LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Actor Ethan Hawke and his pregnant fiancee, Ryan Shawhughes, are preparing to get married, according to the New York Post.

Sources for the newspaper spotted the couple at the Municipal Building on Centre Street yesterday morning applying for their marriage license and one eyewitness said, "They looked really sweet."

Shawhughes was Hawke's former nanny while the actor was married to Uma Thurman, with whom he has two children, Maya Ray, 9, and Levon Roan, 6.