Wedding bells have finally rung for Robin Roberts.
The “Good Morning America” anchor, 62, officially tied the knot along with her partner, former massage therapist Amber Laign, 48, on Friday. The pair have been together for nearly 20 years.
News the couple had tied the knot got here after a photograph of the pair’s dog in a bow tie was posted on Instagram revealing his mothers had married.
“My mommies are MARRIED,” read the post. “Married?……yes….married!!!
Roberts first revealed her wedding plans in January, when she posted a clip of a conversation she had with motivational speaker and creator Gabby Bernstein.
“I’m hesitating because I haven’t said it out loud yet…I’m saying ‘yes’ to marriage,” Roberts said within the clip. “We’re getting married this yr. It was something we had talked about, but we had put it off. She became sick, nevertheless it is saying ‘yes’ to that and that next chapter.”
The journalist began fanning herself along with her note cards in the course of the January “GMA” broadcast.
“I can’t consider I said that,” she joked about divulging her “next chapter” with Laign.
Roberts and Laign met in 2005, when mutual friends set them up on a blind date. Nonetheless, Roberts, who can be a breast cancer survivor, didn’t publicly come out as gay until 2013. She has revealed that she was afraid to interview former President Obama about LGBTQ rights in 2012, for fear of being outed.
In her 2013 Facebook post coming out, she thanked Amber for helping her, amid her own cancer battle.
“I’m grateful for my entire family, my longtime girlfriend, Amber, and friends as we prepare to have fun a wonderful latest yr together,” Roberts wrote. “I’m grateful for the numerous prayers and well wishes for my recovery. I return every considered one of them to you 100 fold.”
It hasn’t been smooth sailing for the couple, since Laign was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021, and had chemotherapy complications in April 2022.
“Sweet Amber completing radiation, an important phase of her treatment!” Roberts wrote in an Instagram post in July 2022. “We each thanks for all of your well wishes and prayers. Happy with her and all fellow Thrivers to your grit and beauty during a difficult time.”
“It will possibly either tear you apart or bring you closer together, and thank the great Lord, it brought us closer together,” Roberts told “GMA” of the health obstacles they’ve faced together.
She continued: “We’re partners. We are going to do whatever it takes, and I believe that the illnesses that we’ve passed through, and are going through, have only strengthened us and made us more compassionate with one another and have a greater understanding of one another.”
The couple decided to get married in 2022, while dining at a restaurant in Connecticut, where they put rings of calamari on one another’s fingers.
“We took the calamari rings and we slapped them on one another’s fingers and we just we proposed to 1 one other,” Roberts said on her morning show.
“Now looking back, it was pretty fitting for us to not have a down on one knee [proposal] and one person doing it and who was going to propose,” she added. “It was just us hanging out in our little hole-in-the-wall Mexican spot and putting calamari rings on one another and saying, ‘Let’s go. Let’s do it.’”
That they had a bachelorette bash on-air earlier this month. Roberts’ ABC colleagues and fellow news pals — including Diane Sawyer, Lara Spencer, Michael Strahan, George Stephanopolous, Deborah Roberts, Gayle King and her retired news anchor sister Sally-Ann — were all in attendance.
Emmy-nominated actress Niecy Nash co-hosted the party, Carla Hall made mocktail spicy margaritas and espresso martinis, and En Vogue performed a medley of their hits. The party ended with “GMA” weekend anchor Gio Benitez’s husband, TV personality Tommy DiDario, jumping out of a cake.
As for his or her wedding dresses, Roberts and Laign met on-camera with designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka and shared sketches of some classic gowns.
But their final selections for the massive day were a surprise.
“I need us to every see one another in the ultimate dress for the primary time on the marriage,” Roberts explained on the time.
Laign told viewers, “The marriage is the sensation of an enchanted garden” and said their colours are “white, blush, pink, a bit of little bit of green,” calling the vibes “ethereal.”
