decade of marriage by — you guessed it — posting on Instagram.
August 26, 2021: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry Launch the Curry Family Women’s Athletics Initiative at Davidson College.
Stephen and Ayesha celebrated a major milestone in their personal and professional lives together by launching the Curry Family Women’s Athletics Initiative at Davidson College, Stephen’s alma mater. In a clip about the initiative, Stephen shared, “The reason I am who I am today is also because of strong, powerful women that have poured into my life all these years.” He continued, saying, “Now, as the father of two girls, I want them to grow up without any boundaries on their futures.”
September 2021: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry renew their vows surrounded by their children.
A decade after saying “I do,” Stephen and Ayesha made the decision to renew their vows surrounded by their children. The outdoor ceremony was officially by their eldest child, Riley. Their two other children, Ryan and Carson, walked Ayesha down the “aisle,” or, as she shared on Instagram, “the grass of our backyard.” In the same caption, she revealed that her husband of ten years even picked out her dress and had it waiting for her.
December 14, 2021: Ayesha Curry congratulates Stephen Curry on his new NBA record.
In December 2021, Stephen Curry set the NBA record for the most career 3-point shots of all time — and Ayesha, ever the supportive spouse, wrote on Instagram, “2974 and counting. Congrats my baby. I love you so much! You did that. To God be the glory. I’m so proud of ya”
February 10, 2022: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry launch a game show.
In February 2022, the couple premiered their game show, About Last Night, on HBO Max. The two served as co-hosts and executive producers. At the time, she told PEOPLE, “We’d actually always wanted to do something together and wanted something around the premise of a date night.”
June 16, 2022: Ayesha Curry and Stephen Curry celebrate the Golden State Warriors winning the 2022 NBA Finals.
After Stephen and his team, the Golden State Warriors, won the 2022 NBA Finals, Ayesha shared the exciting news on Instagram, writing, “So beyond proud of @stephencurry30 and the @warriors !!! #wcfchamps #wcfmvp God is great!”
July 30, 2022: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry ring in their 11th wedding anniversary.
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In celebration of their 11th wedding anniversary, Stephen and Ayesha jetted off to the south of France. They both posted romantic Instagram posts featuring snaps from their trip — coupled with equally sweet captions.
September 1, 2022: Stephen Curry graduates from college — and Ayesha Curry cheers him on.
After leaving college for the NBA draft 13 years earlier, Stephen officially graduated in 2022. Ever the proud wife, Ayesha shared a video of her husband in full cap and gown, writing, “Proud is truly an understatement. The ultimate man of his word right here! I’ve never seen someone set goals and attack them head on the way he does. He is simply unmatched because he is one of a kind. I love you @stephencurry30 YOU DID IT!”
December 8, 2022: Stephen is named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year.
In early December, Steph and Ayesha attended the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year awards in San Francisco, where Stephen was named Sportsperson of the Year. Steph looked suave in a tailored black tuxedo and Ayesha stunned in a black velvet dress with cutouts and off-the-shoulder sleeves.
July 30, 2023: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry go on vacation to celebrate their 12th wedding anniversary
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Ayesha and Stephen once again celebrated their wedding anniversary by jetting off on an epic couples tip. Ayesha shared photos from their trip and wrote a sweet caption, “It’s our anniversary! 12 years of being married to my best friend and love of my life. 15 years of dates and making memories. So much more to go. I love this man so much!!! Feeling blessed beyond measure… okay back to celebrating.”
March 1, 2024: Ayesha Curry announces she and Stephen Curry are expecting their fourth — and last — child.
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Ayesha revealed she was pregnant with her and Stephen’s fourth baby by showing off her baby bump on the cover of her very own magazine, Sweet July. In an essay for the publication, she wrote, “For so many years, Stephen and I thought we were done. We said, “Three, that’s it, we’re not doing this again.” And then, last year, we looked at each other and agreed we wanted to do this again. For me, the decision came from always finding myself looking around and feeling like somebody was missing. I would load up the car and think, “Oh, I forgot something.” But nobody was forgotten. It started to turn my brain a little bit. Maybe somebody was missing. So we set out on this journey, knowing that this would complete our family.”
May 11, 2024: Ayesha Curry and Stephen Curry welcome their fourth child.
In early December, Steph and Ayesha attended the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year awards in San Francisco, where Stephen was named Sportsperson of the Year. Steph looked suave in a tailored black tuxedo and Ayesha stunned in a black velvet dress with cutouts and off-the-shoulder sleeves.
July 30, 2023: Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry go on vacation to celebrate their 12th wedding anniversary
Ayesha and Stephen once again celebrated their wedding anniversary by jetting off on an epic couples tip. Ayesha shared photos from their trip and wrote a sweet caption, “It’s our anniversary! 12 years of being married to my best friend and love of my life. 15 years of dates and making memories. So much more to go. I love this man so much!!! Feeling blessed beyond measure… okay back to celebrating.”
March 1, 2024: Ayesha Curry announces she and Stephen Curry are expecting their fourth — and last — child.
Ayesha revealed she was pregnant with her and Stephen’s fourth baby by showing off her baby bump on the cover of her very own magazine, Sweet July. In an essay for the publication, she wrote, “For so many years, Stephen and I thought we were done. We said, “Three, that’s it, we’re not doing this again.” And then, last year, we looked at each other and agreed we wanted to do this again. For me, the decision came from always finding myself looking around and feeling like somebody was missing. I would load up the car and think, “Oh, I forgot something.” But nobody was forgotten. It started to turn my brain a little bit. Maybe somebody was missing. So we set out on this journey, knowing that this would complete our family.”
May 11, 2024: Ayesha Curry and Stephen Curry welcome their fourth child.
In a joint Instagram post, Ayesha and Stephen revealed that they’ve welcomed their fourth child into the world, a son named Caius Chai. The caption reads, “Our sweet baby boy decided to make an early arrival!! He’s doing great and we are finally settling in at home as a family of 6! So grateful!”