Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Relationship: A Look at Their 15-Year Marriage (2024)

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been together for over a decade.

The daughter of former President Donald Trump and his former senior advisor first met in 2007 and got married in 2009. Since then, the couple have welcomed three children together: Arabella, Joseph and Theodore.

Before they both became involved in politics during Donald's presidency, Ivanka and Jared had entrepreneurial pursuits of their own. Ivanka started her career as a model before she attended the University of Pennsylvania and joined her father's company. She also starred in her dad's show, The Apprentice, and led her own design brand.

Jared, a New Jersey native, became a real estate mogul and publisher of the New York Observer after graduating from Harvard University. Both were advisors to Donald during his presidency but have since relocated to a small town south of Miami.

Although her father is a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, Ivanka and Jared have kept a greater distance from Donald's campaign than in previous election cycles.

"She told him when he said he was going to run again that she didn't want to be involved,"a source told PEOPLE in March 2024

From how they were set up to their quieter life in Florida today, here’s everything to know about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s relationship.

They were set up through mutual friends

Ivanka and Jared were both 25 years old when their friends set them up for a business lunch to talk real estate, thinking they could do deals together, Ivanka told Vogue in 2015.

“They very innocently set us up thinking that our only interest in one another would be transactional,” she said. “Whenever we see them we’re like, ‘The best deal we ever made!’ ”

She converted to Judaism before they got engaged

Before the two got engaged, Ivanka converted from Presbyterian to Judaism, as Jared comes from an Orthodox family.

Ivanka told Vogue that they are “pretty observant” of the religion, keeping kosher and following the Sabbath, meaning disconnecting from technology after Friday sundown until Saturday sundown. She called her conversion a “very intimate thing for us.”

“It’s been such a great life decision for me,” she said. “I am very modern, but I’m also a very traditional person, and I think that’s an interesting juxtaposition in how I was raised as well. I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity.”

They got married in 2009

Ivanka and Jared officially wed on Oct. 25, 2009, in front of 500 guests at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. She wore a Vera Wang gown and was joined by her father and Regis Philbin, who performed at the reception.

They share three children

On July 17, 2011, Ivanka and Jared welcomed their first child, Arabella Rose. Two years later, on Oct. 14, 2013, the couple expanded their family with the birth of their son, Joseph Frederick. Their youngest son, Theodore James, was born on March 27, 2016.

After Theodore was born, Ivanka spoke to PEOPLE in April 2016 about how she approached motherhood differently with the birth of each child.

"With Arabella I was so nervous all the time, I was nervous about breaking her, I was nervous about dropping her, I was nervous about all the basic elements of being a first-time parent,” she said.

She continued, “With Joseph, I was materially less nervous and now with Theodore I’m so busy chasing the other ones I don’t have time to be nervous!”

When her father became president, Ivanka moved her family to Washington D.C. However, they have since settled in Florida.

They were both involved in Donald Trump’s presidency

Ivanka and Jared were senior advisors to Donald during his presidency. Both joined him throughout his campaign in 2016, traveling with him across the country and promoting his campaign at the Republican National Convention.

In February 2023, Ivanka and Jared were subpoenaed by a special counsel as part of its federal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots. Both were previously questioned about the day by a House investigative committee, which advised that the Department of Justice charge the former president.

They are living in Florida as Donald Trump campaigns for the 2024 election

After President Joe Biden took over the presidency in January 2021, Ivanka and Jared took a step back from their political careers and chose to settle in Surfside, Fla., a quiet town south of Miami. They've largely avoided the spotlight since and have cultivated their own private social circle in the town with a population of 6,000.

"They're really just settling into normal life and really enjoying it," a Kushner friend told PEOPLE in April 2022.

Ivanka took up more athletic activities like surfing, golfing and playing tennis, while Jared focused on a new entrepreneurial venture.

"Jared's spending a lot more time with his family because over the last four years that was something neither of them could do as much as they wanted to," the source said, adding that "Jared will say, 'The nice thing about Miami is the moment you stop working, you're on vacation.' ”

The couple also saw Donald less often, the source added, only making trips to his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, every few weeks.

"It's definitely less than in their time in the White House, where they would see him every single day," the source said.