Wallabies player David Pocock has official wed his partner of seven years, and the ceremony was far from traditional.
In 2011, Pocock pledged that he and partner Emma Palandri wouldn’t tie the knot until same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia.
Pockock and Palandri’s wedding featured no add-ons. The pair wed with no dress, no suit, no flowers and even no family and friends to celebrate the momentous occasion.
Instead, the pair were married next to a tree in a park with only the celebrant and the person taking photos.
Pocock took to Instagram to share the news.
“Married my best mate yesterday.
“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.’”
Congratulations to the couple!
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