Wallabies player David Pocock has married his longtime love Emma Palandri.
On Sunday, the couple finally said “I do”.
The couple opted for a simple park ceremony – standing next to a tree, they skipped the flowers, dress and fan fare.
“Married my best mate yesterday,” he shared on Monday.
“I hope we can live into the words of Rilke: ‘The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.
“‘A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realisation is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvellous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.’”
Back in 2013, the ACT Brumbies vice-captain famously decided to not tie the knot until same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia.
He explained that they were “happy to wait”.
“I don’t see the logic in excluding people from making loving commitments to each other,” he said at the time.
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