Former Olympian Matt Savoie has won the gold. Earlier this month, he tied the knot with his partner Brian Boyle at the Publick House in Sturbridge, Mass., a charming historic inn surrounded by the vibrant colors of the Northeast foliage.
“We wanted someplace that’s relatively old and had some history. They’re also well organized and were tremendous the whole weekend. It was really nice to have the wedding someplace that does weddings often but still retains its historic charm,” Savoie, 32, tells IceNetwork.com.
Savoie, who represented the United States in the 2006 Winter Games alongside ice skating legend Johnny Weir, met his husband while they were both students at Cornell Law School. (Brawn and brains? Sounds like Boyle also won gold!)
The grooms, who are both now lawyers, wore tuxedos and opted for traditional vows but also recited letters they had written to each other to personalize their commitment. “We both wanted to do that because we think it’s important to personalize what the vows meant for us. It was also important for us to have—for lack of a better word—conventional vows. We wanted to make the ceremony feel as connected to ceremonies that our families probably had in the past,” says Savoie.
They had a mothers-sons dance instead of a first dance followed by an anniversary dance, which started with many couples on the floor and ended with only the longest-married couple—Boyle’s grandparents, still madly in love after 63 years. We wish the couple an equally long lifetime of love and happiness!
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