Christian Slater marries Brittany Lopez in courthouse wedding

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Christian Slater has left bachelorhood behind and married his 27-year-old girlfriend Brittany Lopez.

The two wed at a Miami-area courthouse on Monday, nine months after the 44-year-old Nymphomaniac star announced his engagement to the brunette beauty on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

Slater said he met Lopez on Florida's Little Palm Island several years ago.

"This girl came walking along with another lady, a slightly older lady, and I was sitting in my usual spot eating my oatmeal that morning," he said.

So I'm a filthy old man eating my oatmeal and she comes walking along. This spot, I guess, was famous for people proposing to each other, actually. It was very, very nice. So she's there with this old lady and, next thing I know, she gets down on one knee and proposes to this older lady...I'd seen a lot of crazy stuff down in the Florida Keys! I of course was very intrigued and I went over and sat down in my other usual spot.

"I thought I'd just witnessed a nice lesbian engagement so I was coming over to say congratulations," he explained. "But it turns out it was her aunt and she was just trying to help her aunt capture the beauty and the romance of the park...The next thing I knew we were hanging out in the Everglades."

[People, E! News]