Golden girl Lucy ‘OUR MAGICAL WATER WEDDING!'

After an amazing sporting year, the rowing champ wed her soulmate Brook

- Fleur Guthrie

Olympic rowers Lucy Spoors and Brook Robertson didn't have to look far to find the perfect spot for their romantic December 6 wedding.

Their 10-year love story has always revolved around the water. So it was a natural decision to put a marquee on the picturesque front lawn of Lucy's parents' home, opposite Lake Karapiro, where the couple have ploughed the water together for thousands of training hours.

On a blue-sky Waikato afternoon, with 115 of their closest friends and family watching on, the elite athletes finally said "I do" in an emotional but fun ceremony.

"What I loved about getting married at home was being able to peek out the curtains as I was getting ready,” tells Lucy, 33, who lives at the house with Brook, 30, their son Rupert, two, and mum Virginia, while her dad Mark commutes from Christchurch.

“Just to see everybody special to us arrive one by one, that’s when I was thinking, ‘Oh, okay, this is really happening!’”

Brook is the first to admit he isn’t one to wear his heart on his sleeve. But his smile couldn’t have been any wider as he watched his beautiful bride make her way down the aisle towards him, with the song Blossom by Dermot Kennedy playing.

“I don’t show my emotions too much,” he says. “But when I saw Lucy in her dress, walking down on Mark’s arm, it was pretty overwhelming. She was absolutely stunning.”

Lucy wore a gorgeous two-piece couture gown by Vinka Design, which included a white corseted bodice with lace trim, a bias skirt with a train and a short veil with matching lace.

However, one person who didn’t share the same love for the dress was the couple’s adorable toddler Rupert, who is used to seeing his mummy in activewear.

“He doesn’t often see me in a dress and he didn’t like it,” laughs Lucy. “So I was really struggling to keep his dirty mitts off it.