{"id":190829,"date":"2025-10-05T04:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T04:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:11:11","slug":"afl-star-rory-lobb-marries-influencer-partner-lexi-mary-in-royal-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190829\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL star Rory Lobb marries influencer partner Lexi Mary in \u2018royal wedding\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Western Bulldogs veteran Rory Lobb and social media influencer Lexi Mary have celebrated a church wedding two years in the making.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Lobb, 32, <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/western-bulldogs-star-rory-lobb-announces-engagement-to-partner-lexi-mary-c-12535963\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">popped the question<\/a> to Mary, six years his junior, during a Maldives holiday in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The wedding celebrations kicked off on Saturday with the first of two ceremonies, saying \u2018I do\u2019 in front of family and friends in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-cvgehw-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" alt=\"Download today\" height=\"14\" width=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Lobb donned a custom black suit and \u2014 more importantly \u2014 brown hair after a season of colourful dye jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Mary\u2019s wedding dress came complete with a veil and lengthy train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe did it,\u201d Mary wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Mikayla Crisp, wife of Collingwood star Jack, wrote: \u201cCongratulations!!! So so beautiful xx.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Ruby Canavan, partner of Lobb\u2019s teammate Rhylee West, said: \u201cAn absolute vision!! Congratulations you two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Elleni Neofytou, partner of Dogs star Ed Richards, wrote: \u201cLove you guys. Absolutely gorgeous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Fans described the ceremony as their \u201croyal wedding\u201d, with Mary\u2019s posts quickly racking up thousands of views and hundreds of comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A honeymoon will follow before the couple host a destination wedding in the Maldives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI know, it\u2019s a lot,\u201d Mary joked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The couple have been in a relationship since Lobb\u2019s time at Fremantle, when Mary\u2019s stepdad was the club boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Mary is the daughter of Melissa Rosich, the wife of ex-Dockers and former Victoria Racing Club CEO Steve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe have had the best day ever. I am so happy. Goodnight,\u201d Melissa wrote after the wedding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Lobbs hosted a rehearsal dinner to start their weekend and recreated their first date for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe met for froyo,\u201d Mary wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The wedding took place days after the Bulldogs\u2019 awards night to cap off the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Lobb finished eighth in the best and fairest having played every game this year.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/rugby-league\/melbourne-storm-star-eliesa-katoa-reveals-heartache-as-mum-forced-to-miss-nrl-grand-final-c-20241808\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Family heartache revealed hours before NRL grand final<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/respected-journalist-caroline-wilson-lashes-geelong-after-bailey-smiths-insulting-behaviour-c-20233210\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Bailey Smith victim smashes Geelong after star\u2019s \u2018lawless\u2019 act <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Bulldogs veteran Rory Lobb and social media influencer Lexi Mary have celebrated a church wedding two years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[638,43,44,588,41,39,42,40,698],"class_list":["post-190829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-afl","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}