Olympic medallists Noah Lyles and Junelle Bromfield married in “magical” ceremony

It’s official: U.S. Olympic champion Noah Lyles and Jamaican bronze medallist Junelle Bromfield are married!

Athletics’ high-profile lovebirds tied the knot throughout a classy ceremony in Trenton, Georgia, on Saturday (4 April), authoring a joyous finish to a relationship that started when Junelle despatched Lyles a spontaneous DM in 2018.

“It led to a very long seven-year story of us eventually meeting, falling in love, being able to be with each other, not being able to be with each other, and then finally getting into a relationship where we have always stayed together—and now have gotten married,” Lyles told Vogue.

Themed “All Shades of Melanin”, the couple’s marriage ceremony celebrated not solely the becoming a member of of two people in marriage, however the becoming a member of of the 2 cultures and households. The bridesmaids and groomsmen wore various shades of brown, whereas Lyles sported a deep brown swimsuit.

“It was definitely a ceremony of unity,” Junelle added. “It was just amazing to see the different cultures mesh into one. Everybody was having fun, interacting, and filled with love.”

Dressed in a shocking white robe designed by a Jamaican style home Pantora Bridal, the ladies’s 4x400m bronze medallist from the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 wasted little time strolling down the aisle: “I heard I didn’t walk down the aisle. I heard that I ran.”

Her pleasure was matched by the lads’s 100m champion on the Olympic Games Paris 2024, who discovered himself overcome with emotion because the comfortable couple exchanged marriage ceremony vows.

“I already knew I was going to cry, I just didn’t know when,” he started. “But when Janelle learn the title of her vows, I used to be like, ‘Oh, yep, this is the part. This is when I cry’. 

“Her hands shook so much that she couldn’t hold the vow book, so I ended up holding it for her. But I was also crying, so I couldn’t wipe away my own tears. It was a super magical moment.”

The ceremony was capped off by a reception that featured a speech from Lyles, a efficiency from gospel singer Tasha Cobbs Leonard, a handful of choreographed dance routines and a perfectly-timed firework present that concluded simply earlier than it started to rain.

All of which led the bride to label the ceremony: “magical.”