Candace Cameron Bure Celebrates 28 Years of Marriage: ‘The Love Has Grown’

Candace Cameron and Valeri Bure attend Natasha Bure "Let's Be Real" Los Angeles book launch party in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 24, 2017. (Araya Diaz/Getty Images for Zondervan)

Candace Cameron Bure, an actress best known for her roles on the family sitcom “Full House” and its spinoff series “Fuller House,” has reflected on her relationship with her husband, Valeri Bure, nearly three decades after getting married.

“We’ve been together for 30 years, and that’s a pretty big milestone,” the actress recently told Fox News. “I truly love him more today and am more committed to him today than I was when we first got married. He’s my partner for life.”

Mrs. Bure, 48, and Mr. Bure, 50, a retired professional hockey player, wed on June 22, 1996, after meeting at a charity hockey game two years earlier when the actress was 19 years old. The couple welcomed their first child, daughter Natasha, in August 1998, followed by their two sons, Lev and Maksim, in February 2000 and January 2002, respectively.

“The love has grown over the years,” said Mrs. Bure. “When you really do go through the depths of the valley, and you come back out on top as many times as you go through that roller coaster of life—within marriage, every time you come back on top it’s like another notch in the belt of commitment, staying together.”

Mrs. Bure offered two secrets that have contributed to the success and longevity of the couple’s marriage: prioritizing their faith and having mutual respect for one another.

“Marriage is so wonderful. And yet there are so many ups and downs over the years,” she explained.

“I’ve said it before, but the secret has not just been the commitment to God and the blueprint that God provides us biblically within a marriage, but it’s honoring one another. And in that, even when I may not, he may not deserve it, we honor each other, because it’s honoring God,” Mrs. Bure continued. “And I think that’s where the focus is for us. That we honor God in all our actions first and foremost, but that is an outpouring of the love that we share together whether we really feel like it or not at the moment.”

According to Mrs. Bure, she and her three siblings, including her brother, actor Kirk Cameron, and sisters, Melissa and Bridgette Cameron, weren’t initially raised in a Christian home.

“I grew up in a moral home, a home that stressed the importance of living by the golden rule but not a home that talked about Jesus,” the actress explains on her website. “It wasn’t until my parents hit a hard place in their marriage that the four of us kids found ourselves in church. I was twelve when I accepted Jesus and was baptized.”

In a September 2020 interview with the Birmingham Christian Family, Mrs. Bure shared that her husband didn’t necessarily have a religious upbringing at home either.

“Val was raised in the Christian faith, but it was more like being a ‘holiday Christian.’ He’d go to church on high holy days,” she described. “So, we really came to our faith together.”

Putting Faith First

Mrs. Bure’s steadfast faith in God has shaped the types of roles she’s undertaken in Hollywood.

In July 2020, the New York Times best-selling author took on the role of chief spiritual officer of Woman’s Day, where the actress writes about her faith in each issue of the women’s monthly magazine. That month, Mrs. Bure told the publication that she hoped her column would inspire readers to grow closer to God. “Every issue [I'll] choose scripture and talk about how it applies to each of us and how it can encourage us to take a better step forward each day,” she explained.

Mrs. Bure’s faith also inspired her to step away from her work at Hallmark Media after nearly 15 years. The actress has appeared in numerous Hallmark Channel films over the years, including the “Aurora Teagarden Mysteries” series and various holiday films, such as 2020’s “If I Only Had Christmas” and 2021’s “The Christmas Contest.”

However, in April 2022, Mrs. Bure departed the media company and signed a deal with Great American Media—a Texas-based media giant that oversees a collection of family-oriented and faith-based networks, including Great American Family, Great American Faith & Living, and Great American Pure Flix.

In addition to being named as the company’s chief creative officer, Mrs. Bure has starred in several Great American Family films, including 2023’s “My Christmas Hero” and 2022’s “A Christmas... Present.” Mrs. Bure is also set to appear in the network’s new mystery movie franchise, Great American Mysteries. The first film, “The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker,” will debut this October.

More recently, Mrs. Bure starred in and served as an executive producer for the faith-driven film “Unsung Hero,” which debuted in theaters on April 26. The biographical drama tells the true story of David and Helen Smallbone and their children, including daughter Rebecca and sons Joel and Luke, better known as Christian artists Rebecca St. James and For King & Country.

In March, prior to the movie’s release, Mrs. Bure took to Instagram to encourage her followers and fans to watch the film. “@UnsungHeroMovie shows the power of a family that bands together in faith despite tremendous odds,” she wrote. “I’m thrilled to be part of this incredible story of faith and family!”