Leoni and Duchovny first met back in 1992, at the start of
their careers. A 1982 Princeton graduate who majored in English, 
Duchovny, who would go on to date such actresses as Winona Ryder and
Perrey Reeves, was starring in quirky independent movies such as
Kalifornia. Putney School alum Leoni, whose past loves include novelist
John Irving's son Colin was starring in a doomed Fox series,Flying Blind.
A Tonight Show producer introduced them, but friendship didn't evolve 
into romance until the beginning year of 1997, when they met up at the
party of a mutual friend in L.A.
          THE ONLY GUESTS were a half dozen family members: Leoni's
parents,a corporate attorney, and wife Emily, a nutritionist, along 
with brother Tom, who runs an antiques mall in Ojai, California; and 
Duchovny's mother( now divorced from his father Amram, a playwright 
and retired publicist living in Paris), his sister Laurie, a teacher 
in Brooklyn, and brother Danny, a commercial director, who served as
best man. A friend of Duchovny's sister, Episcopal minister Craig 
Townsend, presided at the ceremony.
          The party moved on to a private room in Gascogne, a French 
restaurant, for a quiet, informal meal. Duchovny dined on filet of 
trout. Leoni ordered quail with a port wine sauce. Oddly, the cake 
proved tough to cut, even though the couple gripped the knife together.
"What's inside this thing?" the groom joked. The couple then spent
their wedding night at a small, upscale Lowell Hotel.
          Duchovny and Leoni, who was previously married to an L.A.
commercial director, plan no honeymoon. He starts shooting an X-files
movie in June, and she has goals as well. "I want to make people laugh
so hard that they never get cancer." she once told TVGuide. "That's my
top goal. That and a couple of babies would seal it." But that's a whole
other X-file.