{"id":926471,"date":"2026-10-13T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926471\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:38:23","slug":"nrl-star-jai-arrow-marries-berina-colakovic-in-intimate-sicily-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926471\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL star Jai Arrow marries Berina Colakovic in intimate Sicily wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Sydney Rabbitohs player Jai Arrow<\/a> and wife Berina Colakovic have tied the knot a second time in an intimate ceremony at Borgo del Carato in Sicily. <\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s celebrations have spanned from Sydney to Italy, with Arrow and Colakovic first marrying in a civil ceremony in Sydney in July<\/a>. Their Italian nuptials mark a return to the city where Arrow proposed in 2024. <\/p>\n

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Jai Arrow and wife Berina Colakovic first married in a civil ceremony at Martin Place, Sydney in July 2026 before celebrating with 65 of their family and friends in Sicily, Italy. \u00a0Instagram\/@bericolakovic<\/p>\n

In the two years since Arrow popped the question, their lives has changed in ways they could never have imagined. <\/p>\n

In 2025\u00a0they welcomed their daughter, Ayla Rae Arrow. Then, in May this year, Arrow announced his retirement from rugby league after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arrow and Colakovic said \u201cI do\u201d in Borgo del Carato, a restored 19th-century farmhouse set over 90 hectares, on Saturday, October 10. <\/p>\n

\u201cSicily has this beautiful, almost timeless romance to it, and Borgo del Carato felt like somewhere we could completely escape the rest of the world,\u201d\u00a0Colakovic told Vogue<\/a>. <\/p>\n

They celebrated with 65 guests who had travelled from across the globe, including from Australia and Canada, where Colakovic is originally from. <\/p>\n

The party kicked off the night before the wedding with an all-black Mafia-themed rehearsal dinner. Colakovic wore a Hera Couture corset with a custom Hera skirt from Aura Bridal. <\/p>\n

On the official wedding day, she wore a strapless wedding gown designed by Corston Couture with a lace veil and Christian Dior heels. <\/p>\n

She kept her hair and makeup minimal and pared back her jewellery, wearing a pearl necklace gifted to her by her mum that she promises to pass down to her and Arrow\u2019s daughter one day. <\/p>\n

\"Jai<\/p>\n

Jai Arrow popped the question in 2024 in the same Sicilian town where they\u2019d marry two years later.\u00a0Instagram\/@bericolakovic<\/p>\n

Colakovic saved her most dramatic look for the reception dinner where she stepped out in a halterneck sequin number by Sydney label Dio Official. <\/p>\n

In the lead up to the wedding day, Sicily\u2019s south-east coast was struck with storms but as luck would have it the weather cleared in time for the special day. <\/p>\n

Colakovic recalled countless special moments from the October wedding but said the most meaningful part was simply being there together after all the challenges they\u2019ve endured. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur lives have changed enormously over the past two years. We\u2019ve become parents, navigated incredible highs and faced challenges we never could have anticipated,\u201d Colakovic said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one of those rare moments when you wish you could stop time,\u201d she said of the day. <\/p>\n

The couple extended their European travels with a honeymoon at the Mandarin Oriental in Bodrum, Turkey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Sydney Rabbitohs player Jai Arrow and wife Berina Colakovic have tied the knot a second time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-926471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926471","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=926471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}