Libby Lenton and Luke Trickett were married yesterday. Here are a few pic's and an article I found. Apparently they have sold the rights to the wedding for $100000.



AUSTRALIAN swim queen Libby Lenton yesterday allowed her wedding to be hijacked by a lucrative magazine deal.

After selling the rights to her big day to New Idea, the 22-year-old was forced to shuffle inside a white "walking tent'', shielded by a white sheet and huge black umbrellas carried by a horde of security guards.

The magazine went to extraordinary lengths to prevent Lenton and her partner, Luke Trickett, 24, being photographed.

The tent escorted them and their bridal party to four waiting limousines that took them from the ceremony to the reception.

Unlike big stars such as Nicole Kidman, who released a photo from her nuptials to Keith Urban, and Rove McManus, who happily posed with late wife Belinda Emmett, Lenton's wedding was off limits to all but those who paid her.

New Idea is reported to have spent as much as $100,000 for the rights to the wedding. '

Security guards manhandled photographers, and guests were ordered not to speak to anyone outside the venue.

Even the location of the ceremony was kept secret.

Guests were instructed to be at Taronga Zoo for 3.30pm.

They were then ferried in three buses to Georges Head, where the couple exchanged vows before leaving in the tent.

Lenton wore a Lisa Gowing dress and had a bouquet of pink and white roses, while Trickett cut a fine figure in a grey suit. They were married by a celebrant.

A smattering of A-list guests, including backstroker Matt Welsh, his wife Lauren Newton, and coach Stephan Widmer, along with more than 100 family and friends, then celebrated with a lavish reception at Taronga Zoo.

It is understood the ceremony was originally intended to be outdoors, but heavy rain yesterday prompted a last-minute change of location.

After winning five gold medals at the FINA world championships, then breaking the 100m freestyle world record last week, Lenton spoke of her dream to be a princess for the day and was excited to swap her swimmers for a couture gown.

"It's a very special moment for us,'' she said before the ceremony.

"It's a celebration for us and our relationship, and for all I achieved at the championships.''

Lenton said she had chosen her wedding dress because it minimised her shoulders.

She said she was lucky that being a swimmer, she didn't have to worry about her weight.

Lenton met Trickett, then a Sydney-based breaststroker, when she was 17 while competing in the Oceania championships in New Caledonia.

Trickett, who later moved to Brisbane, proposed to Lenton when she was 19, but the pair kept their engagement a secret, telling close family only last year.

Lenton's sister Justine, 29, and schoolfriend Victoria, 26, were her bridesmaids.

Trickett's brother was his best man.

Make-up artist Narelle Ryan flew from Brisbane yesterday morning especially for Lenton's big day.

Fellow swimmer Louise Tomlinson said the wedding topped off Lenton's achievements in the pool over the past week.

"We love them both so much, we are happy they are getting married,'' Tomlinson said.

"I am just so proud of her.''

Tomlinson said Lenton had worn her engagement ring on her right hand in an attempt to keep her plans secret.

Welsh, who married Bert Newton's daughter Lauren last year, said he had given Lenton and Trickett marriage tips.

"Libby has been a friend of ours for ages. We gave them a few tips for the day,'' he said.

Lenton's strength and conditioning coach, Meagan Crabb, said the couple had a gift registry on the Internet called Not Another Toaster.

"She was very excited. She spoke about it (her wedding) a lot,'' she said.

Trickett has described Lenton as a "beautiful person'' and has supported her throughout her swimming career.

After a three-week honeymoon, the pair will begin training for next year's Beijing Olympics trials.









Can't wait to see the 'offical' pic's.

and the tent!!

any more pics???

when's new idea out?

How sad is it, that a bride has to hide on her special day, just to preserve the photo rights of a magazine

i hope she donates the cash,

i think to hide on the wedding day would stress you out big time!

Wowza, that's alot of money!!

I was thinking that or it could add an element of excitement that otherwise wouldn't have been there. I think you would make the most of it and enjoy the attention that came with it! She might be a famous swimmer but it is still her wedding day!

Does she earn that much swimming? Because that sort of money you would be investing into your future would you not!

anyway, I'm looking forward to the photos too!

Oh my! The bride wore a white tent

Lmao

I saw this on the news, and thought it was a little funny for bride and groom to be walking along as newlyweds with a tent around them

I'm sorry, but I don't think it's worth it to have much of your wedding day ruined by a bit white tent!!!

Just ridiculous!

I think she is gorgeous - she has such a lovely smile I am sure the photos will be fantastic.

Well at least the big white tent kept her dry and I also think it would have added to the excitement. I am sure she won't be swimming forever so the money will allow her and hubby to build a more secure future together

Good luck to them both

She would to have hid everything for that cash, I wonder if she came out on top, the wedding would have cost abit.
At least she got some money for the trouble of hiding from the media.
for me, hiding all day behind a tent wouldnt be such a amazing event.

personally i think its ridiculas, i know that the magazine has to make sure that they have the only pics becasue it will sell more mags but for Libby who seems to be a down to earth kinda girl its sad and apparently alot of the media has made fun of her and of the fact that she allowed the mag to make her look like an idiot for walking inside a tent, they all said that she might as well have gotten ready where she had the ceremony and even should have considered to find a place where both ceremony and reception could take place

also i think that its not all the mags fault she is the one that made the deal to sell the pics

i think she's an awesome swimmer, good luck to them both

Actually for $100K I would mind hiding in a white tent

She's a fantastic swimmer but I didnt think she was that much of a celebrity though. Guess its no comparision to the Hewitt wedding where the mag paid $1M.

It was pouring with rain anyway so the tent was probably a blessing! I think she's so cute so I wish them all the best

is it in this weeks new idea?

I agree! I didn't actually know who she was.

It seems to me like someone along the line has thought she's a lot more famous than she is...does that make sense?

that makes a lot of sense, all these poor celebrtites, hiding their wedding day's for money!!

She's fairly well known in Qld - I think she's from the Gold Coast?

Here are the pictures from the New Idea

I guess after all the secrecy I was expecting a bit more 'wow' factor than that.

I like her hair and shoes.

Thanks for the piccies Jo I liked her dress, and her hubby's suit colour (Dani, grey suit!)

I also expected a few fancier photos than that for all the hoo-ha that surrounded it. I think it looked lovely though I didn't realise it was in there ar first, its not even the main shot on the cover (Bec and Lleyton had a fight apparently, and this is the most important thing accouring to New Idea!)

Who made her dress? I might just read the article in the supermarket tonight

Lol, I thought that too.

I think it says Lisa Gowing in the article-from what I can make out!

pretty boring after all that hype.

she looks a bit muscly in her wedding dress

I think her dress is beautiful!

Gosh, you can tell she is a swimmer!

I would have tried to hide them a bit better if i was her

Aww, you girls are a bit harsh. She has muscly arms & shoulders - she's a swimmer! She shouldn't have to hide who she is on her wedding day. If someone was fat you wouldn't say, gee she's fat, she should have tried to hide it better. But I guess being a "celeb" it's natural to be criticised more (and I quote "celeb" because I've actually never even heard of her, I must be living under a rock ).

I think she looks beautiful, I like her dress.

Poor love failed miserably there!

Interesting that she chose a halter neck dress - I always think of halter neck as a style that shows off your shoulders and back rather than minimising them!

That's all for $100K

I thought that there might be a bit more 'bang'............................ just really a bit more!! $100k is a lot of money and after all that secrecy it's kinda boring.

Apart from that she looked beautiful, so happy! Really liked her hair.

Gee she went to a huge effort just for that???

Cant say I like what teh poor BMS were wearing..Although Ic ant seet he bottom looks like my formal dress from 1989

I think it's all a big hype about nothing. Yep she looks good in her dress, but i fail to see the big "wow" factor over any of it.
Personally, i've seen better brides in better dresses who aren't anything more than just ordinary girls. I wish her all the best. Maybe would have been best to leave the tent on? LOL

some of the comments are a little harsh- i know we are intitled to opinions!
What other style could she have had?
if it was strapless it would draw the eye across and make them look broarder.
not eveyone wants to cover up with a lace jacket either.
i thought a halter neck would look best as it draws the eye upwards to her neck.
Good luck to them both and i think she looks beautiful!!!!!!
narzy

Aww....how adorable are they?

I think she looks gorgeously fit and healthy I've heard Libby is an absolute sweetheart...a friend has met her.

I think she looks beautiful A simply stunning gown.

I thinks she's posed quite well to minimise her shoulders, the only really obvious one is the one walking down the aisle but apart from that i think she's done really well

I think she looks great, sooo happy. I'm sure all her family and friends are used to her "big shoulders", but for the rest of people is all they see.

Is she wearing a different dress for her reception?

I too think she looks great!

And I had the same shoes as her

Yes! hehehe

I think everything looks just gorgeous!

I thought she looked lovely - she looked soooo happy - and he was a little bit spunky. Loved her shoes. Wasn't her wedding ring unique!

erm, it's their wedding - they can do what they want! If some silly magazine wants to give them some cash for it (I heard it was closer to $25K than $100K) well good on them, why not get someone else to pay for it!

Why does there have to be a 'wow' factor. I think magazines cover the weddings of swimmers, because they are healthy, normal role models.

She's a beautiful bride because she looks happy and relaxed...who cares about her shoulders!

they covered her wedding because at the moment she is one of australias top swimmers well actually shes one of the worlds top swimmers, i am a swimming instructor so i am in the water alot and i have broad shoulders not as broad as hers but i agree with the girls that have said that the halter draws the eyes up,

i did a strapless but im abit different i lost alot of weight and was proud of my broad back and shoulders, some people like their tooshies i like my shoulders and back.

But i do understand why people are saying all the things about the tent, i think that was ridiculas and not really needed but at the end of the day it wasn't my day

That's exactly what I was thinking! Maybe this was her 'going away' outfit??? Oh! I just noticed in the dancing and singing pics she has a different shorter dress on which I think is what you can see in the car!

Do you know what I think it is, I think it might be that dress but as she is sitting in the car it has sort of boofed up a bit. It looks like the strap is falling off her shoulder and the neckline looks similar. Otherwise there must have been ANOTHER outfit!

, wow some of the comments are harsh and I dearly hope that Libby Lenton never reads them, because I know how heart broken I would be if someone had written these things about me on my wedding day.

Libby is very well known & popular in QLD, she is known as a down to earth, lovely girl. Personally I would rather see pics of a healthy sportswoman, who is at the top of her field, a wonderful role model for other women, and generally well regarded among her peers and the public. This is preferable to the endless pics of anorexic, airheads that usually grace the pages of these gossip mags.

I think she looks healthy, happy & very much in love.

Clearly she had two dresses. If you go back and look at the photo's, in the photo where she has the microphone, she's wearing a dress that has spaghetti straps and not the same one from earlier in the day.

I also have to say, some people here are so harsh! The girl is a swimmer for god sake. So she has big shoulders, that goes with the gig, leave her alone. And I would never tell anyone they were too fat/thin/short/brown on their wedding day. Frankly as my mother would have said "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all", and I think that's a great motto. Why do we even need to discuss her shoulders? Does that have any bearing on her wedding day or her personality? I think not.

Good luck to her. Clearly she's healthy and happy and that's all that matters.

I am appalled at some of the coments here. She is a lovely looking woman, with a fit body, and shoulders that are a product of her sport which she should be proud of, they aren't a flaw to be hidden, she is fit and athletic! I have muscular arms (not skinny, delicate arms) and shoulders, I too wore a halter neck dress because it looked far better with these arms and shoulders.

I think she looks lovely, whatever dress she wore. Everytime I see her on the TV I think her smile lights up the screen. She is fit, successful, gorgeous, and clearly happy. I say good for her!