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Tuesday April 17 09:39 PM EDT 
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Zoinks! Gellar and Prinze Engaged

There's just something about Scooby Snacks that fuels the fire of eternal romance.

Sarah Michelle Gellar and longtime boyfriend Freddie Prinze Jr. are making Scooby-Doo together, and now it looks like they're going to make their future together: The couple has gotten engaged, their publicist confirmed Tuesday.

Access Hollywood reports that the betrothal occurred Friday and was announced over Easter weekend at a joint birthday party for Gellar (who turned 24 Saturday) and her ICM agent, Eddy Yablans. For inquiring minds, the ring was reportedly designed by Cathy Waterman, who's done monster-size rocks for the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Meryl Streep and Meg Ryan. No wedding date has been set.

This will mark the first trip down the aisle for Gellar--the blond, bloodsucker-thrashing star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (news - Y! TV)--and Prinze, the 25-year-old star of every teeny-bopper romance movie made since 1998 (including She's All That, Down to You and Head Over Heels).

The twosome has been an item since 1997, when they met while filming the teen slasher pic I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Gellar and Prinze are currently shooting the big-screen version of Scooby-Doo in Australia. Prinze has gone bleach blond to tackle the role of the chisel-jawed, scarf-wearing Fred, while Gellar has donned the retro lavender dress to play Daphne. (The casting also seems to confirm everyone's childhood suspicions that Daphne and Fred were doing more than just solving mysteries together.) The Warner Bros. live-action spinoff, costarring Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and Linda Cardellini as Velma, is due out sometime next year.

Prinze is the son of Freddie Prinze Sr., the actor-comedian who starred in NBC's hit show Chico and the Man from 1974-78, before committing suicide at age 22. Gellar, meanwhile, has been in the acting biz since age 4, starring on the ABC soap All My Children before ending up the slaying star of the WB's cult hit.