Ilda Saulic Marks 10 Years of Marriage to Bojan Vuckovic

Singer Ilda Saulic and her husband Bojan Vuckovic are marking exactly ten years of marriage today, September 2. The wedding took place a decade ago in a small circle of close family and friends, and this Tuesday’s anniversary is arriving without fanfare, through congratulatory messages piling up on social media.

The first tribute came from the official account dedicated to Saban Saulic. Family photos of Ilda, Bojan and their daughter were posted there, along with a message for the couple.

“Happy wedding anniversary to our Ilda and our Boki,” the post from the account dedicated to Saulic’s legacy reads.

Ilda and Bojan are considered one of the most harmonious couples on the domestic scene, even though they keep their private life far from the cameras. Interviews in which the singer speaks openly about her marriage are rare, so every sentence she says about her relationship with Vuckovic immediately draws media attention.

It turns out the couple has actually known each other since childhood. Bojan’s brother Branko was Ilda’s best friend, and the two of them, along with Ilda’s sister Sanela, grew up together as part of the same generation. Bojan himself, as the singer has explained, paid no attention to the younger group at the time.

Vuckovic is eight years older than Ilda, and as she has described it, that age gap was enough during their teenage years to keep any spark from forming between them. At twenty, he left for the United States. Before that he had played football, wearing the Partizan jersey, and he went on to build a successful business career across the Atlantic. Their paths later crossed again, and that relationship produced a daughter the couple rarely mentions publicly.

Ilda spoke about how Bojan won her over in an interview for Grand.

“Those are nice gestures, especially when someone recognizes the moment you need something like that, then it’s beautiful. He was very romantic and still is to this day. I think I fell for all those lovely romantic moves, they definitely worked on me. He really was good at it with me, and still is. Whether it’s flowers or a song I love. He truly knew how to reach me, and he still does,” Ilda told Grand.

A photo from their wedding day survives, one the singer posted on Instagram: flowers with a “just married” note, along with a short message about the ceremony itself.

“I said yes,” Ilda wrote at the time alongside that photo.

Before Bojan, Ilda had been in a fifteen-year relationship with a businessman thirty years her senior. She spoke openly about that relationship in an earlier interview and explained why the age gap never bothered her. That relationship, however, ended before she met Vuckovic, and the singer said at the time that she had remained on good terms with her former partner.

Here is a timeline of what is known about the relationship:

• Ilda and Bojan have known each other since childhood, through his brother Branko and Ilda’s sister Sanela
• Before her relationship with Bojan, Ilda spent fifteen years with an older businessman
• Exactly ten years ago, on September 2, they married in a small circle of close family and friends
• Today they have a daughter and are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary, marked by a tribute from the account dedicated to Saban Saulic

As of publication, neither Ilda nor Bojan had commented on the anniversary on their own accounts, while congratulations from followers and colleagues on the scene continued to arrive throughout the day.