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

Athletics’ high-profile lovebirds tied the knot during a stylish ceremony in Trenton, Georgia, on Saturday (4 April), authoring a joyous end to a relationship that began when Junelle sent 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 wedding celebrated not only the joining of two individuals in marriage, but the joining of the two cultures and families. The bridesmaids and groomsmen wore varying shades of brown, while Lyles sported a deep brown suit.

“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 stunning white gown designed by a Jamaican fashion house Pantora Bridal, the women’s 4x400m bronze medallist from the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 wasted little time walking down the aisle: “I heard I didn’t walk down the aisle. I heard that I ran.”

Her excitement was matched by the men’s 100m champion at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, who found himself overcome with emotion as the happy couple exchanged wedding vows.

“I already knew I was going to cry, I just didn’t know when,” he began. “But when Janelle read the title of her vows, I was 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 performance from gospel singer Tasha Cobbs Leonard, a handful of choreographed dance routines and a perfectly-timed firework show that concluded just before it began to rain.

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