Australian snowboarding star Scotty James has married Chloe Stroll in a star-studded wedding in Italy over the weekend.
The happy couple tied the knot in northern Italy and have shared stunning photos from the wedding and subsequent celebrations.
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James, 28, is a two-time Olympic medallist and met Stroll, 27, in 2019 after Chloe’s brother Lance set them up and they met in New York.
Lance Stroll drives for Aston Martin in Formula One and along with sister Chloe — the siblings are the children of billionaire Aston Martin team owner Lawrence Stroll.
Continuing the F1 flavour, James is close friends with Daniel Ricciardo. The pair are both part of Red Bull’s sporting stable and Ricciardo was among the groomsmen.
Ricciardo’s girlfriend Heidi Berger, the daughter of former F1 driver Gerhard Berger, was also at the wedding.
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff was there as well, looking dapper along with his wife Susie.
It’s perhaps no coincidence the wedding was held in Italy, since the next round of the F1 season takes place at Imola this weekend.
Also in attendance was actor Michael Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, along with their daughter Carys.
James’ sister Rebecca, who has a young child with Sunrise presenter Sam Mac, was also present as the sister of the groom.
“I officially have another sister,” Rebecca wrote on Instagram, sharing a photo of James and Stroll walking down the aisle hand-in-hand.
After the wedding ceremony, the festivities continued in Venice — with James and Stroll sharing several gorgeous photos of the happy couple and the wedding party cruising along the Venetian canals having the time of their life.
James and Stroll got engaged in late 2021 in Switzerland. Chloe, who is a singer, revealed in 2020 Lance had actually set her up with Scotty and they met in New York.
“Lance actually called me and said, ‘I think I just found the guy you’re going to marry’,” she told the Herald Sun.
“It was kind of strange. I had a conference in Park City (Utah), which was where his next competition was the same weekend and a lot of random things happened.
“Scotty was very cute. We dated for about four months, or as he likes to say, we got to know each other, before he officially asked me to be his girlfriend.”
“I just connected with her in New York and went out to dinner with her at a place called Motel Morris in Chelsea and the rest is history,’’ James recalled.
“She’s quite a talented musician.
“It’s been really cool watching her do her thing. She’s always had a huge passion for music and it’s the industry she wants to be a part of. She’s really enjoying it.”
James was Australia’s flag-bearer at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, where he won a bronze medal in the halfpipe.
He went one better at the 2022 Games, claiming silver in the halfpipe — denied gold only by a stellar performance from Japan’s Ayumu Hirano.
